NEA Mental Health Program

The NEA Mental Health Program is an evidence-based mobile app care solution created by clinical experts that allows members to access on-demand help for stress, anxiety, and depression.

Sanvello is an evidence-backed mobile care solution created by clinical experts that allows you to access on-demand help for stress, anxiety, and depression. Sanvello uses evidence-informed techniques such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that are designed to work together to help you learn how to feel happier. Our mission is to help people build the life skills they need—anytime, anywhere, and in any way they choose.

Sanvello provides free access to Sanvello Self-Care to anyone who downloads the App. NEA members are eligible for the following special offer:

• Sanvello free version of the App is available for anyone 13+ at no cost.
• Free access to Sanvello Premium for 12 months for members and spouses/domestic partners.
• Premium access includes: Daily mood tracking, Guided Journeys, coping tools, meditations, progress assessments, and an anonymous community of peers. You can find help and relief when you need it.

Sanvello offers on-demand help for stress, anxiety, and depression. You do not need a clinical diagnosis to use Sanvello, and anyone who is experiencing symptoms of these conditions—or simply wants to improve their mental well-being—can find strategies, tools, and resources that work for them within Sanvello. Sanvello also can provide value to caregivers, loved ones, or friends by teaching skills to help those experiencing symptoms.

Regularly tracking mood and health habit data allows you to see connection points between your experiences, activities, and emotions. Recognizing these patterns help you understand how you felt and be better prepared for the future. Sanvello also offers weekly assessments. Assessments are like a thermometer to measure your temperature over time and see if you have a fever. These assessments alternate between 21- and 12- question surveys that result in a score for your stress, anxiety, and depression levels, or resiliency. These assessments are not clinical, but give users a benchmark of where they start, and help them measure progress over time.

Sanvello is available whenever you need it. Some Sanvello users log in daily to track their mood and health habits, and leverage tools like the Guided Journeys and meditations. Others simply open it up when they’re having a bad day or are struggling with a particular situation. Sanvello Guided Journeys are structured to be completed over the course of about seven weeks, but some complete them faster. In any case, Sanvello contains an immense amount of strategies, tools, and resources, so anyone can find something that helps them in that moment, or over time.

As a NEA member you have complimentary access to all of these tools for 12 months.

Daily Mood Tracking: Relieving stress, anxiety, or depression starts with noting how you feel. Sanvello mood tracking, daily reminders, and health tracking tools guide you to monitor your emotions, see positive and negative influences, and make changes that can help.

Guided Journeys: Designed by psychologists for a range of needs, Sanvello Guided Journeys are step-by-step audio lessons and activities based on CBT and other proven techniques. Choose your path to gain insight and build life skills.

Tools: When feelings or life situations get in the way of your happiness, Sanvello helps you change your outlook and get on a better path with tools to calm your mind and ways to redirect negative thoughts.

Assessments: A key part of CBT is understanding how actions and feelings are related. Based on your mood data, Sanvello progress assessments show you connections between your experiences, activities, and emotions.

Community: At the heart of Sanvello is our vibrant community of users. See what people are posting across a wide range of topics, from personal strategies to words of encouragement.

Apple Health Integration: Health tracking for exercise, sleep, and caffeine can be populated using Apple Health. Sanvello will also write Mindfulness Minutes back to Apple Health based on your meditation usage. Apple Watch Integration: Sanvello sends push notifications can be sent to Apple Watch. There are no specific plans for additional integration with Apple Watch at this time.

Yes, Sanvello is rooted in widely-used and empirically-supported treatments for stress, anxiety, and depression. Numerous studies show these practices to be effective in addressing a variety of psychological disorders that get in the way of living a happy life. In a randomized, wait-listed controlled study of 500 adults, Sanvello was shown to decrease symptoms of anxiety and depression over the course of 30 days. Participants also reported increased self-efficacy and showed sustained improvement after 30 days—even after participants stopped using the app.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a form of psychotherapy that has been shown to be especially effective in treating stress, anxiety, and depression. CBT is focused on changing unhelpful cognitive distortions by educating the individual on the connection between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and empowering them to make positive changes. Sanvello leverages CBT throughout the app, most notably through the Guided Journeys. Guided Journeys are thoughtful, rich experiences that engage users with relatable, bite-sized concepts on multiple sensory levels (reading, listening, watching, writing, etc.) to help users learn coping skills and build resiliency.

Sanvello will never share your data without your expressed consent. Sanvello is fully committed to maintaining your privacy and trust, which means full compliance with privacy rules and regulations (e.g., HIPAA), as well as complete transparency about how we protect your data. You can access our privacy policy at any time within the app or on the Sanvello website, or contact Sanvello directly with any questions at info@sanvello.com.

Yes, Sanvello is available in English, Spanish and French. To set your language, click on the ‘Me’ tab, then click the account cog in the upper right. Click ‘Language’ then select your preferred language.

Please check your junk and spam folders for the welcome email. If it’s not there, try adding info@sanvello.com to your contact list and re-sending. If you still haven’t received after a few minutes, please contact info@sanvello.com and we can manually validate your email.

Sanvello is committed to an excellent user experience, and we want to resolve any issues quickly. The best first stop is the Sanvello help site, which answers a variety of technical questions.