Mental Health Apps

MindShift CBT


MindShift CBT uses scientifically proven strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help you learn to relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and use active steps to take charge of your anxiety. You can find tools such as, quick relief, thought journal, coping cards, and much more within the app.
Available for iOS & Android

Color Therapy


Color therapy is #1 Social Coloring App for relaxation and mindfulness with millions of addicted coloring artists! Learn more: https://www.colortherapy.app/
Available for iOS & Android

MoodTools


If you’re feeling sad or anxious, lift your mood with MoodTools! MoodTools is designed to help you alleviate your negative moods. MoodTools contains several different research-supported tools. They include:
  • Thought Diary - improve your mood by analyzing your thoughts & identifying negative thinking patterns based on principles from
  • Cognitive Therapy.
  • Activities - regain your energy by performing energizing activities and tracking your mood before and after, based on Behavioral Activation Therapy.

Available for iOS & Android

SAM


SAM (Self-help for Anxiety Management) might be perfect for you if you’re interested in self-help, but meditation isn’t your thing. Users are prompted to build their own 24-hour anxiety toolkit that allows you to track anxious thoughts and behavior over time, and learn 25 different self-help techniques.
Available for iOS & Android

What’s Up?


What’s Up? uses scientifically proven strategies based on CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) methods to help you cope with Anxiety, Anger, Stress and more. Use the positive and negative habit tracker to maintain your good habits, and break those that are counterproductive. The “Get Grounded” page contains over 100 different questions to pinpoint what you’re feeling, and the “Thinking Patterns” page, teaches you how to stop negative internal monologues. Try it out for yourself!
Available for iOS & Android

#Mindful


#Mindful is a daily dose of mindfulness when you need it most. Receive a beautiful daily dose of mindfulness. Different messages remind you to take a pause from anxiety and stress and just be present to the beautiful experience of life.
Available for iOS & Android.

Gratitude Happiness Journal


Gratitude creates positive emotions, like joy, love, and contentment, which research shows can undo the grip of negative emotions, like anxiety.
Available for iOS & Android.

Happify


Happify’s science-based activities and games can help reduce stress, overcome negative thoughts, and build greater resilience by providing effective tools and programs to improve emotional well-being.
Available for iOS & Android.

Chill


Get Centered with Daily Inspirational Quotes from Buddha, Lao Tzu, Zen maters and many others, accompanied by images to put you in the right frame of mind for your day. Stay present with mindfulness reminders throughout the day. Receive up to 5 random notifications per day to bring you back to your center.
Available for iOS & Android

Insight Timer


Guided meditations and talks led by the world's top meditation and mindfullness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists, and teachers. Music tracks from world-renowned artists. Help calm the mind, reduce anxiety, manage stress, sleep deeply, and improve happiness.
Available for iOS

Headspace


Get happy. Stress less. Sleep soundly. Headspace is your guide to mindfulness for your everyday life. Learn meditation and mindfulness skills from world-class experts, and choose from hundreds of guided meditations on everything from managing stress and anxiety to sleep, focus, and mind-body health.
Free trial period available for iOSbut there are many youtube videos available for free

Smiling Mind


The not-for-profit app features hundreds of meditations, enough to keep you engaged without overwhelming you with choice. They are organized into structured programs like Mindful Foundations (35 sessions), Sleep (6 sessions), Digital Detox (8 sessions), and Stress Management (10 sessions), but you have the flexibility to choose where to start and to easily jump between programs.
Most meditations are in the five- to fifteen-minute range, with a few practices up to 45 minutes for advanced meditators. Smiling Mind also offers bite-sized meditations between 2 to 5 minutes for moments when you’re in need of a quick, mindful pause in the day.
Available for iOS & Android

MyLife Meditation


If other apps expect you to dive right in, MyLife (formerly titled Stop, Think, & Breathe) wants to create a more deliberate, intentional experience. A section called Learn to Meditate explains what mindfulness is and why it’s beneficial, including some of the neuroscience and physiology behind it.
Each day when you open the app, you’re asked to “Take a Breath” and invited to check in with yourself—to rate your mind and body on a scale of “rough” to “great,” and note up to five emotions you’re feeling from their lists of words. Then, MyLife recommends guided sessions like Basic Breath, Mindful Walk, and Love Your Body tailored to how you feel.
Available for iOS & Android

Healthy Minds Program


The Healthy Minds Program app wants to help you develop the skills for a healthy mind—by strengthening mental focus, decreasing stress, and growing resilience, compassion, and better immune health.
Founded by neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson (who also founded the research institute Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), the app integrates neuroscience and research-based techniques with meditation training to increase overall well-being.
Available for iOS & Android
Oregon School District does not support, encourage, or recommend these Apps as something that are appropriate for all people. Additionally this is not an exhaustive list of Apps available to assist in Mental Health. Please have a conversation with your family and/or support system on which ones may be appropriate for you.