Research and Development

ephoria is being developed in close cooperation with the
ZHAW School of Applied Psychology and the departement for Media Psychology.

The ZHAW Institute for Applied Psychology is the leading continuing education and counselling services institute for applied psychology in Switzerland. Since 1923, it has been developing concrete solutions for practical challenges on the basis of scientifically sound psychology.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

A meta-study from 2022 showed that this form of therapy achieves
positive results in 86.3% of cases.²

In order to make changes effective, it's crucial to to plan sensible intervention strategies and regularly remind the user, as the planned strategies are often lost sight of in everyday life.

With targeted reminders and exercises, users are supported in maintaining and internalizing personalised strategies for mental health.

The development of ephoria took into account the findings from the third wave of psychotherapy (mindfulness, acceptance and emotion regulation) and the fourth wave (digitalisation).

This is a paradigm shift: away from treating symptoms and towards recognising and changing patterns of thought and behaviour that contribute to the development and maintenance of the underlying mental disorders or stresses. Such metaprocesses are cross-disorder and play a central role in the modern psychotherapeutic understanding of both the development and treatment of almost all mental disorders.