Brent Centre Highlands

05/10/2025

HEALING WORDS: Poetry, Therapy and the Unconscious 🗣️🎤🧠

An event hosted by Highlands Psychoanalytic Collective, this evening will explore the mental health impact of the written and spoken word, featuring a panel discussion with psychotherapists.

Featuring performances from local poets, including:
Cáit O’Neill McCullagh
Jen Dunn
Jon Miller
Aoife Lyall

SAVE THE DATE! 🗓️

Saturday 8th November
7pm - 9pm
The Bike Shed, 23 Grant St, Inverness, IV3 8BN

19/08/2025

Good luck to everyone who has returned back to school today! We hope you had a great summer break and wish you a smooth and successful start to a new exciting term. 📚

25/07/2025

Loch Ness Marathon 2025 🏃‍♀️🌄

We have 3 places available for runners to join the Loch Ness Marathon on behalf of Brent Centre Highlands, commencing on the 28th of September.

By signing up for the marathon on our behalf, you’ll get to enjoy the spectacular scenery of the Scottish Highlands, and crucially, support us in improving the mental well-being of young people in the Scottish Highlands. (And maybe spot Nessie! 😉)

If you’re interested in running for us, please get in touch by emailing us on highlands@brentcentre.org.uk. If you know anyone who might be interested, please share this post with them!

👇 Click the link below for more information about the Loch Ness Marathon 👇

Loch Ness Marathon. The Baxters Loch Ness Marathon is quite possibly one of the most stunning marathons in the world. With spectacular scenery, fantastic atmosphere and a truly memorable experience – it’s no wonder it was voted in the top 10 UK marathons by Runner’s World readers in 2016 and i...

11/07/2025

A huge thank you to the amazing team at Timpsons in Eastgate shopping centre who came over to the office yesterday to fix our lock, you went above and beyond for us! As a small charity, we greatly appreciate your time and care. 🌟

04/07/2025

☀️ Summer Holidays ☀️

We wish everyone who’s just started their summer holidays a good rest and hopefully plenty of sunshine!

While you’re out there enjoying the season, Brent Centre Highlands will remain open during the summer holidays, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch if we can help.

30/05/2025

An enormous thank you to Crown Primary School for raising £367.34 in their ice bucket challenge, with great humour and community spirit!
Extra points for nominating your Headteacher, Ms Macdonald, who I think as we can see in the photo below, fully embraced the challenge!
Your donation will directly help young people using our specialist psychotherapy service - and as a seedling community organisation that relies on fundraising, we're incredibly grateful.
Demand is greater than our resource at the moment, and we are working really hard to grow.

08/01/2025

Our amazing marathon runner Sarah is going for the three times lucky London Marathon run, and we are right behind her! Sarah's first marathon, just as we were opening, contributed to our very first community donation as a new charity and meant that we actually had comfy chairs for young people to sit in, when they came to see us! Please support Sarah all you can, she is an absolute legend.

I think the third time you sign up for the London Marathon, you have to stop pretending it was by accident. I've had such a blast the last two years (up to about 17 miles, anyway) and get such a warm

10/12/2024

A new mental health service for young people in the Highlands has delivered hundreds of sessions since opening its doors.

08/11/2024

We're not always the noisiest of charities on social media - we're much better at listening. People often find us when they need us. We're a small team. We have to prioritise our time. We actively fundraise to ensure our specialist services are free at the point of access for anyone who needs us in the community. Our main job, our mission as a charity here in Highland is to ensure that young people who need our service, are being seen and supported.

We've been open for 6 months now and I wanted to let you know how we're doing. We've received 64 referrals - young people aged 14 - 21 years experiencing mental health difficulties. We've offered over 300 psychotherapeutic appointments so far.

Young people tell us how complex their lives are; how affected they are by su***de, violence, trauma, events beyond their control, while they try and navigate growing up.

There's a lot more to do.

If you'd like to help, please get in touch: highlands@brentcentre.org.uk

We welcome volunteers, fundraisers, creative ideas, time and community support. Our service belongs to our community -use us, support us, tell us what you need.

How to help with just one minute of your time:
Buy a Highlands Community Lottery ticket to support us: https://lnkd.in/eQKtnk_E

Let a young person know we are here and how to get in touch.

Repost and share.

We offer:
accessible community based psychotherapy for young people aged 14 -21 years
family and parent consultation
frontline worker confidential discussion groups
events and training on adolescent mental health

Young people can get in touch directly highlands@brentcentre.org.uk, or request referral from their GP, school, or other trusted adult.

06/11/2024

30/10/2024

We're delighted to be working so closely with 's Highland, who have been sharing their space at The Anchor Hub with our service, and enabling us to offer more psychotherapeutic appointments to young people - at a time when the demand for our service is rising rapidly.

Collaboration between charities makes such a lot of sense when resources are tight, as well as opening up avenues for shared skills and thinking, and creative solutions.

Thankyou Barnardo's Highland and Cashback for Communities!

If you'd like to be in touch with us, about the help and support we offer to young people aged 14 - 21 years
Email: highlands@brentcentre.org.uk

If you'd like to know more about the Anchor Highland here's a bit of information:

24/10/2024

Please be aware we've had a power cut at our offices on Stephens Brae this morning. Engineers are on site, and we hope power will be restored very soon, but please bear with us as our phone lines and internet are down at the moment.

If you have an appointment with us this afternoon, we are open and expecting you.

Big shout out to our friends at Lettuce Eat for the hot coffees today - the best of neighbours. They do a great sandwich if you're in the area.