How it works
We create and display immersive and interactive digital environments that mimic real life scenarios.
These scenes are personalized to match 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 specific environments such as areas around the airport or even inside the airplane where this fear could be 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 to suit your requirements.
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
XRT’s user-friendly hardware can be tailored to suit your practice’s needs, supported by our clinical team providing training and ongoing assistance for confident use of our equipment.
Our treatment combines advanced Virtual Reality (VR) technology with face-to-face Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), guiding patients gradually through scenes alongside our therapists to manage anxiety triggers. Therapists have full control over 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 also can impact their support network, so we know how important it is to feel supported when you are going through mental health treatment. That’s why we provide the opportunity for family, caregivers, or support workers to observe live session, providing support to patients during sessions 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 many treatment sessions are involved and how often?
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 be treated?
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 payment methods do you offer?
We can offer flexible payment options to best suit your financial position. As well as accepting debit and credit card payments, we can also offer Paypal credit and PayPal pay in three, allowing you to buy now and pay later or split your payments into manageable instalments, so you don’t have to worry about paying everything at once.