Practice Counselling Skills — Any Time, Any Framework

Realistic AI client simulations with structured supervisor feedback. Built for counselling students who want more practice than placement alone can provide.

How it works
Three steps from sign-up to structured feedback on your counselling technique.
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Choose a scenario

Browse a library of pre-built clients — or create your own. Each client has a detailed background, presenting issue, and emotional personality designed to challenge specific skills.

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Run a session

Have a realistic counselling conversation. The AI plays the client — guarded, emotional, resistant, or reflective — in a way that genuine clients behave. No easy wins.

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Get feedback

Request mid-session feedback or a full debrief. A supervisor assesses your technique against the theoretical framework you are practising and PACFA/ACA ethical guidelines.

Everything you need to practise well
Designed specifically for counselling students — not a generic AI chatbot.
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Realistic client behaviour

Clients are guarded, resistant, or emotionally inconsistent — as real clients are. The AI won't cooperate just because you asked a good question.

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Framework-specific feedback

Assessed against Person-Centred, CBT, ACT, Narrative, Motivational Interviewing, SFBT, or Philosophical principles — whichever you are practising.

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Ethics built in

Every feedback response references PACFA and ACA ethical guidelines — mandatory reporting, boundaries, cultural responsiveness, and scope of practice.

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Scenario library

Pre-built scenarios across beginner, intermediate, and advanced difficulty — anxiety, grief, trauma, crisis, substance use, identity, and more.

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Practice log

Track your total practice hours and see how your time is distributed across theoretical frameworks over weeks and months.

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Supervisor chat

Ask your AI supervisor anything between sessions — theory questions, how to handle a difficult moment, or what a specific piece of feedback means.

Start where you are
Scenarios are organised by difficulty so you can build skills progressively.

🟢 Beginner

First-time clients, straightforward presentations. Ideal for early placement students working on core skills — rapport building, reflective listening, and open questions.

🟡 Intermediate

More complex presentations — ambivalence, denial, burnout, identity. Clients who test your ability to stay with discomfort rather than moving to solutions too quickly.

🔴 Advanced

Trauma, crisis, suicidal ideation, and highly resistant clients. Requires strong ethical awareness, relational steadiness, and familiarity with mandatory reporting obligations.

Seven theoretical frameworks
Practise the approach you're learning. Feedback is tailored to the specific principles of each framework.
Person-Centred CBT ACT Narrative Motivational Interviewing SFBT Philosophical

Designed around Australian professional standards

All feedback references the ethical codes of PACFA and ACA — the two peak counselling bodies in Australia. Informed consent, confidentiality, mandatory reporting, cultural responsiveness, and scope of practice are embedded in every session debrief.

PACFA — pacfa.org.au ↗ ACA — theaca.net.au ↗

Ready to practise?

Create a free account and run your first session in under five minutes.

⚠ Practice tool only. Do not enter real client names or identifying information. All scenarios are fictional. AI feedback is not a substitute for professional clinical supervision.

PACFA  ·  ACA

🎭 Counselling Practice

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All client scenarios are entirely fictional and do not represent real individuals or situations. AI feedback is a practice aid only — not professional clinical supervision. Session content is processed via Anthropic's API; do not enter real client information.

🎭 Counselling Practice

Counselling Practice Hub

  • Create a client scenario
  • Practise your counselling skills in a realistic session
  • Receive structured supervisor feedback
  • Assessed against PACFA and ACA ethical guidelines
⚠ Practice tool only — do not enter real client names, details, or identifying information. All scenarios should be fictional. AI feedback is not a substitute for professional supervision.
Ethical guidelines: PACFA — pacfa.org.au ACA — theaca.net.au

New Scenario

Claude will assess your technique against this approach
Claude uses this to give you targeted feedback

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Practice Log

🎓 Supervisor Chat

Hi! I'm your AI supervisor. Ask me anything — about feedback you've received, counselling theory, how to handle tricky client moments, or the approaches you're practising.