Support beyond office hours
Students can access structured regulation tools when difficult moments happen outside counselling availability.
For high school wellbeing teams
Your students need support beyond your office hours
Emotional regulation skills students can build by themselves. Ahfy helps high school students make better decisions when emotions take over.
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Framework by a licensed French therapist
Available 24 / 7
Emotion model grounded in Paul Ekman's research
Somatic exercises based on Peter A. Levine's research
Mindfulness by a 20-year clinical psychologist
English & French
The school wellbeing reality
Your team is being asked to do more than the timetable allows.
Students need support before exams, after conflict, during lunch breaks, after school, and in the small moments before things become bigger. Ahfy gives students a calm, structured first step and teaches regulation skills they can practise independently, without adding another heavy program for staff to run.
The problem
"I have 500 students and 1.5 counsellors. I can't be in 500 places at once."
Wellbeing teams are stretched thin, and students often only show up when they're already in crisis. Ahfy gives students a structured first step they can use independently, while helping teams see engagement trends and emerging themes before things escalate.
Support tailored to students
Students are guided through trigger, emotion, and need, then offered one of four exercise types they can use in the moment.
Built around staff capacity
Ahfy helps students practise skills independently, while trained staff remain central to counselling, safeguarding, and follow-up.
Earlier pattern visibility
Wellbeing teams can understand engagement trends and emerging themes before students only show up in crisis.
How Ahfy works
A simple emotional regulation pathway students can actually use.
The experience is designed for real moments: when students are distressed, rushed, overwhelmed, or unsure how to explain what they feel.
Understand what happened
Students start by naming the situation, trigger, emotion, and underlying need. They do not need the perfect words — Ahfy helps them find a starting point.
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Regulate the body first
Ahfy offers therapist-informed exercises such as grounding, breathing, somatic tools, meditation, journaling, and short reflective prompts.
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Reflect and build habits
Daily check-ins, journaling, and progress views help students build emotional awareness over time, not just soothe one difficult moment.
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The science behind it
Built on decades of real research.
Every part of Ahfy traces back to a named expert, a recognised framework, or a peer-reviewed body of work.
Emotion identification
Paul Ekman's emotion research
The way Ahfy helps students name what they feel is grounded in Ekman's foundational work on universal emotions and emotional granularity — not guesswork.
Somatic exercises
Peter A. Levine's somatic work
Body-based regulation exercises are drawn from Levine's research on how the nervous system holds and releases stress — moving beyond talk-only approaches.
Mindfulness exercises
20 years of clinical psychology
Mindfulness content was created by a clinical psychologist with over 20 years of practice — exercises designed for real distress, not wellness marketing.
Core framework
Designed by a licensed French therapist
The Trigger → Emotion → Need framework at Ahfy's core was built by a licensed therapist — the same structured identification process used in real sessions, made accessible.
For schools
A clearer picture for wellbeing teams.
Students build skills independently, and trained staff remain responsible for counselling, safeguarding, and follow-up decisions.
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Extend support between appointments
Ahfy helps reduce the burden on wellbeing staff by providing students with tools to practise regulation before, between, and after conversations.
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Help students build self-regulation
Ahfy teaches repeatable skills students can carry into exams, friendships, conflict, and life outside school.
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Make conversations easier to start
Students can arrive with more language for what they feel, what happened, and what they may need.
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Plan support with trend visibility
Schools can understand feature use, engagement, and emotional themes across cohorts.
School dashboard
role-based access100+
exercises available
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exercise categories
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school teams consulted
Emotional themes by cohortPlanning insight for wellbeing team review
trendExercise use by categorySee whether students are using therapist-approved, somatic, journal, or mindfulness tools
usageFollow-up signals for staff reviewSupport rules stay documented and reviewed by trained staff
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It was a good way to reset my mind back to a calm state
Actually might be into journalling, helps to make the negative thought turn positive without much effort.
Was epic. couldn’t sleep. turning and tossing for 1.5hrs. did this, feel sleepy now and calm and not worried about tomorrow anymore :)
FAQ
Questions school leaders and wellbeing teams usually ask.
Is Ahfy a replacement for school counsellors?
No. Ahfy extends support between human touchpoints. It helps students regulate, reflect, and prepare for better conversations with trained staff.
Is Ahfy only mindfulness?
No. Ahfy includes more than 100 exercises across four categories: therapist-approved exercises, somatic exercises, journal prompts, and mindfulness exercises.
What is the framework based on?
The trigger-emotion-need framework was created by a licensed therapist. Emotion identification draws on Paul Ekman's work, mindfulness exercises were created by a mindfulness expert with 20+ years as a clinical psychologist, and somatic exercises are informed by Peter A. Levine's research. References to research foundations do not imply endorsement.
Is Ahfy therapy or a medical service?
No. Ahfy is an emotional regulation and skill-building tool. It is not designed to diagnose, treat, replace counselling, or provide emergency care.
How does Ahfy support wellbeing teams?
Ahfy can provide engagement trends, emotional themes, exercise use, and support signals that help teams plan resources and identify where follow-up may be needed.
How does Ahfy handle privacy?
The product direction is consent-first, minimal, role-based, and designed to protect student dignity. Sensitive data should be handled with restraint and clear access controls.
How is Ahfy professionally informed?
Ahfy uses a framework created by a licensed therapist, therapist-approved exercises, named research foundations, and validation from five high-school wellbeing teams.
Run an Ahfy trial with your school wellbeing team.
We'll walk you through the student experience, the 100+ therapist-approved exercise library, school dashboard, privacy model, and how Ahfy could fit into your existing wellbeing pathway.