Attention counsellors & students — Still second-guessing yourself every time a client walks in?
Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Build Your Confidence with CounselMe
28 AI clients. 8 core skills tracked. Honest supervisor-quality feedback after every session. Practice until confidence stops being something you fake, and becomes something you have genuinely earned.
Diverse, realistic, challenging.
Across all 8 core skills.
Available whenever you need it.
No credit card required
Your 8 Skills Overview
Silence
6.4
Reflecting
7.6
Summary
6.8
Questions
7.1
Focusing
8.5
Immediacy
3.2
Rapport
7.8
Attending
8.2
How CounselMe works
You can complete your first session today. Here is exactly what happens.
Amara
Easy
Thabo
Intermediate
Miriam
Hard
Elena
Expert
01
Choose your client
28 AI clients. Each one has a real story, a real reason for being in that chair, and a real way of responding to how you work. Start with someone manageable. Build up from there.
- • Easy, Intermediate, Hard and Expert levels
- • Burnout, grief, trauma, addiction and more
- • Diverse, inclusive, clinically realistic
AmaraSession 1 · 4/30 exchanges+ Reflecting — named her experience without leading her.
· Questions — good open question. Watch you don't redirect too quickly.
02
Run your session
Type what you would actually say to a real client. Your client responds the way real people do. When you get it right, they open up. When you miss something, they pull back. The trust meter shows you where you stand in real time.
- • Live trust meter that reacts to your responses
- • Real-time annotations after every message
- • Natural, character-driven dialogue
Session with Amara
Session 1 complete · 18 exchanges
Skill scores
Supervisor note
"Good use of reflecting in the opening. Your questions were mostly open, though you redirected a little quickly at exchange 12. Focus next on staying with what the client brings before moving forward."
How did this session feel?
03
Get your feedback
After every session, you receive scores across all 8 core skills and a supervisor-written note you can take to your next supervision. No vague encouragement. Feedback tied directly to what you said and how your client responded.
- • Scores across all 8 core skills
- • Supervisor-quality written notes
- • Downloadable session reports
Silence
6.4
Reflecting
7.6
Summary
6.8
Questions
7.1
Focusing
8.5
Immediacy
3.2
Rapport
7.8
Attending
8.2
04
Track your growth
Your SkillMap updates after every session. Watch your scores expand across all 8 skills and see exactly where to focus next. Work through all four difficulty levels to earn your certificate.
- • Trajectory across all 8 skills
- • Level progression from Easy to Expert
- • Certificate on completion
Everything you need to build real skill
28 AI clients
From anxious students to grief-stricken professionals. Every level of complexity.
8 core skills tracked
Attending, reflecting, summarising, questions, focusing, immediacy, rapport, silence.
Real-time session feedback
Live annotations after every message so you learn in the moment.
Personal SkillMap
An orbital skill map that updates after every session and shows exactly where you are improving and where to focus next.
Supervisor-quality reports
Downloadable session reports written in the voice of an experienced clinical supervisor.
Certificate on completion
Earn a verified certificate when you reach Expert level across all four difficulty tiers.
The 8 skills every counsellor needs to master
CounselMe tracks all 8 after every session and shows you exactly where to grow.
Attending
Being fully present with your client — listening with your whole self, not just your ears.
Reflecting
Mirroring back what the client just said or felt so they know they have been truly heard.
Summarising
Drawing together the key threads of a session so the client can see the bigger picture.
Questions
Asking open questions that invite exploration rather than leading the client toward a specific answer.
Focusing
Helping the client identify and stay with what matters most, instead of drifting across topics.
Immediacy
Addressing what is happening between you and the client in this moment, right now in the room.
Rapport Building
Creating genuine safety and trust so the client feels secure enough to go deeper.
Silence
Holding space without filling it. Giving the client room to process, feel, and find their own words.
Study
83 lessons across 7 study tracks
Every session links to a lesson. Every lesson builds on the last.
