Welcome to lumin&us®, an award-winning, NHS-approved parenting app for parents and carers of children 3–12 years old.

COMBINE FAMILY PLAY ACTIVITIES WITH NEUROSCIENCE TO:

- Support your child's mental health, wellbeing and anxiety levels
- Support your child's BIG emotions
- Understand your child's behaviours, thoughts and feelings
- Support, calm and soothe your child
- Identify your child's triggers
- Improve family relationships and reduce conflict

FEATURES:

- Identify and understand your child's current emotional state
- Access therapeutic, play based games and activities tailored to your child's unique needs to regulate big emotions, reduce conflict, improve closeness and help your child feel safe and secure
- Learn about the specific benefits of each game or activity, with suggestions of how to play each game
- additional and supportive resources to help calm and comfort adults, parents and carers
- in-App notes and notifications (optional)
- Wellbeing calculator for children and adults based on tools used by therapists

ABOUT THE APP

Rooted in play therapy and the science of the nervous system, lumin&us® has been created by social workers, play therapists and educators to support family life.

It improves wellbeing and relationships by helping adults and children understand and identify the connection between thoughts, feelings and behaviours, building and improving relationships and experiencing joy and laughter together.

The standard version of the app is free with a premium version available.

WEBSITE:

https://luminusfamilywellbeing.com

AWARD-WINNING AND NHS-APPROVED:

lumin&us® was created with families by play therapists, mental health professionals, social workers and educators. lumin&us® is a proud winner of a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) ‘Women in Innovation’ Award 2025.

lumin&us® is highly-rated by the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA) and is approved for use in the NHS. It has been used by thousands of organisations and families.

THIS APP IS CLINICALLY PROVEN TO:

- Improve and strengthen relationships and connections between adults and children by 82% and reduce conflict by 71%
- Support and promote good mental health in adults and children
- Help adults and children to feel more calm, content and comfortable
- Bring laughter and joy to family life

THIS PARENTING APP HELPS PARENTS WHO ARE:

- Looking to provide their children with proven tools and strategies to support lifelong good mental health and wellbeing
- Interested in deepening and strengthening their relationship with their children
- Feeling stressed, anxious or overwhelmed by parenting and / or their children’s behaviours
- Worried about their children’s mental health or anxieties
- Waiting for family support, a neurodivergence diagnosis or an educational health care plan
- parents to adopted or fostered children
- parenting a child who has suffered a loss such as separation, divorce or a bereavement

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