Aid work is physically and emotionally demanding. Look after yourself.

REPRESENTING THE INTERESTS OF INDEPENDENT AID PROFESSIONALS EVERYWHERE

Mental Health & Counselling

Humanitarian work is physically and emotionally demanding. Many aid workers struggle to find a healthy balance between the demands of the job and the need to pay attention to their own well-being. The resources listed here have demonstrated that they understand stress and trauma as it relates to humanitarian work in the field.

Thrive

Online & Face-to-Face Trauma counselling

Thrive brings together expertise in medical, psychological, and occupational health to serve the humanitarian, development and mission sectors. They provide psychological first aid plus individual or group counselling where symptoms of trauma or other distress persist.

Menssana Global

Therapist Network (worldwide)

Worldwide network set up by a Swedish psychologist, ex-aid worker, and former head of UNICEF's Staff Wellbeing Unit to protect and improve the mental health, wellbeing and resiliency of people working in challenging international contexts.

Psychology Today

Worldwide therapists

Not specific to the world of aid but can filter by location, need, gender. Online sessions are available.

Healthy Nomad

Mental Health

Inspiration for the human spirit.

Headington Institute

Stressed out

Online stress-busting and resilience-building courses.

Mandala Staff Support

Aid Worker Wellbeing

Mandala Staff Support is a group of psychologists providing specialised psycho-social support, training and resources to aid workers and their organisations. Their aim is to help build a stronger, healthier and more resilient aid sector.

Global Interagency Security Forum

Sexual & Gender-Based Violence

An NGO Forum for managing security risk, including sexual violence against aid workers

Hostage International

Kidnap & Ransom

Supporting hostages and their families through confinement and after release

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