Clinical practice before the first real client
Practice therapy
before your first
real patient.
Realistic simulated patients with defenses, silences and emotional histories. Type to them; voice sessions are coming soon. A virtual supervisor that reads every word, and memory that carries the relationship from one session to the next.
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Aylin, 27
Anxiety · Avoidant attachment · Session 3
I don't know, it's like... I know I should call her back. I just keep finding reasons not to.
Aylin
What happens in your body when you think about making that call?
You
[long pause]
That's... a strange question. Nobody's ever asked me that before.
That's... a strange question. Nobody's ever asked me that before.
Aylin
Reflect on that observation...
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patient cases
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sessions per patient
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microskills scored every session
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risk to real patients
How it works
Three steps from signup to clinical insight
Choose a patient case
Browse a library of clinically grounded patient profiles, each built from published case literature with a distinct psychological structure.
Depression & low mood
Emotional avoidance
Scrupulosity (OCD)
Create your own simulated patient
Talk with your patient
You type to them; voice sessions are coming soon. Your patient responds in character, with hesitations, deflections, emotional shifts and moments of unexpected openness. They are never predictable.
Realistic defenses and silences
Therapeutic alliance score
Emotional state changes in real time
Voice sessions on the paid planComing soon
Get virtual supervisor feedback
After each session, the virtual supervisor reads the full transcript and delivers detailed feedback: what you missed, what landed, and what to focus on next time.
Missed clinical cues
What worked and why
Focus for the next session
Aylin, 27
Voice session · Session 5
Voice sessions
Coming soon
Say it out loud. Hear the patient answer.
Typing lets you delete, rethink and polish every sentence. The room does not. In a voice session you will think while you speak, sit through the silence while the patient thinks, and hear the hesitation you would otherwise only read.
- You will hold to speak and release to send. A short tap will keep the microphone open for a longer answer.
- Every patient will have a voice of their own, matched to their age and gender, and it will stay the same in every session.
- Nothing will be written on screen while you talk, just like in the room. The full transcript and the virtual supervisor report will arrive when the session ends.
- You will be able to interrupt the patient mid sentence when the moment calls for it, or ask for a hint: the session will pause, the patient will fall silent and the hint will appear in writing.
- Your recording will be turned into text and never stored. You will be able to switch back to text at any moment.
Coming soon on the paid plan. Free sessions are in text. Voice will work in both English and Turkish.
Virtual supervisor report
Feedback that reads every word, not just word count.
Most learning tools measure time spent. PsyPractice's virtual supervisor reads your actual transcript, every response, every missed opening, every moment of rapport, and tells you what an experienced clinician would notice.
- Pinpoints exact moments where you could have gone deeper
- Flags clinical cues you didn't respond to
- Recognises genuine therapeutic skill when you use it
- Suggests a specific focus for your next session
- Tracks whether the therapeutic alliance is growing
Session report: Aylin, session 3
74
Alliance score: Growing
+8 pts from last session
What went well
Somatic grounding question shifted Aylin out of intellectualisation. Excellent instinct.
Held silence effectively; didn't rush to fill discomfort
What to explore further
The relationship with her mother came up twice indirectly. Worth naming directly next session.
Missed cue
When Aylin said "I keep finding reasons not to", this is likely a pattern beyond this one call. The schema is avoidance of intimacy, not logistical overwhelm.
Focus for next session
Gently explore the earliest memory of feeling like a burden. She hinted at it but you moved on.
The only way to learn therapy is to do therapy. PsyPractice is the closest thing to doing it without doing it.
Why we built PsyPractice
Your growth
Watch your clinical instincts grow, measurably.
Every virtual supervisor report scores five core microskills. PsyPractice tracks them across all your sessions, so you can see exactly where you started and how far you've come. Not a vague sense of progress, but a number.
81
Empathy
▲ +27
73
Reflection
▲ +24
70
Question quality
▲ +19
68
Session focus
▲ +21
84
Rapport
▲ +26
Needs work
Strong
Inner ring = your first sessions · Outer ring = recent
Start building your track record
Your first session sets your baseline. Every session after raises it.
What sets us apart
The only practice tool that remembers who you are as a therapist.
Memory across sessions
Patients remember every session: the last one in detail, older ones more faintly, and the sentences of yours that stayed with them. Their trust in you, or their wariness, builds up over time, just like in real therapy. How you handled session two shapes what's possible in session five.
