Mobile Apps: There's an app for that!

Apps for Kids, Youth, and Young Adults:

“Be Safe: You deserve help” by Family Service Thames Valley: Designed to help you make decisions in a crisis. Allows you to make a safety plan, offers information about resources in London Ontario and surrounding area, and provides options for getting help.

“Mind Your Mood” by Family Service Thames Valley:Designed to help you track your mood and keep a record that helps you to understand your ups and downs, and to see the larger picture of your emotional health. Offers a scale to measure the intensity of your moods, and the ability to add notes and/or to “flag” them for later conversations.

“Healthy Minds” by the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Care Centre: is a problem-solving tool to help students deal with emotions and cope with stresses both on and off campus. The goal: Keeping the mind healthy

“Fig: Your personal wellness guide for body and soul”by Fig.com, Inc: Designed to help you build healthier habits across 6 holistic categories (eat, move, refresh, connect, feel, and go further). Includes the ability to create your own wellness guide, over 300 activities, a tracker, and the ability to connect with friends/family.

“Smiling Mind” by Smiling Minds: Designed to help people overwhelmed with stress, anxiety, and/or depression. It is a simple tool designed to make meditation and mindfulness easy. Includes a tracker and daily meditations geared for specific age groups.

“B2R: Breathe2Relax” by National Centre for Telehealth and Technology: Designed to be a portable stress management tool, that provides information re. the effects of stress on the body, as well as instructions and exercises to help learn stress management breathing techniques. Offers guided breathing exercises to help reduce symptoms of an anxiety attack.

“Stop, Breathe, & Think” by Tool for Peace: Designed to help you become more mindful and compassionate by using a meditation guide. Offers check-in’s daily, and tracker to monitor your progress. The goal: to help you feel the calm.

“Calm” by Calm.com: Provides guided meditation, ranging from 2 to 20 minutes. Offers various soft music options to take you to your sanctuary. The goal: To allow you to slow down and de-stress.

“Insight Timer” by Bradley Fullmer: Offers guided meditations of various lengths of times. It is design for beginners wanting to get started with meditation, yet it is also is designed to handle the most sophisticate meditation routines. Includes advanced features such as interval bells, presets, and a meditation journal.

“Take a Break! – Guided Meditation” by Meditation Oasis. Features 2 popular meditations, and offers relaxing music or nature sounds. The Goal: Deep relaxation and stress relief.

“Omvana: Meditation for Everyone” by Mindvally creations: Designed to be your personal meditation and mindfulness teacher. Offers guided meditations ranging from 3 to 60 minutes. Includes background music and a health kit that helps your recognize your stress level and helps you keep calm.

“Mind Shift” by Creative B’stro: Designed to help you cope with anxiety by helping you change the way you think about anxiety and to stop avoiding it. Helps you learn ways to relax, development helpful ways of thinking, and identifying active steps that help you take charge of your anxiety. Also includes strategies to deal with everyday anxiety, as well as strategies to manage test anxiety, perfectionism, social, anxiety, performance anxiety, worry, panic, and conflict.

“B2R: Breathe2Relax” by National Centre for Telehealth and Technology: Designed to be a portable stress management tool, that provides information re. the effects of stress on the body, as well as instructions and exercises to help learn stress management breathing techniques. Offers guided breathing exercises to help reduce symptoms of an anxiety attack.

“Self-help for Anxiety Management” by The University of West England: Offers a wide range of self-help methods for managing anxiety. Offers information, external links to resources, anxiety tracker with graphical display, self-help options for physical and mental relaxation, and guidance on putting self-help into action.

“Optimism” by Optimism Apps: Designed to be a mood charting app to help you develop strategies for managing depression, bipolar, or other mental health concerns. Offers info/strategies to help you develop and monitor health strategies, learn “triggers” indicating a decline in your mental health, and to recognize early warning signs of a decline.

“Happy Habits” (only for android): Uses principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to improve your mood. Includes a quiz to assess your mood and then offers suggestions to help create more happiness in your life. Also offers audio components, a journal, and information about CBT and happiness.

“The Life Line: Hope, Love, Support” by Liane Weber: Offers support and guidance for those suffering crisis and for those who have suffered the loss of a loved one from suicide. Provides awareness education and prevention strategies to help stop suicides. Includes one touch dialing to a 1-800 crisis line anywhere in Canada 24/7.

“PTSD Coach Canada” by Veterans Affairs Canada: Offers dependable resources, information, and self-help tools to help you learn about and manage symptoms of PTSD. Also includes direct links to support and help.

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