Manuel
After studying Applied Positive Psychology and building a series of psychology online programs, he's now developing the Pocketcoach program. Deeply cares about Pocketcoach's users.
Tara
Tara has a Masters Degree in Psychology with an Emphasis in Counseling and is a life coach and counselor in Vienna, Austria. She is dedicated to serving others and to ending the stigma around seeking mental health help.
Philipp
Has a Masters Degree in Visual Computing from the Vienna University of Technology. Philipp has worked in the Russian high tech startup Visionlabs. He cofounded the Marketing and Consulting agency Hawaras.
Flavia
After graduating Communication Sciences and working on both supply side, demand side and analytics side of the advertising industry, she joined Pocketcoach. Her goal is to place the Pocketcoach app in front of millions of users; to help people fight anxiety and build better thinking habits.
Büşra
Büşra is a Master’s student at the Vienna University of Economics and Business’ Marketing Program. She is particularly interested in digital marketing and social innovation and believes that social innovations are the key to making the world a better place.
Tom
After training to be a Psychologist in the NHS, Tom moved to Vienna to continue expanding his awareness and experiences. He believes in ending the stigma around mental health and providing Pocketcoach's users with a genuinely helpful experience.
Dieter
Works at the intersection of user experience design and software engineering. He strives to use technology as a tool to create better human experiences. He previously worked at the first South African company to be included in the 500 Startups Accelerator.
Dr. Christiane Eichenberg
University Professor and Leader of the Institute for Psychosomatics, Medical Faculty, Sigmund Freud Private University, Vienna, Austria. She is psychologist and psychoanalyst. Her main research topics are: E-mental health, Psychosomatic, Psychotraumatology.
Dr. Dean McKay
Professor of Psychology at Fordham University and former President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) and the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP). He is currently Associate Editor of three scientific journals and has published over 300 journal articles and book chapters.
Beth Rogozinski
Beth Rogozinski is a serial entrepreneur and business strategist currently focused on digital medicine. Beth serves as the CEO of Signal 2 Health, previously the CPO at Pear Therapeutics. She has produced more than 30 games and apps, including dozen apps for health and wellness, including two which gained full FDA approval.
We try to live by our values as best we can. Each of them
has their own little story.
1. Maintain honesty, integrity and intention.
Admittedly, it’s actually a combination of three
values. Honesty means telling the truth. It’s closely
linked to integrity, which to me means keeping promises and
acting in line with my values and convictions. We strive to
put honesty and integrity at the heart and center of what we
do. It’s not always easy and everybody screws up
sometimes.
But we are committed to keep trying, keep screwing up and
keep making amends. Maintaining intention in this case means
always keeping in mind what the ultimate goal is. And
that’s helping people live happier and more fulfilled
lives.
2. Focus on users.
Focus on users means always keeping in mind that the most
important part of Pocketcoach is the people who actually use
it. And remembering this as Pocketcoach grows and changes is
fundamentally important. It’s easy to get off track in
the midst of the day-to-day stress and busyness that comes
with creating an application like Pocketcoach. This value is
a constant reminder that it’s the people who use
Pocketcoach who we are doing all this for.
3. Science drives story.
There’s two aspects here. First, science. we strive
for everything that Pocketcoach teaches to be based on
scientifically-validated therapy approaches. That
doesn’t necessarily mean that every single tool that
Pocketcoach teaches needs to be clinically tested. But it
needs to have proven itself as part of well-tested
therapies. This scientific basis is the foundation for trust
between Pocketcoach and its users.
The second aspect is story. Humans have been telling
stories since the beginning of civilization. That’s
how we learn best and how we remember things. That’s
why we try to wrap many of our lessons around examples and
videos which tell small stories. Putting these two together,
we could probably phrase it like this: Science is the
foundation of what we’re doing. And story is how we
want to bridge the gap between science and our users’
minds.
4. Last but not least, we gotta have fun.
Gotta have fun stands for more though than laughing
occasionally. It’s a reminder that we can only be
happy right in this moment. And that life is precious and
needs to be lived with gratitude. That’s also why it
helps us remember to take care of ourselves as well.
There you have it. A little glimpse into our work and life.
Hope you enjoyed it!
The Pocketcoach Team
