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Coping Coach

Mobile Apps: Coping Coach

The Coping Coach app was created for everyone, including Veterans and service members, to support self-care and overall mental health.

Features include:

  • Education about the effects of stress and different ways to cope
  • Tools for self-care and managing stress
  • Trackers to check your mood and measure your growth toward personal goals
  • Graphs to visualize progress over time
  • Resources to help meet basic needs or find professional help
iPhone showing the home page with 4 topics to choose from.iPhone showing the mood topic page with next level of actions to choose from.iPhone showing topics available to explore under the Resources section.

How to Use Coping Coach

Coping Coach can be used as a stand-alone education and self-care tool, or as a supplement to professional mental health care. You can mark your favorite coping tools and track your mental health over time. Set reminders to visit the app each day and work toward your goals. The app can also help you create your own personal support network.

NOTE: Coping Coach is not intended to replace needed professional care related to mental health conditions, such as PTSD.

Several of the questionnaires used in Coping Coach, including the PTSD Checklist (PCL-5), are reliable and valid self-report measures used across VA, Department of Defense (DoD), and the community, but they are not intended to replace professional evaluation.

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Introduction to the Coping Coach app

This free mobile app is designed to help anyone manage stress, practice self-care, and increase well-being to improve overall mental health.

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Privacy and Security

See our full Privacy Policy for Mobile Apps.

Any data created by the user of this app are only as secure as the phone/device itself. Use the security features on your device if you are concerned about the privacy of your information. Users are free to share data; as the self-monitoring data belong to each user, HIPAA concerns do not apply while the data are stored or shared. If the user were to transmit or share data with a health care provider, the provider must then comply with the HIPAA rules.

Who created Coping Coach mobile app?

Coping Coach was created by VA's National Center for PTSD.

PTSD Information Voice Mail: (802) 296-6300
Email: ncptsd@va.gov
Also see: VA Mental Health

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