Lumi Nova provides NICE recommended, digital therapy for childhood anxiety. 

Proudly funded and commissioned by the NHS and Local Authorities, Lumi Nova provides children aged 7-12 with instant access to support and the tools to build skills for lifelong self-management of anxiety.

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Evidence-based digital mental health support you can trust

Lumi Nova combines Exposure Therapy and Psychoeducation inside an easy to use mobile-game and is recommended by NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) as a 'first line treatment option' to treat anxiety in children and young people.’

How Lumi Nova is supporting families

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6000+ children and families supported since 2023

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84% of young people said Lumi Nova was easy to use

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78% of parents reported an improvement in their child’s anxiety

Child-led, parent-supported and evidence based

  • For 7-12 year olds

  • Safely supports mild to moderate anxiety

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) based modality

  • Access on demand

  • Inclusive and non-stigmatising by design

  • Reaching underserved children & young people to help address health inequity

View outcomes and progress data in real time

Lumi Nova includes access to the VitaMind Hub for professionals.

  • Provides routine outcome measures (ROMS)

  • View and Download Engagement Data

  • Automated reports including MHSDS

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Meeting the highest standards of clinical safety and data security

  • Lumi Nova is recommended by the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as a first line treatment option (for children and young people with mild to moderate symptoms of anxiety), 

  • CE marked as a Class 1 (low risk) Medical Device registered with the UK’s Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

  • Compliant with DCB0129 - NHS standard for clinical risk management and its application in the development of digital health technologies

  • NHS Digital Technologies Assessment Criteria (DTAC) - NHSE approved

  • NHS Data Security and Protection (DSP) Toolkit - Standards met

  • ICO Registration

  • Cyber Essentials Accredited

What customers and families have to say

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  • “We have been overwhelmed by the amount of support that we have received from BFB Labs and Gloucestershire Healthy Living & Learning (GHLL), not only with the initial launch of Lumi Nova, but the continued and sustained involvement to truly embed the offer locally.”

    Hayley Payne, Associate Director, Children, Young People and Maternity, NHS Gloucestershire ICB

  • “I’ve been to a visit today where I previously introduced them to Lumi Nova and the 7 year old girl has been using it a lot and has been really enjoying it. Mum feels it’s had a really positive impact on her anxiety and her coping strategies. She’s been using it before events that would have previously made her really worried and she said it is helping her a lot.”

    - Community Staff Nurse (Wakefield 0-19 Service)

  • “I think those first three [challenges in the game] were really powerful... and it’s funny because she keeps saying she wants to go back and watch [the video of] those children in school. She thinks it’s fun, and then because she’s gone back to revisit a previous task, she gets the rewards… But what I’ve noticed is she’s said once or twice now, “Come on Luminaut. You can do it!” and I was really laughing to myself because that’s just something she’s picked up, which is really good.”

    - Kelly (Mum to Erin aged 6)

  • “I [went] through what the game told me to do, so I imagined sleeping there. And I calmed myself down and I managed to get through it and it was really nice… I felt a bit worried but it was kind of helping me”

    - Phoenix (Aged 13 from London)

  • “I didn’t think I would be able to overcome my fear, but I think I have! It’s helped me feel like if I do have another fear then I can easily overcome it by setting myself challenges. It’s a really good game. I don’t think I would have been able to have done it without it.”

    - Ruby (Aged 10 from Suffolk)

Enhancing the CYP Pathway  through local integration

We work closely with NHS, Local Authority and VCSE partners  to meet the mental health needs of our children and young people at a time of unprecedented demand. Our purpose is to collaboratively reduce wait times significantly, make therapeutic services more accessible, more equitable, and improve service user outcomes and experience, by providing an innovative digital route to support for children across communities.

Points of use:

  • Early support settings

  • Self referrals

  • Point of triaging

  • Waitlist management

  • As adjunct to specialist support

  • To prevent relapse

Evidence

Beta version trialled in 2020 in partnership with Southwark Council and MindTech.

12 schools, 90 young people and their parents took part.

Key results:

  • In just 8 weeks, children who used Lumi Nova experienced a reduction in their anxiety symptoms across all domains of anxiety; generalised anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder, panic disorder and phobias.

  • users who played Lumi Nova more frequently showed a greater reduction in anxiety symptoms.

  • significant engagement and treatment adherence levels particularly with the therapeutic elements of the game.

  • treatment gains for both genders and users at the younger and older end of the target age group.

  • Lumi Nova is a safe intervention to treat the symptoms of anxiety in children.

Key aspects of CBT and gamification to treat children with anxiety (Evidence Review Summary 2017)

Learn more about how we tackle health inequality

Our Research Partners

For parents and guardians

Lumi Nova is currently only available in some areas via our partners. Click on the Get Access button below to view a list of supported areas.

Lumi Nova is not recommended for use with children who have severe anxiety, are in crisis, have suicidal thoughts or are at risk of self harming without clinical supervision. See Instructions For Use.