For more than ten years, C2Care has been developing virtual reality solutions designed to support healthcare professionals in the care of their patients.
Our expertise lies at the intersection of several disciplines: psychology, cognitive-behavioral therapies, clinical research, design of immersive environments and virtual reality technologies.
Designing a therapeutic environment in virtual reality is not limited to creating a realistic scene. You must be able to choose relevant situations, organize their progression and allow the professional to act on the elements that influence the patient's experience.
The environments allow graduated and reproducible exposures: variation of the context, the stimuli, their frequency or their intensity depending on the situations.**The objective is to give the professional enough control **to integrate virtual reality into his own practice, while maintaining the therapeutic relationship and adaptation to the patient.
C2Care is also part of a collaborative approach with health establishments, medical teams and research stakeholders in order to match the uses of virtual reality to the needs in the field.
The company participates in numerous hospital-university research projects. Both nationally and internationally. These collaborations make it possible to develop solutions by taking into account clinical protocols, feedback from professionals and advances in scientific literature.
The needs observed in consultation and within establishments directly contribute to the evolution of C2Care.
New environments, customization possibilities, improved session management or development of new uses: the platform evolves in line with the practices of the professionals who use it.
This proximity to the field makes it possible to develop a library today composed of numerous immersive situations covering in particular phobias, anxiety disorders, addictions, relaxation and other therapeutic uses. Professionals can select the appropriate environment and then act on the exposure during the session.
The use of virtual reality in mental health is the subject of a growing scientific literature: controlled trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses study its use in different therapeutic and care contexts.
C2Care draws on this literature to guide the design of its tools and maintain consistency between technological innovation and practices based on available scientific knowledge.
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
The patient can progress from the terminal to flight and landing.
Attendance levels, nighttime and outage allow the exposure to be adjusted.
The cliff, roof, chairlift and crane scenes offer different height levels.
Restaurant, interview, conversation and speaking allow you to work on social exposure.
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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.
Tan YL et al. — Virtual reality exposure for social anxiety disorders: meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomized controlled trials
Virtual reality exposure therapy for social anxiety disorders: a meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomized controlled trials
LiH et al. — Virtual reality interventions to reduce preoperative anxiety: systematic review and meta-analysis
Effects of Virtual Reality-Based Interventions on Preoperative Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery With Anesthesia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Steenen SA et al. — Interventions to reduce dental anxiety and phobia: systematic review and meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials
Interventions to reduce adult state anxiety, dental trait anxiety, and dental phobia: A systematic review and meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials
Gao Y et al. — Effectiveness of virtual reality in reducing pain, anxiety and fear during needle procedures in children: systematic review and meta-analysis
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
Rejbrand C et al. — Stand-alone virtual reality exposure for social anxiety symptoms: systematic review and meta-analysis
Stand-alone virtual reality exposure therapy as a treatment for social anxiety symptoms: 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 virtual reality exposure therapies and their implementation in the office.
The first virtual reality exposure therapies date back to 1992, with a protocol on aviophobia conducted by Clark Atlanta University. C2Care has been testing its software in hospitals since 2016. The technology has since been extended to many anxiety and psychiatric disorders.
A virtual environment is an immersive scene reproducing a real situation (airport, metro, crowd, spiders, etc.) in which the patient is immersed via his headset. The practitioner adjusts the anxiety-inducing stimuli in real time to adapt the graduated exposure to each patient.
Yes, some patients may experience cybersickness, a set of sensations similar to motion sickness, during or after immersion in virtual reality. This phenomenon affects approximately 10% of people and does not have long-term consequences on the patient's health.
