ANXIETY DISORDER RESOURCES
Anxiety Recovery Centre Victoria (ARCVic)
Runs an OCD and Anxiety Helpline (1300 269 438)
Peer support groups in anxiety, OCD, social anxiety, women’s trauma, trichotillomania and dermatillomania.
Recovery programs including a 4-week mindfulness based program, post-traumatic stress education and recovery strategies, healthy mind and bodies, hoarding workshop
Black Dog Institute
https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/resources-support/anxiety/
Information on signs and symptoms of anxiety, treatment options and resources for those struggling
Anxiety self-test
BluePages
https://bluepages.anu.edu.au/depression-symptoms/goldberg-anxiety-quiz/
Screening tests for anxiety levels in comparison to others your age
Links to other resources
Breathe
Download from Google Play Store (Android Phones)
Download from Apple App Store (Apple Products)
Breath-based mindfulness app for relaxation and focusing
Calm
Free breath-based mindfulness app, website and YouTube channel for relaxation and focusing
Centre for Clinical Interventions
https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself
Self-help resources for mental health issues.
DownDog
Subscription-based app providing a personalised yoga program for relaxation
Eastern Health Mental Health Triage
Click here for further information
1300 721 927 (24h, 7 days a week)
Mental health service operating within the Eastern Region of Melbourne providing mental health assessment and interventions for people experiencing severe mental illness.
e-Couch
Online, self-directed training program providing interactive self-help information to help users with common mental health issues.
Provides 5 programs: depression, anxiety and worry, social anxiety, divorce and separation and loss and bereavement.
Worksheets that have been completed can be printed out and taken to the clinician that they are seeing to better explain how they’re going.
Mental Health Online
https://www.mentalhealthonline.org.au
Free service, requires signing up for an account
Provides access to online mental health assessment, treatment programs and eTherapists once a treatment program has begun.
MindSpot
Create an account for an assessment on your mental health, then be connected to recommendations for treatment. CBT courses may be recommended by a MindSpot therapist.
Chat to a psychologist at the clinic once a week online.
MoodGYM
Anonymous, free, interactive self-help book teaching skills to help prevent and manage symptoms of depression and anxiety.
myCompass by the Black Dog Institute
Users can list behaviours that aren’t working for them and the program keeps track of them and might highlight potential triggers.
Shows a graph in self-monitoring which can show changes in their mood over time. Sends messages regularly to remind the user to stay on-track.
Designed for mild to moderate anxiety and depression.
Free to anyone in Australia
Can print out graphs and take it to the GP to show them what’s going on.
Has a “mood monitoring” system that you can plot against lifestyle changes including physical activity, healthy eating, drinking habits, etc.
My Digital Health
https://www.mydigitalhealth.org.au
Programs including LIFE Flex for anxiety, iMindTime for mindfulness and iChooseWell for general wellness.
Easy way for a practitioner and client to keep track of a client’s mental health progress, and for a consumer to learn more about mental health
SANE Australia
1800 187 263
Support for people with complex mental health issues. Provides counselling, peer support, information and more.
Smiling Mind
https://www.smilingmind.com.au
A free app for mindfulness and relaxation, can improve concentration
This Way Up
6 modules for $59 or for free if referred by a clinician, modules done fortnightly.
Courses in depression, worry, social anxiety, panic attacks, health anxiety, OCD, PTSD, perinatal mental health, teen mental health, chronic conditions and wellbeing.
7 Cups
Free online 24h chat tool with trained professionals. Available as an app or as a website.