If you are in immediate danger, call your local emergency services now.
Echo Health is not a crisis response service. If you are experiencing a mental health emergency, having thoughts of suicide, or considering harming yourself or others, immediate help is available — and it is free.
Find a helpline in your country
Find A Helpline lists verified crisis services for almost every country and detects where you are. It is the directory the International Association for Suicide Prevention now points to.
Open the directoryKenya
All three reach the National Police Service. For an ambulance, dial 999 — but Kenya has no single national ambulance number, so Kenya Red Cross (1199) is often the faster route.
Kenya Red Cross
National emergency line and ambulance dispatch. This is an emergency service, not a counselling line.
NACADA Helpline
Government helpline offering counselling and referrals. Framed around drugs and alcohol, but staffed for counselling generally — the only free, national, round-the-clock counselling line in the country.
Befrienders Kenya
Kenya's dedicated suicide-prevention service. Answers by phone, SMS and WhatsApp on the same number.
Childline Kenya
Under 18s
National helpline for children and young people, with a 24-hour counsellor on the line.
Chiromo Hospital Group
Private psychiatric hospital with a round-the-clock emergency mental health team.
United States
For immediate danger to life.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Free, confidential support for anyone in distress. Call or text. Veterans can press 1.
Crisis Text Line
Text with a trained volunteer crisis counsellor.
The Trevor Project
LGBTQ+ under 25s
Crisis intervention and suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ young people.
Every number on this page was checked against the operating organisation's own published contact details. If you find one that is wrong or no longer answers, please tell us — we will correct it immediately.