Claude-Therapy-Workspace-Template

A GitHub template for working through one bounded personal issue with Claude Code — a career situation, one relationship, a bereavement, a decision you keep circling.

One workspace, one issue. Open a new one for the next thing.

What this is, and what it isn't

This is a place to organise your own thinking about one thing, with an agent that can hold detail, ask the next question, and write it down properly. It is not therapy, and it does not replace a therapist.

It exists anyway because the alternative is usually nothing. Access to mental health support is uneven, expensive and slow; the hour you eventually get is short and months away. The time before and between sessions is not dead time. Getting an account of what actually happened, what you actually think, and what you actually want written down is useful on its own — and it turns a professional hour spent reconstructing events into one spent on the thing you came for.

The best outcome of this workspace is that you walk into a therapist's room with a clear account instead of a blank page. for-therapist/ exists for exactly that.

If things are acute rather than difficult, see SUPPORT.md.

Why issue-bounded

A workspace scoped to one issue can be honest about scope. It knows what is in and out; it can be reviewed in one sitting; it can be closed. A general "my mental health" repo accumulates forever, mixes unrelated material, and gets harder to open rather than easier.