"Several years ago, a group of gifted staff from the VA Palo Alto campus, including Dr. Eric Kuhn, a clinical psychologist, created a way for potential PTSD sufferers to receive assistance in the privacy of their home. They developed an iPhone or Android application called PTSD Coach. Simply put, its purpose was to help Veterans understand and manage their PTSD symptoms.

The PTSD Coach has four major sections: Learn, Self Assessment, Manage Symptoms, and Find Support. The app can be used as an adjunct to professional treatment or as a stand-alone tool. Over the course of the past several years, as PTSD Coach has been used by hundreds of thousands of individuals, Dr. Kuhn and his research colleagues have gathered solid clinical evidence that PTSD Coach us useful to our Veterans in managing their PTSD symptoms.

In Early 2017, Dr. Kuhn, et al., published a study evaluating the efficacy of PTSD Coach. A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Smartphone App for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms was published in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2017, Volume 85, No 3, 267-273.

The very good news is that the study found that the PTSD Coach shows a significant reduction in PTSD symptoms after three months, compared to a control group waitlist to use the app. The participants also showed reduced depression symptoms and improved psychological functioning." Palo Alto VA Health Care System