GROUND: Gain Resilience, Own Uncertainty, Navigate Distress
Understand your mind, manage your stress, and learn to feel grounded again.
GROUND—a free, evidence-based CBT and Mindfulness program.
Find Steady GROUND.🏞️
It’s simple, practical, and designed for real life.
We all feel anxious, stressed, or overwhelmed at times. But when worry, stress, trauma, panic, or self-doubt start taking over, it can feel hard to stay grounded.
GROUND was created to help you understand what’s happening in your mind and body—and learn how to calm it.
This free self-paced 3 module program that combines proven strategies from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness to help you:
💭 Effectively navigate anxious, panicked, or post-traumatic stress thoughts and feelings
🔖 Build self-awareness, compassion, and emotional balance
🛠️ Develop thoughts and actions that support calm and confidence
🤝 Strengthen your relationships and communication
🌱 Learn skills you can use long after the program ends
Access GROUND from anywhere in the world 🗺️—on the web or through the Practice Better app, using your laptop 💻, phone 📱, or another digital device.
Take the first step today and discover how grounded life can feel.
🧠 Why GROUND Works.
GROUND (Gain Resilience, Own Uncertainty, Navigate Distress) is grounded in science, not slogans.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is one of the most well-researched approaches for managing anxiety, post-traumatic stress, panic, and mood. Research has also shown that practicing mindfulness can significantly improve how we manage anxiety and stress. Both have been shown to help people challenge unhelpful thinking patterns, build healthier routines, and respond to panic, stress, anxiety and uncertainty with greater calm.
In GROUND you’ll learn how to:
✅ Understand what anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress, and unhelpful relationship habits are and how they work
✅ Catch and reframe unhelpful thoughts and actions
✅ Strengthen communication skills and helpful habits for sleep, nutrition, and activity
✅ Practice mindfulness and compassion to stay present and grounded
Each short module includes easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on exercises—no jargon, no pressure, just practical steps toward feeling better.
Why is GROUND Free?🍃
Because everyone deserves access to mental health support.
GROUND was developed by Robert Valela, M. Ed., Registered Psychologist to make proven, evidence-based mental health skills and strategies available to anyone who needs them—no cost, no catch.
I believe that early access to practical mental health information and skills can make a lasting difference in preventing more serious challenges later on. -Robert Valela, M.E.d., R.Psych.
This program is about accessibility, empowerment, and community—not profit. GROUND is free and always will be.
If it’s made a difference for you, consider donating a small amount—like the price of a coffee ☕—to help keep it running and growing. 🌱
Donate only if it feels meaningful to you.
You don’t have to feel ready to start GROUND—just curious enough to try.
Discover GROUND—a free, proven CBT and Mindfulness program to help you manage anxiety, traumatic stress, panic, relationship challenges and uncertainty with calm, confidence, and clarity.