RESUMEN
Virtual reality therapy came into existence in the mainstream of psychology in the last two decades.Virtual reality is a technology, a communication interface, and an artificial experience. VR has nowemerged as the promising tool in many domains of clinical care and research as the capacity of thistechnology creates controllable, multisensory, interactive 3D stimulus offering clinical assessment,intervention and training. Virtual reality therapy is a medium of in-vivo exposure therapy that is unreal butrelies on perceptual stimulation, visual cues, sounds, touch and smell to trigger emotions which is used forintegrating and enhancing actual therapeutic approaches. The unique value of this technology hascontinued to grow and advanced the clinical areas that have long been mired in the methods of the past.The aim of the present study is to emphasize the potential offered by Virtual Reality (VR) in clinicalpsychology and its advances in therapeutic uses, in the treatment of numerous anxiety disorders, sexualdysfunctions and also for children with disabilities, also discussing the clinical rationale