Mental Health Apps

5 free Mental Health iPhone apps

March 5, 2013 By Julia Scott

Mobile apps for your iPhone can be very helpful in tracking emotions, moods and thoughts between counselling sessions, providing helpful material to work with and helping you to identify patterns and triggers. They can also help you to soothe your emotions and can even help you to get to sleep!

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