The Tapping Solution features hundreds of meditations that draw on tapping – a type of acupressure, which stimulates meridian points by touch – to lower stress, release emotions and relieve pain.
Pzizz helps users fall asleep fast, stay asleep and wake up feeling refreshed, thanks to its relaxing “dreamscapes” – a mix of music, voiceovers and sound effects designed using the latest clinical research. There’s also a mode for enhancing focus.
Rootd offers relief from anxiety and panic attacks, via guided deep breathing, an anxiety journal, soothing visualisations and lessons, which cover where anxiety comes from, and how our bodies and minds experience panic attacks.
Smiling Mind is a mental fitness toolkit, designed by psychologists and mental health experts. It empowers you to live mindfully, embrace flexible thinking, grow connections, act purposefully and recharge your body, with more than 700 lessons, practices and meditations – including children’s collections.
Forest offers a way to beat phone addiction and overcome distraction. The app supports healthy habits by letting you plant virtual seeds that will grow into trees – but only if you can resist the temptation of using your phone.
Calm is a meditation and relaxation app designed to help users manage stress and anxiety through guided meditation sessions. The app includes sleep stories, breathing exercises, and soothing music to promote relaxation and better sleep. Calm is also known for its diverse range of content, including mindfulness techniques and visualisations for calming the mind.
Woebot is an AI-driven chatbot designed to provide mental health support through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques, focusing on alleviating stress and anxiety. It offers personalised conversations and coping mechanisms to help users improve their emotional well-being. Woebot is available 24/7, making mental health support accessible at any time.
BetterHelp is an online platform that connects users with licensed therapists for a variety of mental health issues. The service allows for therapy via text, video, or phone, making it accessible to anyone, regardless of location. BetterHelp offers a wide range of therapists with diverse specialisations to cater to users’ specific needs.
How We Feel is designed to help everyone better understand their emotions. It encourages users to check in with their feelings daily, spot trends and patterns, and practise simple strategies to regulate emotions in healthy ways.
Bearable lets users track anything – from mood and symptoms, to food, sleep and exercise – and discover how it affects their health. It helps users gain a full, clear picture of their mental and physical health, and how that’s evolving over time.
Bright Sky is a free mobile app offering support and information for individuals in abusive relationships or those concerned about someone in such a situation. It provides resources for recognising signs of abuse and offers emergency services and guidance. The app is designed to be discreet and easy to use, ensuring safety for users seeking help.
Simple Habit is a mindfulness app that provides guided meditation sessions to reduce stress and promote relaxation. The app offers short, 5-minute sessions, making it accessible for people with busy lifestyles. Simple Habit also includes sleep aids, breathing exercises, and other tools for managing anxiety and enhancing mental clarity.
10% Happier is a mindfulness app offering meditation courses and expert advice, particularly aimed at beginners and sceptics. The app features a variety of teachings from renowned mindfulness experts and includes practical tips for incorporating mindfulness into daily life. It’s designed to help users cultivate a sense of calm and happiness through meditation.
Headspace is a popular app focused on meditation and mindfulness to help users reduce stress and improve overall well-being. It offers guided meditation sessions, breathing exercises, and sleep aids to improve mental clarity and relaxation. Headspace also provides programmes tailored for specific needs such as anxiety, focus, and sleep.
Flow is an app designed to treat depression by using brain stimulation techniques along with therapeutic content. The app aims to help users manage depressive symptoms by providing personalised exercises and tools. Its approach is scientifically backed, incorporating both mental health support and neuroscience-based interventions.
Stuff That Works is building the biggest patient-reported knowledge base for every chronic condition. You share your experiences, then Stuff That Works analyses the data to reveal which treatments are reported most effective for others like you.
Insight Timer is the top free app for sleep, anxiety and stress, with more than 100,000 guided meditations led by teachers from around the world.
On the surface, Stardew Valley is a farming simulation game that involves growing crops, raising animals and interacting with town residents. But beyond that, it helps users recover from stress and replenish their psychological resources.
Abzû immerses you in the heart of the ocean, inviting you to explore beautiful underwater environments, interact with marine life and solve environmental puzzles in a calming atmosphere. It’s a welcome diversion from everyday stresses.
