CALM

Can the internet help you combat anxiety, depression, insomnia and stress? It can with Calm, our new online programme to help you identify problems and use clinically proven tools to deal with them.

You can access Calm any time of day or night from any computer with internet access. It’s an interactive multimedia programme so try to use it when you won’t be disturbed, and consider using headphones.

Calm has a range of assessment tools and multimedia programmes to help you:

  • Relieve anxiety and depression - with cognitive behavioural therapy techniques
  • Relieve stress - with relaxation and visualisation techniques
  • Relieve insomnia - with sleep hygiene and stimulus control techniques

It’s free, easy to use and you can get started right away.

How to use it

You can use Calm on your own or with guidance from our student counsellors.

  1. Click the Calm link - it will direct you to the Calm website
  2. Click on ‘New user’
  3. Enter the activation code ‘uolcalm
  4. Set up your individual username and password

Calm link here

Access to these modules is anonymous and confidential, and the answers you give are not stored or accessible elsewhere. As part of the registration process you will be asked for some information about yourself. This is to help us monitor how the programme is being used and can’t be used to identify you.

Help with using Calm

If you need help with using Calm or just want some general advice, contact our student counselling service which deals with a wide range of personal difficulties from anxiety and depression to life issues at home and work.

Additional on-line support

Or if you want to help yourself, additional online support is available independently or with support from our student counselling service. Take a look at the range of other online support available to you and start feeling better today.