You're awake again
The session is nine days away. Your head is loud and there is nowhere to put any of it. So you put it nowhere, and carry it to the appointment half-forgotten.
UK-built · In early evaluation · Free for every patient · Not an emergency service
Making the space between therapy sessions count.
Healing Space is a patient-centred platform designed to help people capture what matters between appointments and bring relevant, patient-approved context into therapy.
Because therapy shouldn't have to start from scratch every week.
I'm in therapy · I'm a clinician · Services, universities & research
- Private by default, shared deliberately
- No cost to patients
- No ads, and therapeutic data is not sold
- Demonstrations use synthetic data only
- Alongside therapy — not a replacement for it
Therapy happens in sessions. Life happens between them.
The things worth talking about rarely arrive on cue, and by the next appointment much of it has to be reconstructed from memory — usually while the clock is already running.
The dread arrives before the week does
You've felt exactly this before. Something helped last time. You cannot for the life of you remember what it was.
The real thing surfaces on the drive home
Fifty minutes of talking, and the sentence that mattered only arrived once the door shut. It waits another seven days.
From the top. Again.
New service, new form, new stranger. You retell the worst thing that ever happened to you, out loud, from the beginning — and the clock is already running.
None of this is anyone's failure. Therapy simply cannot be in the room for the hours around it, and a person in the middle of a difficult week should not also have to be their own archivist.
So we built somewhere to keep hold of it — and made the technology carry that, not you.
How Healing Space helps you keep hold of what happens through therapy.
One thread, running from your week into your next session — and still there months later when either of you wants to look back.
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You live your life
Nothing to keep up with, and no nudge implying that a quiet week means something is wrong.
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You say what happened
In your own words, in a conversation — or with a tap, or a few lines typed at midnight. You are not filling in clinical fields about your own life.
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You decide what is shared
Captured does not mean shared. Everything you write stays private until you approve a briefing for a session.
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Healing Space does the organising
What you have authorised is grouped by the stretch since your last confirmed session, with its date and its author kept intact — so nothing becomes an anonymous summary of you.
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The next session starts where you left off
Your therapist opens a short view of what you chose to share before the hour begins — and can still reach the original entry behind any line of it.
The person retains control. The technology does the organising. That division is the whole design.
Therapy isn't easy. Everything around it should be.
Useful on the days you have nothing to give. Some days you can reflect properly. Some days you can manage four words. Both are fine, and neither is scored.
"Rough night."
One line, or one tap. That is a complete use of Healing Space, not a half-finished one.
Something you want to raise
The thing you know you will forget by Thursday, written down when you think of it — in your words, kept in your words.
A proper reflection, or a tool
A longer piece of writing, a thought record, a grounding exercise, a questionnaire your service uses — there when they help.
Close it and live your week
No guilt, and no catching up to do. A quiet week is allowed to be just a quiet week, and the conversation does not chase you for it.
You should not have to organise your life into clinical fields to get the benefit of it.
Say what happened. Healing Space handles the shape of it.
Private by default. Shared deliberately.
Vulnerability is not a commodity. Continuity should not cost you surveillance — so writing something down and handing it over are two separate decisions, and the second one is always yours.
- Knowing is not monitoring, sharing or acting. Healing Space can keep something you said so that a later conversation does not start from nothing. That does not turn it into a tracked score, send it to your clinician, set off an alert or prompt an exercise. Each of those is a separate step, and none of them happens just because something was said. You can see what it keeps, correct it, or remove it.
- Captured is not shared. Your reflections, notes, mood and sleep and questionnaire answers stay private. Nothing reaches your clinician until you approve a briefing for a session, which they can read from two hours before it.
- Your conversation is not a clinician feed. No clinician screen shows what you say to Healing Space, and nothing you say alerts or notifies anyone.
- Sensitive views are logged. When a clinician opens the pre-session view of your record, that is logged, so there is an answer to who looked and when.
- No data farming. No advertising against therapeutic data, no sale of it, and no revenue that depends on how long you stay in the app. The intended model is that services pay and patients never do.
