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Get support online without ever needing to leave your home or workplace enhancing every aspect of your personal & professional life, providing employees with the skills to adapt to ever-changing environments. EAP Assist facilitated apps provide inspiration, cultivate resilience & strengthen skills to build strong mental health each & every day. Wellness Apps have been shown to achieve outcomes that traditional in-person therapy sessions are unable to achieve. Please self-select from the comprehensive range of free evidence based Apps below.
Feeling Sad or Depressed
An app for when you are feeling sad or depressed that helps improve your mood by analysing your thoughts & identifying negative/distorted thinking patters based on principles from Cognitive Therapy.
Depression, Anxiety, Anger & Stress
An app utilising some of the best CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) & ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) methods to help you cope with depression, anxiety, anger, stress and more.
Mental Disorders for Working Males
An application-based intervention app which combines & utilizes two therapies (behavioural activation & mindfulness) which have been shown to be effective in the treatment & prevention of common mental disorders and specifically designed for working males.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
A Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) app that can help you to learn about & manage symptoms that often occur after trauma. Features include: reliable information on PTSD & treatments that work, tools for screening & tracking your symptoms as well as convenient & easy-to-use tools to help you handle stress symptoms.
Suicide Safety Plan
A suicide safety planning app that provides a convenient way for people to develop a personalised safety plan. The app makes creating & using a safety plan easy by guiding someone through the steps one-by-one, offering suggestions for each step. It can be updated or edited anytime and offers the option of sharing it with support people.
Sleep
An app that offers a personalised six-week program focused on improving mood, energy and wellbeing by putting in place good sleep and wake patterns.
Worry
Everyone has worries pop into their head from time to time, but sometimes they won’t go away & start to impact your everyday life. This app interrupts this repetitive thinking by setting aside your worries until later, so you don’t get caught up in them & can get on with your day.
Alcohol
An app that encourages users to overcome an alcohol habit. This app features relaxation, hypnotherapy, positive suggestion & visualisation activities for users to try.
Smoking
A health app that aims to help users quit smoking. This app provides a programme for users to complete which is based on the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
Meditation & Mindfulness
This app guides you, in a ten-day course, through the essentials of meditation and mindfulness.
Yoga, Pilates & Meditation
The app provides a range of yoga, Pilates & meditation classes with step by step instructions & videos to follow.
Meditation & Mental Health
This app provides daily meditation guides for specific symptoms and scenarios such as stress, anxiety & depression or waking up, travelling or having a tough day at work.
Insomnia Coach App
The Insomnia Coach app was created for everyone to help manage insomnia. The app is based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and is free to use. Features include guided weekly training plan, tips for sleeping, interactive sleep diary & 17 tools to help you get your sleep back on track..
Fitness & Exercise
A fitness & exercise app that creates workout plans for the user to try. The app focuses on both weight loss & muscle gain & workouts can be altered based on your desired goals. Workouts can also be changed based on difficulty & experience level.
Exercise
An exercise app that provides a range of workouts for users to try. All exercises are accompanied by animations & videos in order to guide the user. The app also features meal plans, warm-up & stretching routines, workout reminders, workout tracking & social media integration.
Safe Space To Talk
An app designed to provide a safe space for people to talk about challenges & problems in their life. The app connects people with other users who are going through similar experiences..
Mental Wellbeing Support
This app was designed by people with lived experience of mental illness, as well as health professionals. A mental health support team you take everywhere. A team of trusted people there for you, when you need them most. Small steps towards bigger goals, tracking growth along the way. Bring awareness to your thoughts and moods, without judgement.
Looking After Your Money
Looking after your money is a chore so try using computing power to make it super simple. Automatically organises your spending into categories like clothes, groceries and fuel – showing you where money is being spent as well as receive smart notifications keep you in the loop without you having to lift a finger.
Exercise
An exercise app that provides a range of workouts for users to try. All exercises are accompanied by animations & videos in order to guide the user. The app also features meal plans, warm-up & stretching routines, workout reminders, workout tracking & social media integration.
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. Features include: education about the benefits of mindfulness, mindfulness exercises to practice on your own or with guidance, strategies to help overcome challenges to mindfulness practice, log of mindfulness exercises to track your progress & reminders to support your mindfulness practice.
