A new way to cope with acute stress
Skills is a clinically grounded digital tool based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). It offers 13 multisensory micro-games to help users ground themselves, reduce dissociation, and navigate crises without turning to destructive behaviors.
Skills is more than just a collection of digital mini-games; it’s a clinically grounded application that turns moments of emotional overwhelm into manageable experiences. By engaging sight, sound, and memory, the app helps users shift their attention away from distress and back into the present. It is designed to work even during moments of dissociation or emotional flooding, when traditional mindfulness techniques may fall short.
Here’s what makes Skills unique in real-world use:
Distracts until you’re calm enough to deal with the situation
Helps focus on the here and now by activating multiple senses
Includes no win/loss logic—you can’t lose
Non-addictive games, designed for safety
Helps avoid destructive coping techniques during crises
Productivity and mental clarity follow a curve. Skills is designed to support you at every point along this curve:
Low stress: Helps gently activate your senses and attention.
Optimal stress: Maintains focus and emotional stability without overstimulation.
High stress: Quickly reduces dissociation, panic, and emotional overload through multisensory grounding.
Every person reacts in different ways to sensory input. Stress management games, called Skills, are designed to stimulate different sensory channels (audio, visual, motoric and logic). The games automatically adapt their difficulty to not bore you or cause frustration.
Color Cycle
Combining reading and color this skills activates two different parts of the brain. Can be used in high stress situations.
Pitch Matching
Remember and match the pitch.
Percussion Pattern
Activate your short term memory to remember a musical pattern
Bubble Pop
Pop the bubbles with the ball to dissolve your stress
Rolling Ball
Tilt your phone and use motion to help you refocus
Square Pattern
React to patterns and sounds. The better you will get, the faster the dots appear.
Last Added
Trains your memory and requires you being focussed. Learn to ignore the distractions surrounding you.
Arithmetic
Quickly solve math problems to focus your mind
Orientation Finder
Close your eyes, listen, and carefully rotate your phone to find the target orientation.
Countdown
Calibrate your inner clock and focus your mind
Color Logic
Match colors. A simple skill that can be used in high stress situations.
Speed Morse
This skill requires memory and rhythm, two highly complex task that will focus your attention.
Jump Up
Hold your phone tight and jump as high as you can to reach the platforms.