- Named processors, not vague reassurance. This website is hosted by Cloudflare; the application, when it returns, will be hosted on Google Cloud in the EU (Belgium); the conversation is currently processed by Groq-hosted models. We would rather name them than imply nothing leaves the building. The privacy policy lists them, and the Trust Centre states what is and is not in place yet.
Where the two sides meet.
The point of all of it is one hour that starts further in. Same therapist, same slot, less of it spent rebuilding the last three weeks.
You carry forward what matters
The thing you wanted to raise is already written down, in your own words, instead of arriving at minute forty-eight or not at all.
Your therapist arrives already oriented
A short, concise view of the interval — only what you authorised — read before the hour rather than pieced together during it.
The original is still reachable
Nothing is replaced by a summary of itself. Behind every line is the entry it came from, with its date and whoever wrote it.
And it holds over months
A course of therapy stays something you can both look back at — what you raised, what was agreed at the end of a session, how a measure you chose to share moved — rather than something remembered.
Your caseload, and the four questions before each session.
Who am I seeing? What has happened since I last saw them? What should I remember from last time? Is there anything they want to bring into this hour? Session Prep answers those, and stops there — this is a continuity layer around your work, not another record system to keep.
Session Prep is designed to be read in four depths. A glance tells you who you are seeing and whether anything has changed. The brief is the interval since the last confirmed session: what the patient chose to share, the agenda they wrote, what you agreed last time and — where the patient shares them — mood, sleep and questionnaire movement. The evidence behind any line is one step away, and the original entry — with its date and its author — is one step beyond that. You are never asked to trust a summary you cannot open.
The interval is the stretch since the last confirmed session, not an arbitrary last-thirty-entries window — you confirm attendance from the same screen, so "since we last spoke" keeps meaning something. The continuity surfaces are assembled by retrieval from recorded entries: counts, dates and comparisons, not generated prose.
Access runs through one central authorisation policy across every patient route: your assigned patients and nobody else's. You see the briefing the patient approves, from two hours before the session, and your own records; nothing else the patient writes reaches you. The patient's conversation with Healing Space is not shown to you, and nor is what they have said they want help with. That boundary is deliberate: a patient who cannot keep something private will stop writing anything down.
After the session, you record it — and can add a short summary for the patient and what the two of you agreed. The patient sees those in your words, attributed to you, and the next interval starts from them. Six months in, "what did we actually agree, and when?" has an answer rather than a recollection.
Standard questionnaires such as PHQ-9, GAD-7 and CORE-10 are built in and scored to the published instruments, and Session Prep shows how a score moved between two dates, for results the patient chose to include in an approved briefing. Completing a questionnaire never notifies you and never raises an alert. Scoring has not been independently validated in this deployment, and a score is a conversation prompt, never a decision.
Healing Space does not monitor patients and raises no alerts: nothing a patient says or answers notifies you or anyone else. If someone talks about being in danger, the AI points them to real-world help such as 999, Samaritans or someone they trust. Safety remains with you and your service, as it does today. Healing Space is not a staffed emergency service, makes no response-time promise, and is not offered as a risk-monitoring or risk-prediction tool — safety monitoring remains yours.
Conversation removes friction. Structure protects clarity.
Most of the time, saying what happened is enough. Some things deserve to be more than a sentence in a conversation — a validated questionnaire, an appointment, who can see what. Those stay properly built, and stay yours to open when they are useful.
Conversation first, voice next
Designed to be voice-first: tell it what happened rather than filling in a form about yourself. Typing is available today. Talking has been built and tested in an evaluation environment, but is not switched on for patients yet.
Your agenda for the next session
What you want to be sure gets discussed, written when you think of it and kept in your wording. Private to you until you choose to add it to your briefing for a session.
Mood, sleep & how it has moved
One tap when that is all you have. Over weeks it becomes something you can look back at — and, if you choose to share it, something you and your therapist can look at together.
Sharing controls
See exactly what you approved for each session, and download a copy of your mood records. Deliberately a screen, not a chat.
Support, offered with restraint
When it fits, the conversation can offer one of a small set of things — guided breathing, urge surfing, sleep hygiene, planning an activity, gratitude. Often it will not: being understood comes first, and saying you are struggling is not a cue to hand you an exercise.
