Confidential access

A space where it's safe to be honest.

Your conversations belong to you. A session is visible to the account that created it and — only if you name them — your licensed therapist. Nobody else, at any time.

  • Sessions are stored against your account, never shared or sold.
  • Sign-in uses an httpOnly session cookie — no tokens in your browser.

Joy

A reflective companion for couples, groups and their therapists. Joy is not a substitute for professional care or crisis support.

Grounded in

Gottman's Four Horsemen & the 5:1 ratio

Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication

Emotion-Focused Therapy

Pradeep Prakash's Cycle of Suffering & Spiral of Liberation

Bion's Experiences in Groups

Optimism & trust

Seligman's explanatory style

Scheier & Carver's dispositional optimism

Dember's optimism-pessimism scale

William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

Pargament's religious coping & the Brief RCOPE

Rosmarin and Krause on trust in God

Rotter's interpersonal trust · Bandura's self-efficacy

Defence mechanisms after the APA Dictionary of Psychology and StatPearls (NCBI)

If you are in crisis

Call or text 988 (US Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or your local emergency number.

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