Domestic Violence
An app developed to connect people experiencing violence or abuse to services in their local area. Downloaded for free from iTunes or Google Play. Once the app is on your phone, you can use it to search for support services in your local area. Choose the type of service you would like (for example ‘Legal services’ or ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services’) and select your state or territory to find services near you.
New Parents
Becoming a parent is one of the biggest jobs you’ll ever take on. It’s one of the few jobs where there is little training. It’s natural for new parents to feel a little lost when a new baby comes home. As you navigate the highs and lows of a new world this app gives you the knowledge, skills & reassurance to become a confident parent. This app provides week-by-week information on essential topics to help mums & dads (and anyone supporting them) adjust well to the first six months of life with a baby. This app gives you evidence-based, tried and tested parenting advice from leading Australian experts.
Depression During Pregnancy
This App Australia’s new evidence-based treatment for depression during pregnancy & is a free online program designed to help women recover from antenatal depression.You will have access to six online sessions that can be personalized to fit your situation,access to an online library and optional partner support website.
Aboriginal Health
An app developed by the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation. It provides health information online or by phone and features a location-based service to find your nearest Aboriginal Community Controlled Health service.
Breathe2Relax
Breathe2Relax is designed to be a portable stress management tool that helps you to develop diaphragmatic (‘belly’) breathing techniques. The app provides step-by-step instructions for performing breathing exercises – and allows you to record and track your perceived stress levels over time.
Stress Gym
Stress Gym is based on a manualised CBT intervention for stress. It consists of 8 modules that you can work through at your own pace and includes information and interactive exercises. The modules focus on stress awareness, managing stress in relationships, problem solving, stress associated with health issues, and maladaptive responses to stress.
Depression During Pregnancy
The online program Daily Challenge encourages you to make small, health-related changes each day to improve your well-being. The program allows you to form ‘social connections’ with your friends and family, or other members, and follow other members’ activities. You can encourage, smile to and reply to other members.
Living Life To The Full
Living Life to the Full is a life skills course that provides key knowledge in how to develop skills to tackle feelings of low mood, stress and distress arising from work, relationships and other aspects of our lives. The course is based on the notion of “helping people to help themselves”. It provides easy access to cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) skills, allowing users to understand why they feel as they do, and to learn new ways of improving how they feel.
Overcome Low Moods & Anxiety
An evidence-based app designed to empower you to overcome feelings of depression & anxiety by discovering new & better ways of coping. The app gives you a tailored list of simple, quick, effective, evidence-based Missions to improve your mood. All Missions are taken from scientific research, made accessible to you through the app, so you can learn exactly how what you’re doing is helping.
Learn about you Mood
An app that helps you learn about your mood by transforming daily mood reports into a colourful summary of your emotional health. You will receive feedback on your mood each day, and the more you use the app, the more detailed this information will become – with flourishing scores after 1 week’s use, and depression/anxiety scores after 2 weeks of use.
Supporting Children
Parents are encouraged to view this free app as a tool to gain information about how their child is going across five areas of social and emotional wellbeing. After completing the check-up, parents are provided with a summary showing areas where things are going well and areas where they can take steps to strengthen their child’s resilience. It is recommended that parents choose one area to work on at a time.
Self-Help for Anxiety Management
Self-Help for Anxiety Management is a free app that provides people with instructions and activities for managing anxiety. Users can log in and trend their present level of anxiety, list things that make them anxious, read about activities for improving anxiety management, use tools (e.g. though recorder, breathing timer) for anxiety management, bookmark useful tools and approaches, and discuss anxiety management with other users.
Anxietyhelper
Anxietyhelper is a mental health toolkit for anyone, allowing them to get info on certain mental illnesses, find resources, and use tools to cope with day to day life. Use the app to learn about your own mental health, or to gain insight about the depths of mental illness.
Learn about you Mood
WellMind is 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.
eMoods Bipolar Mood Tracker
eMoods Bipolar Mood Tracker uses a wellbeing tracker centred around mood, weight and sleep to track manic and depressive episodes. The app supports those with bipolar further by using exercises and resources specifically tailored for them.
HealthTap
HealthTap offers trustworthy answers and healthy tips collected from more than 50,000 health professionals. Find out more about symptoms, conditions, health concerns and wellness topics, with daily health tips that are relevant to you. You can store health information, documents, scans and images privately, or share with your doctor.
