Support for current and ex-serving ADF personnel and their families
Call us to access free and confidential counselling, group treatment programs, suicide prevention training and our community and peer network to support mental health and wellbeing
Disaster assistance – bushfire crisis
The impact of the bushfires is being felt across the nation, including by members of the veteran and defence communities. Health and safety is the priority during this time. View our Bushfires – resilience and recovery page and then click here for a full list of DVA and Open Arms services during this period.
Who we help
Current serving
Open Arms can help you build resilience, and enhance your mental health and wellbeing.
Ex-serving
Open Arms can help you work through mental health and wellbeing issues after you’ve left the service.
Families
Counselling support can help you build strong and healthy relationships at all stages of family life.
Get support
Counselling
Counselling can help you through difficult phases or events. We can help make sense of what you are feeling.
Group programs
Open Arms offers group treatment programs and educational workshops, relationship retreats, and suicide prevention workshops.
Eligibility
If you have served in the ADF, you, your partner and your children can access support through Open Arms.
Free and confidential
Open Arms offers free and confidential counselling, in some circumstances we work with DVA or the ADF.
Lived experience peers
Open Arms Community and Peer Advisors have ‘lived experience’ and work collaboratively with veterans, family supports, community agencies and mental health clinicians.
Suicide intervention workshops
Delivered in RSL's and major Ex-Service Organisations around the country, free training opportunities exist for those seeking to help family, friends, co-workers or others in the veteran community.
Professionals
Provider resources
Materials and resources for health professionals caring for the veteran community.
Research and collaboration
Open Arms contributes to a wide range of research projects in Australia and around the world, as well as funding professional development for counsellors.
Work with Open Arms
Work with Australia's leading provider of clinical counselling services for the veteran community.