About

OutSession is a private space for the week between therapy sessions. A therapist offers it to their clients as part of their service.

Clients use it to put things down while they're still fresh: a thought record shaped around what happened, a note of something to raise, a moment worth keeping, a video that said it better. Before the next session, they choose what to bring and place it on a session board for their therapist to read.

Nothing in it tries to do the therapeutic work. It gives the next session somewhere to start.

OutSession intends to play a tiny role in supporting people into starting, attending and continuing therapy sessions with their professional. A counsellor and psychotherapist can offer OutSession as a lightweight client tool as part of their service. It further empowers the client and provides a practical space to reflect and prepare for sessions in their own way.

Both sides of the therapeutic relationship will benefit. We truly believe and will look to evidence that

When young people describe what helps in therapy, having different ways to express things comes up often. Writing, drawing, keeping track of what changed. So does what doesn't help: feeling pressured to talk, and feeling like a case rather than a person.

Both shaped this, and both are the reason it stays quiet unless you want it.

OutSession is built independently by Dan, a security engineer, alongside a full-time job. It's shaped with input from mental health clinicians working in the NHS.

Therapists pay a monthly subscription. Clients never pay, there are no ads, and nothing anyone writes is sold.