Help for Dancers
Whether you are looking for support for yourself or guiding someone you care about, STEPPS offers clear, confidential, and specialised mental health and physical wellbeing resources designed specifically for dancers.
Select Your Support Path
Choose whether you need guidance for your own wellbeing or support for a friend, student, or family member.
Path A: Support for myself
Explore mental health introductions, understand your emotions, access under-18 care, or search our therapist directory.
Understanding mental health in performing arts, stress signals, and external crisis support links (including MIND charity resources).
Navigating performance anxiety, body image pressure, perfectionism, injury grief, and emotional health in dance.
Tailored support for young dancers in school or vocational conservatoires, safeguarding rights, and confidential helplines.
Searchable therapist directory layout designed for migrating existing practitioner listings, tele-health booking, and counsellor profiles.
Path B: Support for someone else
Practical guidance for friends, peers, parents, and carers supporting a dancer in distress.
Recognizing warning signs in dance peers, starting supportive conversations, active listening techniques, and emergency escalation.
Guidance for parents navigating elite dance training environments, supporting young dancers' mental health, and balancing discipline with wellbeing.