Virtual Hope Box

Defense Health Agency

About this app

The Virtual Hope Box (VHB) is a smartphone application designed for use by patients and their behavioral health providers as an accessory to treatment. The VHB contains simple tools to help patients with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking. Patients and providers can work together to personalize the VHB content on the patient's own smartphone according to the patient's specific needs. The patient can then use the VHB away from clinic, continuing to add or change content as needed.


Patients can use the VHB to store a variety of rich multimedia content that they find personally supportive in times of need. For example, a patient can include family photos, videos and recorded messages from loved ones, inspirational quotes, music they find especially soothing, reminders of previous successes, positive life experiences and future aspirations, and affirmations of their worth in their VHB. A patient can also collaborate with their provider to create coping cards to use in response to personal problem areas they experience. Finally, the VHB provides the patient with positive activity planning, distraction tools, and interactive relaxation exercises including guided imagery, controlled breathing and muscle relaxation.

Ratings and reviews

Very Disappointed! This used to be an amazing app. There was an update that didn't have all of the components completed, such as the game distractions. Why release an update when it's not completed? I've seen the same complaint as far back as April of 2025 and it's now almost September. Why is it taking so long to finish? Now ALL of us who did the update are stuck with it as it cannot be undone! Government App for ya!

This app has a great selection of tools to counteract the symptions of stress, anxiety, and PTSD. It's free, secure, and it doesn't harvest your data in any way. And its practical, and effective. There is however, 1 issue I've found, and that is with the coding of the Coping Cards. Unfortunately, the tooltips for the form fields doesn't disappear when you either enter data, or touch the screen. They're persistent, and shouldn't be as this interferes with entering data. Fix this and I'll give 5*.

This app is broken. I sign into it and it sits at a screen that says welcome to the virtual hope box. Then tells what you can use it for and has an ok button at the bottom. Press it and nothing happens, doesn't change, or even allow me to press it....tried uninstalling multiple times.

What’s new

-Fixed app breaking bugs
-Fixed video playback issues
-Fixed audio/voice recording issue
-Fixed user input bug within Inspirational Quotes feature