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personæ / A laboratory for training psychotherapists

Therapy happens
in the room.

Training does not.

Two chairs facing each other in a quiet therapy room
Enter the room↓

For years, we taught psychotherapy at a distance.

We learn from books.
We formulate on vignettes.
We discuss what happened in other rooms.

But psychotherapy is immediate. It unfolds in the here and now with the patient.

KNOWING THERAPY
≠
BECOMING A THERAPIST
A therapist and a patient sitting face-to-face in an office

Then, one day, you suddenly sit in front of a patient.

The first real patient should not be the first time you experience being a therapist.

EncounThera Personæ closes the distance.

Practice psychotherapy.
Before the first time.

Enter immersive sessions with psychologically coherent AI patients who speak, hesitate, resist, remember, and respond to you in real time.

LIVE SESSIONET / P0147
A therapist in a VR headset speaking with a lifelike 3D patient persona
PATIENT: MARA / 34SESSION 0312:48

Realism is only the beginning.

The real power
is repeatability.

01

Meet

Enter a session with a patient selected or configured by your training program.

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02

Respond

Listen, formulate, intervene, and tolerate uncertainty in real time.

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03

Reflect

Review critical moments, missed signals, and alternative approaches.

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04

Return

Repeat the encounter. Change one variable. Try another way in.

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PERSONÆ / PLURAL

There is no single patient.
There is no single way
to be a therapist.

FOR UNIVERSITIES · CLINICS · INSTITUTES

Turn clinical exposure
into a curriculum.

Standardized encounters across cohorts

Supervisor-created patient worlds

Reviewable session material

Practice at increasing difficulty