What you want help with
Write down, in your own words, the few things you want support with. They shape the conversation — and stay yours: not shown to your clinician, not tracked, and they never set off reminders.
Urgent help, one tap away
UK helplines, the people you have chosen and grounding exercises, in one panel. Opening it does not notify anyone, and it is never behind a paywall.
Questionnaires, over time
PHQ-9, GAD-7, CORE-10 and others shown as movement between dates, not a verdict. Screening instruments used as conversation starters — never a diagnosis.
A real CBT toolkit
Thought records, coping cards, grounding and breathing exercises — there whenever you want to reach for them yourself.
Your own record, to look back at
Therapeutic Memory: what you recorded, what you shared and what was agreed, each item showing where it came from and when.
Appointment reminders
A reminder before a session your service has booked — the kind of thing that is genuinely hard to hold onto when you are unwell. Nothing else is turned into a nudge.
Say whether something helped
Helpful, not sure, or not helpful — recorded against the actual piece of work, in your name. Your view of what worked stays your view; nothing infers it for you.
£0. For every patient. Always.
Not a free tier with the useful parts locked. Not free-because-you're-the-product.
The model is that services pay for Healing Space so that patients never have to. Healing Space is still in early evaluation, so that is a principle fixed in advance rather than a description of contracts already signed — and it is fixed on purpose, because someone in the worst week of their life should not be asked for a card number.
No subscription
Nothing to cancel, nothing to forget about, nothing that lapses when money gets tight.
No ads
You will never be sold gambling, alcohol or a wellness course while you're on the floor.
No selling your data
Not to advertisers, not to insurers, not to data brokers, not to anyone. It isn't our business model.
No paywalled safety
Crisis numbers are on every page, signed in or not. The urgent-help panel and grounding tools are never behind a paywall.
You deserve support that doesn't check your balance first. That's the whole idea.
What Healing Space does not do.
Said plainly and once, rather than as a disclaimer repeated at the bottom of every page.
It is not an emergency service.
Nobody is watching a screen waiting for you, and Healing Space does not provide continuous monitoring. If you are in danger right now: call 999, or Samaritans free on 116 123, or text SHOUT to 85258. Those numbers are staffed. We are not.
It is not an AI therapist.
There is a conversation, and it is honest about being software. It does not do therapy, does not replace your therapist, and is not a companion for your mental health. It is a way of telling Healing Space what happened without filling in forms — and of finding your way back to something that helped before.
It does not diagnose or prescribe.
PHQ-9, GAD-7 and the other questionnaires are screening instruments. A score is a prompt for a conversation with a human clinician — never a label, never a decision, never the last word on you. Nothing here prescribes anything.
It does not tell your clinician everything.
Sharing is something you do, not something that happens to you. Everything you write stays private, and your conversation is not a clinician feed. Before each session you choose what to bring and approve it; your clinician can read that briefing from two hours before. Nothing you say or answer raises an alert. Your appointments are part of the relationship you both see — we say which is which rather than implying everything is private.
The AI does not decide anything.
The continuity record is computed, not generated: intervals, counts, dates and comparisons are retrieved from what was actually recorded. Where conversation notices something you clearly stated — a mood rating, hours slept, something to raise next time — it can offer to save it. The application checks the suggestion against your own words, you confirm it, and only then is anything written. A model can offer an exercise only from a short list the application chooses, and opening it is always your decision. No automated decision is made about your care.
It does not interpret your history.
It will show you that you recorded something six times, or that a score moved between two dates. It will not tell you what caused what, whether you are improving, or that two difficult periods months apart are the same underlying thing. Those judgements belong to you and your therapist.
It is not a replacement for your records system.
Healing Space is a lightweight continuity layer around existing clinical work — not an EHR, not a practice-management system, and not somewhere your service is expected to move its whole operation.
You are not the product.
Services pay; patients never do. That's the entire model. There is no advertising business, no data sale, and no incentive anywhere in this company that is served by keeping you unwell or keeping you scrolling.
If a mental health product won't tell you plainly what it can't do, ask yourself why.
