CBT App: Practising CBT Out Loud

You describe the situation. You catch the automatic thought that fired — the sentence underneath, the one that never gets finished out loud. You look at the evidence for and against it. You check whether the standard it holds you to is one you would apply to anyone else. Then you land on something more balanced, and you do something about it rather than avoiding it. That is cognitive restructuring and behavioural activation, stripped of the jargon.

In your head, a thought like "that meeting went badly" carries a whole verdict about who you are, and it passes without inspection because it never has to be finished as a sentence. Out loud, it does. Sometimes you stop halfway, because the words you were about to say are ones you would never say to a friend. A worksheet does not ask you anything back.

Anxious spirals and catastrophizing. Negative self-talk. Hopeless thinking. Stress from work or relationships. Avoidance patterns — the email you keep not sending, the call you keep postponing.

Lovon is an AI voice companion for mental health support. You talk out loud, like a phone call, and the conversation draws on CBT and emotion-focused methods that PhD psychologists helped design. Afterwards you get a written summary of what came up, and daily check-ins if you want them.

Lovon is not therapy and is not CBT delivered by a clinician. It has no licensed clinicians, it does not diagnose, treat, or prescribe, and it is not a substitute for care from a licensed professional. If you want structured CBT with a therapist, the Psychology Today directory lets you filter for it, and Open Path Collective exists for people paying out of pocket.