Category: News

  • New opportunity allows XRT to support people with learning disabilities

    New opportunity allows XRT to support people with learning disabilities

    We are looking to engage with people with learning disabilities and those that support people with learning disabilities. We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded grant funding from SBRI as part of their Competition 20: Autism and Learning Disabilities cohort. Living with autism and/or having learning disabilities can be difficult for patients…

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  • Healthy Ageing Challenge

    Healthy Ageing Challenge

    Our CEO Billy Webber and Head of Operations Penny Day outline our work as part of the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge. Please checkout the video HERE  

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  • P4SY Founders – In Their Own Words

    P4SY Founders – In Their Own Words

    Our Head of Operations Penny Day recently spoke with the team at the P4SY accelerator programme. You can checkout the interview HERE  

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  • Jackson Hogg supports XR Therapeutics to deliver therapeutic intervention

    Jackson Hogg supports XR Therapeutics to deliver therapeutic intervention

    Jackson Hogg has partnered with XR Therapeutics to provide support to individuals with mental health conditions. As part of their corporate social responsibility programme, using our intervention, Jackson Hogg has pledged to fund anxiety treatment for a child with autism. We caught up with the team to understand why this was important for them: What inspired…

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  • BBC Newcastle’s Alfie Joey visits our HQ

    BBC Newcastle’s Alfie Joey visits our HQ

    Good morning! today we were featured on the brilliant Alfie Joey breakfast show on BBC Radio Newcastle, if you missed it please check out the link below for this mornings episode. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p008s6qd

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  • Innovate UK: Healthy Ageing Project

    Innovate UK: Healthy Ageing Project

    Earlier this year, XR Therapeutics received £530,000 investment to use our technology and clinical expertise to make a real difference to the lives of people with phobias and anxiety. Using immersive reality to recreate situations that cause can trigger symptoms of various phobias, XR Therapeutics combines traditional Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and gradual exposure through…

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  • Phobias: What are they and what causes them?

    Phobias: What are they and what causes them?

    So, what is a phobia? You may know someone who is afraid of heights or dogs, or you yourself may have an intense fear or phobia that may impact you. Phobias are in fact the most common form of anxiety disorder. In the UK alone it is estimated that roughly 10 million people experience a…

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