Mental Health Apps

Combined Minds is an app developed for teenage mental health charity stem4 by Dr. Nihara Krause, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, to help families and friends support young people with their mental health. A shared harness can balance or protect a climber and help catch them when they fall. Keep on partnering so they can climb tall.Combined Minds helps families and friends to find ways to provide the right environment to help the individuals they support affect their own change. As important influencers in the lives of young people, this provides positive impact on their mental health.

The fear of threat, or anxiety, is like a strong gust of wind. It drags you in and makes you want to fight it or run away.

Instead, face your fear with the free Clear Fear app and learn to reduce the physical responses to threat as well as changing thoughts and behaviours and releasing emotions.

Calm Harm is designed to help people resist or manage the urge to self harm.  The app provides different categories of tasks to help you. It is private and password protected.

Learn how to manage feelings like anxiety and depression with Catch It. The app will teach you how to look at problems in a different way, turn negative thoughts into positive ones and improve your mental wellbeing.

Stress less. Sleep soundly.  Get happy . Learn mindfulness in a few minutes with head space.. Choose from hundreds of guided meditation on everything from stress and everyday anxiety management to sleep, personal growth and mind and body health.

Manage your anxiety, relax & be mindful. Break free from anxiety and stress using this free evidence-based anxiety management app. MindShift CBT uses scientifically proven strategies based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

Play your way to a calmer day with chill panda.

The distrACT app gives you easy, quick and discreet access to information and advice about self harm and suicidal thoughts. The content on the app has been created by doctors and experts in self harming and suicide prevention.

The MeeToo app provides a safe and secure forum for teenagers wanting to discuss any issues effecting their lives. You can anonymously get advice from experts or other teenagers going through the similar experiences in areas such as self harming, mental health, relationships and friendships. 

A CBT trained robot designed to help with anxiety and depression. He will help you thinking through situations with guidance, learn about yourself with a mood tracker and help you reduce stress and live a happier life.

The hub of hope believes that no matter what you go through you shouldn't have to do it alone. The hub is here to help you find support/services close to you using geolocation technology.

BlueIce is a prescribed evidence-based app to help young people manage their emotions and to reduce urges to self-harm.

It includes a mood diary, toolbox of evidence based techniques to reduce distress and automatic routing to emergency numbers if urges to harm continue. Check with your local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) to see if they subscribe to BlueIce.

BlueIce is a prescribed app. It should only be used alongside a face to face intervention provided by a mental health worker. Check with your local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) to see if they subscribe to BlueIce.

Kooth - This isn't a app for your phone but a online well being community for free,safe and anonymous support  - Home - Kooth

The Stay Alive app is a pocket suicide prevention resource for the UK, packed full of useful information to help you stay safe. You can use it if you are having thoughts of suicide or if you are concerned about someone else who may be considering suicide.

In addition to the resources, the app includes a safety plan, customisation reasons for living, and a life box where you can store photos that are important to you.

Molehill Mountain is an app to help autistic people understand and self-manage anxiety.

You can use Molehill Mountain to explore the causes and symptoms of anxiety.

• Track your worries and the situations that trigger anxiety.
• Get evidence-based daily tips to understand more about anxiety.
• Feel more confident to self-manage anxiety.

This app to help people with anxiety. It is inspired by years of facing anxiety and depression myself.
The worrydolls work by using scientific cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness techniques, and a bit of magic.  

You just tell your worry to the worrydoll your worry.The worrydolls work by using scientific cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness techniques, and a bit of magic. When your worry is finished, you can tell the doll it is okay to stop worrying.  I hope that over time this will help you feel less worried. You can look at all your old worries which are now okay.

This helps teach you that worries can seem worse than they are.