Self-Help Tools - APPS

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Calm is a paid app featuring tools to manage anxiety and stress, and improve sleep and focus. It caters for children and adults and has a free trial period. Content is regularly updated. 

Insight Timer is a free app with thousands of resources to support mental health and wellbeing. It focuses on meditation, sleep, breathwork, yoga, and contemplation. 

Smiling Minds is a free mindfulness app supporting users to build meditation into their daily lives. The broader Smiling Minds website has resources for schools, home, and work. 

Beyond Now is a free app you can use to make a step-by-step plan to help you stay safe in those times when you're overwhelmed and are having thoughts of suicide. 

Calm Harm is a free app to help manage or resist the urge to self-harm. 

An app with an online community to help reset drinking habits.

Head to Health can help you find digital mental health services from trusted Australian mental health organisations. Provided by the Australian Department of Health, it brings together apps, online programs, online forums, and phone services, as well as a range of digital information resources.

Mental Health Online provides free online programs. If you’re experiencing mental distress, the services can help you understand and address your needs through self-assessment, self-help and, if you choose, online professional support. 

MindSpot provides free, anonymous assessment and treatment for adults experiencing stress, anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and chronic pain.  

The APS has information for the public on a wide range of mental health issues from ADHD through to Trauma. Information generally includes symptoms, causes, assessment, treatment, and how to seek help. 

Moodgym is like an interactive self-help book which helps you to learn and practice skills which can help to prevent and manage symptoms of depression and anxiety. 

The VIA website has free and paid products to assist you to identify and develop your character strengths. Working with character strengths is proven to improve wellbeing. 

The ReachOut website is aimed at young people and has mental health resources for young people, parents, and schools. 

Mindfulness and stress relief resources for teens. 

The centre's page features many resources aimed at children and young people. 

Connect to the mental health support services in the North Brisbane and Moreton Bay region.

An excellent self-help book to address binge eating. 

This book has become a classic in trauma recovery.