Get help on your time...
There's lots of self-help resources out there. Here are a few we recommend checking out.
Mental Health Apps
Featured
Learn to Live
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy modules for depression, anxiety, social anxiety, insomnia, and substance use. Free to all UMN students, faculty, and staff using code "UMN."
Sanvello
A feel-better toolkit including coping techniques, meditations, coaching, and therapy. Limited free content. Premium version is free to benefitted UMN employees using Medica ID.
Free Apps
Mindshift CBT
Free evidence-based anxiety relief using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) from Anxiety Canada.
ACT Coach
Free app from the Department of Veterans Affairs using tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help you "live with unpleasant thoughts, feelings, and impulses without avoiding them or being controlled by them."
PTSD Coach
Self-help strategies for those struggling with trauma from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Binaural Beats
Set an auditory bilateral beat to the background to enhance your alpha, theta, or delta waves. Learn more about Binaural Beats.
Subscription-based apps with limited free content:
Headspace
Mindfulness app with guided meditations, sleep stories, and breathwork with limited free content and a special student rate of $9.99/year.
Calm
Sleep, relaxation, and meditation support app with limited free content.
The Tapping Solution
Tap on acupressure meridians to reduce stress levels. Several tapping meditations are available in the free version.
YouTube Videos for Mental Well-Being
Developing Coping Skills
Gentle calm breathing from Resources for Resilience
Gentle Tapping Technique to release stress through gentle tapping on acupressure meridians
Stress Blow Out by Resources for Resilience
Progressive Muscle Relaxation with Therapy in a Nutshell
Dealing with Difficult Emotions
YouTube Playlists by Therapy in a Nutshell
Test Anxiety
Tap along with and repeat aloud after Brad Yates to apply Emotional Freedom Techniques to reduce test anxiety
Improving Sleep
YouTube Playlist by Therapy in a Nutshell
Understanding and Releasing Trauma
YouTube Playlists by Therapy in a Nutshell
Cultivating Self Worth and Self-Compassion
Dr. Meag-gan Ann O'Reilley compares frameworks of conditional acceptance with inherent worth
Dr. Kristin Neff shares The Space Between Self-Esteem and Self-Compassion in her TEDx Talk.
Dr. Brené Brown shares about cultivating connection in her Power of Vulnerability TEDx Talk.
See how Dr. Brené Brown dealt with her own shame after her previous TEDx Talk went viral in Listening to Shame.