5. 7 Cups — Online Therapy for Anxiety and Depression
Designed to be a support network for individuals suffering from anxiety or depression, 7 Cups cultivates a user experience like no other. Chat anonymously one-on-one with trained emotional support listeners through in-app chatrooms and community forums. Users have access to licensed therapists, personalized care through a free wellness test, mood-boosting activities and over 300 free mindfulness exercises.
6. Simple Habit
As seen on NBC’s Shark Tank, Simple Habit is a meditation app for busy people. Research suggests that meditation—being present and blocking out distractions—is shown to reduce stress, improve focus, sleep faster, relax better, breathe easier, and wind down from the daily grind in a healthy manner. Simple Habit provides a bank of thousands of 5-minute meditation practices guided by the world’s best teachers of mindfulness.
7. Sibly
Providing 24/7 mental and emotional support, Sibly collaborates with users to help apply empirically-based tools to the depression, anxiety, stress, and fear you experience day-to-day. The app’s responsive and reliable coaching team walks alongside users to challenge the negative thoughts and help motivate them towards their goals.
8. Joyable
Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Joyable is a coaching program with client-specific practices designed to help you through whatever mental health struggle you’re battling. Coaches are individualistic and help users with motivation, accountability and the completion of easy, 5-minute activities. The program costs $99/month, and most users complete the program in 8 weeks.
9. SAM — Self-help for Anxiety Management
Designed to help people manage their anxiety, SAM makes it easy for users to record their anxiety levels, identify various triggers, and provides 25 self-help options for coping with the physical and mental symptoms of anxiety. Users can create a personalized anxiety toolkit for quick access to the app features that are the most helpful to their individual needs. A social cloud function also allows users to anonymously share their experiences with the online community of SAM users.
