3PM to MIDNIGHT, EVERY DAY
About Us
You Mean Everything To Us
QLife provides Australia-wide anonymous, LGBTIQ+ peer support and referral for people wanting to talk about a range of issues including sexuality, identity, gender, bodies, feelings or relationships.
QLife services are free and include both telephone and webchat support, delivered by trained LGBTIQ+ community members across the country. Our services are for LGBTIQ+ individuals, their friends and families, and health professionals in Australia.
Beyond the telephone, QLife offers webchat for people who prefer online interactions or for whom the phone is impractical.
QLife is continually working to be inclusive and respectful of diversity - we will always strive to ask about your identity, gender or relationship and will not assume that we already know.
LGBTIQ+ Health Australia is the contract holder and works in collaboration with four state-based partner organisations who deliver the services. Each of the partner organisations has a long history of providing counselling and support within their local LGBTIQ+ communities. The QLife partner organisations are; Diverse Voices in QLD, Living Proud in WA, Switchboard in Vic, and Twenty10 (incorporating GLCS) in NSW.
The most significant partnership within QLife is that with the many volunteers across the country, without these passionate volunteers QLife would be unable to continue to provide this essential service to our LGBTIQ+ communities.
365 Days a Year
Both the telephone and webchat operate from 3pm – midnight every day.
QLife Partners
QLife is funded by the Australian Government and operates as a unique partnership model.
Central to our service is our commitment to maintain and strengthen the proud history of LGBTIQ+ community-based phone counselling. QLife partners have been delivering phone peer support across Australia for many years. Anonymous peer support has, and always will be, an important contributor towards better mental health for LGBTIQ+ Australians.
QLife Partners
Diverse Voices (QLD)
DiVo is Queensland’s peer based, volunteer led community LGBTIQ+ counselling organisation. Created in 1984, DiVo has always focussed on the wellbeing of the diverse people that comprise our communities. Core to our work is QLife, a peer to peer telephone and webchat counselling service
Volunteer with QLife
QLife would not exist without the support of our volunteer peer supporters.
QLife is a national service with partner sites in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane. Each partner site does their own volunteer recruitment and training.
If you would like to become a volunteer with QLife, please contact your closest partner site for further information.
QLife is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health. To meet growing demand on the service, QLife relies on volunteers and generous donations from the community.
If you would like to make a donation to QLife, this can be done on a one-off or a monthly basis by completing a QLife donation on the LGBTIQ+ Health Australia website.
Donate to QLife
Head to Health
Other digital mental health services and resources can be found at Head to Health – the Australian Government’s mental health portal. You can find websites with information and advice, as well as apps and programs that help you build skills and track your progress. Also listed is how to get confidential support through phone, email and chat services, as well as where to find online forums.
QLife is funded by the Department of Health.
For more information about QLife, check out our list of Frequently Asked Questions.
FAQs
QLife Partners
Acknowledgement of Country
QLife acknowledges the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia, their diversity, histories and knowledge and their continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respects to all Australian Indigenous peoples and their cultures, and to Elders of past, present and future generations.
Acknowledgement of our Elders
We pay our respects to those amongst the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex communities who have worked to support the improved health and wellbeing of their peers, children, families, friends, and country. We honour the elders in the diverse communities of which we are a part and we celebrate the extraordinary diversity of people's bodies, genders, sexualities, and relationships that they represent.