Healing Space is in early evaluation. Here is what that means.
Most health-tech websites blur what exists with what is planned. Here they are kept apart: what is available now, what is built but not yet switched on, what is in development or planned, and what needs governance and evaluation first. The application is temporarily offline while its hosting moves, so what follows describes the current build rather than something you can use today.
Available now
In the current build today
These are in the current build of the application and covered by our automated tests. That means the behaviour is implemented and exercised by our own suite — not that it has been independently assessed.
- Typed conversation. A conversation-first way in, with the fuller application one tap away. It can bring back relevant things you told it before — which you can see, correct and remove — and can offer to save a mood, hours slept or something to raise next session, written only once you confirm.
- Support, offered with restraint. A short, fixed list of self-help supports the conversation may offer when it fits, and support priorities you write yourself, which stay private to you.
- Session preparation. Session Prep for the clinician, built from what the patient shared since the last confirmed session, with each line linked to its original entry; Therapeutic Memory for the patient.
- Clinician workflow. A caseload, Session Prep, and recording a session — notes, plus an optional summary and agreed actions shared with the patient in the clinician's words.
- Optional structured tools. Reflections, mood and sleep records, CBT tools, questionnaires, appointment reminders and an urgent-help panel.
- Patient control. Per-item sharing of reflections and per-relationship sharing of mood and sleep.
Built, not yet switched on
Built and being evaluated, not offered to patients
These exist, but are not offered to patients yet. They are listed here so the site is not quietly describing them as available.
- Talk — the voice-first experience. Speaking instead of typing, through a voice service Healing Space runs itself in Europe: your speech is turned into text there and the audio is not kept. It has been built and tested in an evaluation environment and is still being evaluated. It is not switched on for patients: where Talk appears, it offers Type instead.
- The choice of model. The conversation currently uses a model hosted by Groq. Before any pilot we intend to compare providers and models, so the one named in our privacy policy may change — and if it does, the policy will say so first.
In development and planned
What we are working toward, and not claiming
Direction, openly stated. None of this is available, and none of it should be read as a commitment with a date on it.
- One conversation across Talk and Type. Speaking and typing are being brought together so that both carry one continuous conversation history.
- Session documentation tools. Planned: optional support for documenting sessions, including optional session recording only with explicit agreement from both patient and clinician, and only once governance allows.
- Progress and goals, together. Goals agreed in therapy, carried between sessions and reviewed together — kept attributable, never quietly rewritten.
- More privacy-preserving processing. Moving more of what happens to Healing-Space-controlled processing where it is feasible, as has already been done for voice.
- Continuity across transitions. Clinicians move on and services hand over; carrying continuity safely across that is a research question, not a current capability.
What we do claim
A working system, honestly described
The continuity record exists on both sides, with automated tests behind it. Judge it against what it actually does, not against what this page hopes it will do.
What we are doing now
Demonstrations and evaluation preparation
We are demonstrating Healing Space — with synthetic data only — to clinicians, services, universities and people who evaluate health technology, and seeking evaluation partners. These are working conversations, not endorsements, and nobody is named here for credibility.
Awaiting governance
Before any real-patient evaluation
Any clinical evaluation with real patients waits for the right approvals: a completed DPIA, clinical safety-case work, and research ethics approval where needed. No clinical pilot is running, and we are not inviting patients into one.
Not claimed
Outcomes, approval, validation
We have no evidence that this improves therapeutic outcomes, no NHS approval or deployment, no independent clinical validation and no regulatory approval — and we do not claim any of them. We will say so on the day that changes, and not one day before.
Available now is what the current build does, built, not yet switched on is what exists but is not yet offered, in development and planned is what we are earning rather than claiming, and anything involving real patients in an evaluation awaits governance. The Trust Centre holds the detail, including the uncomfortable parts.
Seeking evaluation partners
See it. Challenge it. Help evaluate it.
We are looking for private practices, counselling services, universities, and research and innovation organisations to look at Healing Space critically and help evaluate it. Demonstrations use synthetic data only — no real patients are involved.
✓ Thirty minutes, with the founder
✓ Straight answers, including the limits
✓ Disagreement welcome
✓ Synthetic data only
How people get access, in plain language.
