Online
Courses

GENERAL

Centre for Clinical Interventions

Welcome to the Consumer Resources section. InfoPax consists of a number of modules that you can complete online, or you can save the modules to your computer and work through them onscreen in your own time. Alternatively, you can print out the modules and work through them by hand: Topics include: Assert Yourself, Back from the Bluez, Building Body Acceptance (Body Dysmorphia), Facing your Feelings, Helping Health Anxiety, Improving Self-Esteem, Keeping your Balance, Overcoming Disordered Eating, Perfectionism in Perspective, Panic Stations, Put Off Procrastination, Shy no Longer, What! Me Worry!

My Digital Health

We are currently offering five self help programs, freely to the general public. Two of these programs are aimed at decreasing anxiety and or depression (LIFE FLeX) or benzodiazepine reduction and withdrawal (BDZ eHealth). The other three programs are designed to provide people with some tools to improve mental and physical wellbeing (iChooseWell, iMindTime and THRIVE).

Get Healthy

We offer free and confidential telephone-based expert advice and plenty of motivation to help you find a healthier, happier you.

Head to Health

Australia has great mental health services and resources, but it can be tough finding the ones that suit you best. We’ve made your search easier by hand-picking resources from publicly funded providers.

MyCompass

Learn new skills to stay positive despite life’s ups and downs using a newly developed internet and mobile phone self help program. You will have seven weeks to use the program in your own time, accessing activities and information to help you learn new skills to feel better and stay better. You will also receive feedback on your low mood, anxiety and stress at the end of the 19 week study.

Psychologist Tools

PsychologyTools was set up in 2008 by Dr Matthew Whalley, a Clinical Psychologist working in the UK, as a way to develop and share materials useful to psychological treatments. 

ADDICTION

Counselling Online

Counselling Online is a service where you can communicate with a professional counsellor about an alcohol or drug related concern, using text-interaction. This service is free for anyone seeking help with their own drug use or the drug use of a family member, relative or friend. Counselling Online is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, across Australia.

Gambling Help Online

‘Talk’ to someone online now about your decision to change, or even if you are just thinking about your options. Online counselling provides free and immediate access, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to a qualified gambling counsellor.  This service can be accessed from anywhere in Australia, at a time that suits you.

On Track

The OnTrack programs have been written by psychologists at QUT. They are all free and use methods that have been shown to work. You can use the programs at your own pace, at times and places that suit you. The programs are interactive and help you learn skills to manage your own problems. Focus on psychosis, alcohol and depression.

Quit Coach

QuitCoach provides you with a personalised quitting plan. It creates this plan based on your responses to questions about your motivation, confidence and past attempts. It is designed to provide useful advice wherever you are on your quitting journey.

ANXIETY & DEPRESSION

Mental Health Online

This is a comprehensive online mental health service offering information, assessment, online diagnosis and treatment programs (“eTherapy”) for the anxiety disorders:-Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Panic Disorder with or without Agoraphobia.

e-couch

e-couch provides evidence-based information about emotional problems (including depression and anxiety disorders) and teaches strategies that may help you to prevent problems and understand yourself better.

eCentreClinic

The eCentreClinic is an Internet-based research clinic. We develop and test state of the art free online treatment programs for people with anxiety disorders (GAD, Social Phobia, Panic Disorder, PTSD, OCD), depression, and other conditions (Chronic Pain). eCentreClinic is a not-for-profit initiative of the Centre for Emotional Health at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. The eCentreClinic was previously called VirtualClinic. Since 2007, we have completed 26 clinical trials, and have treated more than 1,640 Australian adults.Please take the time to learn more about the eCentreClinic and the available online treatment courses by clicking on the tabs (above). Or, take a tour of the eCentreClinic. 

Mindspot

MindSpot Clinic is a free telephone and online service for Australians with stress, worry, anxiety, low mood or depression. We provide mental health screening assessments, therapist-guided treatment courses and referrals to help people recover and stay well.

OnTrack Programs

The OnTrack programs have been written by psychologists at QUT. They are all free and use methods that have been shown to work. You can use the programs at your own pace, at times and places that suit you. The programs are interactive and help you learn skills to manage your own problems. Focus on psychosis, alcohol and depression.

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course

This online MBSR training course is 100% free, created by a fully certified MBSR instructor, and is modeled on the program founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

This Way Up

THIS WAY UP is an Internet-based learning program to treat anxiety and depressive disorders. Courses are based on the principles of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for individuals who experience sadness (Depression), shyness (Social Phobia), panic (Panic Disorder) and worry (Generalised Anxiety Disorder). 

