Lempa App: Feature Guide

A comprehensive overview of the tools, technologies, and therapeutic principles that power your mental well-being journey.

Core Experience

Personalized Dashboard

Purpose: To serve as your daily starting point, offering a quick, motivational overview of your journey and progress.

How it Works: The dashboard aggregates data from all other modules in the app. It displays a personalized welcome, an inspiring quote, and key metrics in an easy-to-digest format.

Key Features:

  • At-a-Glance Stats: Cards showing your daily activity streak, habit tracking progress, and the score from your most recent well-being assessment.
  • Assessment Chart: A bar chart visualizing your assessment scores over time, allowing you to track your progress objectively.
  • Recent Activity Feed: A log of your latest accomplishments (e.g., "Completed PHQ-9 Assessment," "Recorded a thought"), providing positive reinforcement.
  • Quick Actions: Direct links to the most commonly used tools, like logging a thought or starting a session.

AI-Powered Personalization

AI-Generated Wellness Program

Purpose: To provide a structured, long-term plan that guides you toward a specific wellness goal, removing the guesswork from your daily practice.

How it Works: You select a primary goal (e.g., "Improve Sleep"). Our AI (powered by Genkit and Google's Gemini model) analyzes this goal and generates a unique 4-week program. It intelligently selects and schedules a mix of Light Therapy, Audio Sessions, and Courses from the app's library that are relevant to your goal. For example, selecting 'Improve Sleep' might result in a plan that schedules the 'Delta Slumber' light therapy protocol in the evenings, recommends the 'Body Scan for Sleep' guided meditation before bed, and assigns the 'Mindfulness Foundations' course to help manage racing thoughts.

Key Features:

  • Goal Selection: Simple, clear options to define your focus.
  • Structured Weekly Plan: Each week has a theme, an introduction, and a clear set of recommended activities.
  • Content Curation: The AI draws from all available app resources, ensuring a varied and relevant plan.
  • Actionable Goals: Each week includes a simple, actionable goal to keep you focused.
AI-Assisted CBT Thought Record

Purpose: To enhance the traditional CBT thought record by providing instant, objective feedback on your thought patterns.

How it Works: After you write down an automatic negative thought, you can click "Analyze." The app sends this thought to our AI, which has been trained to identify common cognitive distortions. For instance, if you enter the thought, "I messed up that presentation, I'm going to get fired," the AI might identify 'Catastrophizing' and 'All-or-Nothing Thinking.' It would then generate personalized Socratic questions like, "What is the evidence that one presentation mistake will lead to you being fired?" and "Is there a less extreme way to view this situation?" to help you challenge and reframe the thought.

Key Features:

  • Cognitive Distortion Analysis: Identifies unhelpful thinking patterns in your own words.
  • Guided Restructuring: Generates personalized questions to promote new perspectives.
  • AI-Powered Insight: Acts as a non-judgmental partner in your cognitive restructuring process.

Core Sessions & Modalities

Light Therapy

Purpose: To use Audio-Visual Entrainment (AVE) to gently encourage your brainwaves to align with specific frequencies associated with states like relaxation, focus, or meditation.

How it Works: The app uses your phone's camera flashlight to produce rhythmic pulses of light. For example, to promote focus, the 'Beta Focus' protocol flashes light between 15-22 times per second (15-22Hz). You place the phone face down, close your eyes, and the rhythmic flicker, perceived through your closed eyelids, gently encourages your brain to enter a state of active concentration.

Key Features: A library of protocols (Alpha, Beta, Theta, Delta, Gamma), each with a specific goal and frequency timeline.

Audio Library

A collection of sound-based tools for various needs.

