Tending the chair
Expectations that don't translate. Parents who love you in a language that feels like control. The marriage timeline you never agreed to. The career your family wanted versus the life you actually want. Therapy can help with the patterns. Hearth helps with the next phone call — and the one after that.
If this sounds like you
No streaks. No optimisation. Just a Keeper, a chair, and however long the conversation needs to be.
A regular Sit with someone who has lived a version of the same story.
A Long Talk thread for the immediate after — the call you just hung up from, the dinner you survived.
A Keeper who will not pathologise your family. Who understands what they were protecting, and helps you decide what's yours to carry.
Cultural fluency built in. Nothing to translate, nothing to caveat.
What Hearth isn’t
Hearth is not family therapy. We do not mediate, do not work with multiple family members at once, and do not replace the structured work that some family wounds need. We hold the in-between — your reflection, your nervous system, your slow figuring-out.
We hand-match Keepers to members within 72 hours. This is the kind of Keeper we’d typically pair with someone bringing what you’re bringing.
Retired school principal. Three decades of being the calm person in the middle of everyone else's emergency. She'll tell you what your mother meant to say.
Read Rabia’s full profile →From a member
“My mother and I have been having the same fight for ten years. Aruna didn't fix it. She helped me see what we were both protecting. The fight is still there. The shame around it isn't.”
Priya · 34 · Toronto · 8 months in Hearth
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Hearthside
biweekly Sits · billed monthly · or $390/yr (2 months free)
Hearth Deep
weekly Sits · billed monthly · or $990/yr (2 months free)
The First Sit takes about 12 minutes
Pull up a chair. Your Keeper will be on the other side within 72 hours.
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