Michael Yapko, legendary outcome-focused clinical psychologist and hypnosis expert, has teamed up with a couple of young Australian entrepreneurs, Chris and Alex Naoumidis, to create a very useful phone app for therapists and their clients. We find out all about it in this episode.

Get all the details about the Mindset App here: https://yapko.com/mindset-health/

We also asked Michael for some studies about the effectiveness of apps and virtual therapy tools in general. Here’s a list for you to dive into:

• Do mental health mobile apps work: evidence and recommendations for designing high-efficacy mental health mobile apps: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5897664/

• Tele-CBT: https://gut.bmj.com/content/68/9/1613
• App CBT: https://mental.jmir.org/2017/2/e19/
• A systematic review of the effectiveness of mobile apps for monitoring and management of mental health symptoms or disorders https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022395618308288
• Mobile Technology Boosts the Effectiveness of Psychotherapy and Behavioral Interventions: A Meta-Analysis https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0145445515595198
• Evaluating mobile apps for breathing training: The effectiveness of visualization https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563214004233
• The Use of Mobile Apps and SMS Messaging as Physical and Mental Health Interventions: Systematic Review https://www.jmir.org/2017/8/e295/
• How Google’s ‘Ten Things We Know To Be True’ Could Guide The Development Of Mental Health Mobile Apps https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0380
• Mental Health Mobile Apps: From Infusion to Diffusion in the Mental Health Social System https://mental.jmir.org/2015/1/e10/

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