  • Guided Meditations: Narrated sessions like the 'Body Scan for Sleep' talk you through a practice to prepare for restful sleep.
  • Nature Sounds: Ambient soundscapes like 'Rainwater Epilogue' for focus or relaxation.
  • Audio Generators: Interactive tools to create your own brainwave entrainment sounds. For instance, using the Binaural Beats generator, you can set a carrier frequency of 200Hz and a beat frequency of 10Hz to create an Alpha wave stimulus for relaxation, adjusting the volume to your comfort.
Breathing Exercises

Purpose: To use the breath as a tool to consciously regulate your nervous system.

How it Works: The app provides a visual player with animated cues for inhaling, holding, and exhaling. For 'Box Breathing,' a square on the screen will expand for 4 seconds as you inhale, stay large for a 4-second hold, contract for a 4-second exhale, and stay small for the final 4-second hold, guiding you through the cycle.

Key Features: A library of exercises like Box Breathing, 4-7-8 Breathing, and Coherent Breathing, categorized by goal.

Personalized Session Composer

Purpose: To give you complete control to create your own multimodal wellness experience.

How it Works: This advanced tool provides a composer interface where you can layer multiple modalities. For example, you could combine the 'Alpha Boost' Light Therapy protocol with a background 'Rainwater' soundscape, while simultaneously listening to the 'Breathing Meditation' narration, creating a deeply immersive relaxation session tailored exactly to your preferences.

Therapeutic Toolkit (CBT/DBT)

Behavioral Activation

Principle: Based on the CBT concept that engaging in positive, rewarding activities can directly improve mood and combat withdrawal.

How it Works: You create a daily to-do list of positive activities (e.g., "Go for a 15-minute walk," "Call a friend"). You can add your own or choose from suggestions like "Engage in a hobby for 20 minutes." As you complete them, you check them off and your daily progress bar fills up. The app tracks your "daily streak" of completing at least one activity to build momentum.

Habit Tracker

Principle: Fosters consistency in positive routines, which is key to long-term well-being.

How it Works: You can define any habit you want to build (e.g., "Meditate for 10 minutes" or "Read one chapter of a book"). Each day you complete the habit, you "check in," and the app tracks your consecutive day streak, providing a powerful source of motivation to keep going.

CBT/DBT Exercises

A collection of guided digital worksheets for specific therapeutic techniques.

  • Cost-Benefit Analysis: An interactive form where you identify a belief (e.g., "I must always be perfect") and systematically list the pros ("It pushes me to do good work") and cons ("It causes me immense stress and I procrastinate"). This helps you make a rational decision about whether the belief truly serves you.
  • Opposite Action: A DBT-inspired worksheet. If you feel sad and your urge is to "isolate and stay in bed," the worksheet guides you to plan an opposite action, such as "Go for a walk and listen to upbeat music," and commit to it fully.
Exposure Hierarchy

Principle: Based on Exposure Therapy, a core CBT technique for overcoming anxiety and phobias.

How it Works: You create a "fear ladder" by identifying a specific fear (e.g., public speaking). You then break it down into smaller steps, rating the anxiety for each: Step 1 (SUDS: 20): "Thinking about giving a speech." Step 2 (SUDS: 40): "Practicing in front of a mirror." Step 3 (SUDS: 60): "Giving the speech to one friend." This provides a clear, gradual path for exposure practice.

Learning & Assessment

Well-Being Assessments

Purpose: To provide standardized, objective measures of your mental state, helping you track progress beyond just subjective feelings.

How it Works: The app includes clinical screening tools like the PHQ-9 (for depression). You answer a series of questions based on your feelings over the last two weeks. The app calculates your score (e.g., a score of 12 indicates "Moderate" depression), provides an interpretation, and saves the result. All past results are plotted on a chart to visualize your progress over time.

Educational Courses

Purpose: To educate you on the 'why' behind mental health concepts and therapeutic techniques.

How it Works: The app provides in-depth, multi-section courses on specific topics. The current flagship course is a comprehensive guide to "Understanding ADHD," broken into sessions and subsections. It includes text, images, embedded videos from subject matter experts, and interactive questions to create an engaging learning experience. Your progress through a course is saved, so you can easily resume where you left off.