CBT Tools for Healthy Living

Excel At Life

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About this app

Mood log and analysis, CBT diary, healthy goals & more!

Feel hopeful about changing your life! Learn about the cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) methods shown in psychological research to be effective in changing emotions/mood and behavior.

This app provides education to be an informed consumer of mental health services and contains resources to use in collaboration with a health professional.

CBT tools included in this app

1) Cognitive Diary
• step by step evaluation of an event that caused distress
• to help with cognitive restructuring

2) Inspire Diary
• a simple diary method
• to provide affirmations and record positive events

3) Tests
• to help you learn about yourself
• Cognitive Styles Test, Your Happiness Assessment and more

4) Healthy Activities Log
• track daily activities to motivate and make improvements

5) Mood Log
• record your moods throughout the day
• mood analysis feature: shows your average mood ratings for different actions or events
• graphs to track your mood

6) Points Log
• with encouraging messages
• tracks progress and provides motivation
• earn points to remove display ads for a week at a time

7) Daily Goals
• to plan your healthy activities
• treatment planning with therapist

8) Links
• to relaxation and assistance audios on the Excel At Life website

About cognitive-behavioral therapy

CBT Tools for Healthy Living by Excel At Life teaches you how to use the cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) methods in a simple format. The tools provided in this app are derived from the CBT research base and developed into a user-friendly format by a psychologist with over 30 years of clinical experience.

Learn the CBT methods shown by decades of psychological research to be effective for changing your emotions/moods and behavior that contribute to depression, anxiety and stress, as well as problems in relationships, career and physical health.

These CBT methods can be used as self-help for minor issues or can be used in collaboration with your therapist to develop a treatment plan best suited to your situation. The Daily Goals feature can be used to record your plan and completed activities.

Other features

• All personal data stored in your device.
• Fully customizable: change the CBT terms (beliefs and definitions) used in the diary to conform with the system you are familiar with, add your own challenging statements for each belief, add moods/emotions, add healthy activities to track
• Password protection (optional)
• Daily reminder (optional)
• Examples, tutorial, articles
• Email entries and test results - useful for therapeutic collaboration
• Remove ads by earning points or watching short ad video.

Ratings and reviews

Intrusive points. I was talking about the app and how I really wanted to like it and how it was exactly what I was looking for. I was asked if it had intrusive ads, I said no it has intrusive points. At one point the app was so busy rewarding points that you could not do anything in the app and I ended up putting my phone down and walking away. It's one thing to reward someone 10,000 points for accomplishing the enrollment process, but why in 1, 5, or 10 pt segments.

Real CBT; no BS. It' not pretty and the UI is clunky but easy to learn. This app is the only one I have found that actually takes you through the legit CBT process just like a therapist would during a session. It's a tool, not a toy. For me an it takes 30 min to complete an entry. It makes you work. If you're looking for a quick, cute app this is not for you; if you are actually looking to work through your issues, then you will find the results out weigh the app's UI and visual design.

I've tried a lot of different cbt apps trying to find a simple way to do a cbt type workthrough of negatives and keep track of it. The cognitive diary is perfect. Very clean and easy to navigate (like the rest of the app). Love that I can send individual, weekly, monthly or yearly entries. The other features are great also, but my review is space limited. While the ads aren't intrusive at all, I bought the ad free app. I did so as I am so appreciative this app is completely free. Ty