Online services and apps
There are many services and apps available online that can help you to take care of your mental health and wellbeing.
APPS
Download to your phone or mobile device.
BLUEICE
Free
BlueIce is an evidenced-based app to help young people manage their emotions and reduce urges to self-harm.
It includes a mood diary, a toolbox of evidence-based techniques to reduce distress and automatic routing to emergency numbers if urges to harm continue.
CALM
Price – £7.99 a month or £29.99 a year
CALM provides daily challenges to deepen your mindfulness practise and learn more about yourself that include sleep advice, exclusive music to help you relax and focus as well as video lessons on mindful movement and gentle stretching.
CALM HARM
Free
Calm Harm is an app designed to help people resist or manage the urge to self-harm. It’s private and password protected.
CATCH IT
Free
Learn how to manage feelings like anxiety and depression with Catch It. The app will teach you how to look at problems in a different way, turn negative thoughts into positive ones and improve your mental wellbeing.
CHILL PANDA
Free
Learn to relax, manage your worries and improve your wellbeing with Chill Panda. The app measures your heart rate and suggests tasks to suit your state of mind. Tasks include simple breathing techniques and light exercises to take your mind off your worries.
COVE
Free
Create music to capture your mood and express how you feel with the Cove app. Instead of words, create music to reflect emotions like joy, sadness, calm and anger. You can store your music in a personal journal, or send them to someone and let the music do the talking.
DISTRACT
Free
The distrACT app gives you easy, quick and discreet access to information and advice about self-harm and suicidal thoughts.
The content has been created by doctors and experts in self-harming and suicide prevention.
FEELING GOOD: POSITIVE MINDSET
Free, with in-app purchases
Relax your body and mind with a series of audio tracks designed to help you build confidence, energy and a positive mindset.
HEADSPACE
Price – £7.99 a month or £29.99 a year
Relax with the help of Headspace‘s guided meditations and mindfulness techniques. Meditation has been shown to promote subtle improvements in focus, attention and the ability to ignore distractions.
MY POSSIBLE SELF: THE MENTAL HEALTH APP
Free, with in-app purchases
Take control of your thoughts, feelings and behaviour with the My Possible Self mental health app. Use the simple learning modules to manage fear, anxiety and stress and tackle unhelpful thinking. Record your experiences and track symptoms to better understand your mental health.
PZIZZ
Free, with in-app purchases
The Pzizz app helps you quickly calm your mind, fall asleep fast, stay asleep, and wake up refreshed.
It uses “dreamscapes” – a mix of music, voiceovers and sound effects designed using the latest clinical research – to help you sleep better at night or take power naps during the day.
SAMARITANS SELF-HELP APP
Free
Keep track of how you’re feeling, and get recommendations for things you can do to help yourself cope, feel better and stay safe in a crisis with the Samaritans Self-Help app. Track your mood, create a safety plan, try techniques to help you challenge and cope with difficult feelings, and keep track of helpful activities that make you feel better.
SLEEPIO
Sleepio is an online sleep improvement programme that is clinically proven to help you fall asleep faster, reduce night-time awakenings, and give you more energy throughout the day. The programme is based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and can be tailored to your individual specific needs.
Sleepio
STRESS AND ANXIETY COMPANION
Free, with in-app purchases
Stress & Anxiety Companion helps you handle stress and anxiety on-the-go. Using breathing exercises, relaxing music and games designed to calm the mind, the app helps you change negative thoughts to help you better cope with life’s ups and downs.
THRIVE
Free
Thrive helps you prevent and manage stress, anxiety and related conditions. The game based app can be used to relax before a stressful situation or on a more regular basis to help you live a happier, more stress-free life.
WORRY TREE
Free
The WorryTree app aims to help you take control of worry wherever you are.
You can use the app to record whatever you feel worried about. It uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to help you notice and challenge your worries. It can also help you create an action plan for managing worry.
ONLINE RESOURCES AND INFORMATION
DIRECTME
Find services to help support people living with mental illness in Kensington and Chelsea. DirectMe includes information about services including health, employment, housing and benefits.
KOOTH
Kooth is an online mental wellbeing community, which offers emotional and mental health support for children and young people aged between 11 – 24 years and is available up to 10 pm every day.
NHS DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY SELF-ASSESSMENT QUIZ
If you’re 16 or over, this depression and anxiety self-assessment quiz can help you better understand how you’ve been feeling recently.
NHS APPS LIBRARY
Find more apps to help with your overall health and wellbeing on the NHS Apps Library
COMMUNITY LIVING WELL
If you are struggling with low mood, anxiety or depression and you feel you need something to change, take a look at the Community Living Well services. Our wellbeing services offer a range of different programmes that may help, depending on your situation.
Find out more about how we can help.