Track 01
Rogers: Person-Centred Therapy
The foundational approach to humanistic counselling. Learn how to create genuine safety, unconditional positive regard, and the precise conditions that allow real therapeutic change to happen.
Track 02
Jung: Analytical Psychology
Explore the unconscious, archetypes, and the deeper symbolic world that shapes how clients understand themselves and their lives. Essential for working with dreams, meaning, and identity.
Track 03
Freud: Psychoanalytic Theory
Understand the origins of psychoanalytic thought, the role of defence mechanisms, and why the unconscious matters so much in everyday human behaviour and therapeutic work.
Track 04
Core Counselling Skills
A deep dive into all 8 skills the app tracks — attending, reflecting, summarising, questioning, focusing, immediacy, rapport building, and silence. Theory and practice together.
Track 05
Client Presentations
Learn how different psychological presentations show up in a real counselling room. Grief, trauma, anger, anxiety, burnout — what to look for and how to respond with skill and sensitivity.
Track 06
Difficult Moments in Practice
Navigate the hardest parts of the counselling relationship. Silence that goes too long. Clients who test limits. Disclosures that catch you off guard. Build the confidence to stay present.
Track 07
Theoretical Foundations
Build a solid grounding in the major frameworks that underpin modern counselling practice. Understand how different schools of thought connect, overlap, and inform each other.
After every session, CounselMe recommends the lesson most relevant to what you just practised.
Clients
Meet your AI clients
28 clients. Real stories. Every level of complexity.
Amara
Easy24 · Academic pressure and fear of failure
James
Easy52 · Lost identity and purpose after retiring
Lerato
Easy29 · Profound loneliness after relocating
Ryan
Intermediate33 · Anger affecting his family
Fatima
Intermediate38 · Caregiver burnout and emotional numbness
Keanu
Intermediate22 · Grief after losing his best friend
Diane
Hard49 · Recovery from a controlling relationship
Sasha
Expert27 · Living with passive suicidal ideation
Amara
Easy24 · Academic pressure and fear of failure
James
Easy52 · Lost identity and purpose after retiring
Lerato
Easy29 · Profound loneliness after relocating
Ryan
Intermediate33 · Anger affecting his family
Fatima
Intermediate38 · Caregiver burnout and emotional numbness
Keanu
Intermediate22 · Grief after losing his best friend
Diane
Hard49 · Recovery from a controlling relationship
Sasha
Expert27 · Living with passive suicidal ideation
Plus 20 more clients across all difficulty levels. Every session feels different.
What counsellors say about practicing with CounselMe
"I did not expect the AI clients to feel this real. Amara actually pushed back when I gave advice she did not ask for. That was the moment I realised how much I was still doing that with real clients."
Thandi M.
Final-year counselling student
"The feedback after each session is more specific than anything I get in group supervision. It tells me exactly what I did and what I should have done differently."
Ruan P.
Newly qualified counsellor
"I use it the night before placement days. Twenty minutes with one of the harder clients and I go into the real session feeling a lot more grounded."
Kefilwe S.
Counselling intern, Johannesburg
Certificate of Completion
Earn something that actually means something.
Five Expert-level sessions. An average of 8.0 or above across all 8 skills. When you earn this certificate, you have the session data to back it up. Bring it to a job application. Take it into supervision. Add it to your professional portfolio. It shows where your skills actually are. And that you had the discipline to build them.
Simple pricing. Powerful results.
Less than a single supervision session. Unlimited practice.
Everything you need to build your skills.
Secure checkout. Cancel anytime.
Most counsellors in South Africa pay R500–R1,000 for a single supervision session. CounselMe gives you unlimited supervised practice for the same price.
For Educators and Supervisors
Use CounselMe in your classroom or supervision sessions.
Educators project live sessions onto a screen and walk students through what good counselling looks like in practice. Supervisors share it with supervisees. No separate institutional plan needed — it is the same subscription.
One subscription. Works for individual practice, live demonstrations, and classroom teaching.
Questions people ask before they sign up
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