Our Story
IBS.mindovergut.com is a free online mental health service offering information, assessment, and a structured treatment program ("eTherapy") for individuals with IBS and associated psychological distress. This website and its intervention program is free and available to all individuals with IBS and also any health provider to use with their patients.
The IBS-focused psychological treatment program includes:
- Stress management with a mindfulness focus
- Strategies to identify and address IBS associated anxiety and depression symptoms
- Sleep and pain management strategies
- Strategies to identify and address psychological patterns known to impact IBS symptoms
IBS.mindovergut.com has two primary goals: (1) provide information about IBS; and (2) provide an effective online psychological treatment service for IBS.
IBS.mindovergut.com comprises 2 main areas:
- Information: High quality information and resources are provided to enable you to gain a comprehensive understanding of anxiety and depression generally, and of anxiety and depression disorders specifically.
- Treatment program: A comprehensive and effective treatment program for treating the psychological aspects that contribute to the development and maintenance of IBS. The self-help programs are for individuals with mild symptoms and are offered free of charge.
Your use of this service and feedback is valuable. Your participation in the assessment and treatment programs will also help shape this service to better support individuals with IBS.
If you would like to volunteer to participant in other ongoing IBS-based research activities at Swinburne University, please feel free to contact us at: simon@mindovergut.com
On behalf of the entire team here at IBS.mindovergut.com, I wish you every success and hope you will find the information and psychological treatment programs helpful!