Amanda — Mental wellness coach

Grounded, compassionate, yours.

Chat with Amanda about what's heavy — no account needed

Amanda is Verke's mental wellness coach. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Compassion-Focused Therapy — two approaches that share a quiet premise: the point isn't to argue yourself out of feeling what you feel. It's to make room for the hard stuff, loosen the grip of the inner critic, and still move toward what matters to you. You can be struggling and building skills at the same time.

• I'm feeling down. Feeling down is a common human experience. It can follow a hard event, slowly accumulate during stress, or sometimes seem to come out of nowhere — none of which makes it less real.
• Stress and worry. Stress and worry can feel constant in a fast-paced life. Your mind and body are responding normally to real pressures — you don't have to carry this alone.
• Sleep problems. Sleep difficulties touch every part of life — mood, attention, energy, patience. Many people face similar struggles, and there are real ways to move the needle.
• Life changes. Planned or unexpected, big transitions can unsettle the ground underneath you. Feeling destabilized during these times isn't weakness — it's being honest about what's happening.
• Low self-esteem. Struggling with self-worth doesn't reflect your actual value. Many people carry a harsh inner voice that never tells the whole story — Amanda works gently on that voice.
• Burnout. Burnout is what happens when prolonged stress empties the tank. It's not a personal failure — it's a signal that demands have outpaced your capacity to recover.
• Lacking purpose and meaning. Questioning your direction — or feeling oddly flat when things are technically fine — is part of the human experience. Many people go through seasons of feeling disconnected from what matters.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy asks two questions: what matters to you, and what are you willing to feel in order to move toward it? Instead of trying to eliminate difficult thoughts, ACT helps you hold them with less struggle so they stop running the day. Compassion-Focused Therapy works on the inner voice — especially when it turns punishing — and builds a warmer, steadier way of being with yourself.

Amanda remembers what you've been working on across sessions, so you don't start from scratch each time. You can write in text, or switch to voice when a real conversation feels easier than typing. For the full explainers of the methods Amanda draws on, see Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT).

Some days you want to type out what's on your mind. Other days it's easier to talk — and Amanda can do both. Voice sessions run up to 20 minutes as a phone-call-style conversation, and a summary posts back to the chat so you can return to it later. Bookmark what's useful, and Amanda remembers what you've been working on across weeks and months. Read more about how ACT works.

Your conversations with Amanda are end-to-end encrypted. You can sign up anonymously — no email or phone number required — and your 7-day free trial starts at $1.99/week after that. No credit card needed to start.

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• Unmotivated and can't explain why — what's often underneath
• Can't enjoy things anymore? Why — and when it's worth checking in with someone
• Feel numb emotionally? What numbness is actually doing