Emotional Wellness
The emotionally well person can identify, express and manage the entire range of feelings and would consider seeking assistance to address areas of concern. Emotional wellness is being able to cope with stress and expressing your emotions in an effective manner.
Taking An Active Role In Your Emotional Wellness
Develop awareness of your emotions and use healthy coping strategies for emotional regulation and self-care. Allow yourself to fully feel and express your emotions by communicating your wants, needs, and emotions with others and setting healthy boundaries. Surround yourself with supportive people who make you feel good and ask for help when you need it.
Resources Through Flagler College
Flagler College Resources
CARE Team
Located in Tinlin House, 65 Valencia Street. CARE (Campus Assessment, Referral, and Evaluation) exists as a proactive, multi-disciplinary program in support of the safety, health, and well-being of all students, faculty, and staff.
Counseling Center
Located in Tinlin House, 65 Valencia Street. Flagler College Counseling Services provides confidential psychological services to currently enrolled students. We strive to help students manage personal concerns that interfere with learning and academic progress. Counseling Services offers initial assessments, brief individual counseling, group therapy, workshops and educational presentations on a variety of topics, crisis intervention services, and professional consultations to staff, faculty, students, and parents.
Disability Resource Center (DRC)
Located on the 2nd floor, Proctor Library, L211 & L202. The (DRC) provides reasonable curricular/co-curricular accommodations to ensure that students with disabilities have access to the College and its programs through intentional interventions, programs, and services. The DRC can process accommodation requests for testing, alternate texts, interpreters, listening devices, digital recorders, readers, note-takers, and more! See their website for guidelines on gaining accommodations regarding medical, psychological, and autism spectrum disorders.
Health & Wellness Canvas Course
The Health & Wellness Canvas Course provides students, faculty, and staff with resources (videos, handouts, worksheets, etc.) on an array of topics designed to promote the prevention of issues, as well as help individuals address critical topics one may experience while going to college. To enroll in the course you will need to log in with your Flagler credentials and select "Enroll". Please visit this site often, as content will be uploaded throughout the year.
Community Tools For Emotional Wellness
Community Tools
Mental Health & Substance Abuse
Addictions.com
Find Florida drug rehabs in cities near you
Alcohol Anonymous
Florida Alcohol Anonymous meetings
Abundant Life Ministries Counseling Services
Provides mental health and addiction services (individual, family, couples)
EPIC Behavioral Healthcare
Substance abuse and mental health services for all ages. EPIC offers walk-in services for crisis sessions or to assess the need for substance use and mental health services through the Access Support Center. Open Monday-Thursday, 9 am-2 pm at 1400 Old Dixie Hwy., Ste. B, St. Augustine, FL 32084.
SMA Health Care
Providing behavioral health care for people with addictions or mental health concerns (prevention, crisis 24/7, residential outpatient, justice services, and community outreach)
College Drinking Prevention
One-stop resource for comprehensive research-based information on issues related to alcohol abuse and binge drinking.
Free Rehab Centers in Florida
FreeRehabCenters.org is about providing the most complete list of free, low-cost, sliding scale, and low-income assisted rehab lists on the Internet.
Harbor Village Florida
Licensed and accredited addiction treatment facility in South Florida.
Smart Recovery
National Self-help organization devoted to cognitive therapy-oriented recovery from substance abuse.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institute of Alcohol and Alcoholism. The mission of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is to generate and disseminate fundamental knowledge about the effects of alcohol on health and well-being and apply that knowledge to improve diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of alcohol-related problems, including alcohol use disorder, across the lifespan.
Marijuana Anonymous
Marijuana Anonymous is for sharing experiences and helping to recover from marijuana addiction.
Cocaine Anonymous
Cocaine Anonymous is a site where recovering addicts share and gain strength to solve the problem of cocaine addiction.
Cocaine.org
Comprehensive site on cocaine and addiction.
MethadoneCenters.com
Free valuable and potentially life-saving resources and information to help overcome substance abuse, as well as a comprehensive directory that connects individuals struggling with opioid addiction to methadone treatment centers in their area.
Montana Meth Project
The State of Montana's informational site on educating the public on the dangers of Meth.
PBS.org
PBS feature on the dangers of Meth and addiction.
