Anonymity and pre-moderation protect Tellmi’s users from becoming victims of grooming, ensuring it is a safe digital space for children and young people to seek mental health support. 

In July 2023 the Tellmi Mental Health Service was commissioned by Berkshire West ICB to provide digital peer and counsellor intervention to young people in Reading, Wokingham and West Berkshire aged 11 - 17.

This year, the Tellmi Annual Impact Survey explored how people seek support for their mental health. More than 1,200 Tellmi users responded to the survey and 95% of them told us that they struggled to find support for their mental health.

In response to research that revealed young people with diabetes are not getting the support that they need for their mental health, Tellmi has launched a new specialist diabetes support solution.  

The escalation in issues around body image and eating difficulties in children and young people has increased stress and anxiety for adults too. Successful early intervention needs to catch the unhelpful thinking that precedes unhealthy behaviours.

To find out more about common concerns around the transition to secondary school, Tellmi talked to Year 7 students at Ansford Academy in Somerset. In this heartwarming little film, Harry, Darcey, Enya, Grace, Mia, Olivia, Noah and Taisy-Lily talk about getting lost, being late, making new friends, and finding themselves at the ‘bottom of the food chain’ again.

Tellmi believes that the only way to deliver wraparound mental health support at scale is to work collaboratively with young people and the organisations that support them.

Why did Tellmi take a solution-focused approach to therapeutic intervention? We consider the benefits and effectiveness of Tellmi's new SFT service.

Parenting a teenager can be tough at the best of times, but parenting a socially anxious teenager can be torturous. It can be incredibly difficult for parents to know how to support a child who feels that they don’t fit in.

The safety and wellbeing of young people is at the heart of what we do. Through this first hand account of one young person who uses Tellmi we look at how safeguarding is central to the way Tellmi works.

Rural isolation exacerbates mental health issues, but it is a barrier to mental health support for children and young people.

Tellmi is pleased to announce that we have been funded, by the Government's Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) to develop the Tellmi app for autistic children and young people.

In September 2022, Tellmi collaborated with the advertising agency Dentsu to produce their first ever billboard advertising campaign.

Tellmi is working with specialist eating disorders charity First Steps ED to provide early intervention and recovery support for young people aged 11 - 25.

Researchers at University College London and Cardiff University explored the factors that predict what helps, or hinders, successful transitions to secondary school. The findings from the STAR study inspired us to create the Tellmi ‘Starting Secondary School ‘ booklet, which was delivered to every year 7 student in our partner schools.

A independent evaluation of Tellmi which was conducted by by the Evidence Based Practice Unit in 2022, found statistically significant evidence that using the Tellmi app improves mental health in young people.

After a year of COVID chaos, UK schools were dealt another huge blow. In March 2021 the publication of fourteen thousand testimonies of sexual abuse and harassment on the Everyone’s Invited website triggered an immediate Ofsted investigation.

Innovate UK has given Tellmi a grant of £393,823 to integrate machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) into the Tellmi app to create a state of the art suicide prevention solution for children and young people (CYP) aged 11+.

It is an honour to be recognised as one of the leaders of British innovation in the digital mental health sector and we’re really excited to represent the UK at the Expo during the Health and Wellbeing week.

Research suggests that boys self-harm in different ways to girls. Girls who self-harm are more likely to cut themselves, or to overdose (Young et al., 2007), whereas boys who self-harm are more likely to punch walls, drink heavily, take drugs, or control their eating (Nada-Raja et al., 2004).