Recommended Links

We have collated some hearing voices links that you may find helpful whether you are a voice hearer, a parent or sibling, or a mental health practitioner.

Hearing Voices Links

Voice Collective – Supporting children and young people who hear, see or sense things other people don’t.

Hearing Voices Network – for People who hear voices, see visions, or have other unusual perception.

Hearing Voices Edu Exhibition – Hearing Voices: suffering, inspiration and the everyday, the world’s first exhibition to explore voice-hearing from personal, scientific, cultural, literary and theological perspectives.  The website contains images of the key displays, podcasts, interactive presentations and useful resources for anyone with an interest in hearing voices and other unusual experiences.

Understanding Voices – What is it like to hear Voices? How you can help someone. From the Understanding Voices website comes some helpful pages for friends, siblings, parents and carers of people who hear voices.   Being friends with someone who hears voices is a different experience from person to person. Some people may not want to talk about their voices, whereas others may look for specific support around them. Close friends may find themselves advocating for their friend, or sometimes being one of only a few people entrusted with knowledge about the voices. Being able to offer support and warmth, but also normalcy, without perhaps some of the emotional weight which family members can carry, can be hugely important.

OpenMindedOnline.com is a website by Rufus May and Elisabeth Svanholmer full of ideas, videos and tips that might appeal to many voice hearers, in particular mapping the voices in their video section Engaging with the Voices  whilst for others more physical exercise might help such as power punching or yoga punching in their Videos Bodywork section.

Two Saints – Isle of Wight – Safe Haven for Mental Health Crisis

The Samaritans – Every day, Samaritans volunteers respond to around 10,000 calls for help, day or night, for anyone who’s struggling to cope, who needs someone to listen without judgement or pressure. Samaritans is not only for the moment of crisis, but taking action to prevent the crisis. They offer listening and support to people and communities in times of need.

Personal Blogs : Hearing Voices

Behind The Label – Rachel Waddingham – Rachel is a freelance trainer and consultant, a writer, a practitioner, a researcher, speaker and PhD student at the Open University. Chair for the English National Hearing Voices Network, and Vice Chair of ISPS UK (the UK chapter of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis). She hears voices, sees visions and has a whole host of unusual experiences that have, at times, overwhelmed her. Once labelled as ‘severely & enduringly mentally ill’, she is now an independent trainer specialising in innovative ways of supporting people who struggle with extreme states (including ‘psychosis’, ‘dissociation’ and post traumatic reactions).

Rufus May – Holistic approaches to mental health

Jacqui Dillon – Dr Jacqui Dillon is a respected activist, writer and speaker, and has lectured and published worldwide on trauma, abuse, psychosis, dissociation and healing. Jacqui is the national Chair of the Hearing Voices Network in England, Honorary Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, Visiting Research Fellow at The Centre for Community Mental Health, Birmingham City University and a member of the Advisory Board, The Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice in Health and Social Care, St Catherine’s College, Oxford University. Jacqui has co-edited 3 books and has published numerous articles and papers, is on the editorial board of the journal Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches