Ellie helps you explore what you’re feeling, uncover patterns you may not have recognized, and begin understanding yourself in a whole new way.

There’s no judgment. No pressure to have the right words. Just a private space to talk, reflect, and discover.

Josh Stickel spent roughly seven years working in and operating within the mental-health and drug-and-alcohol treatment field. Again and again, he watched the same thing: people could receive meaningful support inside structured environments — and then, eventually, they had to return to everyday life.

Life doesn’t happen inside a session. The difficult moments show up on the drive home. After an argument. During a bad day — or whenever someone simply needs somewhere private to work through what’s happening.

But this wasn’t only something Josh witnessed professionally. He has lived through difficult periods of his own, and has watched people he loves navigate theirs. He knows what it’s like when the hard moment doesn’t happen during an appointment — when it happens late at night, in the middle of an ordinary day, or when no one else is around.

That combination of professional experience and personal understanding shaped the idea behind FioNova: not another replacement for therapy, but something private and accessible that can be there in the moments between. For Josh — a published author on mental wellness and personal development — it became a question he couldn’t let go of: