Support Options
About
Support Options
Free and confidential advice is available.
There are several services available if you would like more assistance, or would like to talk to someone about your own, or another persons, gambling.
In addition to being confidential and free, the services in the links below also offer information on multilingual services.
Gambler's Help
Gambler’s Help provides free and confidential services, including in other languages, for anyone affected by gambling. Gamblers Help offers a 24-hour a day, 7 days a week professional and confidential telephone counselling and referral service for anyone who would like to know about gaming related harm and how to deal with them.
Gamblers Help can also connect you to free professional face to face counselling, and provides information about gambling harm via their website.
- 1800 858 858 (24-hour service), or
- 1800 262 376 (Gambler's Help Youthline - for under 25s)
Gambling Help Online
Gambling Help Online offers free online support for anyone affected by gambling. This includes live chat and email counselling support and a broad range of online resources for people affected by harmful gambling, all delivered by specialist counsellors.
To find out more, visit the website below.
GambleAware
The GambleAware website provides a range of information about gambling harm, the odds of winning, how gambling works, tips for managing your gambling, when to stop and information about referral options for counselling.
Multicultural specific services
The Multicultural Gambling Harm Prevention Service at Settlement Services International provides free, culturally informed and confidential gambling support for anyone experiencing negative effects from gambling.
Peer Connection programmes
Peer Connection Program
Provides a telephone based and confidential peer support for people affected by gambling related problems.
For a referral to the service:
- Call 1300 133 445
- Email pcintake@bchs.org.au
Chinese Peer Connection
Program supports people from the Chinese community who are experiencing gambling harm. Support is also available to families or friends. Support is provided through peer support and is a telephone service staffed by Chinese speaking volunteers.
- Call 1300 755 878
- Email cpcintake@each.com.au
Self Help Resources
Reset App is a free and confidential app designed to help you understand your relationship with gambling
100 Day Challenge s a free online tool for anyone who wants to change their relationship to gambling.
Other Support
Alternatively, you may prefer to seek assistance from a psychologist, psychiatrist, counsellor, medical practitioner or other suitably qualified person. If you would like a referral to a psychologist or psychiatrist we recommend making an appointment with your General Practitioner for more information.
| Lifeline | 13 11 14 | lifeline.org.au |
| Beyond Blue | 1300 224 636 | beyondblue.org.au |
| Relationships Australia | 1300 264 277 | relationships.org.au |