At the University of Cambridge, your mental health and wellbeing matter.
The University follows a stepped care approach for student mental health and wellbeing.
This approach means that:
- We aim to offer or refer you to the best-placed support service for your circumstances and goals.
- Different services are designed to work in a coordinated way to meet the diverse needs of our population.
Student Support Services
The Student Support Services offer:
- Support for taught and research postgraduate students
- Individual counselling
- Support for students who have experienced harassment or violence
- Support for disabled students
- Specialist support for students with mental health issues
- Groups and workshops on mental health and wellbeing topics
Click on one of the links above to learn more and request support.
Other sources of support and information
There’s also a wide range of mental health and wellbeing support provided by the Colleges and organisations we partner with.
Click on one of the headings below to learn more.
All Cambridge Colleges have committed to provide:
- a supportive environment that promotes positive wellbeing
- a pastoral tutor or dedicated pastoral team
- a key contact for students experiencing sexual or racial discrimination, harassment, or violence
- a lead staff member dedicated to supporting student wellbeing
Click on a College below to visit its wellbeing information page:
- Christ's
- Churchill
- Clare
- Clare Hall
- Corpus Christi
- Darwin
- Downing
- Emmanuel
- Fitzwilliam
- Girton
- Gonville & Caius
- Homerton
- Hughes Hall
- Jesus
- King's
- Lucy Cavendish
- Magdalene
- Murray Edwards
- Newnham
- Pembroke
- Peterhouse
- Queens'
- Robinson
- Selwyn
- Sidney Sussex
- St Catharine's
- St Edmund's
- St John's
- Trinity
- Trinity Hall
- Wolfson
University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin Mental Health Student Service (UCARMHSS) - from Michaelmas Term 25/26
UCARMHSS offers you free and confidential mental health support from NHS professionals.
You can get help through psychological and psychiatric therapies and treatments.
- Visit their website to learn more.
- See the UCARMHSS privacy notice for details on how the NHS will handle your data.
Personalised Eating Disorder Support (PEDS)
PEDS works collaboratively with the central Student Support services, College Health and Wellbeing teams and the specialist NHS Eating Disorder service.
They provide support to students who may be at risk of developing an eating disorder.
You can access the service through a referral or by self-referring.
Additional services
You can access the following local NHS mental health services free of charge:
The Harassment and Sexual Misconduct webpage brings together everything you need to know about how the University prevents and responds to harassment and sexual misconduct.
The Student Advice Service is part of the Welfare and Advice Team at Cambridge Student Union.
The service offers free, confidential and impartial advice for all students.
You can ask for help with almost anything student-related, including:
- making friends or building working relationships
- exams, intermissions, or academic concerns
- welfare issues and finances