News from WovenPath

Healing Space is now WovenPath

13 November 2026

Same app, same company, same people: a new name.

“Healing Space” turned out to be a name other people had already registered as a trade mark for therapy and coaching. We could never truly own it, so we chose one that is ours to keep.

WovenPath comes from something we believe about therapy: our thoughts, feelings, struggles and moments of progress are woven together, and everyone’s path is their own. Every story has a thread.

What has changed: the name, this website’s address (www.wovenpath.co.uk), our email addresses and the logo. What hasn’t: the company (Healing Space Technologies Ltd), the people, the pilot, and how we look after information. Old links and email addresses forward here.

The full record is on Our new name.

Getting ready for the pilot

10 November 2026

A week on from our big update, here is what has happened and where we are going.

What has happened

• A company behind Healing Space. Healing Space Technologies Ltd was formed on 5 November 2026 (company number 17564377). It is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (registration number ZC295703), and the number is on the privacy page.
• Clearer that it is not a crisis service. The app and every page of this website now say plainly that Healing Space is not an emergency or crisis service, and point to 999, NHS 111 and Samaritans. In the app’s help panel you can also keep the numbers of people you trust. Opening it tells nobody.
• A security review before anyone uses it. We are finishing a full review of the app, from signing in to every page it serves, and everything found so far has been fixed and tested. Therapists now sign in with a code from an authenticator app as well as their password, and are signed out after 30 minutes without activity. Everyone can change their password in the app, see where they are signed in, and sign out everywhere else. Names, dates of birth, phone numbers and health details are stored encrypted.
• Simpler. We took out everything the pilot does not need, including older messaging and community areas, a game, and tools only developers used. Nothing anyone writes or says is used to train AI.
• Treatment plans. Therapists can write a treatment plan and share the parts they choose with their client, who can say they have read it, agree with it, or not. The plan is the therapist’s own: Healing Space does not write it, score it or decide anything from it.
• No questionnaires. We took out the standard questionnaires, such as the PHQ-9 and GAD-7, and anything that scored them. Healing Space is somewhere to talk and keep track between sessions, not a clinical measuring tool.
• A conversation that picks up where you left off. Each message shows the time it was sent, and Healing Space carries on from where you got to last time.
• Talking in everyday life. Talk copes better with long answers and with music in the background. If it hears music, it checks with you before sending what it heard, and when you tap Stop, everything you said so far becomes your message.

Where we are going

• Finishing the groundwork. The last parts of the security review, then what the pilot needs on paper: a data protection impact assessment, a clinical risk log, a written agreement with each therapist, and plain-English information for clients.
• An independent review. Before the pilot, we plan for specialists outside Healing Space to review its clinical safety and to check whether any part of it would count as a medical device. That starts once it is funded.
• New hosting. Moving the app, and Talk with it, to Google Cloud in Belgium.
• The pilot. Three therapists in private practice have agreed in principle to try Healing Space with clients who choose to take part. It starts only when everything above is done.

Healing Space is still not a therapist and not a crisis service, and it does not diagnose or score anyone. We have not shown that it improves outcomes; the pilot is where we start to learn. The plan is on Where we are.

A big update

3 November 2026

Healing Space has changed a great deal over the last few weeks. Here is what is different, and where it is heading.

What has changed

• One simple space. Healing Space has been rebuilt around a single conversation. You type about your week in your own words, and soon you will be able to talk instead. There are no forms to fill in about yourself: if you mention how you slept or how you feel, Healing Space can offer to keep it, and nothing is kept until you say yes.
• You choose what your therapist sees. Before each session you pick up to five things to bring, in your own words. Your therapist sees only what you approve, from two hours before the session.
• Your therapist’s words, kept. After a session your therapist can share a short summary with you, word for word. Their private notes stay private.
• No crisis system, and nobody alerted. We removed every crisis and monitoring feature. Healing Space never alerts anyone about what you say. The helplines are always one tap away in the app, and at the top of every page of this website.
• Your information stays close. When the pilot starts, the AI will run in London and the app will be hosted in Europe. Phone numbers, email addresses, NHS numbers and postcodes you type are removed before anything reaches the AI.
• Talking, privately. Talk uses Healing Space’s own speech service in Europe, which keeps no audio. It works in testing and is being finished for the pilot.

What comes next

Three therapists in private practice have agreed in principle to a small pilot, with clients who choose to take part. It starts only when the safety, privacy and legal work is done: a data protection impact assessment, a clinical risk log, written agreements, plain-English information for clients, and a professional check of all of it.

Something bigger

We have also set out a bigger plan. People differ in what helps them, so we are working towards a Healing Space that adapts to the person using it: quieter and simpler for those who want less, more structure or more to explore for those who want more, always by their own choice. We are also working towards therapists being able to add their own between-session exercises, with clients deciding what, if anything, their therapist sees. These are plans, not promises: each has to pass the same safety and privacy checks before anyone uses it.

What has not changed

Healing Space is not a therapist and not a crisis service, and it does not diagnose. We have not shown that it improves outcomes; the pilot is where we start to learn. What is and is not in place today is on the Trust Centre, and the plan is on Where we are.

Go to the home page Where we are