When someone is in danger.

What SOLA is, and isn't

SOLA is psychoeducation and community for neurodivergent adults. It sits alongside whatever care a person already has. It is not therapy, not assessment, not diagnosis, and not crisis support. Leah Hunter is SOLA's founder, educator and facilitator; she is not the therapist of anyone in the room, and nothing in SOLA, live or on a screen, is a substitute for a mental health professional.

This page says plainly what happens when someone in SOLA is in danger, so that members, families and the organizations we work with can see it before it matters.

If you are in crisis right now

In the United States, call or text 988 any time, day or night, and a real person answers. You can also text HOME to 741741. If you are in immediate danger, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room. Outside the US, findahelpline.com lists lines by country.

You do not have to carry this with a website or an AI. Reach for a person first.

In live sessions

If a member says something in a session that suggests they may be in danger, Leah stops facilitating and turns to that person. She will share the lines above, encourage them to reach someone they trust, and stay with them until they have a next step. She may follow up by email afterwards. She will not diagnose, assess or counsel; she will connect.

Community agreements ask every member to treat what is said in a session as that person's to share, and never to offer clinical advice to one another.

In the member portal, and with SOLA's guide

The portal includes an AI guide to Leah's SOLA materials. It is an AI, and it says so when you start, after a week away, and whenever you ask. It answers only from what Leah has written for SOLA and tells you plainly when she hasn't written about something. It does not discuss medication, diagnosis or treatment.

Every message to the guide is screened before the AI reads it. If a message contains language that suggests danger to the member or to someone else, or that the member is being harmed, the guide stops. It does not generate a reply. It shows a fixed message written by SOLA that says it is an AI and cannot give what is needed, points to a trusted person, to 988, and to 911 if there is immediate danger, and offers a short, concrete way through the next ten minutes. A "Need a person?" button sits on the screen at all times and opens the same card.

When the guide stops for safety, that message and the two turns before it are shown to Leah so that a person can follow up. This is the only time anything a member writes to the guide is seen by a person. A member's conversations with the guide are kept under their own account, for the guide to pick up where they left off; they are readable only by that member, clear after 90 days unless the member keeps one, and can be deleted at any time. What the guide remembers between conversations (which strategies a member tried and whether they helped, the name and tone they ask for) is likewise visible, editable and deletable by that member, and is never shown to Leah or anyone else.

What we will and won't do

We will always point toward a person and toward 988. We will never discourage anyone from telling someone else, never discuss methods, never agree that harm is a solution, and never pose as a therapist, counselor or clinician. We will keep this page and the guide's fixed message current, and we will test the guide with real, informal, indirect language, not only clean examples, before and after any change.

If something about this process did not work for you or for someone you care about, tell us at hello@asoftlandingspace.com. We read every message, and we change things.

Last reviewed October 2026. This page is published so that it can be read before it is needed; it is a description of SOLA's practice, not medical advice.