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Mental health tech tools helping to rehabilitate offenders
The Journal
|September 20, 2025
MENTAL health tech innovator XR Therapeutics has adapted its tools for use with people convicted of serious offences.
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The NHS and Newcastle University spin-out company has started working with Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust to trial its technology in the support of rehabilitation.
XR’s technology is being used to support offenders whose risk of harm to others is influenced by their psychological difficulties.
The Gateshead-based firm uses immersive technology to create custom-made scenarios which link to a person’s anxieties and fears, with therapists using the tool to help the person work through situations which trigger them. XR says it has already seen results in other areas - particularly in people for whom more traditional therapies have failed.
This story is from the September 20, 2025 edition of The Journal.
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