For Health & Wellness

Mental Health

Mindfulness & Self Help Apps

 
 

Mindfulness- Meditation Based

  • Ten Percent Happier – free COVID- 19 mindfulness info & live guided meditations , some other content free (free for 6mos for healthcare workers)

  • Headspace - several of its meditation collections free  (healthcare workers can also get a full subscription for free)

  • Black Lotus – free – focuses on mindfulness, gratefulness, spreading positive messages & random acts of kindness

  • Stop, Breath & Think – most content is free – mindfulness, health, yoga & acupressure videos

  • Timeless – Meditation – most content is free –mindfulness meditations, time & progress tracking

  • Insight Timer – most content is free – guided meditations, music, blogs

  • Mindfulness Coach  - free (VA) uses mindfulness to manage anxiety and depression. Created by VA’s National Center for PTSD.

  • Aura – some free content – meditations, sends positive daily quotes, mood tracking to help you get more restful sleep

  • Calm – some free content, everything free for 7 days

  • Breathe2Relax – free – teaches and reinforces diaphragmatic breathing for anxiety & PTSD

Anxiety, Depression & PTSD focus

  • Virtual Hope Box – free – mindfulness, coping, distraction & positive thinking.  Can store photos & items that will make them feel hopeful.  Developed to use in conjunction with provider

  • Whats Up – free- uses CBT & ACT techniques for coping, grounding, and tracking mood

  • Mindshift CBT – Anxiety Canada – free – uses CBT and mindfulness for anxiety, tracks mood, set goals

  • Self – Help for Anxiety Management – free – CBT and self help techniques for anxiety, does not use mindfulness, chat feature to connect with others

  • CBT Thought Record Diary – free – CBT techniques for anxiety and depression

  • Woebot.oi – free – chat with a AI chatbot trained in CBT, mindfulness, and ACT and it checks in with you every day

  • ACT Coach – free – (VA) uses ACT principles for PTSD and anxiety

  • CBT-i Coach – free – CBT for insomnia, built to use in partnership with individual therapy or group

OCD Focus

Bipolar and Schizophrenia Focus

  • emoods Bipolar Mood Tracker – mostly free – track moods and graphs them for information

  • UCFS  Prime – free – Schizophrenia self-care and connection, connect with coaches and peers & set goals

Suicide Prevention

  • NotOK – free – digital panic button that notifies contacts in their phone that they are not OK, sends message and GPS coordinates

  • MY3 – free- safety plan toolbox and contacts, call crisis lines from app

Addiction Recovery

  • Field Guide to life –free – (Hazelden) recovery 12 step focus with tracking, focus is for newly sober

  • My Sober Life – free – (Hazelden) recovery 12 step focus for teens, focus is for under 1 yr sobriety

  • Addicaid – CBT, MI, and 12 step and social networking for recovery and addiction to any substance

Other Useful Apps

  • #SelfCare – free – IOS game that lets you participate in self-care virtually

  • Mend – basic content free- advice and coping skills to use after a break-up, can connect with others(upgrade)

  • Quit –That! – Habit Tracker – free – simple tracking of habits including costs and savings of changing habit

Special thanks to Aarati Ghimire, LCSW, for this list of mindfulness & self-help apps!

 

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