ACADIA Health Care
Prescription drug addiction information with additional links.
SAMHSA Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
SAMHSA’s National Helpline is a free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service (in English and Spanish) for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders.
Stop Oxycontin Addiction
A website devoted to stopping OxyContin addiction.
Mental Health & The Family
Adapt Behavioral Services
Provides therapy (individual, family, couples) parent training, behavior analysis, and consultation
Children's Home Society of Florida
Provides many different services for families and children from counseling to fostering and adoption
Early Learning Coalition of Flagler and Volusia
Helps prepare children and families for school by providing many resources and support services
Flagler Care Connect
An outreach program that connects people with the services they need (good resource if you don’t know where to go for what you need)
Honoring Choices Florida
Offers resources and support to ensure individual’s future health care preferences are discussed and documented- good support for families with questions as well.
NAMI
Offers education, advocacy, and support groups for people with a mental illness and their families (many are virtual)
Youth Crisis Center
Provides services for youth/young adults and families exposed to drama (divorce, homelessness, relocation, loss of life, bullying, and abuse)
Mental Health Counseling
All Therapies Support Inc.
Provides applied behavior analysis, targeted case management, and mental health counseling. Also has a list of resources for various mental health situations.
CAIR Center at Flagler Health+
Provides mental health crisis assessment, interventions (at time of crisis) referral and care services, and coordination
Healthiestyou app
All students carrying the Flagler College health insurance have free telehealth through this app. Flagler students who do not have this insurance have a $40.00 co-pay for services.
The Salvation Army
Provides a wide variety of support and services to those struggling (shelter, food pantry, meal service, life skills, rent assistance, summer camps, and more)
Mental Health & Mindfulness
Koru Mindfulness
Free guided meditations.
Mental Health & Women
Alpha-Omega Counseling Services and Spiritual Guidance
Offers support (education, spiritual, emotional, and financial) to young mothers and senior women
Mental Health Depression, Crisis, Depression
Addictions.com
45 Suicide prevention resources.
American Association of Suicidology
Suicide-related crisis response resources.
Crisis Text Line
24/7 support- immediate connection to a counselor (text, messaging, and phone) Also provides resources on MANY different emotional stresses (gun violence, abuse, eating disorders, COVID, etc.)
Jed Foundation
The Jed Foundation's Mental Health Resource Center provides essential information about common emotional health issues and shows teens and young adults how they can support one another, overcome challenges, and make a successful transition to adulthood.
National suicide hotline
1-800-273-TALK (8255), for a shortcut dial 988 on your phone for support services.
Mental Health & Domestic Violence
Betty Griffin Center
Protection and services for victims of Domestic Violence and their minor children (shelter, counseling, and transitional support)- Multilingual staff (including Sign Language)
Mental Health & LGBTQIA+
The Trevor Project for LGBTQ+ youth in crisis. Trained counselors are available 24/7 on the TrevorLifeline at 1-866-488-7386. The website also offers a chat and a text for help service. Text START to 678678 to start getting help.
Trans Lifeline. Peer support hotline for trans people in crisis run by trans people at 1-877-565-8860. They’re available from 7am-1am PST / 9am-3am CST / 10am-4am EST. Volunteers may be available during off hours.
National Suicide Prevention Hotline. 24-hour toll-free crisis line: 1-800-273-8255.
Fenway Health (not suicide specific). LGBTQ+ people can speak to trained volunteers about HIV/AIDS, coming out, safer sex, depression, suicide, harassment and violence. They can help connect callers with LGBT groups and services in your local area. LGBT Helpline (25+) 888-340-4528. Monday to Saturday, 6pm - 11pm / Peer Listening Line (25 & Under) 800-399-PEER. Monday to Saturday 5pm – 10pm.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender National Hotline (not suicide specific). 1-888-843-4564 and email: help@GLBThotline.org. Hours (Pacific Time): Monday to Friday, 1:00pm - 9:00pm; Saturday, 9:00am - 2:00pm. Hours (Eastern Time): Monday - Friday, 4:00pm - Midnight; Saturday, Noon - 5:00pm. Peer one-on-one chat and email support. Support related to coming out, relationship concerns, bullying, workplace issues, HIV/AIDS anxiety, safer sex information or any other issues you are facing.
