How does it work?
We create and display interactive digital environments that mimic real life scenarios.
These scenes can be personalised to reflect a patient’s anxiety triggers, allowing us to customise based on individual differences and cultural preferences. For example, if someone has a fear of flying, we can recreate areas around the airport or inside the airplane where this fear would be the most challenging.
Saves time & cost
With XRT, Mental Health professionals can reduce waiting times and treat symptoms within 2 weeks, as opposed to 10-16 weeks for traditional talking therapies.
Easy to install
Our technology is easy to install, operate and maintain. We offer a wide range of versatile hardware solutions combined with flexible software options to suit you.
Proven impact
Our treatment is the result of over 9 years of academic research and clinical trials, we continuously collaborate with end-users and those close to them.
The Technology
Our user-friendly hardware can be tailored to suit the needs of your practice, our clinical team will provide training and ongoing assistance for confident use of our equipment.
Our treatment combines advanced immersive technologies with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), guiding patients gradually through scenes alongside our therapists to manage anxiety triggers. Therapists have full control over the digital scenes, customising environments and adjusting exposure levels dynamically, including sound, character interactions, and scene elements.
We also understand that mental health conditions don’t just impact the individual, but they can also impact their support network, so we know how important it is to feel supported when you are going through treatment. This is why we provide the unique opportunity for family, caregivers, or support workers to observe live sessions, providing support to those close to them and fostering continued progress beyond treatment.
Frequently Asked Questions
We gathered the answers to some popular questions below. If you can’t find your question below feel free
to contact us, and we’ll be happy to help.
What is an Immersive Studio?
We use virtual reality technology to project lifelike digital scenes into our Immersive Studio. The space allows us to create virtual displays of various scenarios onto a curved white screen. This means the specific environment that the person finds challenging can be reproduced in a safe setting. People can navigate within and through the scenes for example, in a supermarket or classroom with a tablet, without the need for a headset or goggles.
What does the treatment involve?
Each person goes into the studio with a therapist. People navigate through a scene that is a recreation of a specific situation that makes them anxious. This starts with a low level of difficulty – for instance, for someone afraid of crowded buses, we start with them getting onto an empty bus. Over the course of the sessions more people would board the bus as the child or adult is able to meet the increased challenge. During the process the therapist is there to help them practice anxiety management strategies they have learnt such as relaxation techniques and using coping self-statements.
How long does treatment last?
Clients will have two 20-30 minute sessions separated by a 15 minute break on one day, and then another two sessions a week or so later. The therapist will then follow up with the client after the Immersive Studio sessions to check on their progress on managing their anxiety in the real world.
What types of anxiety can you treat?
We are able to treat many different types of anxiety triggers – for instance, social anxieties, general anxiety disorder, health and healthcare related anxieties, OCD related anxieties, anxiety relating to work, school or home environments, and also more situation specific anxieties and phobias such as public speaking, public transport, heights, insects, dogs and birds. Of those we have worked with, we are yet to find an anxiety we can’t treat.
How effective is the treatment?
Our methodology has been proven to be very effective, research by our founders combined with the expertise and training of our therapists can lead to over half of individuals experiencing real life changes to their phobia – meaning people and their families could undertake some activities that were not possible beforehand.
What regulatory approvals do you have in place?
The software used for our intervention is registered as a Class 1 Medical Device. Generally, what that means is that our technology is low-risk and very unlikely to cause harm to the user. As part of the regulatory process, Class 1 medical devices are required to bear the CE marking, which indicates that our technology complies with all relevant European Union (EU) directives and regulations regarding safety, health, and environmental protection standards. We also have a responsibility to ensure that our products meet the essential requirements and standards set forth by regulatory authorities. This includes compliance with safety and performance requirements, conducting a clinical evaluation, preparing technical documentation and having a risk management and quality management system in place.
Are you Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) certified?
Our technology has been assessed against the Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) and our technology has been certified by NHS England. What this means to us as a business and what we abide by:
The Organisation is required to adhere to National Information standards created and monitored via the Data Coordination Board (DCB) within NHS Information Standards frameworks. This information standard (DCB0129 & DCB0160) has been approved for publication by the Department of Health and Social Care under section 250 of the Health and Social
Care Act 2012: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/7/section/250