101 Revolutionary Ways to be Healthy
101 Revolutionary Ways to be Healthy app offers practical skills and information to help you make healthier choices and form positive attitudes. It includes 101 ways to be healthy, as well as a library of articles that you can read at your own pace.
Health & Wellbeing
An app that allows Australian adults to measure & monitor mental health & lifestyle factors that influence wellbeing. Based on responses, it provides general advice on how to improve your wellbeing.
Recovery Record
Recovery Record can help you manage your journey to recovery from eating disorders. You can keep track of you progress, get affirmations, set personalised reminders schedules and use other self-help activities.
Drinks Meter
Drinks Meter is an app that gives you confidential, personal feedback about your alcohol use based on advice from doctors and Australian guidelines.
The Child360
The Child360 app has been designed as a tool for parents to reflect on how they are going in supporting their children’s social and emotional wellbeing and identify areas where action can be taken to strengthen resilience.
I am Sober
I am Sober is an addiction buddy useful for quitting any activity or substance. With daily tracking, advice and quotes from other users, this app is focused around creating motivation and support while trying to quit.
The Stop, Breathe and Think
The Stop, Breathe and Think App is designed to help you be more mindful and compassionate using a meditation guide. You can check in daily, track your progress and feel more calm.
Daylio
Daylio is a diary app that allows for goal setting, mood tracking and routine notifications. The app uses this data to create personalised statistics and find what are the causes of individual moods.
Couch to 5k
Couch to 5k is a fitness program to help you move from the couch to the 5km finish line in nine weeks. Your virtual coach will guide you through sessions of 20-30 minutes, three times a week, using interval training to slowly build your fitness and help you become a runner. Features include: listen to your own music as you train, map your route and calculate your distance and pacetrack your progress.
1 Giant Mind
The 1 Giant Mind app is for anyone who wants to feel less stressed, more calm and present and experience greater health and wellbeing. Our approach to meditation is easy and effortless. No previous experience is required. Anyone can learn this technique in 12 short steps and begin to experience the benefits immediately.
SuperBetter
SuperBetter is a tool created by game designers to help you build resilience and get stronger, happier and healthier. Choose from over 25 power packs or design your own adventure for any area of life where you want to feel better. Each activity uses gaming techniques to help you tackle a tough challenge, change what isn’t working and reach your goals. You can get support and help others while having fun.
Moodpath: Depression and Anxiety
Moodpath: Depression and Anxiety is a written mood journal that uses progress reports and health assessments for reflection and guidance on how to improve wellbeing. In addition, the app uses written and audio exercises to help with anxiety and depression.
Anxiety
A mental wellness app that aims to help the user control their anxiety. The app features daily exercises that the user can complete across 30 different modules. Other features include video & audio recordings for each lesson & an online journal where users can collect, analyse & manage their progress.
Beat Panic
Beat Panic is designed to help you cope with panic attacks or anxiety while you’re out and about. It uses a series of flash cards in soothing colours to help you focus, slow your breathing, reduce your heart rate and release tension.
Moodkit
Moodkit is designed to improve your mood and overall wellbeing. Developed by two clinical psychologists, it offers more than 200 activities tailored to your goals. Features include: manage negative feelings, rate and chart your mood, keep a journal and get tips and guidance.
LoveSmart
LoveSmart provides you with scores and information on the health of your relationships. It focuses on key relationships factors such as friendship, communication, conflict and sensitivity. It gives you insights for improvements.
MoodPrism
An app that helps individuals learn about their mood by transforming daily mood reports into a summary of their emotional health.
MoodMission
An app based on cognitive behavioural therapy designed to help individuals overcome low moods and anxiety by discovering new and better ways of coping.
Daily Challenge
The online program Daily Challenge encourages you to make small, health-related changes each day to improve your well-being. The program allows you to form ‘social connections’ with your friends and family, or other members, and follow other members’ activities. You can encourage, smile to and reply to other members.
Anger Management
A mobile app to help you cope with anger problems. Anyone can use it to learn more about anger and how to manage angry reactions. The app provides opportunities for finding support, the ability to create an anger management plan, anger tracking and tools to help manage angry reactions.
Reduce Your Use
An app that helps individuals learn about their mood by transforming daily mood reports into a summary of their emotional health.
Parenting Strategies: Preventing Adolescent Alcohol Misuse
An online program providing strategies to help parents protect their children from alcohol problems. Parents can have a big influence on their adolescent child’s decisions about drinking. It’s never too early or too late to learn some strategies to help protect your child from alcohol problems.
