Trauma

Find trusted tools, apps, and self-guided resources to help you manage the effects of trauma, build coping skills, and support your wellbeing in your own time.

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Tools and apps to help manage feelings of trauma

Below you can find tools you can use to help you cope with trauma:

This Way Up

This Way Up offers free and paid self-paced online programs that can teach you practical ways to manage symptoms of anxiety, chronic pain, depression, insomnia, panic, stress, trauma, and other mental health challenges.

Cost

Free with prescription

Mental Health Online’s PTSD Program teaches you about post-traumatic stress disorder as well as skills and strategies you can use to manage it.

The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps the Score is a book about what trauma is, how it impacts the body, effective treatment options, as well as short and long-term self-care strategies.

Other tools and apps

MindSpot PTSD Course - Clinically-proven treatment that helps adults aged 18 years and over to manage psychological and emotional symptoms resulting from experiencing a traumatic event.
Phoenix Australia - Offers a range of information, factsheets and other self-help resources for people affected by trauma and for those supporting individuals who have been impacted.

Long-term help for trauma

Support services for trauma

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Short-term help for trauma

Discover practical ways to manage overwhelming feelings, cope with triggers, and find support if you’re feeling unsafe or affected by trauma right now.

Helps with

Coping skills

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Talk to someone you trust

When you’re feeling out of your depth and overwhelmed, opening up to someone you trust can take some weight off your shoulders.

Blue Knot provides short-term counselling, information, and referrals for adult survivors of childhood trauma and abuse or for those supporting someone with complex trauma.

Helps with

Complex trauma

Childhood abuse

What to expect in your first therapy session

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