App Profile: Waterways Relaxation App

Waterways app is a fun, playful, tactile, self-directed, engaging, multisensory emotional support
tool that promotes well-being and helps people ages 6 and up relieve stress and manage their
mood using soothing nature imagery and audio.
Waterways app was created by a licensed professional counselor with a master’s degree in art
therapy and almost 20 years of counseling experience. Working full-time for 3 years as a
counselor and social worker in a men’s prison, the creator realized that a simulated nature

activity could provide a soothing experience for people unable to get out in nature, and those
needing convenient emotional support.
The creator of the app has worked in school settings, home-based, day treatment, residential
treatment, corrections, early childhood, and private practice.
In a 2022 pilot study, Waterways app was recommended by the clinical director of the
counseling department of a major U.S. university, an integrative health pediatrician, an early
childhood education supervisor, health coaches, school counselors, a nurse practitioner at a
withdrawal crisis facility, a social worker at a withdrawal crisis facility, a first responder, a
psychiatrist, EMDR therapists working in private practice and parents of children and teens.
Waterways app promotes self-directed mental training, introspection, mood management,
frustration tolerance, constructive states of mind, breathwork, impulse control, attention,
management of distractions, management of addictions, self-awareness, self-reflection,
emotion regulation and prosocial behavior.