Built by a therapist

A steady place to land between sessions.

Aspen is a clinically grounded AI companion for the days between your therapy appointments. Check in with your nervous system, talk things through while they are still fresh, and get to know the parts of you that keep showing up.

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Not a replacement for therapy. Designed to support it.

Sent here by your therapist? Keep their code handy. You can enter it at signup or later in Settings.

The first screen. About a minute.

Looking up through a grove of golden aspens

Settle first. Then look.

The feeling shows up at 11pm. The next session is days away. Most apps ask you to think when you are least able to. Aspen works in the order your nervous system does. First, where you are. Then, room to breathe. Only then, the question of what was going on. Most days that means a one-minute check-in, a conversation if you want one, and a map that fills in over time. You can stop after any one of them.

Check in

Where your nervous system is right now: connected, activated, or shut down, in plain words. Where you feel it in your body. A few feeling words. A slider for where you sit today, and a note if you want one. About a minute. If you missed yesterday, you can log it for yesterday. Every check-in stays in your history, and you can edit a past one.

Talk it through

A session is a private conversation with Aspen that begins where your check-in left off. If you are activated, the work is settling before it is anything else. If you are shut down, the pace is slow and warm. Reflection waits until there is room for it. A session has a beginning and an end. When you close it, Aspen gives it a title and a short summary, and adds any parts you met to your Parts map.

See your parts take shape

The Parts map holds the parts of you that have come up across sessions: each one’s role, whether protector, manager, firefighter, or exile, what it protects, where it lives in your body, how you felt toward it, and dated notes on what led there. Tap a part to open it and jump back to the session it came from. There are no scores here and nothing to keep up. It is a map of you, drawn slowly.

Also inside, from day one.

All of it comes with a free account. The pricing section below says exactly where the limits are.

Body map
Mark where you feel things in your body.
Trailheads
In IFS, a trailhead is a moment worth following back to a part: a flash of irritation, a sudden fog, the sharp reply you did not expect from yourself. Note them when they happen, before they fade.
Practices
A library of short somatic and regulation practices.
Integration journeys
Log a ketamine session, a retreat, or any big experience, then work through guided integration entries afterward.
Voice
Aspen can read replies aloud, you can dictate, and there is a hands-free conversation mode. Voice runs on the speech features built into your phone or browser, and Aspen itself only ever receives text, never audio.
Reminders
A daily or once-a-week email at the hour you choose. Push notifications if you want them.
Oura ring and Apple Health
Connect an Oura ring, or send Apple Health data with a short iPhone Shortcut, and Aspen can notice your HRV and sleep signals when you check in, as a prompt for your own noticing, not as a medical reading.
Night mode
A warm, low-blue dark theme, so opening Aspen at 2am does not feel like turning on the kitchen light.
On your phone
Aspen is a web app. Open it in your browser and add it to your home screen.

Your therapist sees patterns. Never conversations.

If your therapist gives you their code, you can link to them. Enter it at signup, or later in Settings, and they can see an overview of your between-session work. They never see your conversations. The link only happens with your consent, and you can disconnect at any time in Settings.

If no one sent you, or you would rather keep this entirely to yourself, Aspen works the same way without a therapist connected.

What they can see: Your check-ins, your session titles and the parts that came up, and, if you use Integration, your journeys (including the medicine) and each entry’s mood, body areas and Insights note. They also see a simple alert, never your words, if a session includes crisis language, your check-ins have been low, or you’ve gone quiet for a week or more.
What they never see: Your conversations.
Who decides: You do. Link with a code, unlink in Settings. No code, no link.

For therapists reading this

If you are considering Aspen for a client, the model is simple: with their consent you see their check-ins, session titles and the parts that came up, an overview of their integration work, and alerts in your portal when something may need attention. You never see their conversations. Aspen is built to support your work between sessions, not to do it. If you run a practice or clinic, there is a separate page for you.

See Aspen for clinics →

Built by a therapist, on a clear model.

Aspen was built by Tim Moore, LPC, after 28 years of clinical practice. He is the founder of Aspen Counseling in Sisters, Oregon. Everything in it is grounded in Internal Family Systems, Polyvagal Theory, and somatic awareness, the same frameworks behind his clinical work.

Internal Family Systems

You are made of parts, and none of them is the enemy. The ones that protect and the ones that hurt each took on their role for a reason. Aspen helps you turn toward them with curiosity instead of judgment.

Polyvagal Theory

Where your nervous system is shapes what is possible right now. Connected, activated, or shut down: Aspen meets you in the state you name, and settles before it reflects.

Somatic awareness

Feelings live in the body before they have words. Aspen asks where you feel it, keeps a body map, and offers short practices for tending to what is there.

“The organism is not broken, it is organized. Every symptom is an adaptation. Every protective part carries intelligence. Healing is not the correction of defect but an invitation into greater coherence.”

The Aspen Living System Model

What Aspen is not, said plainly.

A companion that knows its edges is safer to lean on. These are Aspen’s. Aspen is a between-session support tool, not a licensed mental health service.

Not a person

Aspen is an AI companion. It speaks from a therapist’s clinical method, but you are always talking with software, not a person.

Not therapy, and not a therapist

Aspen supports the work you do with your therapist. It does not replace it, and it does not diagnose or treat anything.

Not a medical device

Aspen makes no medical claims. If you connect a ring or Apple Health, it notices HRV and sleep signals to help you check in, and nothing more.

Not a crisis service

If you are in danger, call or text 988, text HOME to 741741, or call 911. Those numbers are built into the app, because some moments need a human right now.

Your data is yours

Delete your account and everything with it from Settings, whenever you choose.

Free to begin. Simple after that.

Every feature on this page is in the free plan. The limits are on how much, and Sage Plus, or a therapist who uses Aspen, removes them.

Free

Check-ins, sessions, the Parts map, Body map, Trailheads, Practices, voice, reminders, Oura ring and Apple Health, night mode, and the therapist link. Four conversations every 30 days, and one integration journey with up to seven entries.

Sage Plus

$9.99 a month

or $79 a year

Everything in Free, plus unlimited conversations, integration journeys and entries.

Working with a therapist who uses Aspen? Link their code and conversations are unlimited, at no cost to you.

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Questions people ask first.

Short answers to the things worth knowing before you sign up.

Do I need to be in therapy to use Aspen?

No. Aspen is designed for the days between sessions, and it is at its best alongside a therapist, but you do not need a therapist code to sign up and nothing in the app requires one.

Can my therapist read my conversations?

No. If you connect a therapist with their code, they see your check-ins, your session titles and the parts that came up, an overview of your integration work, and a simple alert if something suggests you may be struggling. Never the conversations themselves, and only with your consent. You can disconnect in Settings.

Does Aspen replace my therapist’s judgment?

No. Aspen holds the space between sessions. Your therapist holds the treatment. When the two seem to disagree, your therapist is the one to listen to.

What if I am in crisis?

Aspen is not a crisis service. If you are in danger, call or text 988, text HOME to 741741, or call 911. Those resources are also built into the app.

Is there an app to download?

Aspen is a web app. Open it in your phone’s browser and add it to your home screen, and it behaves like an app from there.

Where does my voice audio go?

Not to Aspen. Dictation and read-aloud use the speech features built into your phone or browser, which may process audio through Apple or Google. Aspen only ever receives the text, never a recording.

The part of you that already knows is always there.

Aspen is here for the days in between: a minute to check in, a conversation when you want one, and a map that fills in as you go.