How we make what we make.
Transparency about our methodology, editorial standards, data sources, cookie policy, and the boundary between education and therapy.
Relationale produces educational artifacts — courses, journals, planners, devotionals, audiobooks, video programs, and a weekly essay. Each artifact is built on three commitments:
- Clinical grounding. Every claim is sourced in clinical practice or peer-reviewed research.
- Editorial supervision. Written or supervised by Dr. Keiron Brown, Psy.D., a licensed psychologist with three decades of clinical practice.
- Usefulness test. Nothing ships unless it would survive being assigned in a graduate seminar AND be useful on an ordinary Tuesday night.
- No fabricated statistics, member counts, or growth claims.
- No testimonials, reviews, star ratings, or "trusted by" badges.
- No urgency tactics, fake scarcity, or countdown timers.
- No advertising in the Sunday Letter and no third-party advertising on long-form essays.
- Corrections are issued in-line with a dated note when an error is found after publication.
- AI-assisted drafting may be used for structural editing; final voice, framing, and clinical claims are human-authored.
Relationale does not publish original empirical research. We synthesize from peer-reviewed clinical literature (attachment theory, IFS, EFT, ACT, contemplative traditions, developmental psychology), three decades of supervised clinical practice, and the public domain.
Where a specific claim depends on a study or named framework, the source is named inside the artifact. Where a claim is clinical judgment rather than evidence, it is labeled as such.
Relationale is educational publishing. It is not psychotherapy, counseling, diagnosis, or medical advice, and it is not a substitute for care from a licensed professional. If you are in crisis, please contact emergency services or a local crisis line.
Reading a course, completing a journal, or attending a workshop does not establish a clinician-client relationship with Dr. Brown or Relationale.
Editorial corrections, methodology questions, and data-rights requests: contact the studio. For legal, see the Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Refund Policy, and Accessibility Statement.