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Mobile apps are a great way to get teenagers to work on their issues in an accessible way. There is an amazing selection on offer dealing with every aspect of anxiety and stress, including apps recommended by NHS Surrey and Borders Partnership.
Here is a selection of apps that we think you’ll find super valuable – simply click on the image to be taken to the website.
Calm Harm
An award-winning app developed by a clinical psychologist. It helps deter users from the urge to self-harm by choosing from a range of activities and provides methods to help break the cycle of self-harm habits.
Happier
A habit-tracking tool providing personalised techniques to help users to build a happier and healthier life. It also offers daily habit-formation tips and encourages you to explore the range of tools to find what works for you.
Daylio
A mood-tracking app helping users to better understand their triggers by keeping a diary. You can also add activities to your entries and set personal goals – all without writing down a single word.
Headspace
A meditation-based app that improves the health and happiness of users. Choose from a range of courses to reap the benefits of meditation and mindfulness, such as reducing stress and boosting focus.
MindShift CBT
Using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), this app helps users to learn how to relax, develop more productive ways of thinking, and identify active steps that will help you take charge of your anxiety.
Self-help App for the Mind (SAM)
A wellbeing app based on clinical evidence helping users to understand the causes of anxiety. It provides self-help strategies to monitor changes in your mood and how to manage it.
What’s Up?
A secure, confidential app promoting positive mental health. Features include a mood tracker, a directory of local and national contacts, daily motivational quotes, and a Q&A service.
Stay Alive
A suicide prevention app providing resources to help users stay safe during a crisis. Users can personalise the app by utilising the Safety Plan feature to help recognise the warning signs and what actions to take.
Kooth
A free online app offering advice, counselling and wellbeing support to 10–18-year-olds. It includes helpful articles written by young people, your own daily journal, discussion boards, and a messaging service for when you want some online counselling, advice or wellbeing support.
Qwell
An adult version of Kooth providing professional and community support, as well as a selection of self-help personal development tools.
