All pilot participants reported that…
Training Readiness & Skill Development
They would have benefitted from Therapy TrAIner earlier in their training.
Therapy TrAIner provides a low-stakes environment for practicing clinical interviewing.
Therapy TrAIner helps them prepare for real client work.
Feedback Quality
The recommendations provided by Therapy TrAIner felt actionable and helpful.
Emotional Impact
Therapy TrAIner could reduce anxiety about beginning clinical practice.
Adoption & Integration
They would use Therapy TrAIner independently alongside faculty guidance
They would use Therapy TrAIner as a part of a course.
They would recommend Therapy TrAIner to other trainees.
What People Are Saying
“When I started my training, I would have loved to have this to help with my anxiety related to being recorded and practice more.”
— Fourth year Psy.D. student
“This could be a great tool to integrate into the first or second year clinical practice training courses (beginning of Masters or Doctoral degree programs). It could be useful to ensure that we are "hitting the mark" on what is required for an intake process.”
— Third year Psy.D. student
“I think it accurately targeted areas that I need to work on and gave me reasons as to why it is useful to work on those areas.”
— Fourth year Psy.D. student
“The feedback was helpful and focused on strengths, which I found to be helpful. I believe this could be an extremely helpful (and low stakes) evaluation tool for new practitioners within the field. For new students, especially those with marginalized backgrounds or imposter syndrome, would likely find this to be empowering as it highlights individual strengths and suggests some tips on how to improve.”
— Fourth year Psy.D. student
“I felt like this was a great way to have a low-stakes interaction with a mock client to be able to notice areas that need improvement and areas of strength. I found the feedback section to be really useful in terms of picking out exact things I said that were effective as well as giving feedback about statements, reflections, or questions that weren't as helpful or may have been damaging.”
— Third year Psy.D. student
“It would be very helpful to have this around when I was initially starting out as trainee. I thought the breakdown of what went well and what were the growing edges.”
— Fourth year Psy.D. student