Lingwell
A Guided Language Companion
A new kind of tool for reflection, emotional clarity, and self-understanding.
Sometimes we need space to slow down and gather our thoughts. To remember what matters. To reconnect with the part of us that knows what to do next. Lingwell is that space. It is a quiet, sturdy place to find your bearings. Whether you are carrying stress, navigating change, preparing for something important, or just trying to catch your breath, it helps you speak clearly to yourself, so you can move forward with clarity and intention.
Why It Matters
It is not always easy to talk, even when there is someone to talk to. The moment moves too fast. The stakes feel too high. And the words don’t always come when we need them most.
In daily life and moments of acute stress, it can be hard to name what is happening inside. Even in places designed to help like clinics, classrooms, or crisis lines, people are often left trying to explain the unexplainable. The result is frustration, missed connections, and a quiet sense that no one really sees what we are carrying.
We know language is central to care. But we rarely treat it as care in itself. That is the gap Lingwell is here to fill.
What Lingwell Is
Lingwell is a Guided Language Companion. A structured, private space for reflection, clarity, and growth. It helps individuals find words for what is hard to say and surfaces insight they didn’t know they had.
It is not therapy, journaling, or a chatbot. It is an AI-guided tool structured to engage users in focused, intentional dialogue grounded in human-centered language design.
Each session offers a simple arc: Recenter. Reframe. Deepen.
Whether someone is preparing for a difficult conversation, debriefing after a hard shift, or just trying to steady themselves for the day ahead, Lingwell helps them return to their own clarity and carry it forward with deeper understanding.
How It Works & How It Is Used
Lingwell supports real-world moments that call for steadiness. It is made for moments of overwhelm, decision-making, recovery, grief, pain or introspection. It helps people slow down, reflect, and regain their footing.
Sessions are self-paced, guided by language prompts designed to uncover clarity through reflection. Lingwell does not offer answers. It helps people find their own.
Built for individual use, it integrates easily into high-stakes environments: healthcare, education, crisis response, and beyond. It meets people where they are and supports them between appointments, after a tough day, or when words are hard to find.
Who It Is For
Lingwell is for anyone carrying something hard to name. That includes caregivers, clinicians, patients, educators, students, chaplains, first responders, and more.
It is a support for those navigating chronic stress, ongoing recovery, or moments when the inner life needs tending. People use it to prepare for counseling, reflect between difficult tasks, or steady themselves after encounters that linger.
It is not just for crisis. It is for the human experience, with all its messy, complex, and confusing parts, and for finding language that can match its intricacies with the precision they deserve.
For Organizations
Lingwell is built to support people and to serve those who serve them.
It offers a scalable way for clinics, campuses, community organizations, and others to strengthen individual resilience and reduce systemic strain. It starts with the belief that when people can reflect, reframe, and reconnect, they show up clearer, steadier, and more engaged with care.
That means less downstream pressure on staff, fewer escalations, and more effective communication.
We offer flexible integration models aligned to different care environments. Our guided language model was trained and shaped through input from clinicians, educators, and frontline workers who know what is at stake.
When people have the right words, everyone benefits. Lingwell helps them find those words.
What’s Coming
Lingwell is currently in limited pilot with select partners. A public launch is coming soon.
At launch, Lingwell will be available directly to individuals and through institutions like clinics, campuses, and care programs.
Subscriptions will include access to Lingwell’s first generalist model, with new features and pathways rolling out over time.
Pathways will offer focused support for themes like stress, grief, recovery, caregiving, and more. Each built with care and grounded in insight from the communities they serve.
About Lingwell
Lingwell was developed through nearly two decades of applied research, fieldwork, and human-centered design.
Its roots lie in trauma recovery and guided writing work led by writer, researcher, and longtime educator Matthew Leavitt Brown, whose work reveals how language, when used with care and precision, can do more than describe experience. It can transform it.
The insights that led to Lingwell’s design evolved through collaboration with veterans, survivors, clinicians, educators, and caregivers. Its language model was shaped through hundreds of hours of training conversations, guided by real voices, not scraped data.
Supported by the National Science Foundation and refined through partnership with Vanderbilt University, Lingwell’s development has been rigorous, ethical, and grounded in lived experience.
It is a new class of reflective technology that responsive, respectful, and built to meet people at depth.
Reflections From Early Users
"It helped me put some space between me and the problem."
— Early Pilot User
"I am not a journaler, but this made it feel more guided. Less pressure."
— Early Pilot User
"For somebody living with chronic stuff, it is powerful to have a place that does not judge or hurry you."
— Chronic Illness Patient, Early Pilot User
"It surprised me how much better I understood what was bugging me after seeing the words it gave back to me."
— US Army Veteran, Early Pilot User
"Could be really helpful after hard appointments, when I am still sorting through it all."
— Early Pilot User
"I think it is a tool that would be helpful in between counseling sessions."
— Pilot Interviewee
"The tone was warm but not sappy, which really matters when you are dealing with health."
— Long Time Public Servant, Early Pilot User