Simulated clients.
Real clinical skills.

VIC is an AI-driven psychology simulation where students practise therapy with lifelike, voice-to-voice virtual clients — before they ever sit across from a real one.

A live VIC therapy session: a virtual client on the couch with session objectives and rapport tracking
"Thriving minds for an evolving world."

VIC — the Virtual Interactive Client — was developed by ISN Innovations, the AI research and development arm of the Institute for Social Neuroscience (ISN), to give psychology students a safe, repeatable way to build clinical experience. Virtual clients are fully embodied in clinical environments and converse in natural, low-latency voice-to-voice dialogue, as if the student were talking to a real client.

Clients learn, grow and build relationships with their therapist across sessions — with dynamic internal traits such as cognitive biases, coping strategies, symptom severity, memories and rapport — roleplaying cases formulated by clinical psychologists.

VIC FEATURES

  • Lifelike, voice-to-voice AI clients
  • Open roleplay, full therapeutic journeys & one-step cases
  • Automated feedback built on clinician-developed rubrics
  • A client creator for instructors and cohorts
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Tenant-wide roles and cohorts, instructor-designed client cases, and progress tracking across your student body.

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