Support Services

The Post Natal Distress Support Network Trust offers you free support services for postnatal depression. We offer a support group, telephone support, and drop–in support.

Post Natal Distress Support Group

This is a gentle, safe environment for you to be with other women who have similar experiences and feelings. It is a time for you to share what’s going on for you. You can attend as often as you feel you need to and you can be from anywhere in Auckland.

It is a free service and we provide a free crèche for the duration of the group. Permanently established, child care workers take care of pre–schoolers on the premises, while mums enjoy a relaxed, safe and flexible atmosphere in a professionally facilitated, peer support group of fellow women at various stages of recovery.

You do not need a referral from your doctor or any other practitioner or specialist.

When:
Tuesdays (during school terms)
10.00am to 12.00pm (ish)
We recommend you come at 9.45am if you have children to settle into the crèche.

Where:
Waitakere Women’s Centre
111 McLeod Road (cnr McLeod and Te Atatu Roads)
Te Atatu South
West Auckland
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Telephone Support

During office hours you can speak with our coordinator, Wendy Taylor. If you wish, you will then receive telephone support from our group facilitator Meegan Hirst. An answer service is available if you call outside office hours and the messages are cleared every office day. All calls are private and confidential. Contact Wendy.

When: Tuesday & Friday, 9.30am – 12.30pm and Wednesday & Thursday, 9.30am - 1.30pm

Drop In Support

Our office is open for ‘drop–in’ visits. Please phone ahead if possible as the coordinator does attend meetings away from the office.

Understand Postnatal Depression

Help for Postnatal Depression

“Going to the group helped me realise I can’t do everything myself. To take day by day and step by step.”
Kathy