HR File: Mental health monitoring

The conversational app: Woebot

This DIY Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) app uses a ‘conversational agent’ to guide you through self-help materials and coaching for mental wellbeing. Once you have signed up with a free account, Woebot checks in with you daily and works through questions and exercises that help the app learn more about your mental health. It then uses that information to tailor the ways that it can help you.

In addition to the daily check-ins, the app has a library of exercises and lessons, as well as an ‘intelligent mood tracker’ that shows patterns in the way you feel over time.