A New Category of Intervention

Acute behavioral health intervention delivered at the moment of need

Most digital tools require cognitive engagement—unavailable during acute distress. Our somatic approach works when the thinking brain goes offline, reaching patients at the moment of maximum need. Anxiety, depression, and chronic musculoskeletal pain—delivered to Medicare beneficiaries under the CMS ACCESS Model.

16.6M Rated sessions analyzed, from The Tapping Solution platform
d = 1.21–1.66 Within-session effect, all 11 domains
300+ Peer-reviewed studies and reviews
"Like someone turned off the anxiety switch."
— Debbie, App member

The Real Problem

Great tools—with one blind spot

Meditation

Builds real resilience

Regular practice rewires the brain. The evidence is solid. But during acute distress—when you're hyperventilating, chest tight, thoughts racing—focusing on breath often amplifies the panic. It's a resilience builder, not a crisis intervention.

CBT Apps

Teach powerful skills

Cognitive restructuring works. It's one of the most evidence-based approaches in psychology. But it requires clear thinking—exactly what's unavailable when the prefrontal cortex goes offline during a panic attack or pain flare.

Mood Trackers

Reveal important patterns

Tracking over time helps you and your therapist spot triggers and trends. That insight is valuable. But at 3am when you're in crisis, logging how you feel doesn't change how you feel.

These tools work—just not in the moment you need help most.

The gap:

When the thinking brain goes offline, you need a somatic intervention. The body leads, the mind follows. That's where we work—and that's why we complement everything else.

Why Therapists Recommend Us

We don't compete with therapy. We make therapy work better.

Therapists see their patients an hour a week—maybe. What happens the other 167 hours?

Clinicians recommend our approach because it gives patients a tool that actually works between sessions—not just tracks symptoms or teaches concepts, but actively regulates the nervous system in real time. We're not replacing care. We're extending it into the moments nothing else can reach.

167

hours per week without your therapist

1 hour of therapy leaves 167 hours where patients are on their own. That's where crisis happens—and that's where we work.

"I work in healthcare. I was so stressed out I couldn't even catch my breath. My mind and heart were pounding. I sat in my car and did that anxiety meditation about 4x and felt such relief. I was shocked."
— Healthcare Worker

Two Dimensions of Change

Immediate relief. Lasting transformation.

Most interventions do one or the other. We do both—and the data proves it.

State Change

Works in the moment of crisis

When the panic attack hits at 2am, when the pain flare wakes you, when the trigger arrives between appointments—we provide immediate nervous system regulation. Not in days or weeks. In minutes.

62–85% of sessions improve by a clinically meaningful margin (≥2 points), by domain

Trait Change

Rewires the baseline over time

Repeated regulation doesn't just help you feel better now—it rewires your default state. Our structured programs show lasting reductions in anxiety, depression, and stress. Users arrive at Day 5 with meaningfully lower baseline anxiety than Day 1—before any intervention that day.

24% lower starting anxiety by Day 5 — measured before that day's session, across 150,000+ rated sessions of our five-day anxiety program (The Tapping Solution platform, 2020–2025)
"I used to be under the grip of constant pain for the last seven years. My overall pain level went from usually 6-8 to an average of 2-3."
— Eva, Chronic Pain Relief Program

This is neuroplasticity in action. Each time you move from dysregulated to regulated, you strengthen calmer neural pathways. Over time, the exception becomes the rule.

The Evidence

Population-scale data. Not a pilot study.

Nearly two decades of continuous real-world evidence across anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and sleep.

16.6M

Rated sessions analyzed

868,244

Unique users in the cohort

1.21–1.66

Effect sizes (Cohen's d), all eleven domains

62–85%

Sessions with clinically meaningful improvement

Real-world data from The Tapping Solution platform. Manuscript under peer review with MGH and Harvard co-authors; full results held for publication. Explore the evidence →

The JIT-R Framework

Why this works when other tools don't

During acute distress, the prefrontal cortex goes offline. You can't "think through" a panic attack. Cognitive approaches require exactly what's unavailable in crisis. Our approach is different.

01

Intervene at the Spike

Reach people at the moment of maximum need—not before, not after. Traditional models deliver modules on a schedule. We meet people when suffering is happening.

02

Keep It Somatic

The thinking brain is offline during acute distress. The body must lead. Our somatic-first approach bypasses cognition and directly downregulates the nervous system.

03

Remove All Barriers

No appointment. No clinician. No waiting room. Available 24/7. The only intervention that works at 2am is the one you can access at 2am.

04

Repeat Until It Sticks

Consistent state change rewires the default trait. Each use strengthens calmer neural pathways, making regulated states the new baseline over time.

