Apps
PTSDCoach Online App provides you with education about PTSD, information about professional care, a self-assessment for PTSD, opportunities to find support, and tools that can help you manage the stresses of daily life with PTSD. A wide range of tools range from relaxation skills and positive self-talk to anger management and other common self-help strategies. You can customize tools based on your preferences and can integrate your own contacts, photos, and music. This app can be used by people who are in treatment as well as those who are not. STRONGLY RECOMMENDED
Mindfulness Coach App was developed to teach how to practice mindfulness. Mindfulness means noticing and paying attention to what is going on in the present moment, without passing judgment on it. Mindfulness has been shown to be effective for reducing stress, improving emotional balance, increasing self-awareness, helping with anxiety and depression, and coping more effectively with chronic pain. The app provides a gradual, self-guided training program designed to help you understand and adopt a simple mindfulness practice. Mindfulness Coach also offers a library of information about mindfulness, 12 audio-guided mindfulness exercises, a growing catalog of additional exercises available for free download, goal-setting and tracking, a mindfulness mastery assessment to help you track your progress over time, customizable reminders, and access to other support and crisis resources. STRONGLY RECOMMENDED
Mindshift App Robust CBT-based app helps users learn to relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and use active steps to take charge of your anxiety. Numerous tutorials targeting numerous issues. RECOMMENDED
Pacifica App offers daily tools for stress, anxiety, and depression alongside a supportive community. Based on cognitive behavioral therapy & mindfulness meditation.
The Yoga with Adriene YouTube channel provides hundreds of videos to suit any sort of yoga you are looking for, including long term yoga routines. Her website can direct you to free yoga videos, her blog, weekly newsletter, and more.
The Calm App offers many features and is still expanding. The Calm App can help you learn meditation, breathing exercises, and can lull you to sleep with stories, white noise, and music. This app is widely popular and great for beginners.
The Headspace App provides guided meditation sessions with a focus on daily repetition. It offers trials for beginners and its goal is to teach the user about mindfulness in everyday life. This app is widely popular and great for beginners.
The Let’s Meditate App (Android version and Apple version) is a guided meditation app, which centers on relaxation, meditation, and mental detox. This app is serviced by thousands of certified trainers across the world who are skilled in conducting online meditation sessions.
The Insight Timer App offers the largest free library of guided meditations on earth and the world’s most loved meditation Timer, for free. This app offers many bells, ambient noises, a simple timer, personalized presets, profile, and continuous statistics. This app also offers guides detailing yoga, tai chi, meditation, breathing, healing, chanting, walking, and prayer. World’s largest collection of free guided meditations.
Aloe Bud App is an “all-in-one” pocket companion; this app allows you to send reminders to yourself regarding anything you may need to remember throughout the day, from medication to journaling. Also allows you to track self-care activities each day.
Breathe App (Apple version) reminds you to breath and sends you mindfulness quotes throughout the day. This app is widely popular and great for beginners.
The Stop, Breathe, and Think App helps kids, teens and young adults build the emotional strength to tackle life’s ups and downs. This app is widely popular and great for beginners.
Sober Time App (Google version and Apple version) tracks how long you have been sober and helps you quit drinking, drugs or any other addiction you're struggling with. Stay sober. Stay motivated! It can be customized to track your success at starting healthy habits as well as stopping problematic habits.
PE Coach App is designed to be used during therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with a health professional who is trained in Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy. The app will guide you through the exercises assigned by your therapist and allows you to track and record your progress. In addition, the app provides techniques such as controlled breathing that will help you tolerate and decrease your distress. PE Coach will help you remember and track your upcoming therapy sessions. By itself this app is not sufficient to treat PTSD. However, those who are receiving PE treatment can work together with their therapist to use the tools in this app.