Why EDI?
Enhanced treatments are needed for behavioral health conditions, including psychiatric illness, addiction, and trauma. Today’s interventions rely almost exclusively on language for diagnosis and treatment, yet words are often inadequate for the expression of feelings, thoughts, and experiences. This results in communication barriers that make treatment challenging. New techniques are needed to augment traditional language-based therapies in ways that improve outcomes and lower costs.
Expressive Digital Imagery® (EDI) is a new, affordable, easy-to-use, and engaging mobile solution that makes traditional behavioral health therapies more efficient and effective. In leading institutions, EDI is enabling the creation of imagery expressing complex feelings, thoughts, and experiences that patients and clinicians say are inaccessible through words alone. EDI is a secure solution, licensed and integrated with minimal training or disruption.
What We Do
The EDI Institute integrates Expressive Digital Imagery® (EDI) into existing evidence-based therapeutic programs at hospitals, clinics, schools, and other community organizations. Our team of professionals and fellows works intimately with our partners to tailor the use of EDI in each unique environment.
With specialized technologies and best practices uncovered from ongoing pilots around the country, we directly engage in the design and implementation of new EDI programs. We train, we support the rollout, and we enable vital ongoing outcomes measurement.
What We Do
The EDI Institute integrates Expressive Digital Imagery® (EDI) into existing evidence-based therapeutic programs at hospitals, clinics, schools, and other community organizations. Our team of professionals and fellows works intimately with our partners to tailor the use of EDI in each unique environment.
With specialized technologies and best practices uncovered from ongoing pilots around the country, we directly engage in the design and implementation of new EDI programs. We train, we support the rollout, and we enable vital ongoing outcomes measurement.
The EDI Institute Solution
MYMOMENTS.MOBILE: The first mobile app designed specifically for therapeutic self-expression through digital imagery
MYMOMENTS.CLOUD: Cloud-based platform to support the integration of EDI into evidence-based therapies
EDI IMAGE REPOSITORY: Worldwide database of EDI imagery, supporting EDI workshops, education, advocacy, and research
EDI EDUCATION AND SUPPORT: EDI Training Institute in support of EDI professionals and clinicians
EDI OUTCOMES MEASUREMENT: Research and development programs to innovate and measure EDI best practices
Our EDI Mobile App
The EDI Institute has released the first mobile platform developed specifically for therapeutic self-expression through digital imagery. Called “MyMoments”, this proprietary app is designed for individuals at all levels of technical proficiency, allowing expressive imagery to be created quickly and with minimal training.
To date, over 4,000 participants have created over 12,000 images in leading institutions across the country.
Our EDI Mobile App
The EDI Institute has released the first mobile platform developed specifically for therapeutic self-expression through digital imagery. Called “MyMoments”, this proprietary app is designed for individuals at all levels of technical proficiency, allowing expressive imagery to be created quickly and with minimal training.
To date, over 4,000 participants have created over 12,000 images in leading institutions across the country.
Our History
Steven Koppel, a former senior partner at Accenture, founded the non-profit EDI Institute as a result of his own therapeutic experience with digital imagery while coping with family medical challenges. Pilots were launched at some of the nation’s premier health centers. These included McLean Hospital (the top-ranked psychiatric hospital in the country), the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Gosnold Addiction Center (New England’s largest independent addiction services provider), and the Massachusetts General Hospital. EDI was also piloted at leading community organizations, including the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and Rosie’s Place, a highly esteemed shelter for women.
The EDI Institute has now developed its own unique set of EDI technologies, processes, and contextualized best practices, capable of supporting EDI in virtually any clinical or community-based setting. In December 2015, The EDI Institute announced a major strategic partnership with McLean Hospital to implement EDI nationally and to perform the scientific research required to quantify clinical impact.