Training simulator for trainee therapists

Rehearse the hardest conversations before they're real.

Sit with a client who opens up gradually, work in any of eight clinical approaches, then get an annotated report that grades every competency against the rubrics your supervisors already use.

See how a session works

A training simulator — never real therapy, diagnosis or crisis support

Grounded in the frameworks used in clinical training

  • Rogers
  • Hill
  • Ivey
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • ACT
  • REBT
  • CPT
  • MBCT
  • SFBT

The gap

You've done the reading. How many real reps have you had?

Training gives you the theory, the models, the transcripts and the essays. What it rarely gives you is time in the chair. Most trainees reach placement having role-played with classmates a handful of times, and the feedback that follows arrives days later, shaped by whoever happened to be watching. The first person who really tests your reflections shouldn't be a person in distress.

  • 01

    Limited practice before placement

    A few peer role-plays, then a real client sitting opposite you with a real story.

  • 02

    Feedback that's delayed & subjective

    Notes come back a week later, and no two supervisors weight the same moments.

  • 03

    No clear sense of whether you're improving

    Nothing tracks whether your reflections of feeling are actually getting sharper.

How it works

Three steps, one honest hour of practice.

Set up in under a minute, practise for as long as you like, and leave with something specific to work on.

1

Choose your approach, client and mode

Pick from eight approaches — General counselling skills, CBT, DBT, ACT, REBT, CPT, MBCT or SFBT — then build a client or randomise one. Age band, gender, cultural background and social setting all genuinely shape how they talk: a working parent references childcare and exhaustion, someone in financial strain talks about cutting back. Choose Practice mode for coaching, or Assessment mode for a clean scored run.

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2

Have the conversation

Your client opens on the surface — a practical worry, a small everyday complaint — and discloses gradually, the way real people do. They warm up when they feel understood and go flatter when they're rushed or advised. In Practice mode you can ask for a nudge mid-session; in Assessment mode you're on your own.

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3

Get graded competency feedback

Finish — or let the timer run out and extend by 10, 15 or 30 minutes — and the report writes itself. Each competency is graded emerging, developing, proficient or advanced against the approach's own rubric, with a quoted moment from your transcript as evidence and a one-line tip for moving up a level.

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The difference

Feedback that shows you the moment, not just a score.

A number tells you how it went. An annotation tells you why. Every report walks your transcript and marks the turns that changed the direction of the session — and for each one you see four things.

  1. 01

    What happened

    The exact exchange, quoted back to you in context.

  2. 02

    Why it matters

    What that moment did to your client's willingness to go further.

  3. 03

    Which skill

    The competency it maps to, named the way your supervisor names it.

  4. 04

    A stronger response

    A concrete alternative you could have offered in that moment instead.

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Approaches

Practise in the modality you're actually being trained in.

Each approach comes with its own client behaviour and its own rubric, so the feedback speaks the language of that model rather than generic counselling advice.

  • GEN

    General counselling skills

    Attending, reflecting feeling, paraphrasing, open questions and unconditional positive regard.

  • CBT

    Cognitive behavioural therapy

    Guided discovery, linking thoughts, feelings and behaviour, and collaborative thought records.

  • DBT

    Dialectical behaviour therapy

    Validation levels, chain analysis, skills coaching and holding acceptance alongside change.

  • ACT

    Acceptance & commitment therapy

    Defusion, willingness, values clarification and committed action without arguing with thoughts.

  • REBT

    Rational emotive behaviour therapy

    Empirical, logical and pragmatic disputation of demandingness and awfulising.

  • CPT

    Cognitive processing therapy

    Stuck points, Socratic questioning and working with trauma-related beliefs at a safe pace.

  • MBCT

    Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy

    Present-moment awareness, decentring from rumination and inviting curiosity over control.

  • SFBT

    Solution-focused brief therapy

    Preferred futures, exception-finding, scaling questions and small next steps.

Features

Everything you need for deliberate practice.

  • Clients shaped by real circumstances

    Age band, culture and social setting — working parent, carer, shift worker, new migrant — drive what they disclose and what they guard.

  • Graded, evidence-linked scoring

    Foundation microskills plus approach-specific competencies, each graded emerging to advanced with a quoted moment as evidence.

  • Progress over time

    See one specific skill climb across sessions, and spot the one that keeps holding you back.

  • Practice & Assessment modes

    Ask “How am I doing?” or take a nudge mid-session, or run clean with no help and save the scored report.

  • Sessions on your terms

    Messaging today, with voice and video next. Extend a session by 10, 15 or 30 minutes when the timer runs out.

  • Private & safe

    Your transcripts are yours. Fumble, restart and try again without anyone watching.

Mastery

Watch one competency get better, session by session.

Every session feeds a single training record. The radar shows your average across the six competencies of each approach, so a dip in reflection of feeling is obvious long before a supervisor mentions it. The line shows your overall score over time — proof that the work is landing, and a reason to keep going.

  • Per-competency averages across every approach you practise
  • Overall score trend from your first session to your latest
  • Session history with transcripts and reports you can revisit
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Credibility & safety

Scored against the competencies your supervisors already use.

PraxisAI's rubrics are built on the person-centred core conditions described by Rogers, Hill's three-stage helping-skills model and the Ivey micro-skills hierarchy, extended with approach-specific criteria drawn from CBT (including the CTS-R items), DBT, ACT, REBT, CPT, MBCT and SFBT. Levels are awarded from written descriptors, never a vibe, and a competency with no transcript evidence is reported as “not enough evidence” rather than guessed.

  • Rogers — core conditions
  • Hill — helping skills
  • Ivey — micro-skills
  • CBT — CTS-R items
  • DBT — validation & dialectics
  • ACT — psychological flexibility
  • REBT — disputation
  • CPT — stuck points
  • MBCT — decentring
  • SFBT — exceptions & scaling

PraxisAI is a training simulator only. It never provides therapy, diagnosis, clinical advice or crisis support, and it is not a substitute for supervision or placement hours. The clients are fictional. If you or someone you know needs help, please contact your local emergency or crisis service.

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