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It's great to hear about your experiences with CBT and hear from someone in the ~50% for whom CBT works. We certainly wouldn't bill it as a panacea for all conditions, as we've dis…

Thanks for bringing those up. We're certainly aware of Quirk and the story, although we haven't as yet talked to the founders in person. Their story is very relevant to this discus…

We've most certainly heard of Woebot. Would be really interesting to hear how you feel about Iona in comparison. Obviously we're much earlier stage than Woebot who have in fact bee…

Great! Any comments and feedback on Iona is always much appreciated, let us know how you get on.

We're generally more in the smart scripts camp at present. The conversations are graph based, with each node being associated with code that can look at the state of the user and a…

I agree, CBT is certainly no panacea, and as mentioned in the post, for those at the moderate to severe end of the spectrum, or for those where CBT is ineffective, it may be the ca…

Great to hear about your positive experience with CBT. I think there's a lot of innovation that's possible in this sector. If we look at CBT, a lot of the core concepts and exercis…

In fact, privacy is a concern that sometimes even puts employees off using their employer's Employee Assistance Program (EAP), even though that's often in the form of a crisis tele…

Thanks and some great points here. As you say competition and differentiation are potentially really tricky in this sector. Really interesting to hear about your experience at ging…

Thanks for bringing this point up, and it's a point which is often cited in favour of greater regulation of the sector in general - do such apps in fact stop people seeking help wh…

Thanks for your comment and sharing your experience. I think you make a number of valid points - CBT is sometimes incorrectly seen as a panacea for treatment of many disorders, but…

Thanks for your comment Lisa. We do do daily checkins within Iona, but we're always looking for ways to improve the app, and the idea of doing morning and evening checkins to set g…

Thanks for your comment, support and advice! I think that's a really good point that the main challenge here is engagement and adherence, and it's obviously something we're always …

Some excellent points. As you say, what is the difference between a book on CBT (as mentioned in the original post "bibliotherapy" is known to be effective in peer-reviewed studies…

That's good feedback and there is a lot of snake-oil in the industry in general, which is why we base our app around evidence-backed practices such as CBT ( as mentioned in the pos…

Indeed, the general availability of something like an app means we can reach people who otherwise wouldn't have been reached and may not have learned about this kind of self-help s…

Thanks for your feedback and really glad you liked the onboarding! Indeed it is very high on our priority list to improve the look of the app (and the general UI fit and finish). U…

It's an excellent point and why we're very careful with the claims we make. The claim I think you are referring to is "86% of users report feeling better after their first session …

Thanks for your comment jph, "you can hack your own mind" is a really great way to frame it!

Thanks for your interest and for checking out the app. We've tried various approaches and I think it's one of the more engaging methods of delivering CBT that we've trialled to dat…

Thanks for the heads up on the link! We'll update in the original post, but you can also try https://apps.apple.com/app/iona-anxiety-mood-support/id14913... which seems to be worki…

Hi HN, we’re Iona Mind. We provide app-based mental health support, with a focus on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Mental healthcare is difficult for many people to access, w…

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