Woebot Health

What is Woebot Health?

Woebot Health is a digital companion that provides in-the-moment mental health support through an app on a phone or tablet. It offers interactive conversations and tools, encourages healthy lifestyle choices to manage symptoms of anxiety and depression, and helps users develop emotional regulation skills through features like mood tracking, progress reflection, gratitude journaling, and mindfulness practice. Unlike generative AI, Woebot is rules-based and its conversations are written by conversational writers incorporating elements from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) in collaboration with clinical experts. Woebot for Adults and Adolescents are tools designed to help individuals develop coping skills for anxiety and depression, although they are not evaluated, cleared, or approved by the FDA and are considered adjunctive to clinical care.

The Woebot Health Platform includes a data analytics platform called Spotlight that aggregates insights from Woebot, such as patient/member focus areas, quality measures, social determinants of health (SDOH) insights, engagement, satisfaction measures, and concerning language recognition. The platform aims to automate measurement capture for clinicians and increase visibility beyond traditional care settings. Woebot Health does not provide crisis counseling or suicide prevention services. The platform's goal is to build a more accessible, equitable, and effective system prioritizing the well-being of individuals and communities.

Who created Woebot Health?

Woebot Health was founded in 2017 by Dr. Alison Darcy, a clinical research psychologist who serves as the Founder & President of the company. The company's approach emphasizes empathy and rigor in providing mental health care through supportive relationships. Woebot offers AI-powered chatbot solutions for mental health support, designed to be a compassionate companion offering evidence-based interventions and personalized guidance. The platform combines therapy techniques like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) in a user-friendly interface accessible anytime to promote emotional well-being and personal growth.

What is Woebot Health used for?

• In-the-moment mental health support
• Wellness support
• Clinically adjunctive support
• Emotional regulation
• Mood monitoring and management
• Gratitude journaling
• Mindfulness practice
• Coping skills for symptoms of anxiety and depression
• Support for adolescents' mental health
• Population health insights and measures
• Provide mental health support through always available mental health chatbots
• Drive activation and overall satisfaction among populations with multi-channel engagement campaigns
• Deliver population health insights, engagement, and satisfaction measures through an analytics dashboard
• Leverage population health measures to influence quality scores
• Help people develop coping skills for symptoms of anxiety and depression
• Support adolescents (13-17 years old) with actively developing minds
• Aggregate insights including patient/member top focus areas, quality measure scores, SDOH insights, and engagement/satisfaction measures
• Automate measurement capture for clinicians and increase visibility in care settings
• Encourage healthy lifestyle choices to help individuals live well with symptoms of anxiety and depression
• Provide mental health care that people actually like to use
• Increase access to mental health support
• Improve business outcomes
• Address equitable access and improve patient/member experience
• Drive activation and overall satisfaction among populations
• Deliver population health insights
• Provide mental health support through an app
• Encourage healthy lifestyle choices for anxiety and depression symptoms
• Support emotional regulation and mood monitoring
• Develop skills for emotional regulation
• Mental health support for adults
• Mental health support for adolescents
• Emotional regulation skills development
• Coping skills for anxiety symptoms
• Coping skills for depression symptoms
• Patient/member engagement and satisfaction
• Behavioral health insights delivery
• Support adolescents (13-17 year olds) with mental health support
• Deliver in-the-moment mental health support through an app on a phone or tablet
• Provide wellness support or clinically adjunctive support tool
• Assist users in developing skills for emotional regulation
• Support mood monitoring and management through features like mood tracking, progress reflection, gratitude journaling, and mindfulness practice
• Offer access to always-available interactive conversations and tools
• Enhance mental well-being with evidence-based techniques like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and positive psychology
• Automate measurement capture for clinicians and increase visibility beyond the traditional four walls of care

Who is Woebot Health for?

• Mental health professionals
• Therapists
• Clinicians
• Healthcare providers
• Adolescents
• Adults
• Psychologists

How to use Woebot Health?

To use Woebot Health, follow these steps:

1. Download the Woebot app on your phone or tablet.
2. Begin by using Woebot as a wellness support tool or adjunctive support tool.
3. Engage in interactive conversations and utilize tools like mood tracking, progress reflection, gratitude journaling, and mindfulness practice.
4. Benefit from Woebot's rules-based, non-generative AI conversations based on elements from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT).
5. Choose between Woebot for Adults or Woebot for Adolescents, depending on the age group and specific needs.
6. Enjoy the convenience of always-available mental health support with features to encourage healthy lifestyle choices and emotional regulation skills development.
7. Explore additional resources within the app for guided mindfulness exercises, mood tracking, self-help exercises, and informative articles.
8. Remember that Woebot does not provide crisis counseling or suicide prevention services, but offers continuous support for managing mental health challenges and improving emotional well-being.

By following these steps, you can effectively leverage Woebot Health for mental health support and personal growth.