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

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

I like this app but there's 2 features that bother me. 1. When I enter a rating on the mood diary, i.e., when I'm rating how happy I am (the bottom heading) the pop-up messages immediately take me back to the top so I cannot see if my rating got entered correctly. 2. I don't feel having graphs to show one's history of each individual emotion is helpful. I think having a graph that shows what all of emotions were ranked at for a week+ would be more useful.