Six people, two cats, and a shared conviction that the next thing the nervous system needs is not another app that asks for your attention.
TheraJoy started in a therapist's office in Berkeley in the winter of 2023. Our cofounder Sana, an EMDR-trained LMFT, was loaning her handheld tappers to clients between sessions and asking them to remember to bring them back. The clients who did, did better. The clients who forgot, lost a week.
The obvious thing was an app. The less obvious thing was to build an app that didn't make itself the center of a person's practice. The hardest part of the last two years has been figuring out what to leave out.
We are self-funded for now, with a small seed round from friends who understood the assignment. We charge for the product because we want the product to answer to you, and not to an ad market or a data buyer. We do not sell or broker your data — ever, for any price.
We think about our work as building quiet software: tools that sit where they're needed, that do one small thing well, and that go back to their corner when you're done.
If that resonates, you're probably going to like the app. If it doesn't, we are genuinely not the right fit, and we hope you find a tool that is.
Every release, we look at what we can remove. Screens, settings, prompts. The best version of TheraJoy is one you think about less.
If a feature would make life worse for a working therapist, we don't ship it. Full stop. Every quarter we show roadmap to our clinical advisors and listen.
Gamification belongs in games. Calming tools should not make you feel worse for missing a day.
You pay a simple fee. We don't run ads, sell data, broker PHI, or train any third-party model on you.