Situations associated with consumption or addictive behavior are often difficult to reproduce in the context of a consultation.
C2Care allows professionals to recreate in virtual reality different contexts linked to tobacco, alcohol or gambling, in order to work with the patient on their reactions, their desires and the situations they may face in their daily life.
Craving often appears in very specific contexts: having a drink on a terrace, attending a party, walking past a point of sale or being confronted with other people who consume.
In reality, these situations are difficult to organize at the desired time and their intensity remains difficult to control.
Virtual reality makes it possible to recreate them directly in consultation, under reproducible conditions. The professional can thus choose the context to work on and progressively expose the patient to different elements associated with their consumption habits.
The C2Care environments reproduce different social and environmental contexts associated with addictive behavior: terrace, evening with friends, point of sale, casino or other everyday situations.
During the immersion, the professional can observe the patient's reactions, make the situation evolve and repeat certain sequences according to the objectives of the session.
These scenarios offer support for working on the desire to consume, emotions, thoughts and associated automatisms, then gradually prepare the patient for the situations they may encounter in real life.
VRET
The practitioner seats the patient on a swivel chair and fits them with the virtual reality headset
Using the control interface, the practitioner selects the environment suited to the session's goals and starts the exposure.
During immersion, the practitioner supports the patient using a visual feed and can adjust the exposure scene in real time
Environments
C2Care recreates several environments associated with craving to allow graduated exposure of the patient.
Bar, home, supermarket, nightclub and evening with friends are available.
The casino and the lottery point of sale allow you to work on the stimuli of the game.
The home, the office and the evening with friends constitute three contexts of temptation.
The apartment, the squat and the evening with friends cover several consumption situations.
Apartment, squat, bar, nightclub and evening with friends are represented.
The scenes in the apartment and in the car allow us to work on two consumption contexts.
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Solène Montègue
Neuropsychiatrist
The developments C2Care is currently integrating into the interface are very promising and meet the established therapeutic objectives [...]: offering tailored exercises that can be adapted to levels of dependency, cognitive disorders, and patients' real-time responses.
Samia Lahya
Psychiatrist
With the acquisition of new equipment [...] and updates to the C2Care programs, its use has expanded even further: OCD, phobias, addictions, anxiety disorders, depression, and PTSD. Ten years later, it is no longer merely a curiosity, but a genuine therapeutic tool that is stimulating, innovative, and effective.
Sabrina Gineau
Psychologist
I incorporate this technology into brief therapies lasting two to four months, with one session per week. I begin with relaxation techniques and, when patients are ready, we proceed. It makes it much easier to expose people to these situations.
Noël Schepers
Psychologist
Virtual reality can enrich and personalize treatment, facilitate patient-therapist collaboration in developing the treatment plan, and add a playful dimension. The possibilities for development and application are immense and extend to every area of psychology and psychotherapy.
Mélanie Boucherot
Psychologist
The value of this technology [C2Care] lies in offering new possibilities for therapeutic support and expanding the range of tools available to healthcare professionals.
François Maltese
Psychologist
For several months, we have been using virtual reality in habituation therapies. Before the procedure, patients are progressively and immersively exposed to their future medical environment and psychologically prepared to accept it.
Dre Marie-Claude Roberge
Doctor of Psychology
Since 2022, we have been using virtual reality therapy with the C2Care platform to simulate exposure to aversive stimuli and triggers that cause anxiety. Exposure therapy is used to treat specific phobias, including fear of heights, enclosed spaces, flying, dogs, emetophobia, and many others.
Dr Laure Du Pouget
Urologist
Using a virtual reality headset for self-hypnosis during prostate biopsies creates a calm atmosphere for a procedure that can sometimes be uncomfortable, even with effective local anesthesia...
Delphine Py
Psychologist
Thank you to C2Care for providing innovative virtual reality solutions to support CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy)! A major step forward in making exposure exercises easier and helping our patients overcome their phobias.
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Depending on your patients' needs, other areas may also be relevant to explore. Discover the different environments available in C2Care.
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FAQ
Find the answers to the questions most asked by practitioners on the use of virtual reality in the treatment of addictive behaviors.
C2Care offers environments for five addictive behaviors: alcohol, tobacco, CBD, snuff and gambling. Each environment recreates the situations triggering the craving (terrace, casino, tobacconist, evening) to allow graduated and controlled exposure.
In remote settings, the emphasis is on managing triggering factors rather than the addiction itself. Scenes of direct exposure to addictions cannot be used remotely: the work focuses on resilience and stress management.
Cognitive restructuring replaces automatic thoughts related to addiction (e.g. “I can't relax without a drink”) with positive thought patterns. It relies on repeated exposures in a virtual environment to become permanently anchored.
The casino environment allows progressive exposure to gaming contexts. It helps the patient identify the triggers of compulsive behavior and work on regaining control, in a secure and supported environment.
According to psychiatrist Eric Malbos, quoted on this page, virtual reality is 80% effective, with benefits lasting more than a year after treatment. This figure corresponds to clinical testimony, not to a quantitative scientific study.
Psychologists, psychiatrists and other private practitioners or health establishments (CHU, hospitals, clinics) can use virtual reality to support their patients.
Equipping yourself allows the therapist to offer graduated and personalized exposure, to reproduce anxiety-provoking environments identically and to strengthen the therapeutic commitment of their patients.
Yes, all our environments are grouped into a single application.
Our technical service can be reached via live chat from your control platform. If there is a problem with the VR headset, we will carry out a diagnosis with you to find a solution. If necessary, we will provide you with a return label and replace the defective material within 48 hours.
Patients with addictive behaviors (alcohol, tobacco, CBD, snuff, gambling) as well as associated anxiety disorders can benefit from virtual reality exposure therapy.
For any cancellation request, contact our technical service via live chat accessible from your control platform.
