Student Health and Wellness Services

Self-Help Apps

Anxiety

Breathe2Relax is a FREE portable stress management tool for iPhone and Android devices. It's a hands-on diaphragmatic breathing exercise. Breathing exercises have been documented to decrease the body's 'fight-or-flight' response, and help with mood stabilization, anger control, and anxiety management.

The FREE Tactical Breather app for iPhone and Android devices can be used to gain control over physiological and psychological responses to stress. Through repetitive practice and training, you can learn to gain control of your heart rate, emotions, concentration, and other physiological and psychological responses to your body during stressful situations.

Mindshift, for iPhone and Android devices, is FREE and designed to provide you with tools for managing various types of anxiety, including test anxiety, perfectionism, social anxiety, performance anxiety, worry, panic, and conflict.

SAM, an iPhone and Android FREE app, offers options for tracking anxiety, identifying anxiety triggers, teaching breathing and relaxation strategies, and developing an anxiety management toolkit.

Stop Panic and Anxiety is a FREE Android app that offers self-help methods to control panic and anxiety. The info in this app assumes that you are suffering from panic attacks due to Panic Disorder. It may not be applicable to other forms of anxiety. It focuses on the fear of having a panic attack and the fear of the sensations when having a panic.

Depression

This FREE Android app contains a depression severity test, audios, articles, a cognitive diary, and a motivational points system that help you learn how to do this.

The self-help methods used in this FREE Android app are based on the tools of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and challenge irrational thinking.

The self-help methods used in this FREE Android app are based on the tools of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and challenge irrational thinking.

Mental Health Tools

T2 Mood Tracker is a FREE iPhone and Android app that allows you to monitor and track emotional health. The app records a range of emotions for anxiety, depression, head injury, stress, posttraumatic stress and general well-being. You can create items to track your progress and results are displayed in an easy-to-understand graph.

This website app is designed to help you cope with overwhelming emotions and impulsive behaviors. It will also assist with relationships and help you cultivate mindfulness.

Mindfulness/Relaxation

Learn how this FREE app for iPhone and Android can help you to relax, meditate and much more.

This FREE Android app combines the soothing sounds of music with the balance and harmony of the Chinese Tai Chi way of meditation.

A FREE daily coaching app suitable for all ages, available for Android and iPhone devices.

Headspace, for iPhone and Android devices, is FREE meditation made relevant to modern life. Get unique daily guided meditations, science facts and figures and progress reports, all designed to make it as easy as possible for you to get some calm and clarity.

Watch virtual fish with this FREE Android and IOS app and you'll be guaranteed to relax!

This FREE Android app lets you choose from a list of 6 different good quality nature relaxing sounds (sounds of nature) which include thunder, ocean sounds, sea, birds sounds, rain, night in jungle, water sounds, waterfall, nature and start your personal audio therapy.

Select sounds and melodies that you like and combine them to create a mix with this FREE iPhone and Android app.

The Stop, Breathe and Think app is a FREE mindfulness, meditation and compassion-building tool available for both iPhone and Android.

Take a Break is a FREE iPhone and Android app that claims to "melt the stress away."

Do you have trouble falling asleep? Need to take a quick power nap in between classes? This FREE app for IOS and  Android can help you achieve that.

PTSD

PTSD Coach was developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs' National Center for PTSD. This FREE iPhone and Android app is intended to be used as an adjunct to psychological treatment, but can also serve as a stand-alone education tool.

Sexual Assault Resource

This FREE iPhone app allows you a way to connect with your most trustred friends to stay close and attempt to prevent violence before it happens. It lets you choose six trustred friends to add to your circle. If you get into an uncomfortable situation, use Circle of 6 to automatically send your circle a pre-programmed SMS alert message with your exact location.

Recovery

This Android and iPhone app ($2.99) is designed to help people cope with the emotional and physical cravings for alcohol.