Counseling Services
Helpful Apps
Counseling Services does not endorse any of the below-mentioned apps. These apps are not intended to be a replacement for treatment nor are they any sort of medical intervention.
iQuit
- iQuit helps people stop expensive, problematic habits and addictions by giving them time and money-based goals to help you quit.
Breathwrk
- It is a simple yet powerful way to alleviate anxiety, increase energy, improve focus, and help you fall asleep. Feel the difference almost immediately with free guided breathing exercises that are backed by science and research. We take you through the same breathing techniques used by Psychotherapists, Olympic Athletes, Yogis, Navy SEALs, Zen Masters, and Neuroscientists. Breathwrk is for everybody; whether you're dealing with excess stress, panic attacks, a racing mind at night, lack of focus, low energy, can’t get out of bed in the morning, or just want to feel happier and healthier, we have a breath for that.
Breathe2Relax
- Breathe2Relax is a portable stress management tool that provides detailed information on the effects of stress on the body and instructions and practice exercises to help users learn the stress management skill called diaphragmatic breathing.
Complete Relaxation: Guided Meditation for Anxiety
- Using the latest meditation techniques, Complete Relaxation eases every muscle in the body, allowing users to sleep well, relax and find a little more peace in their life.
MindShift
- MindShift is an app designed to help young adults cope with anxiety. It can help users learn how to relax, develop more helpful ways of thinking, and identify active steps that will help them take charge of their anxiety.
Pacifica
- Stress, anxiety, and depression can get in the way of living life. Pacifica gives users psychologist-designed tools to address them based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness meditation, relaxation, and mood/health tracking.
Self-help for Anxiety Management (SAM) App for Anxiety
- SAM is a friendly app that offers a range of self-help methods for people who are serious about learning to manage their anxiety. SAM has been developed by a university team of psychologists, computer scientists and student users. Established methods of self-help have been combined with high standards of usability to provide an engaging, flexible and practical resource.
Stop Panic & Anxiety Self-Help
- The info in this app assumes that the user is 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.
Ten Percent Happier Meditation
- Meditation & Sleep. Want to sleep better, be more mindful, improve your relationships, and become just about ten percent happier? Guided meditations, videos, talks, and sleep content will help you build (or boost) your meditation practice, and stick with it.
The Worry Box
- Use the worry cognitive diary to help determine how to cope with worry. If it's controllable, users can list the steps they can take to manage the worry. If it's not controllable, users can select from the list of coping statements to help them think about it differently.
Worry Watch – Anxiety Journal
- Worry Watch is a unique journal app designed to capture and reflect on momentary self-realizations. By logging “what might happen” perception and then tracking it to “what did happen” reality, users may get a deeper understanding of their worry/anxiety patterns.
wayForward
- Uses scientific techniques of cognitive behavioral therapy to help beat anxiety and stress related to work, relationships, family and other personal situations.
Cognitive Diary CBT Self-Help
- These self-help methods use the tools of cognitive-behavioral therapy to challenge irrational thinking. The cognitive diary helps you to determine some ways to challenge the irrational thinking. Once you have done that, it is important to read the rational challenges frequently until they automatically come to mind rather than the irrational thinking.
Moodpath: Depression & Anxiety
- Track your emotional state in relation to other areas in your life to detect patterns and identify areas that can improve. As a personalized mental health companion, Moodpath checks on you three times a day with questions that "learn" from your responses. These questions generate Insights and other resources most relevant to your emotional health. Moodpath offers a wide range of courses, guided meditations, sleep aids, and other resources to help you improve your emotional health.
MoodTools – Depression Aid
- MoodTools is designed to help users combat depression and alleviate negative moods, aiding them on their road to recovery.
Happify
- It is a self-improvement program offered in both website and app form. It claims, “your emotional well-being can be measured”, measures it for you, and provides little tasks and games to help you increase it. Science-Based Activities & Games to Overcome Worries, Stress & Life's Challenges. Mindfulness Meditation. Build Resilience. Reduce Stress & Anxiety. Gain Confidence/Optimism.
MoodKit
- MoodKit is a one-of-a-kind app designed to help users apply effective strategies of professional psychology to their everyday life! This app helps users take action to improve your life, feel better by changing how you think, rate and chart your mood to monitor progress, and develop self-awareness and healthy attitudes.
Mood App
- A free journaling app that has the necessary tools to help users track moods and express feelings through journaling, live texting, meditation games, and live venting. Use Mood App to process what you are going through.
Moody Me
- Helps you track your mood to help you figure out what makes you feel good! Track what makes you sad, add details about what is happening when your mood shifts. Helps you capture and tack data to detect patterns in your mood and understand factors that create them.
Calm: Meditation to Relax, Focus and Sleep Better
- Calm is an app for mindfulness and meditation to bring more clarity, joy and peace to users' daily life. Join the millions experiencing less anxiety and better sleep with our guided meditations, breathing programs and Sleep Stories.
