Apps for Mindfulness and Personal Resiliency

Below you will find links to a variety of different applications you can use on your phone or the web to help you improve your mindfulness, manage your emotions, and develop good coping skills.

• ACGME AWARE App for Google Play or Apple – Designed for individual physicians, particularly junior residents. Uses concepts from cognitive behavior therapy to help identify opportunities to improve well-being and helps users identify personal cognitive habits plus directs them toward practices and resources they may find useful for improving well-being. Includes video scenarios and didactics plus self-assessments and other resources. May also be used by a program or other group of individuals as part of a broader well-being curriculum.
• Breathe2Relax for Google Play or Apple – Stress management tool structured as a mobile app.
• MyCalmBeat – Helps improve your ability to manage stress through slow breathing.
• CBT-i Coach – For people who have experienced symptoms of insomnia and would like to improve their sleep habits (available for iPhones).
• Coach.me – Free goal-setting app designed to help users create and build good habits.
• Headspace – Mindfulness for your everyday life.
• InsightTimer – Free app for sleep, anxiety and stress.
• Mindful USC – Focuses on building a supporting community rather than isolating you.
• moodgym – Web-based, self-help program designed to help prevent and manage depression and anxiety symptoms.
• Ten Percent Happier – Learn to meditate from the world’s top mindfulness experts.
• Using Technology to Combat Clinician Burnout [PDF]
• Virtual Hope Box – Smartphone application primarily to support suicide prevention. Can contain information about users’ positive experiences, driving forces and those who care about them. Designed to help users cope with distress, overwhelming emotions and a need for inspiration. Confidential assistance.