About MindShift CBT
MindShift CBT teaches cognitive behavioural therapy skills for anxiety: a thought journal for challenging anxious thinking, coping statements, step-by-step plans for facing fears, relaxation and mindfulness audio, and mood and anxiety check-ins. It covers general worry, social anxiety, panic, phobias and perfectionism, in English and French. It was built by the non-profit Anxiety Canada, which closed on April 1, 2025 for lack of funding; the app continues under the company 247 Labs Inc., which lists it as free with no subscriptions. You now sign up with an email, name, birth year and country, and the community forum is for adults 18 and over. Research is limited: a 16-week open-label study of 380 adults found moderate improvements in anxiety and depression with no comparison group, and a small randomized feasibility trial tested it with psychiatric inpatients.