Learn more about the JIT-R Framework →

The Intervention

Guided somatic regulation, available instantly

Evidence-based EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) delivered through guided audio sessions. Users tap on acupressure points while speaking the feeling out loud—naming and acknowledging what's actually there, guided word by word, rather than tapping in silence. Pairing somatic stimulation with spoken emotional processing is the technique's active ingredient—and it downregulates the nervous system in minutes.

  • 10-15 minute sessions designed for real-world use
  • Condition-specific tracks for anxiety, depression, pain, sleep
  • Pre/post distress ratings measuring immediate impact
  • No learning curve—guidance is built into every session
NeuroTap App - Releasing the Weight of Worry

Why Now

The moment for digital mental health is here

📈

Post-pandemic demand

Mental health needs have surged while provider capacity remains flat. The gap between demand and supply has never been wider—or more urgent to fill.

💰

Value-based care momentum

CMS and commercial payers are aggressively pursuing behavioral health integration—the ACCESS Model itself is the proof. What gets covered is what can demonstrate outcomes, not just engagement.

🔬

Evidence at scale

The Tapping Solution—our consumer platform, and the dataset NeuroTap is built on—has run for nearly 20 years. The 16.6 million rated sessions we analyzed make the evidence base no longer a promising signal. It's a dataset large enough to act on.

🎯

Category creation

Digital mental health is crowded with tools that teach skills for later. Almost nothing is built for the moment itself—the thing a patient reaches for when the thinking brain is offline. That unmet need is where we work.

Two Clinical Tracks. One Mechanism.

Addressing two high-cost populations

Anxiety and chronic pain share a common root: autonomic nervous system dysregulation. Our somatic approach addresses both through the same mechanism—opening two distinct market opportunities.

🧠 Behavioral Health Track

Anxiety & Depression

d = 1.44

Anxiety, our within-session data

g = 1.27

Depression, 18 published RCTs

Anxiety Depression Panic Stress

💪 Chronic Pain Track

Musculoskeletal (MSK) & Chronic Pain Management

d = 1.21

Pain, our within-session data

6 mo

RCT gains held at follow-up

Chronic MSK Pain Back Pain Joint Pain Pain Catastrophizing

Why one intervention works for both: Both conditions involve autonomic dysregulation—the same overactive stress response. By calming the nervous system during activation, we address the shared root mechanism.

Complementary by Design

We fill the gap other tools weren't designed for

We're not replacing CBT apps or meditation—we're the layer that makes everything else work better.

CBT Apps

Best for skill building

d = 0.3–0.5

Typical effect size

Teaches powerful cognitive techniques. Requires clear thinking to apply—challenging during acute distress.

NeuroTap

Best for the acute moment + lasting change

d = 1.21–1.66

Effect size

Works during acute distress when cognition is offline. Somatic-first approach bypasses the thinking brain entirely.

Meditation Apps

Best for resilience building

d = 0.2–0.4

Typical effect size

Builds long-term calm and awareness. Requires baseline regulation to practice effectively.

The best outcomes come from multiple tools working together. We reduce baseline distress so CBT homework is achievable. We calm the nervous system so meditation practice is accessible.

Leadership

Built with clinical and scientific rigor

Guided by leaders in psychiatry, neuroscience, and digital health.

Nick Ortner

Nick Ortner

Founder & CEO

Founder of The Tapping Solution. Nearly 20 years pioneering evidence-based EFT delivery at scale.

Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins

Strategic Advisor

Bestselling author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.

Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. Maurizio Fava

Dr. Maurizio Fava

Chair, Scientific Advisory Board

Chair of Psychiatry, Mass General Brigham. Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Mark Rapaport

Dr. Mark Rapaport

Scientific Advisory Board

President, American Psychiatric Association (2026–2027). Founding CEO, Emeritus, Huntsman Mental Health Institute.

Dr. Helen Lavretsky

Dr. Helen Lavretsky

Scientific Advisory Board

Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA. Expert in integrative mental health and aging.

For Payers & Health Systems

Prevent escalation. Reduce costs. Improve outcomes.

The 2am crisis that becomes an ED visit. The caregiver who burns out and hands the system a patient. We prevent escalation at a fraction of the cost—and we have the data to prove it.

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$2,264

Cost of boarding one psychiatric patient in the ED

63M

Americans serving as family caregivers

167

Hours a week without a therapist

24/7

Availability, zero wait time

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Interested in bringing evidence-based, on-demand emotional regulation to your population?

We're partnering with health systems, payers, and researchers committed to filling the gaps in mental health care.

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