Counselling (Crawley)
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Theses days we are all about our phones
Now you can get apps on your mobile phone to help you wherever you go and at any time.
There are many different apps out there, all with different benefits.
Here is a sample of free apps and brief description of what they offer.
Wellmind
A free NHS mental health and wellbeing app designed to help you with stress, anxiety and depression. The app includes advice, tips and tools to improve your mental health and boost your wellbeing.
Stay Alive
This app is a pocket suicide prevention resource, packed full of useful information to help you stay safe. You can use it if you are having thoughts of suicide or if you are concerned about someone else who may be considering suicide.
What's Up?
What's Up? is a fantastic free app utilising some of the best CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) methods to help you cope with Depression, Anxiety, Anger, Stress and more! With a beautiful, modern design, simple heading and easy-to-follow methods, you can get to what helps you the most in seconds.
SAM: Self Help for Anxiety Management
SAM is an app to help you understand and manage anxiety. The app has been developed in collaboration with a research team from UWE, Bristol.
SAM will help you to understand what causes your anxiety, monitor your anxious thoughts and behaviour over time and manage your anxiety through self-help exercises and private reflection.
The "Social Cloud" feature will enable you to share your experiences with the SAM community while protecting your identity.
Stress & Anxiety Companion
The Stress & Anxiety Companion app gives you the tools you need to manage anxious feelings and identify their triggers so they won’t trip you up in the future. It can help build your mental muscles to make you stronger and happier.
Calm Harm
Calm Harm provides tasks that help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm. You can add your own tasks too and it’s completely private and password protected.
What does it do? The four categories of tasks target the main reasons for why people self-harm. Distract helps to combat the urge by learning self-control; Comfort helps to care rather than harm; Express gets those feelings out in a different way and Release provides safe alternatives to self-injury.
Happier
Relax Melodies
Relax Melodies is a relaxation and sleep app that allows you to select sounds and melodies that you like and combine them to create a mix. Lay back, listen, and enjoy falling asleep. This app can also be used in many other situations aside from sleep; perfect during some of your favorites activities such as relaxing at the spa, exercising in your yoga or relaxation classes, massaging sessions, or even when taking a nap! For parents, the ideal to help your baby fall asleep!
☆ FEATURES ☆
- 50 High quality ambient sounds, including 2 binaural beats frequencies for brainwave entrainment.
- Mix your favorite sounds together with different volume to create your own personal melodies and get infinite possibilities!
- High quality Retina graphics
- Include 8 off the shelf favorites for easy startup
- Create, Save, Name, Sort and Replay your favorites easily
- Multiple Alarms & Timers system. Use your own favorite as alarm to wake up slowly.
Many more available through your app store
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When you're not ready to talk to someone, self- help books can offer information and skills to enable management.
Self help books and guides are available from our campus library.
Examples....
All these and more are available from our library.
