A note on research

Therapy is careful work. Most of it happens in conditions of partial information. A client brings a week of lived experience into the room, and you try to understand what matters, what’s changing, and what’s stuck.

In our view, one of the most important levers in mental health care is also one of the hardest: helping clients build workable language for what they feel, what they need, and what is happening inside them. When that language is limited, especially in alexithymia, progress can be real, but hard to notice and hard to carry forward between sessions.

Feelpath research is about one idea: when we take the client’s words seriously, we may be able to understand the work more clearly, support more approaches to care, and make small shifts easier to see over time.

Here’s what we’re trying to learn

• Measurement questions: Can transcript-derived markers be reliable, auditable indicators of emotion-language capacities? Do they line up with established questionnaires in the ways we’d expect? Can humans review the same excerpts and generally agree with the tags?
• Intervention questions: If we add supports (visual aids, session-linked review, guided reflection), do alexithymia-related outcomes improve in clearly defined studies with clear measures?

If you want to see what we’re drafting

• Study proposals (index)
• Visual aids for alexithymia
• Conversation-derived personalized psychoeducation
• Validate ALI against PAQ‑24
• Validate ELI against emotion skills batteries