Patient profiles grounded in evidence
Every patient profile is synthesised from real clinical literature, not invented. They present the way actual clients present: mixed messages, contradictions, and pain that is hard to put into words.
Alliance score tracking
The therapeutic relationship is quantified session by session. You can see whether you're building or damaging trust, and learn why before it matters with a real person.
Zero risk to real people
Make every mistake here first. Misread a cue, choose the wrong intervention, rupture the alliance, and learn from it in a space where no one gets hurt.
How does PsyPractice compare?
Other tools give you scripts or quizzes. We give you a relationship.
| Feature | Role play with peers | PsyPractice |
|---|---|---|
| Available around the clock | ||
| Patient memory across sessions | ||
| Feedback on the full transcript | ||
| Profiles grounded in evidence | ||
| Alliance score over time | ||
| Defensiveness & emotional shifts |
Who it's for
Built for the early years of clinical practice
Psychology undergraduates
Building clinical intuition before you ever set foot in a practicum. Understand what therapeutic relationships actually feel like: the silences, the defenses, the breakthroughs.
Graduate & doctoral students
Preparing for your first supervised cases. Use PsyPractice to explore intervention styles (person centred, CBT, psychodynamic) before committing to an approach with a real person.
New & early career clinicians
Licensed but still finding your footing? Practice complex presentations (resistant, avoidant or grieving clients) in a space where mistakes become learning, not liability.
Running a cohort at an institute or a supervision centre?
See the cohort licence
Plans
Start free. Pay only when you practice more.
Nothing to set up. Start free with one client and three sessions in text. One paid plan opens everything: every client and unlimited sessions (voice coming soon), paid monthly, per term or yearly.
Questions
What people ask before they start
Is the free plan really free?
Yes. You pick a client from the case library and run three text sessions, each with a complete virtual supervisor report and a few hints per session. No card, nothing to set up. When you want more clients or more sessions, you move to the paid plan. Voice sessions are coming soon.
Who are the simulated patients?
Each profile is built from published clinical literature at the level of mechanisms: every symptom, defense and core belief traces back to a documented construct. No patient is a copy of a real person, and the narrative is written only on top of that record. No clinical claim is ever invented.
What does the virtual supervisor actually evaluate?
The virtual supervisor is an assessment tool; the report is prepared by AI, not by a person. It reads the whole transcript, including the hints you used and where. It rates five microskills (empathy, reflection, question quality, focus, rapport) from fifteen observable items, names the cues you missed, and sets one focus for your next session. Your private session notes count too: a topic you deliberately parked is not marked as missed.
Do patients remember earlier sessions?
Yes. Alliance, belief intensity and what they have already told you carry over. They remember the last session in detail and earlier ones more faintly, they come back to the homework you gave (done, half done, avoided or forgotten), and a sentence of yours that landed hard, for better or worse, can resurface weeks later. A week passes between sessions in the patient's life. If a relationship goes badly, you can reset it and start the case again from its baseline.
Can I speak instead of typing?
Coming soon, on the paid plan. Once voice sessions arrive, you will hold the microphone button or the Space bar, speak, and let go; the patient will answer in their own voice. Nothing will be written on screen during a voice session, and the transcript and virtual supervisor report will arrive when it ends, exactly as after a text session. You will be able to switch to text at any moment, and if audio fails the session will carry on in text. Your recording will be turned into text and never stored. Voice will work in both English and Turkish. Free sessions are text only.
Does this replace supervised training or give a certificate?
No. PsyPractice is practice software, not a course. It issues no certificates and does not replace clinical supervision or your programme's placements. It is the rehearsal room you use before and between them.
Who can see my sessions?
You do. The PsyPractice team can also access them to run the service and fix technical problems. Transcripts are stored on servers in the EU. Voice sessions are coming soon; when they arrive, your recording will be turned into text and never stored. An instructor can see your sessions only if you join their cohort and give separate, explicit consent on a separate screen that says what the cohort's instructor team will see. You can delete your account and all of its data at any time.
Which languages does it work in?
English and Turkish for now, with more languages on the way. And not just the interface: the patient, the virtual supervisor report, the hints and your progress themes are all produced in the language you choose. Voice sessions, coming soon, will work in both. You can switch at any time.
Can I cancel a paid plan?
Any time, from inside the app. You keep the paid allowance until the end of the period you already paid for. Your cases, reports and progress stay; to run new sessions afterwards you pick a plan again.
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