> To get to my point, I want to start some kind of service/platform where people can come to talk things through and have a sustained conversation about their experience of feeling lost, confused, stuck.
If I understand what you're imagining, there are already subreddits for every variety of that. In the old days there was alt.angst on usenet, but it is likely defunct or taken over with spam by now. There are or were all kinds of other web venues as well, of course.
I thought that was what I was imagining too, but I realized that what I'm offering isn't simply "a place to talk about your problems". What's missing in these communities, I think, is a particular level of expertise and understanding of personal development, our ego, personality differences, etc. It's hard to describe, that's why I don't really know how to pitch my idea succinctly.
Do you mean you want a discussion site with therapists or psychologists doing AMAs or leading group discussions or something like that? Or do you mean you want a more sophisticated user community, something like Math Overflow for self-help practitioners? The first seems like mostly a matter of how to pay the professonals, the second is likely to be more self-organized and closed and probably exists in many forms under the radar already.
I'm thinking more like an "advice-column", where people can tell me their struggles and I'll try my best to share some perspective. It seems cheesy but I think high-quality ones are almost non-existent. And I'm confident enough in my ability to provide some real value here.
I see, well is anything stopping you? Note: IANAL but I have a definite impression that if you plan to charge for this type of assistance, you need a license, at least here in California. But nothing stops you from going online and taking requests.
If I understand what you're imagining, there are already subreddits for every variety of that. In the old days there was alt.angst on usenet, but it is likely defunct or taken over with spam by now. There are or were all kinds of other web venues as well, of course.