Tending the chair
Relief, comfort, and someone who stays. One trained Keeper, matched to you by hand: a video call every two weeks, a chat thread in between, and a note every Friday. For the weight that is not a diagnosis. $39 a month, cancel any time.
Most people carry the hard things alone, in pieces, with nobody who has the whole picture. A Keeper does. Here is what members say changes, usually within the first few months.
That is what you are paying for: relief that lasts, from a person who stays.
No streaks, no badges, no app telling you how to feel. One person who knows your story, on a schedule you can count on. Three things, every time.
Thirty-five to sixty minutes, on video or just audio, with the same person every time. One hour where you do not have to perform. Every week on the $99 plan.
Text, voice notes, photos, whenever something comes up. Your Keeper replies within a day. The thing that happens on Tuesday does not have to wait two weeks.
A few lines from your Keeper each Friday: what they noticed this week, what stayed with them. Proof, every week, that someone is paying attention.
And if something ever needs a therapist, your Keeper helps you find one. How it works, in detail →
An app matches you by questionnaire and availability, and reassigns you when it suits the roster. Hearth reads what you wrote, chooses one Keeper for you, and keeps them. For years.
Hearth is not therapy. If you ever need treatment, we will say so and help you find the best. What we offer is rarer: one person, chosen with care, who stays.
Read the full comparison →Friends mean well, but they get tired. Therapists are for clinical things, and priced like it. A Keeper is the third thing (older, attentive, consistent) that most of us no longer have. Hearth is peer support, not therapy. We say it plainly because the difference is the point.
Inconsistent attention. Will project. Doesn’t know how to hold a long story without trying to fix it.
One person. Same chair, every call. Lets your sentence finish. Notices the patterns you can’t see yet.
Diagnoses, treats, prescribes. Right tool for some things. Wrong tool for the everyday weight.
Not emergencies. Not diagnoses. The everyday weight: family, grief, caregiving, the in-between years. The things you carry every week.
The call that ruins your Sunday. Expectations that don’t translate. Parents who love you in a language that feels like control.
The kind that arrives on time and the kind that shows up ten years late. Losing people, places, versions of yourself.
Holding everyone else together while quietly falling apart. The guilt of needing your own chair.
The job your family wanted vs. the life you actually want. Success that feels hollow. Starting over at 35.
Not the kind that means you have no friends. The kind that means nobody really knows the full version.
The identity shift nobody warned you about. A relationship reshaped overnight. Needing village but having Wi-Fi.
…and the things that don’t have a name yet. Also: identity & belonging, intimacy & shame, sexual identity, anxiety, bullying & harassment, comparison & body image, dating burnout. If it’s on your mind every week, it belongs here.
“I was the cousin people called when something didn’t make sense yet. I trained as a counselor, then realized what most people needed first wasn’t a session. It was a chair, a long evening, and someone who wasn’t tired of them.”
Keepers are trained companions, the kind of steady person most of us used to have in a family or a neighbourhood. Paid professionals, not volunteers. Many trained as psychologists in their home countries; none act as your clinician, and we are clear about it. And they stay yours.
You don’t rotate. The same Keeper carries the thread of your life across seasons.
120 hours of Keeper training, background checks, crisis protocol, monthly supervision. Not clinicians, and clear about it.
A person at Hearth pairs you by language, lived context, and the themes you carry. Not the right fit after your first Sit? Ask and we assign someone else.
Everything else is the same: your Keeper, the chat thread, the Friday note. No upsells, no dark patterns. Cancel any time, in one click.
or $390/yr (2 months free)
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or $990/yr (2 months free)
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For scale: therapy usually runs $400–1,200 a month, and a therapy app can hand you a new counsellor any time. A Keeper is $39, and stays. Full pricing →Compare with therapy apps →
First names, real situations, names changed for privacy. Read more stories →
I've been holding everyone for years. My mother. My kids. My husband's grief. The first Sit I cried for forty minutes. Aruna didn't try to stop me. She just stayed.
My grandmother died two years ago. I never grieved out loud. There wasn't space for it. Aruna made the space. We talk about her every week.
I quit the job my parents wanted. I didn't tell them for six weeks. Faisal sat with me through that silence. Not a therapist. Just someone who'd done a version of this himself.
Plain answers. If yours is not here, the full FAQ has the rest.
No. Hearth is peer support: a trained Keeper (often a psychologist by training in their home country) who does not act as a clinician, for the recurring weight of ordinary life. Keepers do not diagnose, treat or prescribe. If what you describe needs a therapist, your Keeper says so and helps you find a vetted one through The Bridge.
Therapy apps sell online therapy with licensed professionals, at roughly $260 to $520 a month, and you can be reassigned to a different therapist. Hearth is one trained Keeper, matched to you by hand and kept for as long as it serves you, for $39 a month. It is peer support, not therapy. If you need treatment, choose therapy. If you need a person who stays, that is what we built.
Trained, vetted, paid peer supporters. Each completes 120 hours of Hearth training in listening, sensitivity, scope and crisis protocol, passes a background check and joins monthly supervision. Fewer than 8% of applicants are accepted. They are paid from every membership fee, biweekly in USD.
$39 a month for a 35 to 60 minute call every two weeks, the chat thread, and the Friday note. $99 a month for a call every week. No per-session billing, no upsells. Cancel any time in one click and keep access to the end of the period you paid for.
After your first Sit with your Keeper, if it does not feel right, ask and we assign you a different Keeper. No questions asked. You can request a change later too.
Yes. Calls and messages are encrypted. Hearth is not a medical record and nothing is shared with employers or insurers. You can export or delete your data at any time.
A 12-minute intake about what you are carrying and how you like to talk, then a membership. Within 72 hours of both, a person at Hearth matches you by hand with a Keeper, who writes to you first. If the first Sit is not the right fit, ask and we assign someone else at no charge.
Tell us what you’re carrying. Within 72 hours you’ll have someone to carry it with, and some relief.