There is a deeply human impulse to step out of the pressures of everyday life and enter a space where the mind can settle, attention becomes focused, and a sense of calm and presence can emerge. Today, immersive technologies are beginning to create new pathways to access these states, offering environments designed to support emotional regulation, therapeutic engagement, and mental wellbeing.

The landscape of mental health support is rapidly evolving, with Extended Reality (XR) technologies, including Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), emerging as powerful tools to enhance wellbeing and therapeutic outcomes. This webinar will explore how immersive technologies are being applied in practice, from therapeutic design and ethical governance to real-world implementation and lived experience.

Join leading experts as we explore the practical applications and future possibilities of AR in digital mental health.

The following topics will be covered: 

• Expanding access to mental health support: How immersive technologies are opening new pathways for people to engage with mental health support, creating experiences that are more accessible, engaging, and responsive to individual needs.

• Designing immersive environments for wellbeing: How creative design, storytelling, and interactive media can be used to build virtual spaces that support emotional regulation, reflection, and therapeutic engagement.

• Ethics, identity, and responsible XR governance: The emerging questions surrounding identity, human rights, and data governance in extended reality environments, and what responsible development of immersive mental health technologies should look like.

• Evidence and real-world application: Insights from emerging research exploring how immersive tools can be applied in practice, including work with at-risk adolescents and other populations experiencing emotional distress.

• Lived experience and user insight: The role of user perspectives in shaping immersive mental health tools, including how individuals are using these technologies to manage cognitive overload, regulate emotions, and access moments of calm and presence.