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Apps

  • Executive Functioning/Organization

    • Sweepy - Home Cleaning

    • Dental Coach - Maintain healthy dental hygiene

    • Tick Tick - time blocking, habit tracker, planner, pomodoro & many more

    • Life Up Pro - RPG for tasks, habits, executive functioning

    • GoblinTools: Creates tiny, manageable steps from overwhelming tasks. Perfect for breaking down executive function barriers

    • Tiimo - Visual planning with routines, timers & gentle reminders. Highly customizable for neurodivergent needs (sensory profiles, energy levels)

    • Brili Routines - Creates visual, step-by-step routines (morning, bedtime, homework) with timers. Reduces overwhelm and guides focus sequentially

    • Tody - Clever cleaning/organization app. Visualizes tasks, schedules them, and gamifies completion. Makes overwhelming chores manageable

    Self Care

    • Finch - digital pet for self care, mindfulness, goal setting & routines with a nurturing companion. Great for motivation & emotional regulation

    Focus

    • Forest - pomodoro focus app that also helps with environment IRL

    • Focus Keeper - Simple, clean Pomodoro timer. Reduces overwhelm by chunking work into focused intervals.

    Sensory Wellbing - Helps identify sensory triggers/preferences and create personalized coping strategies. Vital for Autism & sensory processing

  • Antar - great for parts work, processing thoughts and emotions

    Tapping Solutions - great for navigating stress, overwhelm, triggers

    PTSD Coach - Developed by the VA & NCPTSD. Offers education, symptom tracking, coping tools (grounding, breathing), and support resources. Evidence-based core.

    Calm Harm, Manage Self Harm - Provides immediate, distraction-based activities categorized by urge type (Express, Comfort, Distract, etc.) to manage distress & self-harm urges

    Insight Timer - Massive free library of guided meditations. Search for "trauma-sensitive," "grounding," "sleep for PTSD," "self-compassion." Includes timers and stats

    CBT Thought Diary - Helps track triggers, automatic thoughts, emotions, and challenge unhelpful patterns common in PTSD (e.g., self-blame, catastrophizing).

    Bearable - Advanced symptom & mood tracker. Excellent for identifying complex triggers (sensory, social, physiological) and patterns over time in CPTSD.

  • CBT Thought Diary - Helps track triggers, automatic thoughts, emotions, and challenge unhelpful patterns common in PTSD (e.g., self-blame, catastrophizing).

    Insight Timer - Find secular mindfulness, deconstruction support groups (audio), and meditations focused on self-trust, releasing guilt, and rebuilding identity

    Reckoning - Specifically designed for religious trauma. Offers journaling prompts, community connection (safely moderated), and resources focused on deconstruction

    Secular Therapy Project - Not a traditional app, but vital. Connects individuals with licensed therapists who explicitly do not incorporate religion into therapy.

    Reclamation Collective - Often has app-like resources or community hubs. Focuses on healing from high-control religion, spiritual abuse, and cults

  • Gottman Card Decks - Offers decks for Love Maps, Open-Ended Questions, Salsa (light conflict), Expressing Needs.

    Paired - Daily questions, quizzes, and exercises designed by relationship experts to improve communication, intimacy, and understanding. Focuses on connection

    Lasting - Marriage counseling app. Structured programs on communication, conflict, connection, and more. Based on research, includes audio sessions & exercises

    Agreeify - Simplifies creating shared agreements and chore charts. Reduces conflict about household tasks and responsibilities. Great for fairness perception.

    Sweepy - Home Cleaning organization

    Coral - Conflict resolution guide. Helps structure difficult conversations using step-by-step prompts for "I" statements, active listening, and finding solutions

  • Gottman Card Decks - Offers decks for Love Maps, Open-Ended Questions, Salsa (light conflict), Expressing Needs.

    Cozi Family Organizer - Shared calendar, shopping lists, to-dos, and chore assignments. Reduces logistical stress and miscommunication. Essential for busy families

    Circle of Security - Based on the COS model. Offers video modules and resources to help caregivers understand attachment needs and respond sensitively

    Agreeify - Simplifies creating shared agreements and chore charts. Reduces conflict about household tasks and responsibilities. Great for fairness perception.

  • Liberate - Meditation app by and for the Black community. Focuses on themes of healing, resilience, rest, and identity in the face of racism and trauma

    The Safe Place - Mini-app focused on mental health education and support within the Black community. Addresses stigma and provides culturally relevant resources

    Unpacking - Focuses on anti-racism education, understanding privilege, bias, and allyship through daily reflections and actions.

    Be Present - Combines mindfulness with social justice awareness. Offers meditations and reflections on topics like privilege, allyship, resilience, and community care

    HearWe - Connects people with affinity groups and supportive communities based on identity (BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, etc.). Facilitates finding shared experiences and support

  • Voice Recorder app - Any will do. Great for audio journaling

    Baseline - easy and accessible journaling app

    Tapping Solutions - great for navigating stress, overwhelm, triggers

    How We Feel - social mood tracker to track your mood with friends

    CBT Thought Diary - Helps track triggers, automatic thoughts, emotions, and challenge unhelpful patterns common in PTSD (e.g., self-blame, catastrophizing).

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