Virtual Clinic

Welcome to the VirtualClinic – the Internet-based Research Clinic that develops and provides free online education and treatment programs for people with anxiety and depression.

StopPicking.com

Want to stop picking your skin, biting your nails, or chewing your lips/cheeks? Reduce these behaviuors for a dollar a day…without medication!

StopPulling.com

Reduce your hair pulling for a dollar a day…without medication!

BODY IMAGE

Bulimia Help

Subscribe to Bulimia Help (it’s free), and see what exactly what works for bulimia recovery that you can start applying to your life. You’ll also get new insights and useful strategies for recovery.

Centre for Clinical Interventions – Overcoming Disordered Eating

This information package is designed to provide you with some information about disordered eating – how it develops, how it is maintained, and strategies to start to change the problem behaviours associated with disordered eating. It’s organised into modules that are designed to be worked through in sequence.

BIPOLAR DISORDER

Beating Bipolar

Beating Bipolar is a free web-based program designed to help you better understand and manage bipolar disorder. It includes videos of professionals and people with lived experience of bipolar disorder as well as interactive exercises that many find helpful to manage the condition and its symptoms.

SLEEP

Do you have trouble sleeping or staying asleep? Are you unsatisfied with the quality or quantity of your sleep? You may be experiencing insomnia. Insomnia is the most common sleep complaint and involves being concerned about initiating and/or maintaining sleep.

PAIN MANAGEMENT

eCentreClinic – Pain course

The Pain Course is a free, online and internet-delivered pain management program designed to provide good information about chronic pain and to teach practical skills for managing the impact of pain on day-to-day activities and emotional wellbeing. It is designed to reduce the impact of chronic pain on peoples’ day-to-day lives, and improve emotional wellbeing and overall quality of life.

This Way Up: Chronic Pain – Reboot

The course takes a multidisciplinary approach to pain management and is based on the effective Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) model. In this course you will learn CBT skills to help better manage your chronic pain and improve your quality of life. =

Mind Spot Pain Course

The Pain Course is an internet-delivered pain management program for adults aged 18 years and over. The course aims to help people with chronic pain manage the impact of pain on their day-to-day life and their emotional wellbeing. The course is not designed to ‘cure’ or ‘treat’ pain but to help people manage pain and maintain a good quality of life despite pain.

PARENTING

ParentWorks is a free online program for Australian parents and caregivers of children 2 to 16. It provides evidence-based parenting strategies to improve parenting skills, confidence and child behaviour. This means that the strategies in the program have been tested and found to work. Parents and caregivers may find this program helpful for: Managing challenging child behaviours such as tantrums, aggression, noncompliance, inattentive or hyperactive behaviour, sibling conflict, getting ready for school and/or bed, and behaviours outside the home.

PSYCHOSIS

OnTrack Programs

The OnTrack programs have been written by psychologists at QUT. They are all free and use methods that have been shown to work. You can use the programs at your own pace, at times and places that suit you. The programs are interactive and help you learn skills to manage your own problems. Focus on psychosis, alcohol and depression.

SPECIFICALLY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

The BRAVE for Social Anxiety Project

The BRAVE Program is an interactive, online program for the prevention and treatment of childhood and adolescent anxiety. The programs are free and provide ways for children and teenagers to better cope with their worries. There are also programs for parents. 

This Way Up: TeenSTRONG

Navigating the teenage years means facing many challenges, like dealing with worry and sadness. Sometimes these feelings can stick around for longer than expected and become distressing, uncontrollable, affect everyday life, relationships, health or self-esteem. To help equip young people (aged 12-17), and their parents, with proven and effective tools to transition into early adulthood, and better cope with these feelings, we have created the TeenSTRONG program.

Superbetter

SuperBetter helps you achieve your health goals — or recover from an illness or injury — by increasing your personal resilience. Resilience means staying curious, optimistic and motivated even in the face of the toughest challenges.

MoodGYM Training Program

Delivering cognitive behaviour therapy for preventing depression.

OCD? Not Me

Online OCD treatment program for young people aged 12 – 18. An eight stage program developed by researchers at Curtin University. This program also provides support for families.

Youth Beyond Blue – The Desk

The desk aims to support Australian tertiary students to achieve mental and physical health and wellbeing. Being a student can be a challenging time and many students do not access support services for a range of reasons including time pressures, not knowing where to go for help and feeling embarrassed. Providing resources online means that more people will be able to get help to improve their wellbeing and be able to study more effectively. The desk offers free access to online modules, tools, quizzes and advice.