MyLife
- Formerly known as Stop, Breathe & Think, is an award-winning meditation and mindfulness app that helps you find your quiet place. It allows you to check in with how you're feeling, and recommends short guided meditations and mindfulness activities, tuned to your emotions.
Headspace
- This app helps those wanting to learn meditation skills to reduce anxiety/ stress and improve their attention/awareness.
Wellscapes
- +Developed by the University of Minnesota's Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing and renowned nature photographer Craig Blacklock, offers you the opportunity to watch stunning nature videos in silence, with music and nature sounds, or with music, nature sounds and gentle guiding through mindfulness.
iQuarium
- For everyday stress, iQuarium is more than enough to relax. Chill out while watching your Parrot Cichlid fish swimming in its tank, feed it, play with it, interact with it or... do nothing - just listen to your own relaxing music and the air bubbles climbing up slowly to the water surface and let iQuarium soothe you and calm you down.
Nature Sounds Relax and Sleep
- Want to relax for 10 minutes during the day at home or in office? Want to improve brain work? Or maybe want to dream about beautiful nature landscapes? Increase concentration? Then choose from a list nature relaxing sounds, which include thunder, ocean sounds, sea, bird sounds, rain, night in jungle, water sounds, waterfall, nature and start your personal audio therapy.
Relax Melodies: Sleep Sounds
- Relax Melodies and its many features such as high quality white noise sounds, music melodies and complete customizable mixes will help users sleep like never before!
Relaxing Sounds, Sleep Easy
- Find your inner peace. Listen to relaxing sounds while you do other things.
Sleepio
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBTi for short, trains people to use techniques that address the mental (or cognitive) factors associated with insomnia, such as the ‘racing mind’ and to overcome the worry and other negative emotions that accompany the experience of being unable to sleep.
Soothing Sleep Sounds
- Fall asleep fast to 10 categories of high-quality full-stereo recordings from around the world. Sleep deeply every night and wake up feeling fresh and energized. Soothing Sleep Sounds provides a beautiful library of high-quality, naturally recorded sounds.
Stop, Breathe & Think
- Stop, Breathe & Think allows users to check in with their emotions and recommends short guided meditations, yoga and acupressure videos tuned to how you feel.
Better Stop Suicide
- Its' a free app to simply help people press their own stop button should suicidal thoughts come to them, and to buy time so they can find further help and support. Life's worth living.
Suicide Safety Plan
- When you’re in a mental health emergency or crisis, you don’t want to spend precious time looking for resources and hotline contact information. This app can help. Once you’ve downloaded the app, be sure to include all your important emergency contacts in the app. Consider adding Counseling Service's phone number: (402) 844-7277
Virtual Hope Box
- The Virtual Hope Box is a smartphone application designed for use by patients and their behavioral health providers as an accessory to treatment. The VHB contains simple tools to help patients with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking.
Dream EZ
- Dealing with post-traumatic stress can be tough all on its own. Unfortunately for many people, the nightmares that go with post-traumatic stress can leave them tired during the day. And feeling sleepy all the time can make it that much harder to recover. Dream EZ is based on the principles of imagery rehearsal therapy. This therapy can help change nightmares into less disturbing dreams so users can get a better night's sleep.
Mindfulness Coach
- Practicing mindfulness means grounding yourself in the present moment. Mindfulness has been shown to be helpful for reducing stress and coping with unpleasant thoughts and emotions. Mindfulness Coach will help you practice mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness Coach was created by the VA's National Center for PTSD.
PTSD Coach
- PTSD Coach was designed for those who have, or may have, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This app provides you with education about PTSD, information about professional care, a self-assessment for PTSD, opportunities to find support, and tools that can help you manage the stresses of daily life with PTSD
Rise Up + Recover
- If you are struggling with food, dieting, exercise and body image this app could help. Based off self-monitoring homework, a cornerstone of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), we designed a convenient and user-friendly app that has been used millions of time around the world. Helps support you in your eating disorder recovery journey. Built-in features that help you stay and on track!
Daily Yoga
- Awarded by The Wall Street Journal as the "5 Addictive Fitness Apps" and Evening Standard as "the Best Apps for Londoners". Daily Yoga offers 500+ asanas, 70+ yoga programs, 500+ guided yoga, Pilates, meditation sessions plus the largest yoga pose library for man and woman that suit yogis from beginner to advanced.
Down Dog
- With Down Dog you get a brand-new yoga practice every time you come to your mat. Unlike following pre-recorded videos, Down Dog won't make you do the same workout over and over again. With over 60,000 different configurations, Down Dog gives you the power to build a yoga practice you love! BEGINNER FRIENDLY.
NOCD
- With Down Dog you get a brand-new yoga practice every time you come to your mat. Unlike following pre-recorded videos, Down Dog won't make you do the same workout over and over again. With over 60,000 different configurations, Down Dog gives you the power to build a yoga practice you love! BEGINNER FRIENDLY.