Mental Health Resource List

Sleep

Movement Healthy Eating

Entertainment

Positive Attitude

Sleep

Good quality sleep can benefit health and well-being by reducing stress, lessening irritability and supporting better learning and recall.

Sleep Foundation
The Sleep Foundation describes the connection between stress and insomnia and offers guidance on managing stress-related sleep problems.

Mayo Clinic — Adult Health
The Adult Health division at Mayo Clinic offers tips on how to sleep well every night.

Patient Safety Network
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Patient Safety Network offers insight on the effects of sleep deprivation on health care providers, particularly those working night shifts.

National Sleep Foundation
The National Sleep Foundation suggests healthy practices for better sleep hygiene.

Movement

Healthy movement can offer an outlet for stressed health care providers to release built-up tension and improve mood.

Fitness Blender
Fitness Blender offers free videos on healthy living, exercise routines and dealing with everyday stress.

The Yoga Collective
The Yoga Collective offers an online library of yoga and wellness classes, as well as articles on healthier living.

DoYogaWithMe
Appropriate for children and adults, DoYogaWithMe offers yoga videos for various health issues and age groups. The site also provides healthy lifestyle tips.

Healthline
Healthline offers a beginner's guide to Pilates, including routines that people can try at home.

Group HIIT
Group HIIT offers free at-home workout videos that can be viewed while simultaneously listening to music.

SWEAT App
SWEAT offers at-home workout videos to help relieve stress through healthy exercise.

LES MILLS On Demand
LES MILLS offers an online library of high-intensity interval training videos, including cardiovascular workouts.

Alo Wellness Club
Alo Wellness Club (formerly Alo Moves) offers a library of yoga, flexibility and meditation classes to target a variety of health issues.

Run Jump Scrap
Run Jump Scrap explores ways working nurses can build a fitness routine around demanding shift schedules.

Healthy Eating

Good nutrition supports health care providers' overall health and can even give a boost to their immune systems.

U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
The USDA's Nutrition.gov site offers resources for healthy living, including guidance on shopping for groceries, planning balanced meals and understanding the science of nutrition.

Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic offers guidance on foods that can help reduce stress and anxiety.

MyFitnessPal
MyFitnessPal offers people ways to maintain healthy lifestyles by logging their meals and snacks.

AteMate
AteMate (formerly Ate) is a food journal with an AI coach that helps users track meals, mood, sleep, movement and hydration to spot patterns over time.

Recovery Warriors
Recovery Warriors' RiseUp app supports people in recovery from eating disorders by allowing them to log their meals, emotions and behaviors throughout the day. Users can export PDF summaries of these logs to their treatment team.

Home Chef
Home Chef helps users customize their meal plans, organize food options and plan affordable but healthy meals.

Blue Apron
Blue Apron is a meal-planning service that allows users to order chef-designed recipes that they can prepare at home.

HelloFresh
HelloFresh is a meal kit delivery service. Users select the meals they want each week and the ingredients are delivered to cook at home.

The Old Farmer's Almanac
The Old Farmer's Almanac offers a vegetable gardening guide and educational articles about growing food, learning astronomy and more.

GrowVeg
GrowVeg's Gardening Guides help people start growing and maintaining a personal vegetable garden.

Counseling and Support

Seeking assistance from community groups or mental health professionals can offer relief and comfort. For health care providers, visiting a professional who has experience working with health workers may be especially beneficial.

BetterHelp
BetterHelp helps individuals, couples and teenage children find an online mental health provider based on their needs.

Centre for Interactive Mental Health Solutions
The Centre for Interactive Mental Health Solutions is an online therapy service for people experiencing depression.

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline offers free, confidential support 24/7 for people in distress. Call or text 988, or chat online at chat.988lifeline.org. The lifeline's earlier number, 1-800-273-8255, continues to connect callers as well.

Crisis Text Line
Crisis Text Line enables users to text "HOME" to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor for free, 24/7 support.

SAMHSA
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) offers FindTreatment.gov, a confidential and anonymous resource for locating mental health and substance use disorder treatment. If you or someone you know is in crisis, SAMHSA's crisis support page offers immediate resources. SAMHSA's National Helpline can also be reached 24/7 by calling 1-800-662-4357.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
The Online Intergroup of AA offers resources and information on anonymous support groups in person and online.

NAMI
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) HelpLine connects individuals with information, referrals and support for mental health concerns, including anxiety, schizophrenia and suicide prevention, by phone, text or email.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): PTSD Coach
The VA offers PTSD Coach, an app that provides individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with resources to get the help they need.

Anxiety and Depression Association of America
Anxiety and Depression Association of America is a nonprofit organization that supports providers and communities in preventing and treating depression.

HealGrief
HealGrief offers programs and various resources for those suffering from grief and depression caused by grief.

The Center for Prolonged Grief
The Center for Prolonged Grief, a program of Columbia University, offers training programs for professionals working with those experiencing prolonged grief, a persistent form of intense grief.

Mindfulness

Practicing mindfulness can lessen anxiety and help health care providers focus on the present moment, rather than future worries or past experiences.

Headspace
Headspace is a mobile app that offers valuable information on how to reduce stress, be more active and sleep better.

Calm
Calm is an app that offers various resources on sleeping, meditating and relaxing successfully.

Insight Timer
Insight Timer is an app that offers helpful information on how to get a good night's sleep and avoid stress and anxiety.

Worry Watch
Worry Watch is an app that allows users to record their worries and get possible solutions or evidence that the concern is validated.

Happify by Twill
Happify by Twill (formerly Happify) provides users with programs and tools to get through stressful situations.

Positive Magazine: Guided Meditations
Positive Magazine created a Spotify playlist of guided meditations designed to help with stress and anxiety.

Spotify Nature Sounds
This Spotify library offers a series of playlists of nature sounds, such as the sounds of birds, rain and thunderstorms.

Sleep and Relax ASMR
This podcast hosted on Spotify is designed to help listeners wind down through autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), a deeply relaxing audio experience.

Aura
The app Aura helps individuals cultivate emotional health through a library of resources for sleep, well-being and more.

Breethe
Breethe is an app that shows listeners ways to replace stressful thoughts with relaxing and happy thoughts.

Entertainment

When consumed in moderation, music, art, movies and television can offer levity during difficult times.

Musée du Louvre
The Musée du Louvre offers online tours of the museum including its many exhibits and art education resources.

Musée D'Orsay
Google offers virtual tours of the Musée D'Orsay in Paris.

The Met
The Met 360° Project posts videos that tour the museum and allow patrons to enjoy the art and exhibits from afar.

GrowVeg
GrowVeg's Gardening Guides help people start growing and maintaining a personal vegetable garden.

Parade
Parade offers suggestions of online games to play with friends from a distance.

Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House offers a curated list of must-read books to help pass the time and engage with others' experiences and fictional worlds.

Positive Attitude

Maintaining positivity can help health care providers cope with challenging situations and redirect negative or irrational thought patterns.

Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic offers insight from a psychologist on how optimistic thinking supports better sleep, stress resilience and overall well-being.

WhenIWork
WhenIWork published a blog post with various tips on keeping a positive attitude when at work.

CareCredit
CareCredit offers tips on increasing positive thinking and becoming more optimistic.

HubSpot
HubSpot suggests 10 ways to maintain a daily positive attitude even in stressful situations.

Information last updated: September 2026