Healing Space works alongside a therapist, so you join through a clinician or service that is using it — during early evaluation, that means one taking part. Nobody should have to decode a care platform while already overwhelmed.
Your clinician invites you
You create your account, set your preferences, and can see what is being recorded and what is shared before you record anything at all.
The first stretch between sessions
You use it however suits — a sentence, a tap, a longer reflection, or nothing that week. Nothing expects perfection and nothing keeps score.
Your therapist sees what you shared
Before you meet, they read what you chose to share and the agenda you wrote — so the hour starts at the work rather than at catch-up.
And the thread continues
What you agree at the end of a session is recorded, in your therapist's words and attributed to them. The next stretch begins from there — and months later you can both still go back and see how it developed.
Important: Healing Space helps you and your therapist keep hold of the work. It does not replace emergency services, urgent mental-health teams or clinical judgement — and it does not interpret your record for either of you.
The intended model, written down before anyone pays.
Healing Space is in early-stage evaluation preparation, not general sale — so there is no price list, and we will not publish a tier table no service has ever paid. What we will put in writing now is how it is meant to work:
Services pay, patients never do
The intended model is a single per-clinician licence, agreed in writing — no metering and no per-patient fees. It is the plan, not a current offer.
Evaluate first
Services that help evaluate Healing Space early shape what it becomes. Any terms that follow are agreed in writing, and the shaping half is not a figure of speech.
Leave freely
No lock-in is part of the intended model, and a service that decides to stop would have its data exported for it on request.
If you would like to see it, challenge it, or talk about taking part in an evaluation or pilot, book a walkthrough — thirty minutes, with the founder, no sales team in the room.
Frequently asked questions
What people ask us most — including the awkward ones.
It is a continuity layer around human therapy. Between sessions you tell it what happened — in conversation, or with a tap, or a few typed lines — and it organises what you authorise into something your therapist can read before your next appointment, with the original entry always reachable behind it. It keeps what you report, what was agreed and what was measured attributable to whoever recorded it, and it can bring relevant context back into a later conversation so you do not have to start from nothing. It does not decide what any of it means, it does not watch you, and you choose what reaches your therapist.
No. Everything you write - reflections, things you want to talk about, mood and sleep, and questionnaire answers - stays private. Before each session you choose what to bring and approve a briefing; your therapist can read it from two hours before the session, and nothing else. What you say in the conversation, and what you have said you want help with, are not shown to your therapist. Nothing you say or answer alerts or notifies anyone. Your appointments are part of the relationship you both see.
Yes, and we would rather be specific than reassuring. A language model powers the conversation, so what you type there is processed by our AI provider (currently Groq-hosted infrastructure — named in the privacy policy). It is sent your message, the last few turns of the conversation, your first name, the support priorities you wrote, what your clinician wrote for you after your last session and — only when relevant — things you told Healing Space before, which you can see and remove. The application never adds your surname, date of birth, contact details or NHS number. Training models on patient conversations is disabled and would require separate governance and consent before it could ever be considered. The continuity record itself is not generated: intervals, counts, dates and comparisons are computed from what was recorded. Where the conversation notices something you clearly stated — a mood rating, hours slept, something to raise next session — it can offer to save it; the application validates that suggestion against your own words, you confirm it, and only then is it written. It cannot diagnose, cannot prescribe, and makes no automated decision about your care.
Not generally, yet. Healing Space has built its own voice pathway: your speech goes to a voice service Healing Space runs in Europe, which works out when you have finished speaking, turns what you said into text and keeps no audio — the rest of Healing Space only ever sees the words. No outside speech company is involved. It has been built and tested in an evaluation environment, but it is not switched on for patients: if you press Talk, it says so and offers Type instead. Bringing Talk and Type together into one continuous conversation history is still in development.
No. Something being relevant is not the same as it being the right moment, and often the right response is simply to listen. The conversation can offer one of a small set of supports — guided breathing, urge surfing, sleep hygiene, planning an activity, gratitude — but it will not offer one unprompted on the first thing you say, will not offer twice running, and holds back after you have said no. If what you say contains crisis language, it offers no exercise at all: that is a moment for the crisis contacts at the top of every page. If you ask for something outright, it answers. Logging your mood is never offered as a fix; it is there for you to use when you choose.
