PTSD Coach
PTSD Coach
PTSD Coach
PTSD Coach has now been downloaded over 1 million times in 115 countries around the world.
The PTSD Coach app can help you learn about and manage symptoms that often occur after trauma. Features include:
- Reliable information on PTSD and treatments that work
- Tools for screening and tracking your symptoms
- Convenient, easy-to-use tools to help you handle stress symptoms
- Direct links for support and help
- Always with you when you need it
Providing you with facts and self-help skills based on research.
How to Use PTSD Coach
PTSD is a serious mental health condition that often requires professional evaluation and treatment. Together with treatment, PTSD Coach provides you with resources you can trust. If you have, or think you might have PTSD, this app is for you. Family and friends can also learn about PTSD and coping from this app.
PTSD Coach is not meant to replace professional care.
The questionnaire used in PTSD Coach, the PTSD Checklist (PCL), is a reliable and valid self-report measure used across the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Department of Defense (DoD), and in the community, but it is not intended to replace professional evaluation.
Select a goal
When you first open the app, you’ll choose your main goal. The home screen will then show suggested activities to help you work toward that goal. You can change your goal anytime by going to the main menu and selecting Personalize and Suggested Activities.
Personalize the app
Select the menu in the top left corner of the app and select Personalize.
- Choose inspiring quotes to display on the home screen, or add your own
- Change the theme for your home screen
- Opt out of the Distress Meter
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, but 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 HIPAA rules.
Do I have to use an app? See our desktop version
PTSD Coach Online is an expanded desktop version of the mobile app. It gives you 17 tools to choose from to help you manage stress. Learn to manage troubling symptoms following trauma, such as:
- Sleep
- Trauma reminders
- Anger
Our video coaches in PTSD Coach Online will guide you through the tools.
Who created PTSD Coach mobile app?
PTSD Coach was created by VA's National Center for PTSD and the DoD's DHA Connected Health.
