Hospitals, NGOs, helplines and private practices offering mental health support in Uganda — what each one does, where they work, and how to reach them.
These lines are answered by trained staff. If someone is in immediate physical danger, go to the nearest hospital emergency department.
Listed alphabetically. Winrise Counselling & Wellness publishes this page and is listed here on the same terms as everyone else.
Uganda's national referral hospital for mental health, and the country's main provider of inpatient psychiatric care. Runs outpatient clinics, a child and adolescent unit, and alcohol and drug rehabilitation.
A membership organisation of people with lived experience of mental illness, working across Uganda on advocacy, community support groups and public awareness. Operates a national toll-free helpline.
Works on mental health awareness and psychosocial support for young people in Uganda, with a focus on reaching students and youth through community and digital channels.
Delivers group interpersonal psychotherapy for depression, free of charge, largely to women and adolescents. One of the largest providers of depression treatment in Uganda by number of people reached.
Provides community-based mental health and psychosocial support, with long-standing work in trauma care, child protection and services for refugees and post-conflict communities.
Private counselling and wellness practice offering individual therapy, family and couples counselling, online therapy, and corporate wellness and employee assistance programmes.
Free, verified crisis helplines for Uganda, filterable by what you are going through.
A global database of mental health organisations and projects, searchable by country.
Details were taken from each organisation's own website or a recognised helpline registry and last checked in August 2026. Phone numbers are only shown where we could verify them at source; where we could not, the entry links to the organisation's official site instead, which will always be more current than this page.
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Winrise offers individual therapy, family and couples counselling, online sessions and corporate wellness programmes from Kampala, serving all regions of Uganda.
