In recent months, there’s been quite a few mental health apps available to smart phone users. These, most often free apps, offer a wealth of resources at your fingertips. Our behavioral health expert, Katelyn Millinor, LPC, recommends the following apps for you to try out at home.

Anxiety/Depression

• Happify – help reduce stress, overcome negative thoughts.
• What’s Up – utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance commitment therapy to cope with anxiety, stress, and depression.
• Sanvello – teaches cognitive behavioral therapy through journeys that combine videos, audio exercises, mood and health tracking.
• Mood Kit – utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy for mood improving activities.
• Worry Kit – short (under 2 minute) activities designed for those in between moments in life where you need to reset your brain.
•  MoodFit – create/track daily goals, understand relationship between mood and lifestyle factors, gratitude journal, mindfulness.
• Mind Shift – designed for teens and young adults with anxiety that focuses on riding out intense emotions and facing challenging situations.
• IMoodJournal – record everything from mood symptoms, sleep, medications, and energy.
• Panic Relief – better manage and move through panic attacks.
• Breathe2Relax – teaches breathing techniques to manage stress.

Meditation

• Calm – guided meditations, sleep stories, breathing programs, and relaxing music.
• Headspace – meditation and mindfulness.

Other

• Quit That! – help users beat habits or addictions (drinking, smoking, drugs).
• eMoods – designed for people with bipolar disorder to track symptoms.
• notOK – suicide prevention app that users can add trusted contacts and let them know they are not okay.
• PTSD Coach – education, assessing, and offering easy to understand tips to manage common symptoms.