A couple in New Zealand is helping your mental health and their bottom line.
Recently Katie and Matt Gatt left their jobs and created a five dollar app called think ladder. Matt says the couple spent ten years in their careers trying to figure out how to get the therapeutic techniques they were learning out to the people who needed them.
The app aims to change the way your subconscious affects your mood, automatic responses and responses that have become habit. Once a person realizes they might need some help the app works to rewire the brain with exercises that include concentration and repetition. Users can also program various alerts and trigger point locations so when you are in a high stress situation the app will play messages to calm you.
Matt says he and Katie believe that no matter the hole you find yourself in, anyone can climb out with the right support. And it looks like help is needed. When it was released the app went straight to the number one spot in New Zealand and it remains in the top five today.
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