About e-couch
Information and self-help for common mental health problems
e-couch is an online, self-directed training program which provides interactive self-help and evidence-based information to help users to understand and manage symptoms associated with common mental issues.
The program is like an interactive self-help book, which you can log back in to at any time to learn more skills or to add to your workbooks.
e-couch offers five programs: Depression, Anxiety & Worry, Social Anxiety, Divorce & Separation and Loss & Bereavement. Each program includes a comprehensive information module, as well as self-help modules with interactive exercises and workbooks which teach evidence-based strategies.
Clinical practice guidelines
e-couch provides training in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) and psychoeducation, which are recommended treatments for depression and anxiety disorders in the clinical practice guidelines published by Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. Digital CBT or Internet-delivered CBT (iCBT) is also recognised in the guidelines.
You can access the clinical practice guidelines through the following links:
- 2020 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guidelines for mood disorders
- Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of panic disorder, social anxiety disorder and generalised anxiety disorder
NSQDMH standards accreditation
e-couch is accredited to the National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health standards . These standards improve the quality of digital mental health services and protect service users and their support people from harm.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgement of Country
e-hub Health acknowledges the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which e-couch was developed at The Australian National University. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We recognise that connection to Country, culture and community is central to social and emotional wellbeing.
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion
e-hub Health welcomes everyone who uses our programs, in Australia and around the world. We are committed to providing safe, accessible and inclusive self-help mental health programs for people of all backgrounds, cultures, faiths, abilities, gender identities and sexual orientations — and to providing services free from discrimination of any kind.
Acknowledgement of lived and living experience
We acknowledge the wisdom and contribution of people with lived and living experience of mental health challenges, and the families, carers and loved ones who walk alongside them. Their voices shape the design of our programs.
Acknowledgement of research participants
Our programs exist because of the people who have contributed to the research behind e-couch. We acknowledge everyone who has taken part in a study, trial or survey. Their generosity has built the evidence base our service rests on.
Service user rights
The e-couch web service complies with and promotes The Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights and The Charter of Young People's Healthcare Rights .
Who is behind e-couch?
e-couch was originally developed and evaluated over 10 years by researchers at the Australian National University - the same team that developed the well-known moodgym program for depression and anxiety . The development and delivery of e-couch is now undertaken by e-hub Health – an ANU spin-off company. e-hub Health is part of the Dialogue group of companies.
The original version of e-couch was co-funded by Australia's beyondblue: the national depression initiative and the Australian National University. e-couch has continued to be expanded and delivered with funding from the Australian Government Department of Health & Aged Care.
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