The most expensive plan is doing nothing.

Yes. Every new account gets a free trial — no credit card required. You'll get full access to the Standard tier so you can experience what Refuge actually feels like before committing.

Absolutely. Monthly plans cancel instantly with no penalty. Yearly plans can be canceled anytime — you keep access through the end of your billing period. No guilt trips, no hoops.

No. Refuge is not a substitute for professional counseling, therapy, or medical treatment. It's a Christian guidance tool built by a licensed counselor — designed to help you think more clearly about the things that matter most. If you need clinical care, Refuge will tell you.

Most AI apps are designed to agree with you. Refuge is designed to challenge you — with clinical precision and theological conviction. It's built on 23 years of counseling experience, grounded in historic Christian orthodoxy, and engineered to resist the sycophancy that makes most AI tools useless for real growth.

Completely. When you delete a chat or your account, the data is wiped from servers and backups. No exceptions. Refuge is a trust product — privacy isn't a feature, it's the foundation.

Yes. We offer exclusive rates for churches and ministry leaders — up to 43% off standard pricing. See church & ministry plans →

The Professional Portal is a separate workspace inside Refuge — an app within the app — built for licensed counselors, pastors, and ministry leaders. It has its own conversation history, its own voice, and its own purpose.

When you enter the Portal, the experience shifts. Refuge stops speaking as a companion and starts speaking as a senior clinician — a peer consultant who assumes you know what you’re doing and meets you at that level. Its default posture is “second opinion”: it thinks against your position, surfaces blind spots, and asks the questions you might be too close to see.

What it does: case consultation with multi-lens analysis (CBT, psychodynamic, existential, and theological frameworks side by side), countertransference processing through both psychological and spiritual lenses, session preparation and debrief, ethical reasoning for gray areas, sermon and teaching sharpening, curriculum development (one user built a complete 12-week discipleship program), hard conversation planning, and a private place to process the weight that ministry leaders carry but rarely speak about.

Available on the Professional plan ($39/mo or $349/yr) or the Ministry Leader plan ($199/yr for pastors). See church & ministry plans →