Mental Health Topics and Resources

ANXIETY MANAGEMENT

FearTools - Anxiety Aid 

This app is evidence-based and designed to aid in combating anxiety. Tools include thought journaling and reframing, exposure techniques, relaxation techniques, and includes an anxiety self-report measure.

MindShift 

MindShift includes practices to help you relax, activities that encourage you to develop more beneficial ways of thinking, coping strategies around anxiety experiences, and anxiety checklists around certain situations (e.g., test anxiety, social fears, and letting go of perfectionism).

Self-help Anxiety Management

App includes information related to anxiety and how to better manage anxious experiences. It provides guided relaxation exercises, activities that teach coping techniques and strategies, and an anxiety tracker.

ATTENTION DEFICIT/ HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER

Productive - Habit Tracker

This customizable app helps you build a routine of positive habits by setting personal goals, tracking your progress, and providing reminders when you need to complete something.

DISORDERED EATING

Recovery Record: Eating Disorder Management

This app is intended to aid in the recovery process of an eating disorder, but can also be used if you have body image concerns. This app allows you to record meals, access body-related affirmations, track your process, and customize meal plans and coping tactics. This app can also send progress information to your health providers.

MAINTAINING SAFETY & SEXUAL ASSAULT RECOVERY

Circleof6

This app allows you to program 6 of your trusted friends/families into your circle. If you are ever in a risky situation you can discreetly tap your phone twice and a pre-programmed alert with your location will be sent to your circle. The app also provides access to safety hotlines and an online sexual health resource.

DoD Safe Helpline

Originally designed for individuals in the military, this app provides tools and support to help individuals manage the short and long-term effects of sexual assault. There is also a feature where users can chat in the Safe HelpRoom with other survivors.

MOOD MANAGEMENT

CBT Guide to Depression Self-Help

App includes audio information about depressive symptoms, a depressive symptoms tracker, a cognitive diary, and relaxation and calming exercises.

MoodTools – Depression Aid

This app was designed for individuals with depressive symptoms, but can be used by everyone. It includes information about depression, activities to help combat depressive symptoms, a thought diary, and a symptoms tracker.

T2 Mood Tracker

This app allows you to track your mood throughout the day and come to better understand how certain events or experiences may be impacting your mood. It comes pre-loaded with 6 tracking topics but can be customized to meet your needs.

T2 Virtual Hope Box

The Virtual Hope Box provides simple tools to help individuals with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking. It can be customized with personal pictures, favorite quotes, music, videos of friends, and more.

NON-SUICIDAL SELF-INJURY/SELF-HARM

Calm Harm

This app was created based on the principles of Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT). It helps in self-harm recovery by providing tools that “distract,” that implement “comfort” instead of harm, that will help you “express yourself,” and that provide “safe alternatives to self-harm.”

SLEEP AIDS

Rain Rain Sleep Sounds

Dozens of sleep sounds are available and you can tailor them to make your own sleep soundtrack. This app is helpful if you have trouble relaxing before falling asleep.

Sleep Cycle Alarm

This intelligent alarm tracks your sleep and wakes you during your lightest sleep cycle which aids you in feeling refreshed upon waking. 

STRESS MANAGEMENT/ RELAXATION

Calm – Meditate, Sleep, Relax

App includes programs to teach you how to meditate through guided imagery and relaxation exercises that aim to lower stress, lessen anxiety, and improve sleep.

FitnessBuilder 

Physical activity has been shown to have positive effects on psychological wellbeing and this app provides helpful exercise tips, workout videos and charts, and an exercise tracker.

Headspace: Meditation & Sleep

This app provides a training program that aims to reduce anxiety and build self-compassion utilizing mindfulness and meditative practices in “bite-size” pieces to accommodate a busy life.

Smiling Mind

Mindfulness meditation made easy with this app which provides imaginative wellness practices for different age group and also includes a feeling tracker.

MyLife Meditation: Meditate, Relax, & Sleep Better

This app provides meditations and relaxation recommendations based off your current mood. The app’s primary focus is building skills around mindfulness, meditative practices, and building compassion.

SUICIDE PREVENTION

*IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY, ALWAYS CALL 911*

A Friend Asks - Jason Foundation

This app provides information, tools, and resources to help a friend (or yourself) who may be experiencing suicidal thoughts. The app contains information such as warning signs, Dos and Don’ts, and what to do to get help. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is also one click away.

My3 - Support Network

This app helps you create a plan of safety around your suicidal thoughts and allows you to be able to quickly contact three people you trust during times when you feel concerned for your safety.