Daylight is an NHS funded digital treatment for anxiety

Lasting recovery from anxiety that’s available anytime, anywhere – fully funded by NHS Scotland.

Start worrying less today

CBT for anxiety –

Better days are ahead

The NHS recommends that people with anxiety disorder are offered cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) as their first treatment. Daylight is the NHS-recommended digital treatment for worry and anxiety. It’s fully funded by the NHS in Scotland, so entirely free for you as a patient.

Daylight is designed for you to use how you want, when you want. We recommend using Daylight for a few minutes each day. This will speed up your learning and help you feel better faster. Our research indicates that many people begin to see benefits after using the programme consistently for 3 to 4 weeks, and see more lasting changes to negative thought patterns after 6 weeks of regular use.

How does cognitive behavioural therapy work?

Thoughts

How we think affects how we feel and act

Emotions

What we feel affects how we think and act

Behaviours

What we do affects how we think and feel

Treatment guidelines recommend CBT for anxiety as the first-choice intervention to help improve a range of issues. CBT aims to help you deal with overwhelming problems in a more positive way by breaking them down into smaller parts. You’re shown how to change these negative patterns to improve the way you feel. Unlike some other talking treatments, CBT deals with your current problems, rather than focusing on issues from your past.

Start worrying less in
three easy steps

1. Create your account at trydaylight.com/nhs, fully funded by the NHS

2. Download the Daylight – Worry Less app on Android and iOS devices to start treatment

3. Answer a few short questions about your worry and anxiety, and we’ll customise Daylight for you!

Daylight delivers meaningful, lasting results

Daylight is a clinically proven digital treatment that uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques to help you gain control over their anxiety. After a few short questions, you’ll receive techniques tailored to you, to help you manage your anxiety and worry.

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Image depicting personalization prompts from Daylight, including "Write up to 3 worries you'd like to think about later" and another screen prompting a challenge of one user's worries.

Tailored therapeutic content

Daylight adjusts evidence-based techniques and offers additional guidance based on an individual’s needs.

Various exercises and techniques are displayed on mobile phones from the Daylight experience.

Help at any time, day or night

When it’s needed the most, Daylight is instantly accessible and ready to check in, practise, or try a new technique.

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Meaningful behaviour change

75% of people who use Daylight say they’ve practiced the techniques in their day-to-day lives.1

What Daylight users say

I have been suffering in silence for a long time and Daylight has been the first thing to ever actually help with my worry and anxiety.

Daylight User, UKMarch, 2021

Daylight has allowed me to successfully manage my anxiety — and also to acknowledge that it’s okay to feel how I feel.

Daylight User, UKDecember, 2020

Daylight has offered me a number of coping mechanisms which I have found to be incredibly useful and continue to use to help manage my anxiety.

Daylight User, UKNovember, 2020


1. McManus S, Bebbington P, Jenkins R, Brugha T. (eds.) (2016) Mental Health and Wellbeing in England: Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2014. Leeds: NHS Digital.