Sylvia uses real-time mobile monitoring and advanced data science to build a recovery roadmap that is specific to you — not a generic protocol designed for the average patient.
Using Sylvia's smartphone app, you complete brief surveys multiple times per day over approximately two weeks. These ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) capture real-time data on your eating behaviors, thoughts, emotions, and related mental health symptoms as they happen in your daily life.
Because data is collected in the moment rather than recalled later, it reflects your actual lived experience with far greater accuracy than traditional weekly therapy check-ins or retrospective questionnaires.
Once your assessment is complete, Sylvia's personalized network analysis looks at your data. Unlike population-level approaches that apply average findings to everyone, it treats your data as its own unique dataset and identifies the specific relationships between your symptoms.
Our algorithm identifies which symptoms are most central to your recovery. These are the most useful places to focus first.
Based on your analysis results, Sylvia generates a Personalized Recovery Roadmap that prioritizes the most impactful targets for change in your specific case. Your Roadmap includes a personalized symptom profile and a recommended chapter order for The Personalized Recovery Workbook for Eating Disorders (Levinson and Vanzhula, forthcoming), which is purchased separately.
Your chapter order is matched to your specific symptom profile, so you know where to start instead of working through the workbook cover to cover.
Sylvia delivers your Roadmap through a tiered support model, so you can choose the level of guidance that fits your needs and preferences. Whether you prefer to work independently, with a credentialed coach, or with full clinician integration, Sylvia meets you where you are.
For clinicians, Sylvia generates a personalized Recovery Roadmap for your patient based on their assessment results, with optional psychologist consultation and full program implementation available for treatment centers and public health agencies.
Sylvia's methodology is grounded in two decades of clinical research in eating disorder treatment and precision mental health.
EMA captures real-time data in naturalistic settings, eliminating the recall bias and inaccuracy of retrospective self-report. Research consistently shows EMA data is more accurate, more granular, and more clinically useful than weekly session-based assessment.
Rather than applying population-level averages, idiographic modeling treats each individual's data as its own unique system. This approach identifies the specific symptom relationships that maintain an individual's disorder — information that group-level statistics cannot provide.
Precision medicine applies individualized data to support recovery for each person. Applied to mental health, this means moving beyond one-size-fits-all protocols toward an approach focused on the factors most relevant to each person's recovery.
The chapters recommended in your Roadmap come from The Personalized Recovery Workbook for Eating Disorders, which is grounded in established, empirically-supported therapeutic approaches for eating disorder treatment.
Sylvia is designed to serve individuals and clinicians at every level of need.
Complete the two-week assessment and receive your Personalized Recovery Roadmap: your symptom profile and recommended workbook chapter order (workbook sold separately).
Add credentialed coaching support to your Roadmap. Coaches follow up based on your progress and needs.
Personalized Recovery Roadmaps for practitioners, with optional consultation and full program implementation for organizations.