Helpful Apps for Teens
Mindfulness and Meditation:
- Calm: Best for visualizing and looking inward
- Headspace: Best for learning lifelong mindfulness skills
- Aura: Best for personalized tracks and coaches
- Simple Habit: Best for teens with busy schedules
- Insight Timer: Best for free guided meditations and talks from celebrities and gurus around the world
Behavioral and Habit Aids:
- MindDoc: Best for teens who struggle with or want more insight into their mental wellbeing
- Calm Harm: Best for teens who struggle with self-harm
App-Based/Online Therapy:
Note: These apps may require health insurance and parent/guardian permission.
- TalkSpace: Best overall
- TeenCounseling: Best for teen-specific counseling
- BetterHelp: Best for livechat sessions
- Larkr: Best for video sessions
- Inkblot: Therapy: Based in Canada (online only; no app)
Aire Ouverte-Services for youth aged 12-25
Aire ouverte offers a range of services geared to the reality of young people aged 12 to 25. These include mental and physical health services. Advice about study, work, housing or information about legal and financial aid is also provided on site.
Examples:
Examples:
- You are worried about some of your thoughts, about things that you are feeling or about the way you behave.
- You have questions about your lifestyle, your sexuality or you are in distress of any kind.
- You are dealing with a family conflict, an abusive relationship, an unwanted pregnancy, failure at school or bullying.
- You are wondering about your sexual and gender identity or your drinking or drug use.
- You need a regular check-up, health care or a screening test.
- You are worried about your future.
To contact Aire Ouverte go to this link (https://www.quebec.ca/sante/trouver-une-ressource/aire-ouverte
cisss-outaouais.gouv.qc.ca/obtenir-un-service/obtenir-des-services-pour-les-jeunes-et-leur-famille/aire-ouverte/)