100 manuals, developed by clinicians

There is no manual for this. There is now.

Clinician-developed manuals for depression, anxiety, grief, panic, trauma, insomnia, and the rest of what nobody hands you instructions for. Private, self-paced, and yours the moment you buy.

Why this exists

Most of what happens in a good course of therapy can be written down.

The psychoeducation. The exercises. The homework between sessions. The order things should happen in, and what to do when they don’t work. These manuals are that: the structured core of evidence-based treatment, set down plainly by clinicians who have done this work for years.

Built so you can move through it at your own pace, in private, at two in the morning if that is when you need it. And made to be carried to a clinician, a coach, or one friend who asks on Thursday, because a manual works best when someone knows you have it.

Inside a manual

Not a book you read. A course you work through.

  1. A safety page first. What to do if you are in danger, and the situations where a person, not a manual, is the next step.
  2. Modules, in order. The same sequence a good course of treatment follows, one piece at a time. One a week is a good pace, and nothing expires if you take longer.
  3. An exercise in every module. A reflection, a log, a checklist. It saves as you type and is waiting when you come back, on any device.
  4. The Toolkit, with Elite. Fourteen more techniques with original diagrams, each labeled with where it comes from and how strong the evidence is.

The library

100 manuals. One for what you are carrying.

Search every manual
Wide Place. Anxiety. Exposure-centered work for a life that has gotten small.First Light. Depression. The illness that argues. A program that argues back.Carry Forward. Grief and loss. A way to keep living with what cannot be put down.Sleep Window. Insomnia. CBT-I: stimulus control, sleep restriction, and a real night’s sleep.False Alarm. Panic attacks. Interoceptive exposure for a body that keeps sounding the alarm.All the Way Through. Trauma and post-traumatic stress. The written account, done carefully, all the way through.Carrying Less. Chronic stress and overwhelm. For the load that never quite gets set down.Look Outward. Social anxiety. Exposure work for the fear of being seen.Low Tide. Burnout. Recovery for the tank willpower can’t refill.Clearing. Alcohol and drug use. Honest work on drinking and using, without shame as a tool.The Untangling. Divorce and separation. An ending handled well, one strand at a time.Outside Your Head. Adult ADHD. Structure that lives outside your head, where it can actually help.

For your growth

The second shelf is open.

Manuals for the work coaches and mentors charge by the hour for, built with the same structure and standards.

How it works

Three steps. No appointment.

  1. Choose

    Find the manual for what you are going through. Search in your own words, or browse by topic.

  2. Work through it

    One module at a time, with an exercise in each that saves as you go. Start tonight.

  3. Keep it

    One payment, no subscription. Your manual and everything you wrote are yours, on any device, for as long as the site exists.

Who writes them

Two clinicians. Both sides of the room.

Most self-help is written from one chair. Every manual here is developed and reviewed by two clinicians with twenty-five years of combined clinical experience.

About the clinicians
Counseling

Fifteen years of clinical experience in mental health

Master’s degree in counseling, licensed as a counselor for ten of those years. How a course of work is paced, which skill comes first, the exercises that hold up between sessions.

Psychiatric nursing

Board certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner

APRN, ten years of clinical practice. How symptoms really present, and when sleep, a medication, or a physical cause needs a prescriber’s attention.

Writing

Plain answers. Free to read.

All writing

Privacy

What you write stays yours.

This is the most personal writing many people will ever do. It is treated that way.

  • Encrypted before it is stored. Your answers are sealed with a key kept apart from the database. A copy of the database alone reveals nothing.
  • Never sold, never shared. No advertising, no trackers inside a manual, and no analytics at all on the page for any one manual.
  • Yours to take or erase. Download everything, or close your account and delete it, any time, from your library.
  • No password to steal. You sign in with a one-time code sent to your e-mail.
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Two editions

Pay once. No subscription.

Standard

$39

The full manual: every module, with the exercises, logs, and checklists that save as you go.

  • Every module, in order
  • An exercise in every module
  • Safety page and clinician guidance
  • Read on any device you sign in from

Elite most complete

$69

Everything in Standard, plus the Toolkit: fourteen more techniques with original diagrams, each labeled by its evidence.

  • Everything in Standard
  • The fourteen-technique Toolkit
  • Original diagrams throughout
  • Upgrade later for $30

One payment, no subscription. A full refund within fourteen days of purchase if you have opened fewer than three modules. After your first manual, every other one is 20% off. Sales tax is added at checkout where it applies.

Fair questions

What you are probably wondering.

Is this a PDF?

No. It is a program you work through in your account. The reading, the exercises and your answers live on the site, so your writing is there on the next device and the next night. Nothing to download, nothing to lose in a folder.

Will it actually work for me?

These are approaches with strong research behind them, which says something about a lot of people and is never a guarantee about one. What a manual will do is tell you what it is trying, why, and what to do when a technique does not land, instead of assuming you did it wrong. If it turns out not to be for you, there is a refund.

Why is a clinician selling this instead of seeing me?

Because most of what happens in a good course of treatment can be written down, and most people cannot get an appointment for weeks. This is the part that can be handed over. It is not a substitute for the part that cannot.

What if I need more than a manual?

Then the manual says so. Every program opens with the situations where a person is the next step, in plain language, before you have read anything else.

Do I have to do it in order?

The modules build on each other, so mostly yes. The Toolkit does not. It is fourteen techniques you can open in any order, when the one you need is the one you need.

Who can see what I write?

Nobody here reads it. It is encrypted before it is stored, it is never sold or shared, and you can download it or delete it, with your account, whenever you like.

The manual you were never handed. Yours to work through.

If you are thinking about suicide, call or text 988 now. A manual is not a replacement for a clinician when you need one.