The IntelliCare Plus Program

IntelliCare Plus is an 8-week program that teaches you skills to improve your mood and reduce stress, supported by a digital mental health app and a coach.

The IntelliCare Plus App

The IntelliCare Plus App includes Daily Tasks. Clinically proven daily activities that help you deal with real life trigger situations to lessen your anxiety or depression.

Our tasks were designed by researchers and clinicians, to put the psychological strategies that top therapists teach their clients into the palm of your hand. Tasks can take as little as five minutes, but by working through each of them, you give yourself the best chance to see improvement.

IntelliCare Plus turns your mobile phone into your mental health toolbox. With Intellicare Plus you have access to a Tool Box full of the evidence-informed instruments designed to help you cope with every-day trigger situations to lessen your depression or anxiety. Your Tool Box is open 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Inside you will find:

Assessments:

• Track your progress and spot negative thought patterns.

Mood Journal:

• Track your mood to help recognize trends and avoid trigger situations

Worry Knot:

• Helps lower the anxiety you feel about a worry so you can get “unstuck.”

Thought Challenger:

• Learn to recognize and change unhelpful thinking.

My Mantra:

• mLearn to use simple phrases to be more positive and feel better.

Daily Feats:

• Celebrate accomplishments for increased motivation and improved mood.

Psychoeducational Library:

• A collection of in-depth information on depression and anxiety.

Coaching

A coach will help guide you through the program and help you stay on track. A coach is available for a phone call to start you off. On that call, coach will get to know you, explain the program, and answer any questions you might have. After that the coach will check in with you a couple of times a week to see how you are doing with the program. In addition, coaches are available to answer your questions. We have seen that this kind of coaching support helps people stick with the app activities and will help you feel better sooner.

Getting started with IntelliCare Plus is simple and should take less than 2 minutes.

First you will need to register your mobile number by visiting our registration page.

Once registration is complete, you will be directed to the App Store or Google Play to download IntelliCare Plus.

Once you download and verify your mobile number, you’re in! Keep an eye out from your coach - they will be contacting you via text message within 24 hours.

Is there a cost?

No - IntelliCare Plus is available at no ccharge to particpants of the Northwestern Medicine Department of Psychiatry & Adaptive Health Pilot

Who created IntelliCare Plus?

Developed by clinicians and experts at Northwestern University.

• Core psychological strategies, commonly used by psychotherapists to treat patients face-to-face

• Studies have shown users who complete the program see a 50% decrease in symptoms - this is equivalent to improvement seen from antidepressants and/or in-person treatment. It requires 2-5 minutes of time per day and is provided free of charge.

• Delivered as brief interventions to encourage skill use and practice

• Coaches activate & monitor users to implement strategies in everyday life.

Who is my coach?

• IntelliCare Plus coaches are real people and never an automated bot

• Coaches are paraprofessionals trained and supervised by a licensed clinical psychologist