How Healium VR Makes Therapy Less Intimidating

For many people, starting therapy sounds simple, but in most cases, it can be anything but. Patients are nervous, and their answers are short while their eyes dart around the room for something to focus on. You can sense it's difficult for them to open up, their nervous system in a “defense mode.”

Healium can help lower that defense.

How Healium Works

Therapists, schools, clinics, and veterans’ organizations use Healium to help people stress less, sleep better, and improve focus. Healium combines virtual reality with real-time biofeedback, transforming brain and heart data into memorable experiences clients love. Backed by peer-reviewed research and trusted across clinical and educational settings, Healium offers a scalable, drugless solution with measurable results.

What That Means For Practitioners In The Therapy Room

• One of the biggest obstacles to therapy is knowing where to start. Beginning a session with Healium can create a structured starting point to ease some of that initial anxiety, giving the patient something concrete to focus on before sorting through their thoughts.
• Therapy offices often feel intimidating and distant. Healium can help quiet some of the overwhelming sensory input of a therapy room with Healium's multitude of immersive environments, such as a sparkling ocean, a peaceful forest, or even the serenity of a starry night.
• Physical and emotional symptoms of anxiety can be difficult to regulate in the middle of a session. Healium’s in-app breath pacer helps promote belly breathing, a technique shown to effectively downshift the nervous system, training clients with a visual on how to breathe for the rest of the session.

How Healium Helps Therapy Offices Stand Out

• Comfort is key when asking clients to open up, and some times, therapy offices can feel strict and overly-clinical. With Healium, show your clients you care about their comfort and safety, that you’re going past the basics to ensure their needs are met, and a trusted connection is secured in that vulnerable moment.
• In today’s digital age, younger audiences are losing attention fast, which can be detrimental to therapy sessions and real-life connections. Healium helps offices stand out with digital innovation and ease, using technology that patients will appreciate and successfully engage with.
• While it’s important to emphasize therapy and the healing journey take time, with most clients, seeing is believing. Healium helps communicate progress in a tangible way, periodically showing clients in a visual way that their hard work is paying off through their biofeedback reports. 

Hear from some of our customers who see the Healium difference:

"It was very relaxing and cool to think that you could escape just for that moment, just to go somewhere, really neat, and not think and hopefully not stress and just escape for a moment." Holly Wheatley, Boone Hospital Center

"Healium is our hottest-selling wellness product." Stephanie Herbert, Inova Health Systems