May 2025 Edition - Digital Mental Health

Jesse Campbell
Jun 13
8 min read

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Hello!

Welcome to the latest edition of Psyche Insights! In this edition, we explore the latest updates designed especially for mental health professionals, including our brand-new Practitioner Platform. We also take a closer look at the follow-through gap in therapy and how Psyche bridges it through real-life tools, tailored support, and wrap-around care. Wherever you are in your professional journey, we are here to support your work and amplify your impact

Our Monthly Highlights...

📋 Mental Health Practitioner Survey: Contribute to discovering the biggest challenges faced by practitioners and clients - Survey Link

🎥 Webinar: "Science of Support: The Guide to Psychological Skills" - Register to attend here or catch up on the recording.

FOR PRACTITIONERS

New for Mental Health Practitioners: Discover Psyche’s Dedicated Professional Hub

We're proud to launch a new Practitioner Platform on our website, tailored for professionals in the mental health and well-being space.

Whether you're a psychologist, counsellor, psychiatrist, coach, wellness practitioner, or social worker, this space is for you. Choose a plan that fits your practice—whether you’re a part-time, full-time practitioner or working within a team. Our flexible tiers are designed to match your client load, workflow, and goals.

Explore the new page here: Psyche for Practitioners

Bridging the Follow-Through Gap: A Closer Look at Skill Implementation Challenges

Through our industry research survey conducted this year, practitioners identified a number of challenges clients and therapists face when translating therapy into action.

Clients face a range of challenges when trying to translate therapy into meaningful change. One of the most common is goal adherence—clients often start strong but struggle to maintain alignment with their objectives. This is compounded by overwhelm and inertia, where new concepts feel like too much, too fast, leading to stalled momentum. Many also arrive at sessions with unstructured preparation, unsure of what to reflect on or practice. As life gets busy, attendance and prioritisation issues emerge, and therapy slips down the list of daily responsibilities.

Without wraparound support, sessions can feel disconnected and isolated, offering little continuity between meetings. Skill retention difficulties are common; clients forget what they’ve learned or how to use it effectively. When skills are not embedded into daily life, there’s limited behavioural integration, and progress remains theoretical. Without reinforcement, clients may start losing momentum. They also frequently struggle with uncertain clinical progress, unsure if they’re making meaningful improvements, which leads to disengagement. This can cause a perceived value misalignment, where the therapy’s benefit is questioned. Furthermore, between-session disconnect results in isolated conversations without clear links to personal goals. Many experience a lack of therapeutic clarity, uncertain about the strategy or destination of their sessions. As a result, there's often high between-session reliance, where clients depend heavily on therapists to drive change, rather than building autonomy.

Practitioners aren’t immune to the very challenges they help others navigate. Access to continuous professional development (CPD) is often costly or out of reach, leaving clinicians without updated tools or techniques. Many work in isolation, without a collaborative network, which can limit professional growth and support. A common frustration is when clients struggle to apply therapeutic tools between sessions, stalling their progress. This gap between insight and action often leaves therapists repeating basic concepts rather than focusing on deeper, transformative work.

Adding to the strain is the time-consuming task of sourcing or creating psychoeducational materials—often done outside of session hours. Meaningfully measuring and tracking client progress also remains a challenge, with many tools offering limited insights. At the same time, practitioners must grapple with high emotional loads, systemic inefficiencies, and increasing administrative demands—all of which contribute to burnout. Client engagement and retention can dip when motivation fades, further intensifying the pressure on clinicians already stretched thin.

Psyche: Mental Health transforms how care is delivered and experienced—bridging the gap between insight and action. For practitioners, it streamlines your workflow, deepens engagement, and ensures your support continues well beyond the session. For clients, it makes mental health accessible, consistent, and actionable, turning fleeting motivation into sustainable change. Whether you're guiding a client through recovery, helping someone build new habits, or supporting a team or organisation, Psyche empowers you with the tools to create lasting impact. It's more than an app—it's a dynamic extension of your care, your mission, and your vision for better mental health.

Mental Health Literacy Webinar — Digital Mental Health

Psyche: Mental Health – Designed for Real-Life Impact

Psyche: Mental Health is purpose-built to empower both practitioners and clients—bridging the gap between sessions and ensuring mental health support is always within reach.

For Practitioners: Streamlined, Smart, Supportive

Boost Client Engagement & Retention Keep clients engaged and progressing between sessions, leading to better outcomes and increased continuity of care—ultimately growing your practice and impact.

Client Assessment & Progress Tracking Support clients with personalised guidance through in-app check-ins and visual progress reports that make growth easy to see and discuss.

Evidence-Based Tools at Your Fingertips No more scouring for resources—our app provides a library of science-backed tools that supplement sessions and empower clients with real-life strategies, anytime and anywhere.

Practice Efficiency Without Extra Admin Offer more value without adding to your workload. Psyche enhances your services at a fraction of the cost and effort, helping you work smarter, not harder.

For Clients: Practical, Personal, and Empowering

Follow Through with Confidence Psyche makes it easier to stay on track with goals set in therapy, turning good intentions into daily action.

Visible Progress, Real Results Clients can track their development and feel the difference—making them more likely to stay committed to the process.

Skills That Create Lasting Change Clients learn practical, evidence-based techniques that they can apply to real-world challenges, building resilience and long-term well-being.

Better Prepared for Every Session Clients can log reflections, track what works, and come into sessions with greater clarity and readiness—making every minute count.

Ready to empower your care with Psyche? Let’s build the future of mental health—together.

