VR might be something you associate with science fiction, but today it is a highly favored method in psychology.
Virtual Reality (VR) is a computer-generated environment with scenes and objects that appear real, making the user feel they are in a different environment from their actual one.
Let’s take some examples of VR as a training method in preparation for a real-world experience. Pilots train with VR simulators before they risk actual equipment worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Architects use VR technology to present new buildings for real estate investors.
Technology has developed a lot in recent years. Huge multinational companies such as Google, Facebook, Samsung, Microsoft, and others have been competing to become market leaders in the field.
Over the years, the medical sector has benefited the most from VR technology. VR has been used to create a safe virtual environment where patients can express their ADHD challenges, phobias, and anxiety and where they can learn how to control their behaviors.
The fear of public speaking can also be treated well in a VR environment, where the patients can experience situations repeatedly until they feel comfortable.
Thanks to stimulating environments that correspond with ADHD challenges and different phobias, it is possible to start and open up complex situations.
During therapy, the patient is asked to navigate through environments created by digital means and complete tasks specifically designed to treat a particular phobia, anxiety and the symptoms of ADHD .
This technology isolates the patient from real stimuli from the physical environment and creates a sense of assimilation within the digital and interactive world.
In addition to the simulation itself, the patient receives therapeutic guidance from a qualified VR and LICBT therapist, Raphael Radovan who also helps identify the thoughts that cause the negative feelings around their fears and challenges.
Once those negative thoughts are identified, the patient learns to replace them with positive thoughts in real-time.
At Verapist, the patient experiences ADHD symptoms, phobias, and anxieties in a controlled environment and in small doses through exposure to stimulating situations.
Virtual reality therapy at Verapist combines all the goodness of CBT and augmented reality technologies from Amelia Virtual Care. Raphael Radovan as a founder of Verapist, has already helped hundreds of people with ADHD, different phobias, and anxiety issues.
The treatments at the Verapist Institute are based on the most advanced virtual reality therapy technologies in the world.
Amelia Virtual Care aims to improve the world’s mental health, and it does so through its VR platform.
The platform features more than 70 virtual reality environments, with dozens of 360-degree video scenes that provide the flexibility to deal with a wide range of phobias, anxieties, and symptoms of ADHD.
Thanks to various features explicitly designed for psychotherapy purposes, and convenient operation for therapists, the platform enables optimal planning and adjustment of treatment time to all patient needs.