EndeavorRx is a prescription video game developed by Akili Interactive that aims to treat ADHD in children through engaging, clinically validated gameplay. It uses digital therapeutics to improve cognitive functioning.
Peak is a brain-training app offering a variety of games designed to improve cognitive skills like memory, problem-solving, and language. It provides users with personalised training to boost mental agility.
SuperBetter is an app that uses gamification to help users build resilience and achieve personal goals. It incorporates strategies for mental health improvement, including mindfulness and goal setting.
SPARX is a self-help, computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) program designed to help young people manage depression and anxiety. It offers interactive sessions to guide users through therapeutic content.
CogniFit provides online brain training games designed to improve cognitive skills, such as memory, focus, and reasoning. It offers personalised programs for individuals and professionals.
Happify is an app focused on improving emotional well-being through scientifically-backed activities and games. It offers tools to help reduce stress, improve resilience, and foster positive thinking.
Lumosity is a brain-training app offering a wide range of games designed to improve cognitive abilities such as memory, attention, and problem-solving skills. It uses personalised training to target different mental functions.
Hosted by Rangan Chatterjee – one of the most influential doctors in the UK – Feel Better, Live More aims to transform the way we feel. It’s a trove of advice from leading health experts, covering everything from dealing with stressors, overcoming fear, and breaking free from negative thoughts.
Co-produced by PRX and the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley, The Science of Happiness explores research-tested strategies for a happier, more meaningful life, drawing on the science of compassion, gratitude, mindfulness and awe.
In the On Being podcast, American journalist Krista Tippett shares “wisdom to replenish and orient in a tender, tumultuous time to be alive”. She expertly blends spiritual inquiry, science, social healing and poetry.
Bestselling author Gretchen Rubin serves up practical, manageable advice about happiness and good habits in her podcast. This is the place for happiness hacks, inspiring conversations and easy-to-apply tools for personal improvement.
The Emotion Motion Podcast gives kids opportunities to put their emotions in motion through play and movement, while practising skills such as empathy, self-awareness, regulating emotions and mindfulness.
Charm Words is a daily affirmations podcast for children that brings self-worth to the forefront of young minds at the start and end of their day. It’s a great way to help kids deal with feelings of emotional distress while learning new self-care abilities.
In this sleepcast for children from Headspace Studios and Sesame Street, listeners can learn how to calm their minds and bodies down to help them get ready for quiet moments and bedtime.
Little Kids, Big Hearts enables children and parents alike to grow social and emotional skills, with help from host Todd Loyd, an experienced early childhood educator. It’s recommended for children aged three to eight.
Named “Best of 2021” by Apple Podcasts, this carefully researched podcast delves into what really matters – perseverance, body image, belonging and beyond.
These bite-sized meditations are designed to help guide children through mindful breathing techniques, visualisations and positive affirmations to use throughout the day as needed.
Each episode of this podcast explores one age-appropriate mindfulness strategy, rooted in self-compassion, to support teens in building resilience. Expect to find meditations, grounding techniques, sleep hacks and more.
This Teenage Life shines a spotlight on teens’ ideas, stories and unique perspectives, covering challenges such as grappling with failure, productivity pressures and navigating school drama.
Coach Sami Halvorsen’s mission is to guide teens in developing confidence and facing their fears. In her podcast, she shares practices for happiness, truths about friendships and motivation to share hidden pain.
Made for teens, by a teen, She Persisted is the teen mental health podcast. In each episode, you’ll hear authentic, accessible conversations about every aspect of mental wellness, from dealing with social anxiety and generational trauma, to learning coping skills and exposure therapy.
Reality Tourists is a podcast about psychosis, run by people who have experienced psychosis. Guests share their experiences, helping to end the taboo around this highly stigmatised symptom.
Dan Harris is a fidgety, sceptical journalist who had a panic attack on live national television, which led him to try meditation. On this podcast, he addresses subjects ranging from enlightenment to science-based techniques for anxiety, productivity and relationships.
Nedra Glover Tawwab is a licensed counsellor, sought-after relationship expert and one of the most influential therapists on Instagram. In her book Set Boundaries, Find Peace, she reveals how to establish healthy boundaries in all aspects of life, based on best practices used in cognitive behavioural therapy.