Parent Works
ParentWorks is a free online program for Australian parents & caregivers of children 2 to 16. It provides evidence-based parenting strategies to improve parenting skills, confidence & child behaviour. The strategies in the program have been tested and found to work.
Eating Disorders Victoria Recovery Forum
A mobile app to help you cope with anger problems. Anyone can use it to learn more about anger and how to manage angry reactions. The app provides opportunities for finding support, the ability to create an anger management plan, anger tracking and tools to help manage angry reactions.
General Wellbeing App
Your answers to a series of simple questions allows Snapshot to assess your general happiness, mood and anxiety, as well as work stress, sleep, social support and alcohol intake. The feedback it provides you is based on comparisons with Australian population data.
Smiling Mind
Smiling Mind is a free unique tool developed by psychologists and educators to help bring balance to your life. Mindfulness meditation designed to assist you in dealing with the pressure, stress and challenges of daily life.
ReachOut Breathe
ReachOut Breathe is a free app that helps you reduce the physical symptoms of stress and anxiety by slowing down your breathing and your heart rate with your iPhone or Apple Watch.
7 minute workout challenge
The 7 minute workout challenge is a research backed work-out program that only requires a chair, a wall and your own body weight. Twelve high intensity exercises with video and audio instructions are performed for 30 seconds with 10 second rest intervals.
Saying When
Saying When: Free app on how to quit drinking or cut down.
MoodTools
A free app which is meant to for people who are struggling with sadness or depression. Comes with the PHQ-9 depression questionnaire for tracking symptom severity, a thought diary to help analyze your negative thoughts or distorted thinking patterns, and a safety plan to keep you safe during a suicidal crisis.
Struggling with anxiety?
Struggling with anxiety? Tired of missing out? There are things you can do to stop anxiety and fear from controlling your life. MindShift is an app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety. It can help you change how you think about anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxiety, you can make an important shift and face it.
Learn to Meditate
Learn to meditate with a free Basics pack that guides you through the essentials of meditation and mindfulness.
Joyable
Saying When: Free app on how to quit drinking or cut down.
Stop Drinking
Stop Drinking is a free mobile app that encourages users to overcome an alcohol habit. This app features relaxation; hypnotherapy; positive suggestion; and visualisation activities for users to try.
DrinkCoach
DrinkCoach is a free app that’s designed to track and cut down alcohol consumption. With this app; users can track their drinks by units; calories; and cost.
Unwinding Anxiety
Unwinding Anxiety is a free mental wellness app that aims to help the user control their anxiety; It features daily exercises that the user can complete across 30 different modules.
Quit Genius
Quit Genius is a free health app that aims to help users quit smoking. This app provides a programme for users to complete; which is based on the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
Daily Yoga
Daily Yoga is a free yoga, pilates and meditation app. The app provides a range of yoga; Pilates and meditation classes; with step by step instructions and videos to follow.
ACTIVE 10
Add more regular bursts of brisk walking to your daily routine with activity tracking, encouragement and achievable milestones.
Anxiety, Stress & Depression
This app can help you cope with anxiety, stress & feelings of depression. It has interactive games, forums, a thought tracking diary & helpful techniques to manage your feelings.
MY POSSIBLE SELF
Pick from 10 modules to learn how to manage fear, anxiety and stress and take control of your thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
EMOTIONAL FITNESS GAME
Use adventure games designed by psychologists to increase your emotional fitness and learn new psychological skills.
CATCH IT
Learn to look at problems differently, turn negative thoughts into positive ones and improve your mental wellbeing.
COUCH TO 5K
Get off the couch and running 5K in just 9 weeks. Grab your trainers and follow the step-by-step audio instructions.
STRESS & ANXIETY COMPANION
Guided breathing exercises, relaxing music and games made to help calm the mind, and handle stress and anxiety on the go.
Mend: Breakup & Divorce Guide
Mend, the #1 Breakup App, is a self-care app for heartbreak that guides you through your breakup day by day. Breakups hurt, but we believe that heartbreak can be transformational with support. Our personalized self-care program helps you feel better, faster.
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 you 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 (IRT). This therapy can help change nightmares into less disturbing dreams so you can get a better night’s sleep.
