About TherapyCoach
TherapyCoach is a clinical skills training simulator that uses AI to help practitioners develop and refine their therapeutic technique. It was designed for the Australian alcohol and other drug, gambling harm, and mental health workforce.
What it does
TherapyCoach generates realistic simulated clients and lets practitioners converse with them in real time. A coaching layer provides specific, actionable feedback on technique — calibrated to beginner, intermediate, or advanced skill levels.
Three modalities
Motivational Interviewing (MI), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) — each with modality-specific coaching.
Six clinical fields
Alcohol and other drugs, gambling harm, mental health, family violence, financial counselling, and community corrections settings.
Cultural context
Simulated clients come from a range of backgrounds, including culturally and linguistically diverse and refugee and asylum seeker experience.
Who it's for
TherapyCoach is designed for clinicians, counsellors, and support workers in the human services sector — whether in training, early career, or experienced and wanting to sharpen specific skills. It is particularly suited to the Australian AOD and gambling harm workforce, where access to clinical supervision and simulated practice opportunities can be limited.
What it is not
TherapyCoach is a training tool. It is not a therapeutic service, does not provide clinical advice, and is not a substitute for professional supervision. All client characters are fictional. No real client data is used or stored.
Background
TherapyCoach was designed and developed by Georgia Murphy — a researcher and program content designer with a decade of frontline experience in AOD and gambling harm services. Her research sits at the intersection of gambling harm and treatment-seeking populations. Coaching feedback is structured against established clinical fidelity and competence frameworks — MITI 4.2.1 for Motivational Interviewing, the Revised Cognitive Therapy Scale (CTS-R) for CBT, and Linehan’s validation hierarchy and dialectical strategies for DBT. These are used as reference frameworks for structuring feedback; TherapyCoach does not produce validated fidelity scores.
The clinical content, client scenarios, and coaching logic were built from direct experience in the settings and modalities the platform covers — not reverse-engineered from textbooks.
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