apps we use

apps we love

gratitude exercises apps

Feel Good Tracker – Track & graph involvement in pleasant events
Gratitude and Happiness (Track & Share Apps, LLC) – Track four happiness items and see what makes you happy and healthy
Gratitude Diary (Rude Labs) – Helps you to focus on life’s best things

health/nutrition apps

Daily Tracker Lite – Follow and organize all aspects of your daily routine
Pedometer – Helps keep track of how many steps you’ve taken in a day. Has GPS capabilities.
Pedometer Step Count – Automatically records the steps you’ve taken
Pink Pad – Menstrual and fertility tracker with integrated community to help women
Water Your Body Lite – This app reminds you to drink water and helps track your drinking habits
LoseIt – tracks food & calories – can scan barcodes or create own custom recipes
MyFitnessPal – tracks food & calories – can scan barcodes or create own custom recipes

Insomnia Apps

CBT-I Coach – Goes through exercises of the CBT-I protocol

meditation apps

Breathe2Relax: Simple, guided breathing exercise to help calm emotion dysregulation
Buddhist Meditation: Music created for or inspired by Buddhism and part of Buddhist art.
Cleveland Clinic Stress Meditation: Mindfulness, guided imagery, loving-kindness, body scan, etc.
Headspace (on-the-go): contains a multiple of series of meditation practices to different settings such as performance, creativity, relationships, stress, etc.
Insight Timer – Great app for meditation, has guided meditations
Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell: Sends randomized reminders to be mindful throughout the day
Mindfulness for Beginners: Guided meditations app; strong focus on MBSR and the 7 attitudinal factors
Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief (Jon Kabat Zinn)
Mindfulness Meditation by MentalWorkout: Guided mindfulness meditations.
Nature Sounds Relax and Sleep: includes a variety of soothing sounds of nature
Qi Gong Meditation Relaxation:
Re-mindful: random reminder to smile, breathe or be mindful.
Relax & Rest Guided Meditations: 3 guided meditations.
Take a Break: Guided meditation with music.

mood/thought apps

iCBT – Helps keep thought logs.
MoodKit – Helps keep track of positive and negative moods.

OCD apps

TreatmyOCD – great and comprehensive app for ERP
LiveOCD – Great companion for ERP, good for kids
OCDTest – Gives you the YBOCS questionnaire

stress apps

Acupressure: TreatYourself – Guide to self-acupressure, for relaxation.
Stress Check – Questionnaire to help identify triggers of anxiety/stress.
Stress Tracker – Track anxiety/stress on 10-point scale. Identify triggers. Graphs progress.
Worry Box – Anxiety Self-Help guide to managing worry.
Stop, breathe and think – guided meditation app – Mayo Clinic.

sleep apps

Nature Sounds:Relax and Sleep – Soothing sounds of nature
Relax & Sleep Well (i-mobilize, inc.) – High quality hypnosis recording helps alleviate stress and anxiety
Sleep Stream 2 (Explosive Apps) – Plays soothing sounds from nature, gentle audio atmospheres, music, hypnosis tracks, etc to help you sleep, relax, meditate, and more.
Sleep Time by Azumio Inc. – Detects your sleep cycles & behavior (REM vs Light Sleep)
Smart Alarm Clock (Arawella Corporation) – Tracks your sleep patterns and records sounds at night to help you track your snoring.

trauma apps

PE Coach – Created for returning vets with PTSD, recommended by the National Center for PTSD
PTSD Coach – Skills for managing symptoms of PTSD and tools for tracking/graphing practice/progress

acceptance and commitment therapy apps

ACTCompanion –
Mindi – ACT app with a fun video.
Signify – media player app that plays

attention re-training apps

Anti-Anxiety – Attention retraining for GAD
GoUpToThem – Attention retraining for Social Phobia

exposure apps

AnxietyCoach (Mayo Clinic): a bit tricky to use, but can create your own hierarchy
iTalk – good app for recording imaginal exposure

tracking and monitoring apps

D.A.T.A – Behavior monitoring
MeasureSet – Track multiple sources of data, including symptoms and behaviors
Mood Panda (Jake Greenwood) – Helps track your mood. Can connect to online account to track from anywhere.
Moody Me (MedHelp) – Helps track your mood. Can take pictures of things that make you feel happy and play them back.
MyMoodTracker Lite (Aspyre Solutions) – App for recording your mental state and the factors that influence your mood
Optimism (Optimism Apps) – Mood charting app that helps you develop strategies for managing depression, bipolar or other mental health conditions
T2 Mood Tracker – Tracks a wide range of positive and negative emotions, customizable for monitoring additional s’s
TracknShare – Best app to track behavior/monitor progress.
Way of Life: Tracking app, helps you spot positive and negative trends in your lifestyle
Behavior Assessment Pro – Tracks ABCs of a given behavior. Facilitates functional behavior analysis

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

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