Why we designed Feelpath this way
In psychotherapy, presence is the intervention. Anything that pulls attention toward a tool can disrupt attunement, pacing, and the therapeutic relationship.
Feelpath is designed around a constraint: during the session, the platform should stay quiet. The value is meant to show up around the session, not by competing with the session.
What this means in practice
- No pop-ups: no prompts, nudges, reminders, or task lists that interrupt the flow.
- No coaching: Feelpath does not try to run your session, suggest interventions, or steer the client in real time.
- No interruptions: the default experience is a calm telehealth room with minimal in-session demands.
- Features stay in your control: transcripts and post-session reflection features are consent-based and can be enabled only when you and the client choose.
What this protects clinically
- Alliance: the client does not experience the hour as being monitored, scored, or performed for.
- Pacing: emotion work stays within the client’s tolerance window rather than being pushed by interface demands.
- Clinical judgment: outputs support recall and better follow-up planning. They do not replace formulation or your modality.
How to describe this to clients
Short scripts that keep expectations clean:
- “This is still a normal session. We are not doing therapy through software.”
- “Nothing will pop up or interrupt us. This is just the room we meet in.”
- “If we enable anything, it is opt-in, and we can pause it at any time.”
- “The goal is to make it easier to remember and build on the work between sessions, not to change the work.”
Where the value is meant to show up
- Before session: quick re-orientation and progress visibility, without extra note-taking.
- After session: if consented, transcript-grounded review to refresh context and anchor follow-ups in what was actually said.
- Across time: patterns and progress that are hard to hold in memory alone.
Where Feelpath is going
As new tools are added, the standard stays the same. If a feature turns the session into a workflow, it does not belong in the therapy room. Anything interactive should be lightweight, used only when helpful, and designed to support your modality rather than compete with it.