Virtual reality displays 80% effectiveness against anxiety disorders, with benefits lasting more than a year after treatment (Eric Malbos, psychiatrist). More than 1000 practitioners equipped with CHU, clinics, hospitals and private practices, already use C2Care to support their patients on a daily basis.
Generalized anxiety disorder can be expressed in a wide variety of situations: public speaking, crowds, public transport, public places. Reproducing these situations in consultation is not always easy.
Some depend on a particular context or the presence of third parties, while their intensity and duration remain difficult to adjust over the course of the sessions.
Virtual reality makes it possible to recreate some of these contexts directly in the office, in a controlled and reproducible environment.
C2Care environments allow you to recreate situations that generate anticipatory anxiety: crowds and public spaces, public transport, public speaking or school contexts.
The practitioner chooses the environment adapted to the objectives of the session and adjusts the intensity of the exposure in real time, based on visual feedback of what the patient is experiencing.
This progressiveness makes it possible to work with the patient on catastrophic thoughts and physiological reactions associated with anxiety, based on repeated and graduated exposures.
VRET
The practitioner seats the patient on a swivel chair and fits them with the virtual reality headset
Using the control interface, the practitioner selects the environment suited to the session's goals and starts the exposure.
During immersion, the practitioner supports the patient using a visual feed and can adjust the exposure scene in real time
Environments
Meeting rooms, conference rooms and lecture halls offer several reactions from the public.
Outdoor spaces and supermarkets may be empty or busy.
The metro scenes cover different crowds, night and breakdown.
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Solène Montègue
Neuropsychiatrist
The developments C2Care is currently integrating into the interface are very promising and meet the established therapeutic objectives [...]: offering tailored exercises that can be adapted to levels of dependency, cognitive disorders, and patients' real-time responses.
Samia Lahya
Psychiatrist
With the acquisition of new equipment [...] and updates to the C2Care programs, its use has expanded even further: OCD, phobias, addictions, anxiety disorders, depression, and PTSD. Ten years later, it is no longer merely a curiosity, but a genuine therapeutic tool that is stimulating, innovative, and effective.
Sabrina Gineau
Psychologist
I incorporate this technology into brief therapies lasting two to four months, with one session per week. I begin with relaxation techniques and, when patients are ready, we proceed. It makes it much easier to expose people to these situations.
Noël Schepers
Psychologist
Virtual reality can enrich and personalize treatment, facilitate patient-therapist collaboration in developing the treatment plan, and add a playful dimension. The possibilities for development and application are immense and extend to every area of psychology and psychotherapy.
MĂ©lanie Boucherot
Psychologist
The value of this technology [C2Care] lies in offering new possibilities for therapeutic support and expanding the range of tools available to healthcare professionals.
François Maltese
Psychologist
For several months, we have been using virtual reality in habituation therapies. Before the procedure, patients are progressively and immersively exposed to their future medical environment and psychologically prepared to accept it.
Dre Marie-Claude Roberge
Doctor of Psychology
Since 2022, we have been using virtual reality therapy with the C2Care platform to simulate exposure to aversive stimuli and triggers that cause anxiety. Exposure therapy is used to treat specific phobias, including fear of heights, enclosed spaces, flying, dogs, emetophobia, and many others.
Dr Laure Du Pouget
Urologist
Using a virtual reality headset for self-hypnosis during prostate biopsies creates a calm atmosphere for a procedure that can sometimes be uncomfortable, even with effective local anesthesia...
Delphine Py
Psychologist
Thank you to C2Care for providing innovative virtual reality solutions to support CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy)! A major step forward in making exposure exercises easier and helping our patients overcome their phobias.
van Loenen et al. — Effectiveness of virtual reality exposure combined with cognitive-behavioral therapy for severe anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder
The Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Exposure-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Severe Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Meta-analysis
Freitas et al. — Treatment by exposure to virtual reality for phobias
Virtual Reality Exposure Treatment in Phobias: a Systematic Review
Horigome et al. — Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder
Virtual reality exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Dellazizzo et al. — Evidence for virtual reality-based therapies for psychiatric disorders
Evidence on Virtual Reality-Based Therapies for Psychiatric Disorders: Meta-Review of Meta-Analyses
Gao et al. — Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Intervention in Reducing Pain, Anxiety, and Fear During Needle-Related Procedures in Pediatric Patients
Effectiveness of virtual reality intervention on reducing the pain, anxiety and fear of needle-related procedures in paediatric patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis
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Depending on your patients' needs, other areas may also be relevant to explore. Discover the different environments available in C2Care.
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FAQ
Here are the answers to the questions most asked by practitioners about the treatment of anxiety disorders in virtual reality with C2Care.
Virtual reality allows graduated and controlled exposure to anxiety-provoking situations, in a secure and reproducible setting. It promotes patient engagement thanks to its immersive aspect and allows the practitioner to adjust each exercise to the specific needs of the person being monitored.
Virtual reality is used in the treatment of anxiety disorders (phobias, post-traumatic stress, obsessive-compulsive disorders), addictions, mood disorders such as depression, and in cognitive remediation, particularly for ADHD.
Anyone with generalized anxiety disorder, phobia, depression, or ADHD can benefit from virtual reality exposure therapy. The practitioner adapts the scenarios and their progressiveness to the profile and pace of each patient.
Some users may experience mild discomfort, called cybersickness, related to immersion. This phenomenon affects around 10% of people and generally remains temporary. The practitioner can adjust the progressiveness of the exposure to limit this sensation.
The virtual reality exposure takes place in a secure, controlled and progressive setting, supervised by the practitioner. Some users may experience temporary cybersickness related to immersion, but the intensity of the stimuli is adjusted to remain appropriate for each patient.
The practitioner can offer reproducible and adjustable scenarios to each patient, while precisely controlling anxiety-provoking stimuli. This personalization strengthens therapeutic engagement and facilitates monitoring of progress, session after session.
Yes, all C2Care environments are grouped into a single application. The practitioner thus finds all the available scenes, whether they concern anxiety disorders, phobias or relaxation, without changing software.
C2Care has been testing its software in hospitals since 2016. This field experience has made it possible to refine the virtual environments and graduated exposure protocols offered to practitioners today.
