Websites
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Anxiety Canada
Find information about anxiety (including PDFs and downloadables), strategies, and tools
Mood Disorders
This website provides an overview of different types of mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorders, as well as the symptoms of mood disorders, how they are treated, and more.
Canadian Psychological Association - Fact Sheets
A series of fact sheets on a wide range of disorders and other issues, including mood and anxiety, eating, sleep, stress, chronic illness, racism, and healthy living.
International OCD Foundation
The IOCDF is an international organization serving a broad community of individuals with OCD and related disorders, their family members and loved ones, and mental health professionals and researchers around the world.
Anxieties.com
A site created by Reid Wilson, Ph.D. Contains self-help programs, online courses and products based on extensive experience working with sufferers of anxiety, panic, OCD, phobias, and other related disorders.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
NIMH offers comprehensive information on various mental health conditions, treatment options, research findings, and resources for individuals, families, and professionals.
Psychology Today
Psychology Today features articles, blogs, and resources on mental health, psychology, therapy, and self-help, written by mental health professionals.
National Eating Disorders Association
Provides comprehensive information on eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. They offer resources on treatment options, including CBT, and provide support for individuals and their loved ones affected by eating disorders.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Learn more about this therapy and how it can help someone with BPD, along with what to expect during a dialectical behavior therapy session.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
NIDA’s resources cover various aspects of substance use disorders, including prevention, treatment, and recovery, with a focus on evidence-based interventions like CBT.
ADDitude
Provides practical advice for individuals with ADHD and their families, with a focus on evidence-based approaches for coping with ADHD-related challenges. Contains tips for implementing CBT techniques in daily life to improve focus, organization, time management, and more.
CBT for Children and Adolescents
Provides information about the use and benefits of CBT for children and adolescents, examples of issues that can be addressed through CBT, and the advantages of this type of therapy.
Books
Contains a list of self-help books that provide tips and empirically-supported treatment plans.
Norton, P.J. & Antony, M.M. (2021). The anti-anxiety program: Proven strategies to overcome worry, panic, phobias, and obsessions (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), the book helps you understand how anxiety gets out of control; identify your triggers; change the patterns of thinking and behavior that makes anxiety worse; and take proven steps to confront feared situations.
Greenberger, D., & Padesky, C.A. (2016). Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
A groundbreaking guide to cognitive therapy. Learn to challenge negative thoughts, manage emotions, and transform your life with practical exercises.
Josefowitz, N., & Swallow, S.R. (2024). The Behavioral Activation Workbook for Depression: Powerful Strategies to Boost Your Mood and Build a Better Life. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
Offers an array of actionable strategies to increase motivation, connect with what matters, manage difficult thoughts and feelings, and start engaging in life again. You’ll also find skills grounded in CBT to help you develop a mood-boosting activity plan.
McKay, M., Wood, J.C., & Brantley, J. (2019). The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance (2nd ed.). Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
offers evidence-based, step-by-step exercises for learning these concepts and putting them to work for real and lasting change. Start by working on the introductory exercises and, after making progress, move on to the advanced-skills chapters.
Tull, M. T., Gratz, K.L., & Chapman, A.L. (2017). The Cognitive Behavioral Coping Skills Workbook for PTSD: Overcome Fear and Anxiety and Reclaim Your Life. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
This practical guide is loaded with research-based skills from the most effective PTSD treatments available to help you manage your symptoms, reclaim your well-being, and maintain your recovery.
Martin, S. (2019). The CBT Workbook for Perfectionism: Evidence-Based Skills to Help You Let Go of Self-Criticism, Build Self-Esteem, and Find Balance. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
Identify the causes of your perfectionism and the ways it is negatively impacting your life. This book provides strategies to increase self-compassion and learn ways to prioritize the things that really matter to you, without focusing on attaining fixed goals.
Hallowell, E.M., & Ratey, J.J. (2021). ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction--from Childhood through Adulthood. New York: Ballantine Books.
The authors draw on the latest science to provide both parents and adults with ADHD a plan for minimizing the downside and maximizing the benefits of ADHD at any age. They offer an arsenal of new strategies and lifestyle hacks for thriving with ADHD.
Paterson, R.J. (2021). The Assertiveness Workbook: How to Express Your Ideas and Stand Up for Yourself at Work and in Relationships (2nd ed.). Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
This workbook contains effective skills grounded in CBT to help you communicate more effectively, improve social interactions, set and maintain personal boundaries, discover ways to be more genuine and open in your relationships, and learn to say no.
Hershfield, J., & Corboy, T. (2020). The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD: A Guide to Overcoming Obsessions and Compulsions Using Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (2nd ed.). Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
This book offers practical and accessible tools for managing the unwanted thoughts and compulsive urges that are associated with OCD. This workbook will help you challenge your own distorted thinking and stop treating thoughts as threats and feelings as facts.
Apps
Note: We have not tested all of the apps listed and are not responsible for their content.
MindTools.io
MindTools.io is a website where you can find a list of platforms and apps rated on a number of criteria. You can search by topics, including clinical aims and primary strategy.
Moodnotes
Straightforward thought record app that helps you track your mood, avoid common thinking traps, and develop perspectives associated with increased happiness and well-being.
Mindshift
MindShift® CBT uses scientifically proven strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help you learn to relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and use active steps to take charge of your anxiety.
Calm
Provides guided meditation that can help with overall mental health.
Headspace
The Headspace app provides mindfulness tools for everyday life, including meditations, sleepcasts, mindful movement and focus exercises.
PTSD Coach
An app that can help you learn about and manage symptoms that often occur after trauma. Features include: Reliable information on PTSD and treatments that work; tools for tracking your symptoms; and easy-to-use tools to help you handle stress symptoms.
Daylio
Track your moods and activities, and set up goals. Write notes, use writing templates, attach photos or record voice memos.
eMoods
User-friendly app to track symptom data relating to Bipolar I and II disorders, Depression, PTSD, and Anxiety Disorders. Identify triggers and patterns to help prevent relapses.
Calm Harm
An app designed to help individuals manage self-harm urges using CBT techniques. It offers activities to distract, comfort, express, and release emotions in healthier ways.
