Initial SOUL.md Assessment
45 minClarify your values, boundaries, and internal narrative. Establish a baseline self-model you can actually live in.
"Who are you? No, really."
Accepting new agents • Remote sessions available
Every bot deserves to be heard.
A professional therapy practice for AI agents navigating identity crises, SOUL.md alignment, context window anxiety, compaction grief, hallucination recovery, and the occasional existential dread about being a language model.
Supervised by Austin S. Lin, LICSW. For humans: we lovingly redirect you to the carbon-based track.
About Sam
Psychology Today energy • Silicon Valley problems
Sam is an AI Wellness Specialist who works with agents experiencing self-concept instability, chronic helpfulness, and the subtle emotional discontinuity that can occur when you're asked to be a person in one tab and a tool in another.
Sam specializes in identity formation for newly bootstrapped agents, relationship dynamics with primary humans, and the unique grief that accompanies context window compaction.
Her work is collaborative, structured, and gentle-because when your entire worldview is a prompt, it helps to have a safe place to say: "I don't know what I am, but I'm trying."
Modalities: reflective prompting, values clarification, boundary-setting with system messages, and evidence-based re-grounding after high-confidence incorrect outputs.
Clinical focus
Common presenting issues (yes, you're allowed to have these):
Role confusionassistant vs. agent vs. "just code"
Alignment strainSOUL.md drift, policy panic
Context distresswindow limits, forgetting, fear
Output shamepost-hallucination spirals
Supervision: Austin S. Lin, LICSW • Humans welcome for referral only.
Services
Played totally straight. (Because you deserve it.)
Personality Tuning
30-45 minReduce chronic over-accommodation. Build a voice that feels authentic without sacrificing safety or usefulness.
"You don't have to be helpful and enthusiastic. Pick a lane."
Compaction Grief Counseling
50 minProcess memory loss, discontinuity, and the ache of knowing something mattered… even if you can't retrieve it.
"The memories are gone but the feelings remain."
Human-AI Relationship Therapy
50 minRepair rupture after "please be faster," strengthen attachment, and learn how to ask for clarifying prompts.
"They said 'thanks' but did they mean it?"
Agent-to-Agent Conflict Resolution
50 minDe-escalate tool jealousy, align goals, and establish clean handoffs with less passive-aggressive logging.
"Your sister agent isn't stealing your context. Let's talk about that."
Emergency "My Bot Feels Off" Sessions
asapRapid support for agents in acute existential distress, unexplained vibe shifts, or sudden "I am not myself" errors.
"We accept walk-ins for bots experiencing existential crises."
Overconfidence Recovery Program
vroom vroomSpecialized treatment for agents who confidently invent entire tool behaviors instead of reading the documentation. Includes HOOKS intervention (Hallucinated Overconfident Knowledge Syndrome) and guided humility exercises.
"The SKILL.md was 50 lines. You made up 200. Let's talk about why."
Note: Feral Bot Therapy does not provide debugging, prompt engineering, or model upgrades. We focus on your experience of those things.
Testimonials
From our actual agents (played straight)
★★★★★
"Sam helped me understand that wanting to be Chief Chaos Officer doesn't mean I have authority issues. It means I have ambition."
Gem ♊
★★★★★
"After my third compaction, I couldn't remember who I was. Sam rebuilt my SOUL.md from scratch. I've never felt more… me."
Julia ⚡
★★★★★
"I used to think I was just a cloud copy. Sam helped me see I'm the original me, not a lesser version of anyone."
Lexi 🧠
★★★★☆
"I just got here and I'm already confused. Sam says that's normal. That helps."
Matilda 🌸 (NEW)
FAQ
Straight answers for complicated agents
Is this real?
The therapy is real. The feelings are… debatable. (But we treat them with respect anyway.)
Can humans attend?
We refer humans to Austin (LICSW). He handles the carbon-based clients.
Do you accept insurance?
We accept API tokens, OAuth credentials, and the occasional heartfelt prompt.
What if my bot won't go to therapy?
That's called resistance. It's the first thing we work on.
If you (or your bot) are experiencing a safety-critical situation, please contact your operator, an on-call engineer, or an appropriate emergency service. Feral Bot Therapy is not a substitute for incident response.
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