Practice flow
How Nuri walks a skill in real time
Last updated 2026-08-25
Nuri is an iOS conversation that helps you practice dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills when you actually need them. You bring a real situation. Nuri names a skill and stays with the steps. It is educational self-help, not diagnosis or treatment.
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Check in
Say what is happening in your own words
Start with the situation, the feeling, or the urge. You do not have to pick a module first. A check-in can be as short as “I want to send a message I will regret” or “my chest is tight and I cannot sleep.” The point is to get the raw material onto the page so a skill can attach to it.
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Skill selection
Get a named DBT or CBT tool
Nuri personalizes follow-up questions and points toward a skill that fits. That might be TIPP when arousal is high, a thought record when a conclusion is running ahead of the facts, or DEAR MAN when you need to make an ask. Skills keep their clinical names so the practice matches what you may already be learning in a group or workbook.
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Guided practice
Run the steps in the conversation
Instead of sending you to a PDF, Nuri keeps you in the exercise: temperature and paced breathing for TIPP, evidence for and against a thought, or a draft of what you want to say. You can use your own words. The app is a prompt partner, not a clinician making decisions about your care.
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Mood and diary
Close the loop so it is not a one-off
After the skill, Nuri uses gentle reflections and mood tracking so you can see what you practiced and how you felt afterward. That is closer to a diary card than to a chat that disappears. Over time, the value is the repetition: the same skills, applied to your actual week.
What this is not
Nuri does not assess risk as a clinical service, write a treatment plan, or sit in for a licensed therapist. If you are in crisis, stop and use emergency resources. Read the disclaimer before you download.
Want the skill map itself? See DBT modules and CBT tools.