Novato Unified School District

Mental Health Apps

- Insight Timer
  - Insight Timer
  - Insight Timer is a wellbeing app that provides free guided meditations (both recorded and live) for sleep, breathwork, and yoga. It also provides a journaling space to keep track of feelings and thoughts.
- Breathr
  - Breathr App
  - Breathe is a free app specifically designed for youth. It provides free mindfulness practices supplemented by interesting facts about the science behind the brain and mindfulness.
- How We Feel
  - how We Feel website
  - How We Feel is a free journal for your well-being created by scientists, designers, engineers, and psychologists. Over time, you will learn precise words to describe how you feel, spot trends and patterns, and practice simple strategies to regulate your emotions in healthy ways.
- Pzizz
  - Frequently Asked Questions at Pzizz
  - Pzizz is a sleep app, which provides music, voiceovers, and sound effects that clinic research has found to support better sleep. Pzizz has free and paid options.
- My3
  - Apple website
  - MY3 lets you stay connected if/when you are having thoughts of suicide. With MY3, you define your network and your plan to stay safe. With MY3 you can be prepared to help yourself and reach out to others when you are having thoughts of suicide.
- Calm Harm
  - Calm Harm website
  - The Calm Harm app provides some immediate activities and techniques to help you break the cycle of self-harm behavior and explore underlying trigger factors; the app supports you in building a ‘safety net’ of helpful thoughts, behaviors, and access to supportive people, as well as providing the opportunity to journal and self-reflect. The Calm Harm app also signposts to help.
- Headspace
  - Headspace website
  - Headspace is everyday mindfulness and meditation, so you can make mindfulness a daily habit and be kind to your mind. Learn how to relax, manage stress, find your focus, and release tension in both the mind and body.
- Calm
  - Calm website
  - Calm is a multifaceted meditation, sleep and relaxation app featuring a wide variety of offerings that encourage everything from mindfulness to movement. Calm features meditations, stories, music, soundscapes and more, all meant to lead listeners to a new level of, well, calm.
- Aura
  - Aura Health website
  - Aura provides a personalized library of expert-created tracks for your well-being. Topics include meditation, sleep, health coaching, and therapy.
- Ten Percent Happier
  - Ten Percent website
  - Ten Percent Happier provides access to practical teachings alongside guided meditations to make mindfulness into a habit you carry everywhere.