Extend body-awareness work
into your clients' daily lives

What Felt does

Felt delivers short, structured prompts throughout the day — each one an invitation to notice a physical sensation. Thirst, jaw tension, shoulder posture, breath depth, hunger. The prompts appear as small, non-intrusive cards on the user's screen and can be acknowledged, starred, or dismissed.

The app includes 50+ prompts in two stages:

• Stage 1: Identifying. "Where are your shoulders right now?" "Are you thirsty?" "Is your jaw clenched?" — building the habit of noticing.
• Stage 2: Sustained contact. "Stay with what you notice in your shoulders for a few breaths." — deepening the connection once identification becomes easier.

The prompts never ask users to fix anything. They never diagnose, interpret, or suggest action beyond noticing. "I don't feel anything" is treated as a valid, complete response.

Clinical alignment

Felt's approach draws on practices familiar to several therapeutic traditions:

• Somatic Experiencing (SE): Felt's "notice without fixing" approach mirrors SE's emphasis on tracking body sensations without interpretation
• Internal Family Systems (IFS): The gentle, non-judgmental tone ("Just check. No need to do anything about it yet.") aligns with IFS's curious, compassionate stance
• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Building bottom-up awareness of physical states during everyday activities
• Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Brief present-moment awareness of body sensations, integrated into daily routine rather than formal practice
• Polyvagal-informed work: Regular interoceptive check-ins support the client's ability to notice their autonomic state during daily life

Felt is not a clinical tool and makes no therapeutic claims. It is a body-awareness support app that may complement the work you're already doing with clients. Please read our scope and safety statement for full details on what Felt is and isn't.

Why this matters between sessions

A common challenge in somatic and body-based therapies is that the interoceptive awareness practiced in session often fades during the week. Clients return to their desks, enter deep focus, and the mind-body connection built in your office goes quiet until the next appointment.

Felt addresses this gap. By delivering brief, gentle check-ins throughout the workday, it creates a bridge between sessions — keeping the habit of noticing alive without requiring the client to remember to practice on their own.

Safety and design choices

We've made specific design decisions with clinical populations in mind:

• No streaks or gamification. No guilt mechanics. Missing a prompt is not tracked or penalised.
• Adjustable intensity. Five scheduling modes from "Recovery" (very gentle, longer intervals) to "Reach Harder" (more frequent). Users can pause at any time from the menu bar.
• Discreet mode. For clients who need privacy (e.g., in shared workspaces), prompts can be replaced with a subtle icon pulse.
• No data collection. Zero analytics, zero telemetry. All data stays on the client's Mac. You and your client don't need to worry about sensitive body-awareness data being collected by a third party.
• Prompts never interpret. "Where are your shoulders?" not "You seem tense." The language is descriptive and open-ended, never diagnostic.

How to recommend Felt to clients

A few practical suggestions:

1. Frame it clearly. "This is a tool that will occasionally ask you to notice something in your body during your workday. It's not therapy — it's a practice support."
2. Suggest Recovery mode first. For clients who may be sensitive to body-directed attention, start with the gentlest scheduling mode.
3. Discuss potential activation. For trauma clients, some prompts may be activating. The app has a one-click Pause function. Suggest they use it freely and bring whatever comes up to your next session.
4. Check in about it. "How are you finding the check-ins?" can be a useful session opener that naturally leads into body-based work.

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About the developer

Felt was built by a solo developer with lived experience of trauma recovery and the slow, patient work of rebuilding a mind-body connection. The app started as a personal tool and grew into something worth sharing. The prompts are written from that experience — not from a content team or a clinical manual.

If you have feedback, suggestions for the prompt library, or ideas for how Felt could better serve your clients, we'd love to hear from you: hello@felt.place