DIGITAL HEALTH
EMDR Ease: Therapy Support That Works With No Signal
A self-guided EMDR companion for trauma, anxiety and panic. Offline-first by architecture, localised into more than thirty languages.
What we built
EMDR Ease is a therapeutic cross-platform mobile app for the treatment of trauma and anxiety. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a recognised method for reducing the emotional charge of distressing memories, and it works through bilateral stimulation: a rhythmic left-right cue the person follows while holding a difficult thought.
The app puts that in a pocket. It is built for people managing anxiety and panic, for people using grounding techniques day to day, and for people supplementing work they are already doing with a therapist.
A session tuned by the person having it
Distress is not uniform, so the session should not be either. Stimulation can be visual or audio, and speed, duration and type are all adjustable to whatever the person finds tolerable that day.
Everything else gets out of the way. The interface is deliberately minimal and distraction-free. A phone screen during a panic response is not the place for navigation chrome. Sessions are recorded so someone can see their own pattern over time.
Offline first by design
The architecture is offline-first throughout. Sessions, progress and settings are written to the device first and reconcile with the backend whenever a connection returns.
This is a clinical decision as much as a technical one. The moments people reach for this app are exactly the moments a network-dependent app fails: a panic attack on a train, sensory overload in a basement, a bad night somewhere with no coverage. An exercise cannot stall because the connection did.
Thirty-plus languages
Mental health support that only speaks English is not accessible support. The app is localised into more than thirty languages, covering every EU official language alongside Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, Turkish, Russian and Ukrainian.
It ships to iOS and Android from a single codebase and is available on the App Store and on Google Play.