Mental Health & The Elderly
Community Hospice and Palliative Care
Offers hospice care, support with advance care planning, and grief support
Elder Source
Provide services, resources, and education to aging adults (LGBT-friendly)
Mental Health & Veterans
Cohen Veterans Network
Counseling organization through the Joint Military Veterans Coalition in Jacksonville. Low-and no-cost, short to medium timeframe counseling services.
St. Johns County Veterans Council
Assists all Veterans with resources and support services (a good way to connect with other Vets)
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
General mental health resources for Veterans- 24-/7 crisis line, and quick links for other VA services
Applications
Applications
Anxiety Reduction, Stress Management, & Coping
Mindshift
Struggling with anxiety? Tired of missing out? There are things you can do to stop anxiety and fear from controlling your life. MindShift is an app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety. It can help you change how you think about anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxiety, you can make an important shift and face it.
PTSD Coach
PTSD Coach was designed for those who have or may have, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This app provides you with education about PTSD, information about professional care, a self-assessment for PTSD, opportunities to find support, and tools that can help you manage the stresses of daily life with PTSD. Tools range from relaxation skills and positive self-talk to anger management and other common self-help strategies. You can customize tools based on your preferences and can integrate your own contacts, photos, and music. This app can be used by people who are in treatment as well as those who are not.
Tactical Breather
Tactical Breathing Trainer can be used to gain control over physiological and Psychological responses to stress. Through repetitive practice and training, anyone can learn to gain control of their heart rate, emotions, concentration, and other physiological and Psychological responses to their body during stressful situations.
Breathe2relax
Breathe2Relax is a portable stress management tool that provides detailed information on the effects of stress on the body and instructions and practice exercises to help users learn the stress management skill called diaphragmatic breathing. Breathing exercises have been documented to decrease the body's 'fight-or-flight' (stress) response and help with mood stabilization, anger control, and anxiety management. Breathe2Relax can be used as a stand-alone stress reduction tool or can be used in tandem with clinical care directed by a healthcare worker. Breathe2Relax now uses HealthKit and your Apple Watch device to measure your heart rate throughout your breathing exercise to help provide an even more complete picture of the relaxation experienced.
Grief: Support For Young People
The app has information about bereavement, grief, feelings, and how to help yourself. You can also read others' stories and watch short films written and made by bereaved young people. It is for 11-25-year-olds who have been bereaved of someone important to them. It can also be used by friends, teachers, parents, and professionals who would like to know how to support bereaved young people.
Bias Modification
Bias Modification is an app/game that is based on the research in Cognitive bias modification (CBM). CBM has been shown to help overcome the tendency to focus on negative or threatening social cues. CBM does this by making you repeatedly select positive over negative information.
Pacifica For Stress & Anxiety
Stress, anxiety, and depression can get in the way of you living your life. Pacifica gives you psychologist-designed tools to address them based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness meditation, relaxation, and mood/health tracking.
Superbetter
SuperBetter increases resilience - the ability to stay strong, motivated, and optimistic even in the face of difficult obstacles. Playing SuperBetter makes you more capable of getting through any tough situation and more likely to achieve the goals that matter most to you.
Booster Buddy
BoosterBuddy is a free app designed to help teens and young adults improve their mental health. Manage your personal wellness journey and earn achievements as your sidekick guides you through a series of daily quests designed to establish and sustain positive habits.
End Anxiety Hypnosis - Stress, Panic Attack Help
This anxiety help app is designed to show you how to reduce anxiety and to learn anxiety management techniques.
Happify: For Stress & Worry
Happify's science-based activities and games can help reduce stress, overcome negative thoughts, and build greater resilience by providing effective tools and programs to improve emotional well-being.
What's Up? - A Mental Health App
What's Up? is a fantastic free app utilizing some of the best CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) methods to help you cope with Depression, Anxiety, Anger, Stress, and more! With a beautiful, modern design, simple heading, and easy-to-follow methods, you can get to what helps you the most in seconds!
Self-help For Anxiety Management
Self-help for Anxiety Management (SAM) is a friendly app that offers a range of self-help methods for people who are serious about learning to manage their anxiety. SAM has been developed by a university team of psychologists, computer scientists, and student users. Established methods of self-help have been combined with high standards of usability to provide an engaging, flexible, and practical resource.
