Each person writes their own version. Nothing opens until everyone has written.
Perspective Exchange is homework between sessions. You open an exchange with the situation you want them to work on; each client gets a link and writes, alone, what happened and how it felt. The server keeps every version sealed until the agreed number of people have written. Then all of them open at once, and you read them together in the room.
The protocol.
Sealed by the server, not by trust.
You open the exchange.
With your own account, you write a short context, up to 500 characters, and set how many versions are needed before anything is shown: two for a couple, more for a family or a group.
The context is the only thing participants see before they write.
Each client gets a link.
A private link, a QR code or a 62-character code, sent however you already talk to them. Whoever opens it sees the context and nothing else, and writes without installing anything and without creating an account. Their browser keeps a private code that stands in for a name.
Writing happens sealed, between sessions.
Facts on one side, perceptions on the other, or up to fifty fact-and-feeling pairs when the week deserves that care. Until the count is reached, the server returns each person only their own version, on every request. A partner cannot read the other's words on a shared laptop or in a screenshot.
The reveal is the session.
At the count, every version opens as a card, side by side. You read them together, and the exchange stays readable and downloadable afterwards for your notes or theirs.
Two columns, on purpose.
Separating the account into facts and perceptions is the oldest move in the work you already do. The app makes it the shape of the form, so the client does not have to remember it at eleven at night.
Facts
What happened, when, in which order. The part both of them could agree a camera would have recorded.
Perceptions
What it made each of them feel: at ease, uncomfortable, and everything specific in between. The part only that person can report.
The structured mode goes further: up to fifty pairs, each fact with the perception it left.
Who uses it.
Practitioners first. Couples who want the structure without a third person, too.
Couples therapists.
The same argument, told once by each partner before the session, with nobody having gone first. The facts often agree more than either expected; the perceptions rarely do, and that gap is the material.
Family therapists and mediators.
A family of four writes four versions of the same Sunday. The reveal puts them on one screen, and the mediation starts from what was written rather than from who spoke loudest. Families need Bridge: more than two voices.
Coaches and supervisors.
Before the one-to-one, both people write what they expect and what worries them. Reading the other's version only after writing your own removes the anchoring that makes those conversations polite and useless.
Couples on their own.
No practitioner in the room. One of you opens the exchange, the other gets the link, both write, both read. The free tier covers it; the page for couples explains how to use it well.
Three things to know.
Names are part of the deal.
You, as the person who opened the exchange, are shown by username once it opens, and so is anyone who took part while signed in. Clients who join by link stay behind the last six characters of their code. Decide who signs in accordingly.
The exchange never expires.
If one person never writes, nothing is revealed and the exchange simply waits. Share the link again, or open a new one.
Not a clinical tool.
It gives structure; it gives no interpretation and no advice, and it is not built to store clinical records. Your judgement stays where it is. What clients write is stored to be shown to the participants of that exchange, and for nothing else.
Free for two voices. Bridge for the practice.
A couple, with you or without you, fits in the free tier. Families, groups and a practice that opens more than three exchanges a month take Bridge. Clients never pay and never sign up.
Free
For a couple, on their own or with you.
Free
- Exchanges for two voices
- 3 exchanges a month
- Participants join by link, no app and no account
- Simple and structured takes, sealed by the server
- The reveal, and a download of the exchange
- Voices per exchange
- 2
- Exchanges a month
- 3
Already on a plan? Manage or cancel it from the billing portal.
Questions practitioners ask.
Can a client read the other's words before the reveal?
No. Until the agreed count the server sends each person only their own version, whether they read the exchange or submit to it. The others are not in the response, so no screenshot, shared device or extension can show them.
Do my clients need an account?
No. A client opens the link, writes, and is identified by a private code that their browser keeps. Only the person who opens the exchange needs an account: you.
Can I read what they wrote before the reveal?
No. The sealing is applied by the server to everyone, including the person who opened the exchange. You read at the count, together with them.
Can a client edit after writing?
Yes, until the reveal, with an optional note about why. The note is shown with their version afterwards. After the reveal nothing changes.
Is therapybridge.online a different product?
No. It is a second address for the same site, kept for practitioners who know the app by the name it gives itself, Therapy / Bridge.
Open your first exchange with a client.
Two minutes to set up. The client needs nothing but the link.
Perspective Exchange is part of Sintopia, a suite of small tools by Arasaka.