If you or someone you know is in crisis, the services below are qualified, confidential, and free. The Scene is not a mental health service and is not staffed to help during a crisis. What we can do is point you toward people who are.
If your life or someone else's is in immediate danger, call 000 (Australian emergency services).
These services are available all day, every day. They are free. They are confidential. You do not need to be in immediate danger to call.
If you have experienced sexual assault, a consent violation, harassment, or image-based abuse, these services are for you. You do not need to decide what to do next before calling.
Harm reduction, non-judgmental, free. Use whichever one is closest to you.
These are not crisis lines. If you need ongoing support, sexual health services, HIV testing, or gender-affirmation pathways, these organisations run programs and clinics you can book into.
About this page. The Scene is a dating and community app for the kink community. We are not a mental health service. We cannot diagnose anything. We cannot intervene in a crisis in real time. We will not pretend otherwise.
When someone on The Scene needs help we can't give, our job is to point toward services that can. The services listed on this page are free or low-cost within Australia, confidential within normal duty-of-care limits, and staffed by people qualified for the conversation. None of them are paid to appear here. The Scene does not accept payment from treatment providers and does not intend to.
Fine print on free. 13, 1300 and 1800 numbers are generally free from Australian landlines. Some mobile plans may charge standard call rates on 13 and 1300 numbers. Online and chat services are free to use. If you're unsure, the service's own website has the exact call cost details.
Fine print on confidential. Every crisis service on this page will hold your conversation in confidence, with one standard exception: if you disclose an immediate, specific risk to your own life or someone else's and they can identify you, they may act to keep you or others safe. That's the duty-of-care limit on confidentiality, and it applies industry-wide.
If a service on this page is out of date or no longer operating, please tell us and we'll fix it.