According to D’Amore Mental Health, the pandemic has been especially difficult for teens. Here are a few of their favorite apps to help support a wide range of issues on top of the normal developmental teenage years.
Mindfulness and Meditation:
- Calm: Visualizing and looking inward
- Headspace: Learning lifelong mindfulness skills
- Aura: Personalized tracks and coaches
- Simple Habit: Teens with busy schedules
- Insight Timer: Free guided meditations and talks from celebrities and gurus around the world
Behavioral and Habit Aids:
- MindDoc: Teens who struggle with or want more insight into their mental wellbeing
- Pacifica: Breaking the vicious cycle of negative thoughts
- Calm Harm: Teens who struggle with self-harm
- My3: Teens with suicidal thoughts who could benefit from a support network
- MoodPath: Best for teens who need help detecting symptoms of depression
App-Based Therapy:
Note: These apps may require payment, health insurance and/or parent/guardian permission. Know that there is little evidence for app based therapies to date.
- TalkSpace: Best overall
- TeenCounseling: Best for teen-specific counseling
- BetterHelp: Best for livechat sessions
- Larkr: Best for video sessions
- Pride Counseling: Best for LGBTQ
Other Apps
- Headspace has hundreds of guided meditations, including ones you can do on the go. It offers mindfulness tips on everything from managing stress to getting better sleep.
- 10% Happier features guided meditations, videos, talks, and sleep content. The app also now features a Coronavirus Sanity Guide that offers free resources including a daily “live sanity break” and weekly podcasts.
- Calm is an app for sleep, meditation, and relaxation to help users get better sleep and lower stress through guided meditations, sleep stories, breathing programs, stretching exercises, and relaxing music.
- Moodfit is a free mental health app whose tools and insight are meant to “shape up” your mood. Similar to the way you might decide to get into physical shape, this app is meant to help you get into mental shape.
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