Apps

Calm-Harm

An app designed to help individuals manage the urge to self-harm.

Headspace

An app for mindfulness meditation.

Sleepio

The Sleepio app is a digital sleep improvement program designed to help adults manage insomnia and improve sleep quality using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) techniques.

WOOP

An app designed to support with goal planning. It guides you through four steps; Wish – Outcome – Obstacle – Plan.

Books

Overcoming Binge Eating – Christopher Fairburn

Overcoming Binge Eating offers a comprehensive self-help program based on cognitive behavioural therapy to help individuals understand and overcome binge eating.

Skills Based Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder – Janet Treasure and Grainne Smith

Equips carers with the skills and knowledge needed to support and encourage those suffering from an eating disorder, and to help them to break free from the traps that prevent recovery.

A Cognitive-Interpersonal Therapy Workbook for Treating Anorexia Nervosa: The Maudsley Model – Ulrike Schmidt, Helen Startup and Janet Treasure

Provides adults with anorexia nervosa and the professionals working alongside them with a practical resource to work through together.

Websites

Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) – Eating Disorders

CCI – Eating Disorders Resources for Clinicians

Help in a Crisis

NHS 111

Call 111 when you need medical help fast but it’s not a 999 emergency.

Available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, calls are free from landlines and mobile phones.

Phone: 111

The Samaritans

Phone: 116 123

Email: jo@samaritans.org

Website: www.samaritans.org

Safe-Haven

If you experience mental health crisis at the evening or weekend, you can get support with your local Safe Haven. Safe Haven is an out-of-hours, non-clinical space offering crisis support, signposting, safety planning and listening support over the weekend.

Open 7 days a week. The referral line is open 365 days a year from 11.30am to 9.30pm.

Phone: 01865 903 037 or 07710 092849

Website: Oxfordshire Safe Haven

999

If it is a life threatening emergency, call 999.

Page last reviewed: 12 February, 2026