DeepTherapy is a secure online platform for exposure therapy, where practitioners help clients interact with digital AI avatars. It’s ideal for treating trauma, anxiety, and grief, as well as for mediation and training. No downloads or special hardware are required.
Why DeepTherapy?
Involving others in a client’s therapy can be challenging because they are unwilling, unavailable, or no longer alive. DeepTherapy enables practitioners to facilitate conversations using lifelike video animations of these individuals. With just one photo, practitioners control the animation using their own voice via a secure platform—enhancing therapy through immersive, guided interactions.
How does DeepTherapy work?
The practitioner uploads a picture to create a digital avatar and selects a mood to shape its expressions (e.g., agreeable, agitated). After the avatar is created, the client is invited to an online meeting, where they can converse with the AI avatar. The practitioner controls the avatar live, syncing its mouth movements to their voice for real-time interaction. This all happens over a secure internet connection, and the practitioner can easily switch between the avatar and their own face with a click.
What do I need?
The practitioner needs just one photo of the person the client wants to speak to. DeepTherapy generates an AI avatar, which is then live-controlled by the practitioner during a secure session. No downloads or special hardware required—accessible anywhere.
Use cases of DeepTherapy
DeepTherapy offers various applications, including: (1) trauma processing, where the client can directly address the perpetrator, played by the practitioner; (2) mourning, allowing the patient to converse with a deceased loved one, with the practitioner directing the avatar; (3) mediation, enabling the patient to speak to an (ex) partner, portrayed by the practitioner; (4) assertiveness training, where the client addresses the bully, played by the practitioner; and (5) training for medical professionals, where the practitioner manages a simulated bad news conversation with the patient.
FAQ
Yes, this is necessary ad easy to do. You only need a computer with a camera, and a photo is required to create the digital avatar. The photo should show the face clearly. Use a photo of the person’s face whom the client wants to talk to. As the practitioner, you will control the animated avatar, essentially playing the role of that person. You remain the owner of the animation.
DeepTherapy has no information about the people to be treated; everything goes through the practitioner. A practitioner can also perform a session completely anonymously.
That depends on the practitioner, who is fully responsible for the therapy. DeepTherapy is a unique communication platform that enables practitioners to facilitate therapy conversations with inaccessible individuals through self-directed video animations. As a professional, you lead the online therapy, helping clients with trauma, anxiety, or grief.
The cost is per 1-hour session, priced at €9.95. The first 3 sessions are free of charge. Unused minutes cannot be carried over to a new session. For example, if a session lasts 30 minutes, it will still be counted as 1 full hour.
The animation’s mouth movements are synchronized with your voice in real time, converting your speech into the avatar’s lip movements.
The voice delay occurs because our software needs a few seconds to process your voice, sync it with the animation’s mouth movements, and transmit it over a secure connection.
Previous practitioners confirm that the voice matters only at the beginning. Surprisingly, clients hardly notice it after a while. It’s important for the practitioner to inform the client about this in advance.
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