The original concept of Intention was developed by Claire Shank when she was a junior in high school. Claire had previous bad experiences in therapy treatment that impacted her greatly. She was working with therapists that were not effective and did not fit her needs, this pushed her away from therapy and from the help she needed until eventually, she stopped going to therapy. Claire later went back to therapy and found a new therapist. With this new therapist she finally was seeing progress and was improving mentally, she realized although this therapist was great she was not different than any of the previous therapists, she was not more qualified, or “better” at her job, she simply was the therapist Claire needed. After finding this therapist that so perfectly fit Claire’s needs it became evident to her that the pain caused by opening up to so many different people only for it to not work out, could be avoided for others. 

Claire wanted to solve this problem and wanted to help reduce the number of people who try therapy and then never go back simply because the therapist was not the one they needed. She wanted to help people who need therapy get effective therapy. 

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And that is how we got here.