C2Care offers treatment for addictions to tobacco, alcohol, drugs and gambling, in virtual reality and augmented reality. Ecological environments allow cognitions, emotions and behaviors linked to addiction to emerge in the office, in complete security and confidentiality.
Cravings linked to tobacco, alcohol, drugs or gambling are often triggered in specific contexts: a bar, a party, a tobacconist, a casino. Reproducing these situations in consultation is not always easy.
Some depend on a location, a time of day or the presence of other people, which makes their implementation difficult to organize and repeat identically. The progressiveness of the exposure is also complicated to control outside the office.
Virtual reality makes it possible to recreate some of these contexts directly in the office, in a controlled, reproducible and confidential environment for the patient.
The proposed environments make it possible to recreate situations conducive to the emergence of craving linked to tobacco, alcohol, drugs or gambling. The bar and the terrace provide exposure to social consumption indicators, while the home, day and night, reproduces an ecological framework of everyday life.
In a virtual casino, the patient can be confronted with slot machines and avatars whose emotional characteristics the practitioner adjusts. At the tobacconist, he encounters clues linked to tobacco and gambling (scratch tickets, bets, lotto).
These situations can be repeated and gradually integrated into the practitioner's protocol, in order to work with the patient on the cognitions, emotions and behaviors associated with addiction.
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
Each environment recreates a situation conducive to the emergence of craving, to allow the patient to choose the stimuli that most generate the desire to consume.
Situations involving alcohol can take place at a bar or nightclub.
The apartment and the evening with friends allow you to work on the temptations of everyday life.
The casino and lottery outlets cover the main gambling situations.
The home, the office and stressful situations allow you to work on the desire to smoke.
The apartment, squat and evening scenes cover several consumption contexts.
The apartment and the car represent two contexts of nitrous oxide consumption.
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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.
Mélanie 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.
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FAQ
Find the answers to the questions most asked by practitioners about the treatment of addictions in virtual reality with C2Care.
C2Care supports addiction to tobacco, alcohol, drugs and gambling. Each pathology has dedicated environments: bar, casino, home, tobacconist, among others.
The environments were designed to arouse the compelling desire to consume in the patient. They trigger cognitive, emotional and behavioral responses identical to those experienced on a daily basis.
Exposure to tobacco occurs in several environments: bus shelters, terraces, tobacconists, counters, apartments during the day or at night. These contexts multiply the cues of craving encountered in real situations.
Immersion in a virtual casino allows the clinician to graduate the difficulties of exposure. The practitioner accesses craving cues, interactions with slot machines and avatars of the gaming context.
Virtual and augmented reality generate significantly more dysfunctional automatic thoughts than imaginative exposure. This reinforces the clinical relevance of cognitive restructuring work.
The intensity of craving felt during in virtuo exposure is equivalent to that observed in vivo. It also generates greater therapeutic engagement for the patient.
C2Care allows patient exposure in complete security and confidentiality, directly in the office. The in virtuo exposure frees itself from the ethical and ecological limits of the in vivo exposure.
The environments are the result of cooperation between the C2Care scientific team and academics specializing in addiction. They were designed for the assessment, treatment and prevention of relapses.
They result from cooperation between the C2Care scientific team and academics specializing in addiction, in order to enable the assessment, treatment and prevention of relapse risks by putting craving at the forefront.
The environments of C2Care have been designed to allow the assessment, treatment and prevention of relapse risks, by exposing the patient to situations conducive to the emergence of permissive thoughts: waiting, home, social contexts.
