The Living Story Company
The Lighthouse
Landfall
Copperheart
Driftwood
My Robot Friend
In VR
The clinical half of the company: a working practice, the Awareness Continuum Framework, and education for providers.
“The whole thing is we’re starting to identify the issues that are making us separate from ourself and what separated us from our self. Getting on that wrong path creates anxiety, depression, substance abuse or whatever. And so this model is trying to get you back to that self.”Lance Nabers, LPC
Nine phases on the client’s path, in four groups; five weeks a person walks; 95 tools placed on the nine. Seven phases of the therapist’s work, and thirty-five days of the Climb. The nine, the four and the five weeks are read from the Lighthouse’s own code when this page is built.
You do, every time. The draft arrives with its sources attached, anything uncertain arrives marked, and your name is what signs it.
The licensed human decides.
That is the whole of the method, and the software is built to be held to it.
Care grounded in human experience.
Lance Nabers is a licensed professional counselor with twenty-five years in the room and more than twenty-five thousand people seen. He runs a telehealth practice, trains therapists, and walks every tool on these pages himself before it ships.
The curriculum in the worlds is the one he has run in rooms for years. The framework came first; the software was built to be held to it.
The client’s path: nine phases, in four.
“The whole thing is we’re starting to identify the issues that are making us separate from ourself and what separated us from our self. Getting on that wrong path creates anxiety, depression, substance abuse or whatever. And so this model is trying to get you back to that self.”— Lance Nabers. His title for the whole arc: The Real You.
Each phase has two names, both his: what a therapist says, and what a person reads on their phone. Under each group, one thing rises.
A phase is where someone is: a place on the path, open from the first day. The client and the therapist set it together, and when their two marks differ, both are kept with their dates.
What a person walks, and what a therapist sees.
A person meets the five weeks of their world and the nine in the pad’s words. The four group names and the clinical names are the therapist’s. One path, two languages.
| The week a person walks | His nine | The group (the therapist’s) | What rises |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 · Why nowKnow the whole picture, and why. | 1 · Identifying the Problem2 · Road Mapping | Foundation & Identity | Awareness |
| Week 2 · Notice lifeBring it back as data. Never a verdict. | 3 · Habits, Skills4 · Self Assessment | Mechanics & Deconstruction | Insight |
| Week 3 · Replace and reframeDecide now, not in the moment. | 5 · Building / Creating | Construction & Execution | Intention |
| Week 4 · Active practiceAdding is more important than taking away. | 6 · Driving the Car for the First Time | Construction & Execution | Intention |
| Week 5 · Make it yoursThe practices that worked are yours now. Keep them. | 7 · Integration Practice / Learning Maintenance8 · Meaning Making9 · Pass on to Others | Actualization & Connection | Purpose & Passion |
Read from the Lighthouse’s arc.json, a copy of Landfall’s own record, at ff207938.
The therapist’s work, in seven phases.
“The seven phases are the therapist’s work; the nine are the client’s path; each of the seven meets the nine where the work happens.”
Onboarding & informed transparency
The client is told how the work runs, and who decides what, before anything else happens.
Therapeutic rapport
The relationship is the intervention. Everything here is built to serve it.
Assessment — continuous, not episodic
What a person does between sessions becomes data the hour can finally see.
Behavioural model learning
Patterns are surfaced as counts, with their source attached, for a clinician to read.
Task completion
Small, chosen, finishable. The tool is the task; the receipt is the evidence.
Skill building & generalisation
What worked in the room has to work on a Tuesday, alone, in a car park.
Integration & ownership
The client ends holding the skill, not holding an app.
Neutral. Objective. Supportive. Direct.
Neutral toward the client’s choices, objective about the data, supportive of the person, direct about the pattern.
Explainable by construction.
“XAI Therapy is a therapist-led clinical model that uses explainable artificial intelligence to illuminate between-session behavior, strengthen therapeutic insight, and improve outcomes — without replacing human judgment.”— his definition, from the board.
How information travels: six steps.
- The story invites. A living world draws the person toward the tool they need, one at a time.
- The tool does real clinical work. Each one is an instrument that captures structured data.
- The data is glass. Ratings, distortions, reframes and patterns over time, all legible because the framework is built in.
- AI works in the open. It organizes, prompts and drafts, citing the exact evidence behind each. The decision stays with the clinician.
- The clinician decides. Every insight is reviewed by a human who can explain it, override it and own it.
- The client keeps their story. “Your entries are yours and stay on your phone; what your therapist receives is what you choose, tool by tool; the note your therapist signs is the practice’s record.”
You can see how it works.
The mechanisms, the data flows, and the role AI played in building it are disclosed to clinician and client alike.
The data means something clinically.
A belief rating that fell from 70 to 30 across an exercise is legible to any trained clinician in seconds.
Every insight has evidence.
An insight traces to the client’s own entries and to a named clinical framework, and a human decides.
The Rememberer: explainable-by-construction AI and the between-session memory problem in psychotherapy.
A framework paper with three proposed studies. It makes no outcome claims; it proposes the studies that would earn them.
Five short films from the clinical side.
Made in the summer, narrated by Pam: the other ten thousand and eighty minutes of a client’s week, the paperwork, the open question, and the ninety-seven tools. They play from xaitherapy.com.
Tools that show their work.
The trailer, and two thirty-second spots that say it with a smile. Tap one to play it with sound.
Education and consultation.
For therapists, group practices and organisations that want the approach as well as the tools.
Thirty-five days up the tower.
A therapist’s own course inside the Lighthouse: one week learning the workspace, three weeks at the windows of the three worlds, one week in the lamp room.
The co-sign queue.
Notes that wait on a supervisor sit in one list until the name on the licence signs them.
Group work in the room.
Each group keeps a roster and its purpose in one line; a group session is your video room with your group in it.
The approach, for your practice.
Education and consultation on the framework and on running a practice this way. Write to us and say what you need.
What a subscription to the clinical side includes, by level.
The Lighthouse workspace. A referral system, where a practice may receive referrals from people using the worlds on their own. The newsletter. At some levels, 24-hour tech support, other apps, and personalised building.
The workspace built to this method.
The hour becomes the note, every sentence stands on a line of the hour, the record stays in your building, and the worlds carry the work home. Owned by Living Story Group; built by Wayward Robots.
One seat for the therapist. One world for the person.
$49.99
a month · the therapist. The whole workspace, installed on your own computer. A full refund in the first thirty days.
$19.99
a month · the person. Bought by the person, for the person. It pairs with a therapist's Lighthouse if they run one, and it works just as well on its own.
Three paired clients and the seat is half price. Five, and it is free.
A client who pairs their world with your Lighthouse pays down your seat.
Start when you are ready.
Tell us what you want to start with, and we set you up: the seat, a world, or both.