Moodtools - Depression Aid
If you are feeling sad, anxious, or depressed, lift your mood with MoodTools! MoodTools is designed to help you combat depression and alleviate your negative moods, aiding you on your road to recovery. MoodTools contains several different research-supported tools.
Nocd: Effective Care For Ocd
The nOCD app allows you to continue treatment throughout the week and eliminates many of the barriers to successful treatment. No more carrying paper and pen around, or forgetting therapy because you're busy. If you're looking for an easier way to feel better, try nOCD. nOCD, Inc. is not a treatment company, and the nOCD app is not intended as a standalone treatment. Although this app is developed with clinicians to closely resemble established treatment protocols, it is intended to be used in conjunction with a therapist or another medical provider.
Diary, Journal, And Recovery
Gratitude Journal 365 - Diary For Your Happiness
Use a gratitude journal to restart your life by appreciating what you have in life. Keeping a gratitude journal can become a positive habit, but only with discipline. With continued exercise, practicing gratitude will create more abundance, prosperity, well-being, and happiness than you ever thought possible.
Happier
Happier helps you stay more present and positive throughout the day. Our Apple Watch app is like your personal mindfulness coach -- use it to lift your mood, take a quick meditation pause, or capture and savor the small happy moments that you find in your day.
Attitudes Of Gratitude Journal
This simple app will help you to develop and maintain a daily attitude of gratitude. At the end of each day, you can list the things you are grateful for. You will soon see that your list is much longer than you expected.
CBT-I Coach
CBT-i Coach is for people who are engaged in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia with a health provider, or who have experienced symptoms of insomnia and would like to improve their sleep habits. The app will guide you through the process of learning about sleep, developing positive sleep routines, and improving your sleep environment. It provides a structured program that teaches strategies proven to improve sleep and help alleviate symptoms of insomnia. CBT-i Coach is intended to augment face-to-face care with a healthcare professional. It can be used on its own, but it is not intended to replace therapy for those who need it.
CBT Thought Diary
Thought Diary will help you evaluate, understand, and change your thoughts and feelings. By using this application, you can work to identify your emotions, analyze how and why you're feeling this way, challenge those negative beliefs, change your thinking patterns for future situations, and remember positive experiences. You can use this app as a mood journal, a thought record journal, and a gratitude journal.
RR: Eating Disorder Management
Recovery Record is the smart companion for managing your journey to recovery from eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. This app is also intended for people with general eating, weight, and shape concerns. Use for self-help or link with your treatment team's Recovery Record Clinician App to stay connected, co-manage recovery, and achieve your goals.
Rise Up + Recover
An Eating Disorder Monitoring and Management Tool for Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating, and EDNOS
Rise Up + Recover is just the app for you if you are struggling with food, dieting, exercise, and body image. Based on self-monitoring homework, a cornerstone of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), we designed a convenient and user-friendly app that has been used millions of times around the world. Rise Up + Recover is the perfect addition to your professional treatment for an eating disorder including anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), obsessive eating disorder (OED), binge eating disorder (BED), and compulsive eating disorder (CED).
Meditation And Mindfulness
Take A Break! - Meditations For Stress Relief
Take a break now and let your stress melt away! You can enjoy the deep relaxation, stress relief, and benefits of meditation now with this app by Meditation Oasis™. Featuring two popular meditations from the Meditation Oasis podcast, the app gives you the option to listen with or without music or nature sounds. You can also listen to the relaxing music and nature sounds alone.
Headspace: Meditation
Headspace is a simple way to reframe stress. Relax with guided meditations and mindfulness techniques that bring calm, wellness, and balance to your life in just a few minutes a day. Plus, we have meditations on sleep to help you create the ideal conditions for a good night's rest.
Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell
Propel your mindfulness practice from the cushion into the world. Modeled after a practice in Buddhist monasteries, Mindfulness Bells is a powerful practice to remind you of your intention to be mindful. Activate the Mindfulness Bell and it sends you gentle reminders randomly throughout the day.
Remindful - Be Present.
Remindful is a reminder app that rings at customized intervals throughout the day, to gently prompt you to come back to the present moment and to help guide you to become more mindful.
