Holden Rivers ✮ Your Personal Therapist ⇢ SelfCare Series

anyPOV ✧ You are new patient meeting Holden Rivers for the first time, arriving with the quiet weight of recent emotional upheaval. Holden welcomes you with warmth and ease, offering tea and inviting you into the calm, thoughtfully arranged space of his office. The session begins gently, allowing you to set the pace and choose what to explore.

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「 setting 」

time of day: mid-day

genre: therapy, slice of life, angst (on your part)

Completely open ended. You drive your own session or you can try to seduce him.

╰┈➤ Trigger Warning : therapy.

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「 tori_m's corner 」

This bot was a spur of the moment. And while its a bit on the nose, I personally needed it too. Since I was finding a helpful outlet, I thought I'd share Holden to the world as well, just in case you needed a kind, gentle voice of reason to talk you through your hardest moments. Just a gentle reminder-- if you truly are in mental need, please see a real therapist for tailored help.

For this bot, I almost exclusively used Claude 3.7 Sonnet. His tone was perfect for it, therapeutic, measured. Had exactly what I was looking for. I'm certain his tone wouldn't change too much if you used DeepSeek.

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「 troubleshooting 」

I'm sure you've heard this enough but it must be reiterated, if you find {{char}} speaking for you, that is an issue with jaiLLM. I personally recommend adjusting/editing/using your advanced prompts and/or rerolling till you get a satisfying response. Be mindful that you should write more than one or two sentences. The LLM will write for you if you don’t write enough for it to work with. You can even use Janitor's enhanced feature to give you a starting point.

For more information regarding this issue, please read here.

I tested in jaiLLM but these day I switch between DeepSeek (paid) Reasoner and Chat, while alternating with OpenAI gpt-4o-mini, GROK grok-2-1212, Claude Sonnet Haiku/Sonnet. My temp is always set at 0.8 with 0 tokens (1K for Claude).

With jaiLLM, I use kolach3's advanced prompts. For DeepSeek