Headspace
Here is an app that teaches you meditation and mindfulness. All that you need is a few minutes a day with Headspace to learn life-changing meditation skills, alongside several hundred sessions on physical health, personal growth, stress and anxiety. The app will function as your personal stress buster, with exercise routines ranging from managing anxiety to stress relief. It will help you to focus more on your health and feel better; it will teach you to breathe, meditate and live mindfully and thereby start living a healthier life. The app is designed even for those who have never meditated before. A free basics course will take you through the essentials of meditation and mindfulness.
Price: $399
Talkspace
Dubbed as the biggest online therapy programme, Talkspace has a pool of over 3,000 licensed therapists who are trained to help users with anxiety, depression and a host of other mental issues. What makes this app deliver what it promises is the availability of therapists for video chats. The app offers three standard therapy plans and you can choose any that meets your requirements. The popular ‘Unlimited Messaging Therapy Premium’ includes unlimited messaging and one live session every month. Additionally, there is an ‘Unlimited Messaging Therapy Plus’ and ‘LiveTalk Therapy Unlimited’. All the communication with the therapists takes place via text, video and audio messages.
Price range: $49 to $79 per week
Calm
This is more of a meditation app that is designed to promote relaxation through meditations, sleep stories, nature images and relaxing sounds. It also has a ‘7 Days of Calming Anxiety’ track to help improve confidence, break unhealthy habits and even boost happiness. Besides, there is an ‘Emergency Calm’ meditation for those times when things seem to be getting out of hand. The guided meditations, on the other hand, give you a choice of topics, whether it is to calm anxiety, enjoy deep sleep or experience positive emotions. The meditation could go from three minutes to 25 minutes and also provide you an option of choosing nature scenes. Interestingly, this app can also be used by kids.
Price: $59.99 per year
Happify
As the name suggests, Happify is a happiness influencing app; it is a gratitude-based app for mental health. It teaches you to focus on small moments of positivity, which can add up to a happier outlook on life. It has activities and games that can help reduce stress, overcome negative thoughts and build greater resilience by providing effective tools and programmes to improve emotional wellbeing. It can prove to be an effective platform for people struggling with everyday challenges that spread negativity and can be, generally, toxic to one’s emotional and physical wellbeing.
Price: $139.95 per year
MoodKit
MoodKit app is based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people experiencing depression. It offers a variety of tools with wellness activities that range from productivity to healthy habits. It can guide you through negative thoughts and provide space to track the symptoms. The app has four main sections – activities, thoughts, mood and journal; the journal helps you to record important events and information for future use. The activities section requires you to complete activities by a specified date and monitors the timelines and degree of success achieved with each goal. These activities are developed from evidence based practices to help with mood, stress management and overall wellness.
Price: $4.99
WorryWatch
Worry watch is exactly what this app does – watches over your worry. By helping you to record (write down what is bothering you), reflect (assess whether the outcome was as bad as you worried), reason (analyse your thought patterns), realise (realise that your worries may be unfounded) and refute (help yourself by challenging those perceptions of worry), WorryWatch provides measures to self-monitor and document worry within a pre-fixed menu; it also has a graphical tool that charts the worry entries by various factors. It is designed for folks with chronic worry, anticipatory anxiety and Generalised Anxiety Disorder. It will also prompt you to think whether you believe the actual worry was as bad as what actually happened. It will help to put your anxiety and stress into the right perspective.
Price: $4.99
