AI therapy for when anxiety feels too heavy

Yes. Renée has a generous free tier so you can start chatting, exploring, and getting real support without committing to anything. No credit card required to start, no insurance needed, no per-session fees. Full ongoing access requires a subscription after your initial free period — but Renée is the most affordable option in its category, designed specifically to remove cost as a barrier to mental health support.

On the free tier you get real conversations with Renée — a purpose-built AI therapist using evidence-based approaches (CBT, IFS, Narrative therapy). Renée remembers your context, detects your emotional tone, and helps you understand the patterns behind your anxiety, relationships, and low moods. The free tier is genuinely usable — not a teaser with key features locked away.

None. Renée is straightforward about what's free and what requires a subscription. There are no per-session fees, no upsells hidden inside conversations, and no insurance requirements. When a subscription is needed, you'll know exactly what you're getting — no surprise charges.

Traditional therapy typically costs $100–$300 per session. Many subscription-based platforms charge $60–$100 per week. Renée's free tier removes the financial barrier entirely to start, and even the paid plan costs less than a cup of coffee a week — giving you access to evidence-based AI therapy including CBT tools, mood support, voice conversations, and longitudinal memory. No waitlists, no scheduling delays.

You can start a conversation with Renée immediately without signing in. Creating a free account lets Renée remember your history across sessions — which is where the real value builds — but you don't need to commit to anything to try it first.

Yes, completely. Every conversation with Renée is private and encrypted regardless of which plan you're on. The free tier isn't a surveillance product — there's no ad targeting, no behavior profiling, and no data sold to third parties. Your conversations exist to help you, not to generate revenue from you.

Renée is built for the full range of everyday emotional struggles: anxiety, relationship conflict, low mood, overthinking, self-doubt, grief, burnout, loneliness, and more. Using CBT, IFS, and Narrative therapy frameworks, she helps you understand what's underneath the feeling — not just manage the symptom. She also has a pattern detection system that surfaces the psychological patterns driving your recurring behaviors.

No — and we're honest about that. Renée works best as a complement to professional care, or as a starting point for people who can't access or afford a therapist yet. Think of her as your AI therapist for the in-between moments: the 2am spiral, the post-argument replay loop, the Sunday-night dread. For clinical diagnosis, medication, or trauma processing, a licensed human therapist is the right tool.

Renée is designed for ongoing emotional support, not emergency intervention. She detects signs of distress and responds with care, and will always point you toward crisis resources when needed. If you're experiencing thoughts of self-harm or a mental health crisis, please contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988 in the US) or your local crisis line immediately.

Most free AI apps are either generic chatbots with no therapeutic framework, or freemium products where the useful features sit behind a paywall. Renée is purpose-built for mental health from the ground up: evidence-based modalities, longitudinal memory that builds across sessions, real-time emotional tone detection, and a pattern detection system trained on 98 psychological patterns. The free tier gives you a genuinely useful experience — not a demo.