They are the few things you have said, in your own words, that you want help with — sleeping better, getting out more, whatever it is. They help the conversation understand what matters to you. They are private to you: they are not shown to your clinician, are not tracked or scored, and do not create reminders, alerts or follow-ups. You can change or remove them whenever you like.
Then you go weeks without opening it. There is no guilt, and the conversation does not chase you for a quiet month. Healing Space is meant to make the space around therapy easier, and a tool that punishes you for disengaging is doing the opposite. The aim is that you need it less over time, not more.
Data is encrypted in transit using HTTPS/TLS, and sensitive fields are encrypted at rest using Fernet (AES-128-CBC) where applied. Access to patient data runs through one central authorisation policy, and sensitive clinician views such as Session Prep are logged. Developers hold no standing access to clinical data. We are building our data-protection processes toward UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, including support for Data Subject Access Requests and the right to erasure; a Data Protection Impact Assessment and independent information-governance review are in preparation and not yet complete. We do not sell your data. The Trust Centre lists what assurance we hold and what we do not.
Healing Space UK is for adults (18+) in the UK who are working with a clinician — a therapist, counsellor or other mental-health professional — who is using it. Healing Space is in early evaluation, so that currently means a clinician or service taking part. Access is by invitation from that clinician. It is not a crisis or emergency service. If you are in crisis, please contact NHS 111 or the Samaritans on 116 123.
Yes — £0, with no catch and no card. There is no patient subscription, no premium tier, no advertising, and no feature held back behind a paywall. The intended business model is that clinics and services pay a per-clinician licence and patients never pay; while Healing Space is in early evaluation that is a principle fixed in advance rather than a price list, and there is no revenue anywhere that depends on how long you stay in the app.
Currently, access requires a clinical referral. The product only really makes sense alongside a therapist: it exists to help the two of you keep hold of the work, so there has to be a "two of you". We are exploring self-referral pathways and will update this page when there is something real to say.
The platform works on any modern browser — Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge — on desktop, tablet or phone. No app download is required, and the interface is responsive. Accessibility is designed against WCAG 2.1 AA and is being worked toward, but has not yet been confirmed by an independent audit — so we don't claim conformance. If you hit an accessibility barrier, please tell us and we will fix it.
Possibly, and we are honestly still working out where it fits best. We are currently talking with practising therapists about which parts of preserving therapeutic context genuinely help in private practice and which are noise. If that is a conversation you would find interesting — including if you think the idea is wrong — book a walkthrough or write to cs@healing-space.org.uk. There is no sales pipeline, and being told it does not fit your practice is a useful outcome for us.
Not as an open sign-up. Healing Space is in early evaluation, so clinician accounts are set up with us rather than self-service. If you would like to see it working, challenge the approach, or talk about taking part in an evaluation or pilot, book a walkthrough or write to cs@healing-space.org.uk. Once a clinician account exists, patients join through a secure invitation from that clinician.
About us
Mr Richard T. Martin
Founder & Director, Healing Space UK
I built Healing Space because the support always seemed to stop at the door. An hour of someone's full attention, and then a week on your own with it. That gap is where people quietly give up — not because therapy failed them, but because nothing was holding the space in between.
The thing I keep coming back to is that nobody in the middle of a hard month should also have to be their own record-keeper. The technology should carry that. The person should keep the control. If those two ever pull in different directions, control wins.
So patients pay nothing, and I would rather tell you honestly what this cannot do yet than sell you something it isn't. I do not have evidence that it makes therapy work better, and I am not going to write that on a website before it is true. If you want to argue with any of it, I would genuinely like to hear it.
See it, challenge it, or discuss an evaluation.
Healing Space UK is in early evaluation: patient accounts are set up through a clinician or service taking part. The application itself is temporarily offline while its hosting moves. If you are a therapist, service, researcher or evaluator who would like to see it working — or tell us where it is wrong — email us.
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www.healing-space.org.uk