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Overcome anxiety and nervousness related to social situations with short 5-10 minute sessions
Apps
App links
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Stress
Buddha Board
This app allows you to draw designs as though you were drawing on a Buddha board, which means as you draw, your design starts to disappear. This allows you to practice "letting go" and to live in the moment and enjoy.
Learn moreBreathe2Relax
This app provides a quick breathing tutorial to give you a chance to change your stress to something manageable. Short and simple, it provides guided instruction for 16 breaths.
Learn moreVirtual Hope Box
Coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking
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happify
Happify's science-based activities and games can help you overcome negative thoughts, stress, and life's challenges.
Learn morePTSD Coach
Intended for use by veterans, military and civilians experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder
Learn moreSAM app
Help users understand and manage anxiety
Learn moreMeditation
Aura
This simple meditation app offers 3 – minute guided meditation sessions, as well as offer unguided meditations, they cater to you! They allow you to track your mood, connect with others, and offer a space for gratitude reflections. You can also download meditations to practice offline!
Calm
Mindfulness and meditation to bring clarity, joy and peace
Learn moreHeadspace
Headspace is one of the most well – known meditation apps out there. When you join, you are provided with a free 10 – day beginner's course that walks you through some of the fundamentals of meditation and mindfulness. It gives you the option to purchase more, as well. It is very simple, straightforward, and you can access it from the computer too!
Meditation Studio
A collection of guided meditations
Learn moreTime Management
Remember The Milk
Remember The Milk (Apple / Android) This app is a to-do list that provides lots of bonus features. You can get reminders sent to you via email or text, integrate with Gmail and Google Calendar, sync across devices, and organize the lists based on priorities, due dates, repeats … whatever works best for you!
RescueTime
This app tracks your mobile apps and phone calls – but for a good reason! Ever wonder where all your time is going? This app will let you know. It tracks the time that you spend on apps or talking on the phone, and then will provide you with a report. You can set alerts to remind you to take a screen break, as well as control what you want tracked. Not only can you see how much time you spend per day on your phone, you can also see when your "busy times" are.
Personal Safety
Sleep
Relax Melodies
This app has a variety of sounds and melodies that allow you to create a background that you find relaxing and can act as white noise as you fall asleep, or while you meditate.
White Noise Lite
This app provides over 40 different sounds to find your perfect white noise to help you find a better night's rest. This app allows you to set a timer, mix and match sounds and adjust the pitch to help you completely customize the app to what you need.
Travel
Suicide and Self – Harm
Calm Harm
This app uses ideas from different therapy techniques to help teach users to identify and manage your "emotional" mind, with positive impact. This app works to help you: distract, comfort, express and release. This app is intended to work to help manage, it is not intended to replace therapy.