Overcoming Traumatic Stress is an accessible self-help manual that offers clear explanations of the symptoms of trauma and how to recognise them. It’s a step-by-step recovery programme, full of practical advice, tested exercises and useful summaries.
The self-improvement industry puts the responsibility for change on individuals, producing few long-term changes in our health and happiness. However, Michael Ungar – a source of wisdom on thriving through adversity – shows what really produces results: our environment and our support systems.
When the Body Says No explores how disease can be the body’s way of saying no to what the mind cannot or will not acknowledge. It outlines seven principles of healing and preventing illness from hidden stress.
Drawing on decades of research, Harvard psychiatrist Chris Palmer heralds a new understanding of mental illness: namely, that mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain. Palmer also identifies new treatments that readers can use to promote long-term healing.
Rather than viewing most mental distress as an understandable reaction to wider societal problems, we have embraced a medical model that situates the problem solely within the sufferer and their brain. Sedated systematically examines why this view is misplaced and dangerous.
One of the world’s leading experts on trauma, Bessel van der Kolk has spent more than three decades working with survivors. Here, he shows how trauma reshapes both body and brain, alongside treatments that offer new paths to recovery.
The Poetry Pharmacy is a unique space where poetry is used to support emotional well-being. Visitors receive personalised poem “prescriptions” based on their feelings—whether they need comfort, encouragement, or a fresh perspective. A Poetry Pharmacist listens to their concerns and selects poetry that speaks to their experience.
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Café Pli combines letter writing and café culture in a space designed for focus and reflection. With quality coffee, tea, and pastries, along with elegant stationery and quiet writing nooks, it offers visitors a chance to slow down and reconnect with the art of handwritten communication. The option to send letters into the future adds a personal and nostalgic touch, transforming messages into time capsules. Writing by hand promotes mindfulness, emotional clarity, and meaningful connections, providing a welcome break from digital distractions. Through workshops and events, Café Pli fosters a creative community where self-expression and shared experiences come together.
Library Science, founded by Kaia Gerber and Alyssa Reeder in 2020, is an online book club dedicated to engaging young readers in meaningful discussions on diverse topics such as race, gender, and climate change. By focusing on underrepresented voices and stories beyond typical bestseller lists, Library Science fosters a community that values empathy and understanding through literature. We include Library Science in the Lunaria Mental Health Library because we believe that immersing oneself in diverse narratives can enhance mental well-being, promote empathy, and encourage mindful screen breaks.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to borrow a person, rather than a book? Now you can, thanks to The Human Library – a not-for-profit learning platform that hosts personal conversations designed to challenge stigma and stereotypes. Created in Copenhagen in 2000, The Human Library loans human ‘books’ – that is, volunteers who have personal experience with their topic and engage in open dialogue.
A personal growth membership and online community, The Trenches includes a library of courses, with psychology and therapy concepts – such as emotional regulation and the nervous system – explained in an easy-to-digest way.
The Hub of Hope is the UK’s leading mental-health support database. Provided by charity Chasing the Stigma, it brings local, national, peer, community, charity, private and NHS mental health support and services together in one place.
Moodgym is an online program designed to help individuals manage their mental health by providing CBT-based modules to address issues like anxiety and depression. It is aimed at improving emotional resilience.
Mental takes a frank approach to mental health, avoiding hushed tones, flowery writing and pandering in favour of realistic advice and honest talk. It shares articles and interviews, as well as products that can make life a little more manageable.
Mindful Art Studio, founded by art therapist Amy Maricle, offers art classes and workshops designed to help individuals explore their creativity through slow, mindful art-making. The platform provides live and self-led retreats, as well as mentoring, to support artists in cultivating time and space for creative expression, overcoming self-doubt, and addressing creative blocks.
PTSD UK is dedicated to raising awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder and helping guide those living with PTSD to the support they may need.
Rethink Mental Illness improves the lives of people severely affected by mental health problems, through its factsheets, network of local groups and services, and advice and information helpline.
Mind provides advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem, from helplines and online peer support, to information hubs and guides to legal rights.
NSUN is a network of people and groups with lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma and distress. It works to shift power and resource in mental health, such as by amplifying the knowledge that is held by people with lived experience.
