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What It Is

The Pocket Therapist is a therapy-support app designed for psychotherapists, healthcare professionals, and clients. Its core goal is to help clients practice stress regulation, autonomic nervous system (ANS) arousal regulation, and emotional regulation between therapy sessions. The product is based on Stephen W. Porges’s Polyvagal Theory and was developed by Finnish trauma psychotherapist Marko Punkanen PhD, with a clear focus on trauma therapy, anxiety regulation, and self-stabilization training.

Core Capabilities

The app offers multiple types of audio exercises, including activation exercises, calming exercises, present-moment exercises, visualization exercises, compassion exercises, and resonance frequency breathing exercises. It also includes RFB exercises with nature videos, as well as background information related to stress and trauma. Therapists can customize recommendations based on a client’s needs at different stages of therapy. The Instant Help feature is designed to support clients when their self-regulation capacity is still limited or when they encounter acute or challenging situations. Its content can come from the app’s built-in presets or be recorded by the therapist for an individual client. The app also allows clients to record their experiences and thoughts, helping track self-awareness, self-regulation ability, and changes in state.

Pricing and Trial

The official website does not publicly disclose specific pricing, plans, license quantities, or payment methods. It only states that users need to make contact to obtain a license, and that the license package includes instructions for use. Users can download a trial version from the app store; to try all features, they need to fill out a form and get in touch.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths are its highly focused positioning, built around continuous practice and self-regulation between therapy sessions, and its emphasis on client privacy: notes are stored only in the client’s own app and are not sent to the therapist or anywhere else. Its weaknesses are limited enterprise-level disclosure, with no information provided about third-party integrations, APIs, admin consoles, permissions, compliance certifications, or deployment models. The app also explicitly does not establish a real-time connection between therapist and client, so it is not suitable as a telehealth communication platform.

Who It’s For and Access from China

It is better suited for psychotherapists and medical professionals working in trauma therapy, anxiety regulation, and emotional regulation training, as an adjunct tool outside therapy sessions. It is also suitable for clients to continue independent practice after therapy has ended. Access from mainland China is not addressed in the source text and is therefore assessed as unknown.