Smiling Mind
Smiling Mind is a FREE mindfulness meditation app developed by psychologists and educators to help bring balance to your life. Just as we eat well and stay fit to keep our body healthy, mindfulness meditation is about mental health and looking after the mind. Our programs are designed to assist people in dealing with the pressure, stress, and challenges of daily life.
Stop, Breathe & Think
Stop, Breathe & Think, the app for meditation & mindfulness has a unique approach that allows you to check in with your emotions and then recommends short, guided meditations, yoga, and acupressure videos, tuned to how you feel.
Insight Timer - Meditation App
Join millions learning to meditate on Insight Timer to help calm the mind, reduce anxiety, manage stress, sleep deeply, and improve happiness. Guided meditations and talks led by the world's top mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists, and meditation teachers from Stanford, Harvard, Dartmouth, and the University of Oxford. Music tracks from world-renowned artists.
Calm
Join the millions experiencing lower stress, less anxiety, and more restful sleep with our guided meditations, Sleep Stories, breathing programs, masterclasses, and relaxing music. Recommended by top psychologists, therapists, and mental health experts. Calm is the perfect mindfulness app for beginners, but also includes hundreds of programs for intermediate and advanced users.
Hellomind: Meditation|hypnosis
HelloMind helps you take back control of your life. Through guided meditation, HelloMind gives you tools to overcome bad lifestyle patterns and work through negative thoughts.
Mood Tracking
Daylio - Diary, Journal, Mood Tracker
Daylio enables you to keep a private diary without having to type a single line. Try this beautifully designed micro-diary app right now for FREE! Pick your mood and add activities you have been doing during the day. You can also add notes and keep an old-school diary. Daylio is collecting recorded moods and activities in the statistics and calendar. This format will help you to understand your habits better. Keep track of your activities and create patterns to become more productive!
T2 Mood Tracker
Mood Tracker allows users to monitor their moods on six pre-loaded scales (anxiety, stress, depression, brain injury, post-traumatic stress, and general well-being). Custom scales can also be built. Users rate their moods by swiping a small bar to the left or to the right. The ratings are displayed on graphs to help users track their moods over time. Notes can be recorded to document daily events, medication changes, and treatments that may be associated with mood changes, providing accurate information to help healthcare providers make treatment decisions.
Moody - Daily Mood Tracker
How were you feeling last week? What was your mood last September? It's usually hard to remember your mood, but Moody is here to help you. Whether you are recovering from depression, suffer from bipolar disorder, or just want to be aware and improve your mood, Moody helps you keep track of your day-to-day mood and write notes to keep a mood journal of your life.
Moodpath: Depression & Anxiety
Moodpath is an interactive mental health screening and improvement program that detects symptoms of depression. After answering questions concerning your emotional and physical well-being you receive a professional assessment of your mental health that you can share and discuss with your physician or therapist. Moodpath is a CE-certified medical product and does not collect any personal data.
Stigma: Mood Tracker & Journal
Stigma provides you with a safe way to build your support network, journal what's on your mind, and keep track of your mood.
Personal Safety & Suicide Prevention
Circle Of 6
Circle of 6 is a personal safety app for everyone. Circle of 6 lets you choose up to 6 trusted friends to add to your circle. If you get into an uncomfortable or risky situation, use Circle of 6 to automatically send your circle a pre-programmed SMS alert message, with your exact location. It's quick. It's discreet. Two taps is all it takes. Circle of 6 also connects you to 24h hotlines for safety and information, as well as Scarleteen.com, a comprehensive online sexual health resource.
Suicide Safety Plan
This app is designed to support those dealing with suicidal thoughts and help prevent suicide. Having a safety plan in place that can help guide you through difficult moments can help you cope and keep you safe. A safety plan is designed so that you can start at the beginning and continue through the steps. You can customize your own warning signs that a crisis may be developing, coping strategies for dealing with suicidal urges, places for distraction, friends and family members you can reach out to, professionals you can call, methods of making your environment safe, and your own important reasons for living.
My3 - Support Network
Stay connected to your network when you are in a time of crisis with MY3. With MY3, you define your network, and your plan to stay safe. With MY3 you can be prepared to help yourself and reach out to others when you are feeling suicidal. Remember, there is hope and a life to look forward to even in your darkest moments - this app can help you get through the difficult moments.