Built for right now
—:—

Your head's loud. You don't want to book a therapist, sit through an intake, or drop two hundred bucks. You want someone who knows what they're doing, for one conversation. That's what this is.

Talk it out
with someone
who's listening.

Start a session — $1 No subscription. No commitment. One dollar.
Coaching
Not therapy
Evidence-informed
CBT · DBT · MI
Pay-per-session
$1 · no subscription
Safe by design
Crisis routing built in
The gap we sit in
1 in 3
adults report chronic loneliness
$200+
average cost of a therapy session
6 weeks
typical wait for an intake
$1
what a session with Dahlia costs
What it's like

Real coaching.
Not a chatbot.

11:47 PM · YOU
I can't sleep. I keep replaying this conversation from work and feeling like an idiot.
11:47 PM · DAHLIA
That replay loop is exhausting. Before we pick it apart — what are you telling yourself about how it went? Not what actually happened. What your brain is saying about you right now.
11:49 PM · YOU
That I came off stupid. That they're going to think I don't belong there.
11:49 PM · DAHLIA
Okay. Those are two specific thoughts — "I came off stupid" and "they'll think I don't belong." Let's hold them up to the light. What would you need to actually be true for the first one to be accurate?
Guardrails

We know
where coaching
ends.

Dahlia is not a generic chatbot with a disclaimer stapled on. The safeguards below are written into the system prompt and the code path — they fire before the model is called.

01
Crisis detection, pre-model
A regex filter fires before the model is called. Crisis language gets a static, human-reviewed response routing to 988 — not an AI one.
02
Clinical-impairment hard-stop
If you describe persistent impairment of daily function, Dahlia stops coaching and refers out. No tools, no techniques.
03
Banned clinical language
Never "diagnosis," "symptom," "patient," "treatment." Not style — a product rule encoded in the prompt.
04
No medication talk
Ask about meds and Dahlia redirects to a doctor. Full stop. That’s not our lane.
05
Your data, your rules
Encrypted in transit and at rest. Export or delete everything from settings. We never sell it.
06
Humans with receipts
Built by a clinician and a neuroscientist. We know the lines because we’ve worked on both sides of them.
Three ways in

Priced to use when
you actually need it.

Single Session
$1
one-time

Pay as you go. One conversation, one dollar. No subscription.

  • One coaching session, text
  • CBT, DBT & Motivational Interviewing techniques
  • Crisis resource routing
  • No memory between sessions
  • No commitment
Premium Session
$3
one-time

Go deeper in one session. Voice-enabled, extended length, and a detailed written summary.

  • Voice session — talk like a phone call
  • Extended session length
  • Detailed written summary to take away
  • Higher quality conversation
  • No subscription
BEST VALUE
Dahlia Plus
$12
per month

Voice when you need it, text whenever. She remembers you. Cancel anytime.

  • Up to 20 voice sessions per month (~5/week)
  • Up to 40 text sessions per month
  • Coach remembers patterns, goals, triggers
  • Progress tracking across sessions
  • Mood trends over time
  • Cancel anytime
Why we built this

Two friends. Ten years.
One frustration.

We watched people we love fall into the gap between “I’ll figure it out” and “I need clinical help.”

Friends who couldn’t afford $200 a session. Family who waited weeks for an intake. People who never reached out at all because the word therapist felt like admitting defeat.

B
Brandon
CEO & Co-founder
M.S. Psychology · Clinician
L
Logan
CSO & Co-founder
Neuroscience PhD

Honest answers

The questions we get most. Straight answers.

Head’s loud.
Something’s heavy.
Start with a dollar.

Start a session — $1

Not therapy. Not medical advice. If you’re in crisis, call or text 988.