Cassie: Relationship Coaching, Available Any Time
A Thoughtful Space To Think About What’s Going On.
For many people in relationships, a therapy session isn’t needed right now.
Instead, they need somewhere reliable to land at 11pm when something just happened and they can't tell if they're overreacting, under-reacting, or repeating a pattern they swore they'd broken.
That's what Cassie is.
A relationship coaching tool I built from almost two decades of sitting with couples and individuals in real relational difficulty. She's not me. But she thinks the way I think, asks the questions I'd ask, and she won't just tell you what you want to hear.
7 days free. $25 a month after that. Cancel whenever you like.
Not generic AI. Something with an actual point of view.
Generic AI relationship advice has an image problem. Worse, it has no clinical grounding, no theoretical orientation, and no real understanding of what it is looking at.
Ask ChatGPT whether you are being unreasonable and it will tell you your feelings are valid.
Ask it again from your partner's perspective and it will tell them exactly the same thing.
It is optimised to make you feel heard, not to tell you the truth. It will reflect your framing back at you with warmth and bullet points and a complete absence of anything that might actually challenge you. It might even use what it knows about you already, to inform how it responds, in ways that don’t help.
That is not useful. That is a very expensive mirror.
Cassie is different because the person who built her is different. Cassie is not trying to make you feel good about the conversation. She is trying to make the conversation actually helpful and relational in its focus.
Cassie will tell you when a part of you is running the show and when your wise adult needs to step in. Cassie will tell you when your expectations are reasonable and when they are not. Cassie names the pattern she sees, even if that is uncomfortable, because that is what is going to move you forward.
Cassie was built by a clinician who has spent years sitting with people in struggle and relational difficulty. That background is either in the room or it is not. With generic AI, it is most definitely not.
Who is Cassie actually for.
If you're working through something alone.
You know something is off but you're not sure what's yours and what's theirs. You've already talked to your friends and they're on your side in a way that isn't actually helping. You don't want to go to therapy for something that might just need a honest conversation and a clearer head. Cassie is the non-partisan, clinically informed space in between.
If you're a couple who wants support between sessions.
Or who knows something needs to shift but you’re not ready to commit to an intensive just yet. Cassie works with both of you. She won't let one person's version of events go unchallenged, and she holds both partners to the same standard of relational accountability.
If you've ever asked "am I being unreasonable?"
…and genuinely wanted a real answer rather than reassurance. Cassie will give you one. That's one of the things she does best.
What Cassie can help with.
Understanding why you react the way you do, and what part of you is actually driving it. Having difficult conversations without them becoming arguments. Repairing properly after conflict, not just moving on. Intimacy and desire and the conversations about sex that are hard to start. Whether your expectations are reasonable. What to do when they are reasonable but aren't being met. The repeating patterns. The pursuer and withdrawer dynamic. The contempt that creeps in. The stonewalling that shuts everything down.
And the gap between what you feel and what it would actually be useful to say or do with that feeling. That gap is where most relational damage happens. Cassie works in that gap.
What Cassie won't do.
She is honest about her limits and as a relationship coach and clinician, I think that matters.
She will not conduct therapy or clinical assessment. She will not advise on legal or financial matters. She will not take sustained sides, though she will name harmful behaviour directly when she sees it. And if what you share with her suggests you are in danger, she will tell you plainly and point you to the right support.
Cassie is not the right tool if you are experiencing domestic abuse, coercive control, or acute mental health crisis. If that is where you are, please contact Refuge at 0808 2000 247 in the UK, 1800RESPECT in Australia on 1800 737 732, or the National Domestic Violence Hotline in the US on 1-800-799-7233. All are free and available around the clock.
Built by someone who has done this work for a long time.
I am Lucy Orton: registered counsellor (ACA #27921), certified Relational Life Therapy practitioner, IFS Institute-trained practitioner, Brainspotting Phase 5 practitioner, and certified sex therapist. I have been working with individuals and couples many years, including in my current practice of multi-day intensives for people who want to do serious deep and relational work in a concentrated time.
Cassie reflects how I think, what I notice, and what I believe about why people get stuck in relationships and how they get unstuck. She is not me, and talking to her is not the same as working with me directly. But she was built by someone who knows what she is doing, and that is not nothing.
If you want to work with me as an individual, rather than as a couple, you can find out more at lucyorton.com and if you’re interested in a couples intensive, you can click on the button below.
What it costs.
$25 a month.
There is a 7-day free trial and you can cancel at any time from your account. No contracts. No awkward conversations. Your sessions are stored privately, you can delete them whenever you want, and you can export them for your own records. Nobody reads them.
Questions people ask before they start.
Is Cassie a real person?
No. Cassie is an AI coaching tool built on a clinical framework I created. She reflects my voice and values. She is not me, and a conversation with Cassie is not a session with me.
Is this therapy?
No. Cassie is a coaching tool. She offers education, practical skills, honest feedback, and a space to think clearly. If what you bring to her needs clinical support, she will say so.
Can my partner and I both use it?
Yes. You can come to Cassie individually or together. If you are both in the conversation she will address both of you and she will not let one person's framing of events become the only one on the table.
What if I'm in crisis?
Cassie is not a crisis tool. If you are in immediate danger please call emergency services: 000 in Australia, 911 in the US, 999 in the UK. For mental health crisis support: Lifeline in Australia on 13 11 14, or 988 in the US.
Is my data private?
Yes. Your conversations are stored securely and are not shared with anyone. You can read the full Privacy Policy here.
Can I cancel?
Yes, any time, from your account settings. You keep access until the end of the billing period you have paid for.
If something is going on in your relationship, this is somewhere to take it.
Start your free 7-day trial. No card charged until day eight.
Cassie is a relationship coaching tool, not a therapist, and does not replace clinical support.
Created by Lucy Orton and Couples Awaken.