McDonn Michael

Jan 07, 2022

Cloud Thoughts - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) App

Cloud Thoughts is a thought diary app used for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). According to Wikipedia, Cognitive behavioral therapy is a psycho-social intervention that aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions, primarily depression and anxiety disorders. But CBT can be used for anything nowadays, such as self-improvement and career development.

I decided to create this app when I struggled to get a job after college. To keep me encouraged and motivated, I used a thought diary which inspired me to make this app. Cloud Thoughts features some of the most common practices in a CBT thought diary. It includes input fields for the situation, thoughts, feelings, irrational thoughts, new feelings, and self-challenges.

A thought diary must be easily accessible. I wanted it to be usable on both the web and Android. So after I developed this app using Bootstrap and deployed it to Heroku, I developed an Android app with it. I made sure to use a single cluster and database in MongoDB. This way, the users can input their diary with the app or on the browser. 

This project gave me a lot of learning on my coding/technical skills and self-development. Cloud Thoughts is definitely one of my most memorable projects.

Learnings:

Basic MongoDB, Express, Node

Basic Android App Development (Java)

Boostrap and HTML