An EMDR bilateral stimulation app for iPhone — Joy-Con haptics, adjustable tempo, and remote sessions for clinicians and clients.
Self-administered grounding for everyday stress, or a discreet administration tool during an in-session EMDR protocol.
Pair your Joy-Cons, pick a preset, and let slow alternating taps bring you back into your body. Ideal for winding down, re-centering after a meeting, or evening grounding.
Hand both Joy-Cons to your client for silent tactile BLS. You control speed, intensity, and duration from the phone — no client data is stored on the device.
Tap the little sync button on each controller. TheraJoy finds them in seconds and shows battery, handedness, and haptic health.
Calm, Standard, Process, or Custom. Dial speed, haptic intensity, passes per set, and duration to match how you feel today.
Left-tap, right-tap. A slow pendulum on screen mirrors the haptic rhythm in your hands. Close your eyes if you want. The app tracks passes and time for you.
Every control sits where your thumb already is. Every screen is calm by default, with a deeper set of tools the moment you need them.
Orb, Horizon, or Ambient — switch mid-session with a tap, or close your eyes entirely.
Save the recipe that works — speed, haptic strength, passes, duration — and pull it up in two taps.
Optional, private, unprompted. A one-line note stays on your device.
No accounts, no analytics, no push notifications. The app opens, works, and closes.
Share a 6-character code to bring a second device into the same session — across the room or across the country. Clinicians can drive a client's session from their own phone; clients receive on any browser. Receivers are always free.
Rhythmic, side-alternating input — a metronome in each hand — is a core element of EMDR and several sensorimotor approaches. It can help anchor attention in the body and down-regulate a busy nervous system.
Haptics let you close your eyes. We default to tactile; visual and audio are optional layers.
Slower for grounding. Faster for processing. Both supported, with gentle defaults.
TheraJoy is a wellness tool. It is not a replacement for EMDR therapy, diagnosis, or treatment.
Joy-Cons lead the way, but TheraJoy can drive whatever gives you a good left-right pulse.
Strong HD rumble, one in each hand, ~20 hr battery. Pair individually for true L/R haptics.
Audio-only BLS with soft alternating tones, panned fully L/R.
Side-tap the screen with alternating haptic nudges — pocket-sized when that's all you have.
When your eyes are closed and your breath is slow, a game controller is the wrong object in your hands. Pebble is our own take: a matched pair of matte-soft, palm-rounded shells, each with a single linear motor, designed to disappear into the act of grounding itself.
From the blog
What the alternating left-right pattern is actually doing, and why the modality matters less than the timing.
A nine-step walkthrough of where tactile stimulation fits in the standard protocol.
Running bilateral stimulation over video without the client needing hardware of their own.
Where resourcing and grounding end and processing begins — and why that line matters.
What a pair of Joy-Cons can and cannot do as tappers, honestly assessed.
How the current apps compare on modalities, remote sessions and price.
No account required. Runs entirely on your iPhone.