Youthline – counselling for young people

Youthline has been helping young New Zealanders and their families since 1970. Youthline has centres across New Zealand offering telephone counselling, training and development, and community development.

Youthline provides a free, confidential and non judgmental telephone counselling service. We are here to listen to you and help you with your problems. We have people who answer phones all over New Zealand, usually someone from your area. We don’t solve your problems but we do support you to help clarify what is happening and what you may want to do.

We make about 180,000 contacts a year through our TXT and helpline services, and many thousands of other people use one of our many services around Aotearoa New Zealand.

You do not have to be in a crisis situation to ring. People call for all sorts of reasons; because they feel alone, or because they lost someone they care for, others because they are having difficulties making their relationships work. Often people call just to have a chat and touch base.

At Youthline we are trained to listen. Our objective is to help guide you towards exercising your own choice and finding answers to your own issues. If a specific issue is raised, in which the telephone counsellor is unable to help, they will refer you on to an appropriate agency or help find the right person to speak with.

Contact details

Free phone Helpline 0800 37 66 33 – available 24 hours, 7 days a week

Free TXT on mobile phone to 234

Email/MSN talk@youthline.co.nz

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