The Belgian app that feels good

What if the solution to improve your mental health was in your pocket? The applications devoted to psychology are more and more numerous and more and more reliable. Focus on the most Belgian of all.

In terms of mobile applications revolving around mental health, there is something for everyone: meditation (small bamboo, headspace), panic attacks (rootd), auto-therapy (mindday, vos), cardiac coherence (breathinglax+)…

Although there are few independent studies evaluating their clinical efficiency compared to traditional therapies and that they obviously do not replace mental health professionals, they are a precious help to provide support in the event of light problems or between two meetings with the shrink. Some subscriptions (count between 50 and 80 €/year) can even be partly reimbursed by your mutual insurance company.

The Belgian app that we love

Among the horde of French, Quebec and American apps, there is a Belgian: Melodia Therapy. Available on Play Store and Apple Store, it offers sound therapy care (there are more than 15,000 combinations!) Aiming different objectives: boosting your creativity, reducing your anxiety, finding sleeping, reducing chronic pain …

The originality of this care? They are based on specific frequencies of binaural beat. This sound phenomenon, discovered in 1839 by the scientist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, is explained by Martin Lecapitaine, the CEO of Melodia Therapy: “When each ear receives a slightly different frequency, the brain perceives a third frequency, called binaural beat. This can help induce deep relaxation states, decrease the feeling of chronic pain (for endometriosis for example), improve concentration, or even sleep ”.

A link between science, sound and mental health

After having worked for more than 10 years in humanitarian and having passed through the burn-out box, Martin Lecapitaine decided to convert by training in sound therapy, a way of combining his two passions: music (he was DJ) and humans. He then had the idea of ​​creating, with neuroscientists and developers, an app ‘of sound therapy, a way of creating a link between science, therapeutic music and mental health. Currently, it has been downloaded more than 13,000 times.

Used in several hospitals

The application asks you first to choose your objective from 20 proposed (anti -stress, memory improvement, TAI chi session, reduction in hyperactivity, etc.). Then, she invites you to choose your atmosphere (ocean, thunderstorms, forest, bird songs …), the duration of the song, your theme, to settle down comfortably, then … good trip!

Note that the application is the subject, from this month of February 2025, of a clinical study with a psychologist and a music therapist at the Marseille University Hospital in order to assess his impact on the anxiety of patients in hospital. It is also already used with patients in several Belgian hospitals (palliative care at CHU Brugmann, pain clinic and oncology at the Notre-Dame de Groselies clinic, algology at the Saint-Luc clinic in Bouge and Saint-Pierre in Ottignies…).

Proven effects

We already know that 65 % of people suffering from Parkinson’s disease report positive effects after two weeks of use, as well as better quality of sleep. 45 % of fibromyalgia patients also have an improvement in the feeling of chronic pain. Martin Lecapitaine warns, however: “Of course, we do not treat pathologies with this app. It is a well-being tool, support for mental and physical health, which works in synergy with classical medicine ”.

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