Same Client, Different Doorways

Reading Time: 6 minutesComparing CBT, Motivational Interviewing, and Person-Centred Practice -Post 5/5. This is the final post in a five-part Counselling Skills Studio experiment. Across three short interviews, ChatGPT acted as the counselling student while the same fictional client, Mara, was interviewed using three different approaches: Each interview began with exactly the same client presentation and stopped after … Read more

Is There Room for Me Here?

Reading Time: 9 minutesA Short Person-Centred Interview with Supervisor Feedback – Post 4/5 Introduction This is the fourth post in a five-part Counselling Skills Studio experiment exploring whether AI can help counselling students practise distinct interviewing styles and receive useful feedback on their process. The same fictional client, Mara, is used across three short demonstrations: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy-style … Read more

Grinding the Gears

Reading Time: 9 minutesA Short Motivational Interviewing Session with Supervisor Feedback – Post 3/5 Introduction This is the third post in a five-part Counselling Skills Studio experiment exploring whether AI can help counselling students practise distinct interviewing styles and receive useful feedback on their process. The same fictional client, Mara, is used across three short demonstrations: Cognitive Behavioural … Read more

Mapping the Moment

Reading Time: 8 minutesA Short CBT Interview with Supervisor Feedback- Post 2/5 Introduction This is the second post in a five-part Counselling Skills Studio experiment exploring whether AI can help counselling students practise distinct interviewing styles and receive useful feedback on their process. The same fictional client, Mara, is used across three short demonstrations: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy-style interviewing, … Read more

Can AI Help Counsellors Practise Interview Skills?

Reading Time: 5 minutesIntroducing the Counselling Skills Studio experiment – Post 1/5 This series explores a specific question: Can ChatGPT help counselling students practise different interviewing styles and receive useful supervision on their process? That is a different question from whether AI should act as someone’s counsellor. It should not be framed that way. Counselling involves responsibility, relationship, … Read more

Inside the Counselling Skills Studio

Reading Time: 26 minutesA Full Motivational Interviewing Demonstration A Counselling Skills Studio case study in advanced interview practice This post presents a full-length fictional counselling-skills demonstration generated inside the Counselling Skills Studio. Claude plays the role of the counselling student using Motivational Interviewing with a fictional client. Supervisor Mode is included in this post to provide Claude with … Read more

The Last Seat

Reading Time: 10 minutesAn Elderwell moral dilemma about two sick children, one evacuation seat, and no risk-free way to get help in time. Editor’s noteThis post presents an Elderwell Mysteries & Dilemmas game in conversation form. The scenario is fictional, but the reasoning task is real: how should a person make a recommendation when two children may need … Read more