Your Therapist Walkthrough: Integrating Psyche into Practice

As a practitioner, you’re always looking for ways to help clients carry insights beyond the session. With Psyche: Mental Health, you can extend the therapeutic process—making mental wellness more consistent, practical, and effective.

Here’s how it works in practice:

Step 1: Notice the Follow-Through Challenge You recognise a common pattern—your client is engaged and motivated during sessions but struggles to maintain momentum between them. Life gets busy, and the next session often feels like a reset.

Step 2: Introduce Psyche During a Session In a goal-setting discussion, your client identifies a desire to improve their sleep. You open the app together and select a relevant activity under the Physical domain—something short, guided, and easy to apply, like the sleep skill.

Step 3: Extend the Session with In-App Practice You suggest that your client use the app during the week. With tools like goal-setting, psychoeducation, and psychological skills, she now has something tangible to practise between appointments. Therapy continues— supportively—in their daily life.

Step 4: Build on Real-Time Engagement By the next session, your client arrives with their app reflections in hand. They are more prepared, focused, and ready to move forward. You’re no longer recapping—you’re building.

Step 5: Witness Ongoing Growth Your client isn’t just gaining insight—they are applying it. Their daily practice fills the space between sessions, fuelling progress. What was once a gap is now a bridge.

With Psyche, therapy doesn’t pause when the session ends. It continues, deepens, and becomes a lived experience—empowering your clients to practise, reflect, and grow every day.

FOR ORGANISATIONS

How Psyche Supports Organisational Customers in Promoting Mental Well-Being

At Psyche Innovations, we make mental health support simple, practical, and accessible. Our work with organisational customers demonstrates how a comprehensive, wrap-around mental health solution can integrate seamlessly into community and workplace settings to make a tangible, lasting impact.

A Shared Commitment: Supporting Mental Wellness

Many organisations today recognise that supporting mental health is just as important as promoting physical health. Whether it’s a campus, company, or community centre, leaders are seeking proactive, science-backed tools that genuinely support people’s day-to-day well-being.

A Wrap-Around Mental Health Solution

Our organisational offering brings together three key services that work in harmony to create meaningful impact:

The Psyche: Mental Health App Users access a personalised digital platform where they can check in on their well-being, explore core psychological skills like resilience, self-talk, and mindfulness, and practise short, effective activities directly from their phones.
Touchpoint Sessions These expert-facilitated group sessions offer a structured space for participants to check in, share experiences, and deepen their understanding of key mental health topics. They strengthen community engagement and provide continuity between individual app use and team-based reflection.
Interactive Workshops Organisations can host in-person or online workshops focused on Psychological Skills, Psychological First Aid, or Mental Health Literacy. Each workshop aligns with app content, creating a continuous learning experience that reinforces skill-building beyond the session.

👉 Explore our workshop options: Training Workshops Overview

Insight-Driven Engagement

We provide anonymised, aggregate impact reports to help organisations understand how their people are using the app, which skills are resonating most, and where further support may be beneficial. All insights are compliant with POPIA and presented in ways that preserve individual privacy while empowering leadership decisions.

Seamless Integration and Ongoing Support

Getting started is easy. We supply bulk access codes, help with onboarding, and provide rollout materials to support internal promotion. Our team works directly with each organisation to ensure a smooth experience—underpinned by evidence-based design and secure data practices.

Sustainable Impact, Everyday Practice

Organisational customers continue using Psyche as a cornerstone of their wellness strategy. Our wrap-around approach—integrating the app, touchpoint sessions, and workshops—helps embed mental wellness into daily routines and organisational culture.

At Psyche Innovations, we proudly support organisations that are committed to making mental health real, relatable, and truly accessible—for everyone.

Your Psyche Journey: Step-by-Step Support Backed by Your Organisation

When your organisation provides access to Psyche: Mental Health, it’s not just giving you an app—it’s offering you a guided, empowering path to well-being. Here’s how your journey unfolds:

Step 1: Easy Access, Instant Start You receive a welcome email and your unique access code. Within minutes, you’ve downloaded the app, logged in, and are guided through a friendly introduction. Getting started is effortless.

Step 2: Check In with Yourself Your journey begins with a quick check-in using the Psyche Scale—a practical tool to help you reflect on areas like stress, mood, connection, and energy. It’s the first step towards personalised support.

Step 3: Start Building a Skill Based on your check-in, the app suggests a relevant skill to try—such as “Stress Management” or “Positive Self-Talk.”

Step 4: Stay Engaged, Gently Throughout the week, you’ll receive gentle prompts—reminders and encouragements by helping you stay on track without ever feeling pressured.

Step 5: See Your Progress Each week, you’ll revisit your well-being check-in and view a visual summary of your growth. You begin to notice real changes—like clearer thinking, improved mood, and better focus.

Step 6: Turn Skills into Habits Soon, the skills you’ve practised in the app begin to show up in your daily life. You might notice calmer responses to stress, better boundaries, or renewed motivation. The app becomes a companion in your real-world challenges.

Step 7: Dive Deeper with Workshops If offered by your organisation, you can join optional Psyche Workshops covering topics like psychological skills, psychological first aid, or mental health literacy. These sessions build community and deepen your skills.

Step 8: Keep Growing at Your Own Pace You continue exploring the app, picking up new tools, tracking your well-being, and developing habits that support long-term mental wellness. With every step, you become more empowered and resilient.

🎯 Psyche: Mental Health is more than an app—it’s your personalised toolkit for thriving, supported by your organisation and driven by you.