Useful Apps

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Headspace

Headspace is a science-backed app in mindfulness and meditation, providing unique tools and resources to help reduce stress, build resilience, and aid better sleep.

Stay Alive

Developed by Grassroots Suicide Prevention. This app is a suicide prevention resource for the UK, packed full of useful information and tools to help you stay safe in crisis. You can use it if you are having thoughts of suicide or if you are concerned about someone else who may be considering suicide.

MindDoc: Your Companion (17+)

Developed by clinical psychologists in close collaboration with leading researchers for those who want to learn about emotional well-being or who suffer from mild-to-

moderate mental illness including depression, anxiety, insomnia, and eating disorders. You can log your mental health and mood in real-time. Discover the library of courses and exercises to help you on your journey toward emotional well-being.

7 Cups: Online Therapy & Chat (12+)

Are you feeling worried, sad, stressed or lonely? Need to talk to someone? Download 7 Cups to access anonymous emotional support & counselling from trained active listeners. Easy to use text chat and real listeners available for you 24/7. Calm yourself with 300 free mindfulness exercises, get personalised care with the free wellness test, boost your mood with simple activities and learn & grow from short videos.

SuperBetter: Mental Health (4+)

Improve mental health, resilience and social-emotional skills. SuperBetter is at heart a simple and transformative idea – we can use the same strengths naturally displayed in game play to confront real-life challenges, build skills, manage stress & practice self-care. SuperBetter uses the psychology of game play in all of life. Playing SuperBetter means bringing a game mindset to real-life - challenging yourself, going for epic wins, adopting a secret identity, completing quests, battling bad guys, activating power-ups and checking-in with allies. 

Happify: For Stress & Worry (4+)

Happify's science-based activities and games can help you overcome negative thoughts, stress, and life's challenges. Leading scientists and experts who have been studying evidence-based interventions in the fields of positive psychology, mindfulness, and cognitive behavioural therapy for decades have developed the techniques used. 86% of people who use Happify regularly report feeling better about their lives in 2 months!

Calm Harm (12+)

The urge to self-harm is like a wave. It feels the most powerful when you start wanting to do it. This free app is to help resist or manage that urge. 

Clear Fear (4+)

Providing you with a range of ways to manage the symptoms of anxiety. Developed by a clinician co-collaboratively with young people, Clear Fear uses a Cognitive Behavioural framework to help you change anxious thoughts and emotions, alter anxious behaviours and calm fear responses. 

Move Mood (12+)

A free app to help young people manage the behaviours associated with low mood or depression. Created for stem4, teenage mental health charity, this clinically led app has been co-designed with input from young people. 

Worth Warrior: help body image (12+)

Worth Warrior is a free app created for young people to manage negative body image, low self-worth, and related early-stage eating difficulties or disorders.