Apps to improve your mental health

Suicide and HarM Prevention
Focus, Motivation, and Helpful Habits
Mindfulness and Meditation
substance use
wellbeing

Suicide and Harm Prevention

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Suicide Safety Plan

Suicidal thoughts can seem like they will last forever – but these thoughts and feelings pass with time.         
This safety plan helps you to start at the beginning and continue through the steps until you feel safe.

Cost: Free

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My(Safety)Plan

An anonymous, interactive safety decision aid for people who may be experiencing abuse in their relationship. Available in English and Spanish.

Cost: Free

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Calm Harm

Helps you manage or resist the urge to self-harm. You will be able to track your progress and notice changes.

Cost: Free

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Focus, Motivation, and Helpful Habits

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Flora – Green Focus

Stay off your phone, clear to-do lists, and build positive, life-changing habits.

Cost: Free

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Habitica

A habit-building and productivity app that treats your real life like a game. With in-game rewards to motivate you and a strong social network to inspire you.

Cost: Free

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Habit Bull

Smash through your goals! Easily break bad habits like smoking, drinking or nail biting, or build positive habits like fitness, meditation or reading.

Cost: Free

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MyStudyLife

Cut the mental clutter
Experience the freedom of a clear and stress-free student life by easily tracking your schedule, homework, and exams.

Cost: Free

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Structured Day Planner

A visual day planner app designed to help you take control of your life with just a few taps. It can be integrated with existing calendar and to-do lists.

Cost: Free

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Mindfulness and Meditation

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Happier

Video courses and meditations on topics such as relationships, emotions, performance, focus, and stress. Plus a sleep section and access to meditation teachers.

Cost: 7 day free trial then $99/year.
Gift subscriptions may be available. If interested, ask your counselor.

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Headspace

Find hundreds of sessions on personal growth, physical health, stress management, and anxiety relief.

Cost: Free 10-day trial. Then $9.99/year student rate

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Healthy Minds

Assess, measure and improve your wellbeing with active and still meditations lasting 5-30 minutes.

Cost: Free

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Insight Timer

Includes guided meditations, sleep tracks, music, talks, and discussion groups. Offers ability to track your progress.

Cost: Basic Plan is Free

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Smiling Mind

Smiling Mind is a non-profit working to bring balance to people’s lives through this free mindfulness meditation.

Cost: Free

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UCLA Mindfulness

Practice mindfulness meditation anywhere, anytime with the guidance of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center.

The app includes meditations in multiple languages.

Cost: Free

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Substance Use

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Grounded: I Quit Weed

Whether you’re here to quit cold turkey or to take a tolerance break (T-break), we have all the quit cannabis tools you need in your weed smoking cessation journey.

Cost: Free

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I Am Sober

This app helps you to build new habits, analyze your triggers, count your sober days, and see how much time and money you’ve saved by being sober. It also connects you to a network of people all striving for the same goal.

Cost: Free

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Saying When

Take charge of how much or when you drink with step-by-step directions and tools to monitor and analyze your drinking patterns. It’s a self-help approach that can positively influence your health, academics, and relationships.

Cost: Free

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Sober Grid

Sober Grid is full of evidence-based tools to help anyone find and maintain their path to sobriety while avoiding traditional barriers to accessing support. It helps individuals achieve long term recovery with peer support coaching, an online community, digital therapeutics, and a digital library of mental health resources.

Cost: Free

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This is Quitting

Anonymous, private, 24/7 Text Messaging support. Text DITCHVAPE to 88709 for great quitting advice, tips, and encouragement from other young people who know what you’re going through.

Cost: Free

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Wellbeing

Belle – Your PMDD Tracker

Belle’s App is your health ally in managing PMDD. Understand PMDD, monitor your symptoms, and receive tailored guidance.

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CBT-i (for insomnia)

This app (designed by Veterans Affaires and available to all) features:
• Education about CBT-i and how sleep works
• Tips to help develop positive sleep routines and improve sleep environments
• Sleep diary to track wake and sleep times
• Tools to help relax while getting ready for sleep or when trying to go back to sleep

Cost: Free

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Clear Fear

Face your fear with this app! Learn how to reduce physical responses to threat, change thoughts and behaviours, and release unwanted emotions.

Cost: Free

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Combined Minds

Help your family and friends who are struggling with mental illness using this strengths based approach.

Cost: Free

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Daylio Self Care App

A self care bullet journal with goals, mood diary, and happiness tracker. Keep a diary and capture your day without writing down a single word!

Cost: $39.99/year

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PTSD Coach

This app provides information on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and treatments that work.

Features include tools for screening and tracking your symptoms and handling stress, direct links to support and help, guided relaxation exercises, soothing sounds and images, relationship tips, and more.

Available in English and Spanish.

Cost: Free

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Self-Help App for the Mind (SAM)

SAM helps you to monitor and manage your mental health, with self-help techniques for anxiety, depression, loneliness and coping.

Cost: Free

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Get free, confidential mental health and wellbeing support with the Student Support app available on App Store and Google Play

TELUS Mental Health Support App

24/7 chat, phone and video support. Self Assessments, Virtual Fitness Classes, and Teletherapy.

Download the app
or call 844-584-1027

Cost: Free to URI students

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What’s Up?

What’s Up? can help you cope with anxiety, stress and feelings of depression. This app has interactive games, forums, thought tracking diary and helpful techniques to mange your feelings. Utilizes psychoeducation, CBT skills, grounding games, breathing techniques and has a diary section.               

Cost: Free

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