Time Out
Time Out allows you to set two kind of breaks; a normal break and a micro break so you can remember not to tense up too much for long periods. When it’s time to stop looking at your computer screen the screen display will fade away.
Tomato Timer
Tomato Timer uses The Pomodoro method which is a simple process for time management that has proven to boost productivity. The method has a start, stop and reset button present and is easy to navigate and use.
Stand Up
Stand Up is a free app that allows you to set your break intervals throughout your day according to your work schedule. It allows full customization from when your work starts, ends, break times and stand timers.
Drink Water
Drink Water app notifies and reminds you to drink water whenever needed. It is a simple app with attractive graphic displays to demonstrate your hydration level and daily consumption.
Eye care 2020
Eye care 2020 is a mobile app to relieve this eye strain using an age-old technique: The 20-20-20 rule. This rule suggests that after every 20 minutes the user should take a break for at least 20 seconds and look at objects that are 20 feet away.
COVID Coach App
COVID Coach is a free app created for everyone to support self-care and overall mental health during the coronavirus pandemic.
Quit That!
Quit That is an app designed to help you track anything you want to quit or reduce, such as quit smoking, stop drinking sugary drinks or reduce your coffee consumption.
MindMum App
The MindMum free mobile app gives information, tips, monitoring and planning tools to help pregnant women and new mothers feel confident in dealing with parenting and emotional challenges they may face.
Chats for Life
Chats for Life is an app designed to help users plan a conversation with someone they are concerned about. The app was designed to support young people, including tips on how to support others mental health and wellbeing, create conversation plans, and schedule chats with friends or family members. Chats for Life is free to download from the Apple Store or Google Play.
The Check-In
The Check-in app was developed to help young people check in with friends and family who might be struggling. The app coaches users through how they might support their friends, helping to take the fear out of having a conversation and providing advice on the next steps in helping a friend while looking after their own mental health. The Check-in app is free to download from the Apple Store or Google Play.
Kurdiji
Kurdiji is an app created by Australian Indigenous elders to save young Indigenous lives. The app provides cultural nourishment to young people who can’t live on country or feel isolated, to help them reconnect with language, skin name, ceremony, and law. Kurdiji is free to download on Google Play.
ReMinder Suicide Safety Plan
The ReMinder Suicide Safety Plan app from the Suicide Call Back Service allows users to create a suicide safety plan which can be shared with supporters and accessed anytime, anywhere. The app aims to remind users of reasons to live and connect them with people and services that can help during tough times. ReMinder Suicide Safety Plan is free to download on the App Store and Google Play.
What were we Thinking
What Were We Thinking is an app providing parents with week-by-week information on essential topics to adjust to the first six months of life with a baby. The app includes information on common experiences, managing challenging during early parenthood, up-to-date research, and personal stories.
Breakup Shakeup
A behavioural activation app that provides fun, easy activities to do to help young people (14-25 years) cope after a breakup.
Stay Strong App
Therapist-guided app for Indigenous clients with wellbeing concerns, chronic disease, or substance misuse problems.
Chill Panda
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.
SilverCloud
SilverCloud is an online course to help you manage stress, anxiety and depression. You work through a series of topics selected by a therapist to address specific needs. The eight-week course is designed to be completed in your own time and at your own pace.
Thrive
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.
WorryTree
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 CBT techniques to help you notice and challenge your worries. It can also help you create an action plan for managing worry.
Raising Healthy Mind
A free phone application with information, ideas and guidance for parents to help them provide additional support their child’s mental health and wellbeing.
The Thrive Reset Zoom App
The Thrive Reset Zoom App helps you reduce stress in just 60 seconds — before, during or after a meeting. In the past year, Zoom became our shared office. These 60-second Resets — focused on breathing, gratitude, stretching and mindfulness — are built to help you become less stressed, more connected and even more inspired.
Social Anxiety
Is anxiety getting in the way of your life? This app uses scientifically proven strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help you learn to relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and use active steps to take charge of your anxiety.
What’s Up? A Mental Health App
Free coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and stress, tracking of mood and habits, interactive features, informative articles.
Take a Break
Free guided meditation and relaxation exercises, customizable sessions, calming music and nature sounds.
Calorie Counter
Free large food database, personalized recommendations, community support.
Home Workouts BeStronger
Free progressive push-up training program, clear instructions, customizable workouts.