We offer a range of services to promote the mental health and wellbeing of adults aged 18 and over from ethnic minority communities in Edinburgh.
Our services include group support through wellbeing courses and drop-in sessions, as well as one-to-one support tailored to individual mental health and wellbeing needs.
These services are offered in a way that takes into account the additional barriers faced by ethnic minority communities like language and culture.
Our services are delivered either in person (in a variety of locations across Edinburgh) or online (on Zoom).
Please note that sign up is required for all of our courses. For more information and to register for any of our courses, please use the contact details provided at the bottom of this page.
1:1 Service
We offer 10 weekly sessions for people from diverse ethnic minority communities who are feeling low, anxious or isolated and would like to focus on enhancing their wellbeing and building up good mental health habits through self – management and coping strategies. Sessions are relaxed and person-centred and provide a safe space to explore what wellbeing tools might work best for you.
Support will be focused around 4 areas:
- Mental health (supporting people in finding ways to be mentally and emotionally happy and well)
- Self-management (supporting people in finding tools and strategies to manage their health and wellbeing)
- Purpose and direction (supporting people in making choices that are in line with their values and in engaging in activities they find meaningful)
- Valuing yourself (supporting people to build up confidence and prioritise self-care)
To ask about 1:1 support, please make an enquiry. You’ll hear back within 10 working days. Alternatively call 0131 225 8508.
Wellbeing Courses
Decider Skills course
This 5 week course involves developing 12 Life Skills, which are part of the Decider Skills toolkit. The course offers an opportunity to explore a variety of practical, evidence-based strategies and techniques to enable you to play an active role in managing your mental health and wellbeing.
The course will help develop skills in 4 areas related to your mental health and wellbeing:
- distress tolerance
- mindfulness
- emotion regulation
- interpersonal effectiveness.
The skills you will learn are based on Dialectical Behavioural Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy theory.
The course runs over 5 sessions.
November – December 2026, in person (Links Place)
Thursday mornings, 11am – 1pm
Start date: Thursday 26 November 2026 (for 5 weeks)
Keep Yourself Well
A 7-week course where individuals join a group of peers to create their own personalised ‘Keep Well’ plan which they will take home and use to keep well and to understand themselves and their wellness needs better. Participants are expected to have some self-help techniques in place already and to be willing to engage in group discussions about recovery.
To get the most from this course, we ask that participants are prepared to set aside some time at home each week to complete some of the activities included in their personal workbook (which will be provided in the first session).
There are currently no Keep Yourself Well courses open for registration in Edinburgh – please check back as we add new dates.
Stress Management
A free course which aims to support people from ethnic minority communities in Edinburgh. A 4-week course which aims to support people who are experiencing stress to identify and manage their symptoms. Stress is a normal response to difficult situations, and everyone experiences stress in their lives. However, we need to recognise when symptoms become too frequent, too intense or prolonged as they can have a negative impact on daily functioning. This course will support participants to learn what stress is, what it feels like for them and how they can use techniques to build resilience.
October 2026, in person (Links Place)
Thursday mornings, 11 am – 1 pm
Start Date: Thursday 1 October 2026 (for 4 weeks)
Anxiety Management
A 6-week course which aims to support people in a peer support setting who are experiencing anxiety or excessive worry to manage their symptoms. Anxiety is a feeling of worry or fear, often about things that have happened in the past or things that are expected to happen in the future.
Whilst it is normal to feel anxious from time to time, sometimes anxiety can be longer term and can have a negative impact on our life. This course will support participants learning about what anxiety is, and to practise helpful coping strategies to help manage it through a range of ‘bottom- up’ (body to mind) and ‘top-down’ (mind to body) approaches.
There are currently no Anxiety Management courses open for registration in Edinburgh – please check back as we add new dates.
To enquire about one of the courses listed, please make an enquiry. You’ll hear back within 10 working days. Alternatively call 0131 225 8508.
Wellbeing drop-in group sessions
Drop-in sessions are for those aged 18 or over, from a minority ethnic community living in Edinburgh, who would like to improve their mental health and wellbeing.
Wellbeing drop-ins for Women – Online
Alternate Mondays, 11am to 12.30pm
Dates: 5, 19 October, 9, 23 November, 7, 21 December
Wellbeing drop-ins for Women – in person 2026 (Women’s aid)
Dates: Monday 26 October 2026
To access any of the drop ins, please contact us on edinburghethnicminority@health-in-mind.org.uk or 0131 225 8508 in order to book a space.