This program uses Google Street View to transport patients to any address on Google Maps. For exposure therapy, this can be helpful for triggering memories and emotions without physically having to go to the location. For entertainment, this program mobilizes people, allowing them to visit places from their past, or places they’d like to visit in the future.
This program allows a patient to sit behind the wheel of a car in various environments that the therapist or clinician can specify. They can drive on different highways, bridges and roads in various weather conditions. For exposure therapy, this can be used to help patients imagine getting in the car and driving. Driving can also be used for entertainment purposes.
Built in collaboration with researchers and clinicians at the National Mental Health Innovation Center at the University of Colorado, this program teaches how depression impacts our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The program also includes information about skills that have been found to help patients manage and stop the vicious spiral of depression.
Built in collaboration with researchers and clinicians at the National Mental Health Innovation Center at the University of Colorado, this program teaches why anxiety occurs and the different ways anxiety impacts thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The program also provides information about skills that have been found to help a patient manage feelings of anxiety.
This single-session intervention for adolescent depression teaches how adopting a growth mindset can be helpful for overcoming depression. The goal of this experience is not only to bring insight into depression — and let adolescents know they aren’t alone in their struggles — but also to teach adolescents how to process and work through their feelings and challenges. This experience was created by: Jessica Schleider, Ph.D., Stony Brook University, Lab for Scalable Mental Health; John R. Weisz, Ph.D., ABPP, Harvard University, Laboratory for Youth Mental Health; and Michael Mullarkey, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas at Austin, Mood Disorders Laboratory. A web-based version of this intervention was associated with decreases in depressive symptoms and increased perceived primary control at a 9-month follow-up (Schleider & Weisz, 2018).
Built in collaboration with researchers and clinicians at the National Mental Health Innovation Center at the University of Colorado, this program teaches about the posttraumatic stress response and how it impacts thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The program provides information about skills that can help patients heal from trauma.
Built in collaboration with Patrick Bordnick, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Social Work at Tulane University, this program instructs users on how substance addiction impacts the body and techniques that can be used to cope.
In this experience, practice giving a presentation in front of an audience in a conference room. The therapist or clinician can control aspects of the environment including position in the room, receptiveness of the audience, and audience attire.
This program allows a therapist or clinician to place patients in small or enclosed environments. Varying types of environments allow for the creation of a fear hierarchy, which patients can use to address their fears.
This program allows a therapist or clinician to guide patients through scenarios that they would experience if visiting a doctor’s office. This includes entering the waiting room, checking in at reception, listening to procedure overviews from a physician, and watching someone undergo an injection or blood draw.
Experience crowded places, public transit, open spaces and other public environments where escape seems difficult or impossible. This can be helpful for placing patients in situations that are hard to replicate inside of a therapist’s office.
Observe an environment in the midst of winter. As the experience progresses, engage in tasks that encourage mindful growth and exploration, which help the environment transition to spring. Designed by mindfulness experts, this experience allows patients to connect with nature as well as their own thoughts and feelings. It can be used to help patients relax and reduce their feelings of anxiety while practicing mindfulness skills.
Practice single object focus meditation in a distraction-free environment. Therapists and clinicians have the ability to select the background music that plays while the patient is invited to focus their attention on a flickering candle.
Be transported to peaceful, outdoor locations in order to reduce feelings of anxiety and increase a sense of wellbeing. Therapists or clinicians have the ability to choose from a variety of environments, including forests, beaches, mountains, lakes, and gardens. Patients are invited to listen to a basic meditation or learn how to engage in deep breathing, also called diaphragmatic breathing.
In this game, help bees collect pollen to take back to their hive to make honey. From atop a flower in a grassy meadow, launch pollen into the air that bees can catch and collect. This game can be used for both child and adult patients, for distraction, relaxation, or entertainment. Meta-analytic data supports the effectiveness of VR distraction for reducing pain (Kenney & Milling, 2016).
Use Cases
Pain distraction during procedures
Relaxation or distraction before, during and after procedures
In these short experiences, patients can virtually travel to famous cities and sites, like Venice, Istanbul, Cairo, and Paris. For patients who are immobile or without means to travel, this can provide a welcome escape.
Use Cases
Help patients relax before, during and after procedures
Choose an ideal virtual theater environment from a number of options — like a relaxing beach theater or a comfortable home cinema. Therapists and clinicians can choose which video their patient watches. This is a useful experience for distraction, relaxation, education and entertainment.
Patients are invited to navigate a manta ray through a calm, underwater seascape, collecting plankton and fish friends along the way. This game can be used for both child and adult patients for distraction, relaxation, and entertainment.
Amidst a starry landscape, learn about diaphragmatic breathing (deep breathing) and practice an exercise designed to help patients visualize their breath. Patients are invited to pace their breath along with the movement of stars and fog in the environment.
Go inside a bar full of patrons, bartenders, and drinks. Patients struggling with alcoholism can practice refusal skills alongside a trained therapist or clinician who controls the environment. This can be helpful for placing patients in situations that are hard to replicate inside of an office and are riskier to experience in vivo.
In this trivia game patients will be randomly placed in different locations around the world and asked multiple choice questions with the goal of correctly identifying their location. See how many in a row you can get right! For patients who are immobile or without means to travel, this can provide a welcome escape.
Built in collaboration with researchers at Stanford University, Palo Alto University, and Penn State University this exposure therapy program places patients in the shoes of an interviewee during a job interview. Patients can practice job interviewing skills in progressively more anxiety-provoking scenarios to better understand their feelings of social anxiety and gain experience through exposure.
Built in collaboration with researchers at Stanford & Palo Alto University, this virtual reality exposure therapy program helps treat social anxiety. Participants practice overcoming their social anxiety in a series of progressively more anxiety-provoking party scenarios.
This programs allows therapists or clinicians to gradually take their patient to higher and higher heights. You can start on the bottom floor and work your way up a building. Varying heights allow for the creation of a fear hierarchy, which can be used to address a patient’s fears.
This program places middle school and high school aged adolescents in school settings designed to target generalized, performance, and separation anxieties
Built in collaboration with Dr. Steven Richeimer at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, these guided imagery experiences will guide patients suffering from chronic pain through exercises to develop coping skills, improve pain management. Research has demonstrated that guided imagery can reduce pain, pain medication use, and visits to care providers as well as improve functional outcomes, and increase quality of life, mood, and self-efficacy for managing pain (i.e., Chen & Francis, 2010; Menzies et al., 2006; Baird et al., 2010; van Tilburg et al., 2009).
