Private recoveryUrge Shift

Urge Shift · Built by a psychotherapist

Interrupt the pattern.
Shift what happens next.

Therapist-designed, self-guided support for adults who want to understand and change unwanted pornography use or other compulsive online sexual behaviours—without AI analysing their recovery.

  • Seven days free
  • 30 guided lessons
  • No advertising
  • No AI chatbot
  • No recovery account

Available now on the Apple App Store and Google Play.

Built from clinical experience

The behaviour is rarely the whole story.

Urge Shift grew from years of psychotherapy and recovery work. It helps users slow down and notice whether the feeling underneath the urge is actually anxiety, stress, boredom, tiredness, loneliness or restlessness—and then act on what is really needed.

Personal pathways

Plans for mornings, stressful parts of the day and bedtime, shaped around the user's own risks and routines.

Two-minute reset

A short grounding pathway for moments when the risk feels stronger and some immediate space is needed.

Private insights

Recurring feelings and moments can be seen without sending a private history to James or creating a social profile.

Realistic alternatives

Small actions that fit the moment, including getting out of bed, moving away from a screen or changing the evening routine.

Long-term maintenance

The programme continues beyond the first 90 days, with six-month, seasonal and one-year material to help plans keep fitting the user's life.

Recovery milestones

Weekly recognition and permanent 30, 60, 90, 180 and 365-day tokens acknowledge progress without turning recovery into a game.

Thirty-lesson programme

Six focused collections cover urges, secrecy and honesty, intimacy and relationships, paid-content spending, setbacks, identity, support and sustained maintenance.

Optional weekly review

A private three-part ritual reuses the week's activity to ask what helped, what changed and whether one plan adjustment would help. Review answers are not saved.

A straightforward purchase

Try it for a week. Keep it with one payment.

The UK release gives seven days of full access with no automatic charge. Keeping the complete app then costs £19.99 once—no monthly subscription, paid feature tiers or hidden extras.

Available now on the Apple App Store and Google Play. Store pricing may vary by region.

Privacy first

Your private reflections are not the product.

The current app keeps personal pathways, plans, progress and insights on the user's own device. It is designed without advertising or a social feed. There is no AI chatbot or automated recovery analysis. The relevant app store handles the optional full-access purchase separately, and only information deliberately sent through the enquiry form is shared with the practice.