Therapy between sessions

elona therapy is a digital health application developed in collaboration with psychotherapists, which can be used to accompany therapy for anxiety disorders, depressive disorders and hypochondriacal disorder. elona therapy accompanies and supports outpatient psychotherapy through disorder-specific interventions. The content available in elona therapy is based on the cognitive behavioral therapy method.

elona therapy is available as a native app for Android and iOS. You use Elona Therapy primarily between your regular therapy sessions. You can log your mood, edit and repeat exercises independently and set reminders for exercises and upcoming sessions. In this way, you can consolidate what you have learned in therapy and transfer it more easily into your everyday life. In addition, you can provide information about your condition on a daily basis, which your practitioner can view if necessary. Your therapist has the option of individualizing the course of elona therapy and adapting it to your treatment progress.

The content that is available to you in elona therapy is based on the process of cognitive behavioral therapy. In behavioral therapy, special interventions have been developed for each psychological disorder based on numerous scientific studies. What we know today about the experience, behavior and treatment of people with depression and anxiety disorders therefore forms the essential basis for the exercises in elona therapy.

On the one hand, elona therapy provides psychoeducational content about the underlying mental illness (depression, anxiety/panic disorders and somatoform disorders) and lifestyle with this disorder (e.g. symptoms; comorbidities; models for development and maintenance; relationship between thoughts, emotions and behavior; behavioral analyses). In the same way, those affected also have access to exercises, methods and techniques that extend outpatient psychotherapeutic treatment into the daily lives of those affected. The treatment of depression includes established psychotherapeutic approaches such as behavioral activation (development and planning of activities), cognitive restructuring (recognition, management and change of automatic thoughts, cognitive distortions and basic assumptions), emotion regulation (transfer of knowledge, management and regulation of emotions), social skills and competencies (psychoeducation and behavioral training), mindfulness & acceptance (reflection of personal values, acceptance of unwanted feelings and thoughts) and prevention of relapse (identification of early warning symptoms, preparation of crisis plans). Relaxation content (progressive muscle relaxation, imagination, mindfulness and meditation) is also suitable for the Depression module.

For the treatment of anxiety/panic disorder, elona therapy uses established approaches such as psychoeducation (transfer of knowledge) on the nature of anxiety, disorders, comorbidities, models for development and maintenance, behavioral analyses and self-observation, exposure procedures (knowledge transfer, implementation and debriefing), cognitive interventions, emotion regulation (knowledge transfer, handling and regulation of emotions), aspects of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for anxiety and relapse prevention ( identification of early warning symptoms, preparation of crisis plans, dealing with relapses). Relaxation content (progressive muscle relaxation, imagination, mindfulness and meditation) is also suitable for both disorders.

Your practitioner can prescribe Elona Therapy Depression using a prescription. You can submit the prescription to your health insurance company online, by phone or by post. Within a few working days, you will receive a digital activation code and can download elona therapy from your app store and start using it.

As a CE-marked medical device (MDD, class I), elona therapy meets high requirements in terms of psychological-medical quality, information security and data protection. These requirements are regulated by the European Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) and the Health Applications Regulation (DiGAV). For example, Elona Health is certified by TÜV SÜD for the production of digital health applications in accordance with ISO/IEC 27001. All data is stored in encrypted form on German servers and meets the standards of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). At elona therapy, your data is kept strictly confidential. It is not used for commercial purposes. In accordance with the GDPR, you have the right to obtain information about your data or to request its deletion at any time. You can also find more information on our website at Safety & Trust. Here You can find the full privacy policy of the elona therapy app. Here You can find the full privacy policy of the Elona Health GmbH website.

Your therapist has the option of making certain parts of the diagnosis (e.g. questionnaires) available to you via elona therapy. By default, your therapist has access to this information. Under the settings, in the “Visibility” section, you can specify whether you want to give your therapist the opportunity to receive further information on the following areas: Therapy progress, i.e. which exercises you have worked on; check-ups, i.e. the course of your symptoms; treatment reflection. This information can help your therapist to tailor the therapy even better to you and provide you with the best possible support. Important: Only scale entries are shared, never free text entries. For all other exercises, they are not visible to your therapist.

No Basically, you don't need to be particularly tech-savvy to use Elona Therapy. The exercises are user-friendly and self-explanatory, so you should quickly find your way around Elona Therapy.

In elona therapy, your personal data is pseudonymized, encrypted and stored exclusively on German servers to ensure maximum data and information security.

It is best to contact the health insurance company first and check whether they reimburse DIGAs such as Elona Therapy Depression. Have your therapist then issue you a doctor's letter and buy a license for Elona Therapy Depression here. You submit the doctor's letter and invoice to your insurance company.