ELARA - The Complete Clinical Education Platform.

ELARA simulated clients, practice, assessments, supervision and oversight, all in one place for clinical education, training and research.

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A counsellor and a young client talking in a calm, light-filled counselling room.

A World of Configurations

Perth, Whadjuk Noongar country

General Population Client Domains

Children
Adolescents
Adults
Older Adults
First Nations
LGBTQIA+
Neurodivergent
Disability

Culturally, socially and demographically diverse simulated clients, each with a detailed developmental history, emotional state and authentic personality.

What is ELARA?

ELARA is a complete educational platform, built around a next generation highly realistic client simulator and supervision engine with aligned rubric lenses.

It brings simulated practice, reflective and deliberate practice and supervision together, so learners can sequentially develop the professional competencies required for real-world practice.

ELARA is designed to complement, not replace, supervision. Learners can practise again and again, make mistakes and grow with structured feedback, without exposing real clients, families or communities to risk.

Sophie is one of ELARA's simulated clients. Her face and voice are AI-generated and profile-matched.

Developed by experts in psychology and artificial intelligence Needs confirmation
A scalable, APAC accreditation-aligned environment for sequential skills development Needs confirmation

Next Generation Clients

Embedded Relational Engine

ELARA clients are not scripted responders. There's no script: your client responds to what you actually say, through embedded proprietary behavioural and intervention-contingent response modelling in an advanced perceptual relational engine. Trust isn't implicit. It's earned through your interaction. Practise working with ruptures and repair and emotional regulation.

Diversity

Clients have diverse culturally authenticated backgrounds and accents. Each simulated client has a stable psychological and social profile, developmental history, experiential memories and inner world.

Longitudinal Multiple Session Memory

There's no looping: clients have embedded longitudinal session memories, so they recall previous sessions and how you related with them. Practise over multiple therapeutic sessions.

Available now In the current pilot

Inner world

Developmental
Psychological
Behavioural
Social
Experiential

Developmental memories

Childhood
Family
Peers
Social
Relational
Significant life events
Trauma

Meet some of ELARA's clients

Sophie W.Age 27 · Anglo-Australian, inner-city
Aunty J.Age 54 · Aboriginal Australian, Noongar woman
David H.Age 32 · Anglo-Australian
Li WeiAge 29 · Chinese-Australian, moved interstate for work
Michael B.Age 45 · Anglo-Australian, regional
Maria L.Age 34 · Mixed European-Australian
Anthony R.Age 38 · Anglo-Australian, FIFO worker
Helen T.Age 49 · Anglo-Australian, outer suburbs
Sophie W.Age 27 · Anglo-Australian, inner-city
Aunty J.Age 54 · Aboriginal Australian, Noongar woman
David H.Age 32 · Anglo-Australian
Li WeiAge 29 · Chinese-Australian, moved interstate for work
Michael B.Age 45 · Anglo-Australian, regional
Maria L.Age 34 · Mixed European-Australian
Anthony R.Age 38 · Anglo-Australian, FIFO worker
Helen T.Age 49 · Anglo-Australian, outer suburbs

Simulated clients. Portraits are AI-generated.

Next Generation Supervision

Feedback after every session.

After the session and the learner's own reflection, ELARA supervision gives structured, nuanced feedback across the core domains of practice.

Available now Reflection before feedback, then structured supervisor feedback
Needs confirmation Supervision rubrics linked to APAC-aligned, evidence-based curricula
Needs confirmation For supervisors: learner and cohort tracking, with client complexity unlocked through competency-ready indicators

Always on

Foundations of the Psychotherapeutic Relationship

Always on in every session, whatever the client, module or level. The therapeutic relationship is the foundation of any clinical engagement: when a client feels safe, understood and respected, the real work can begin. So ELARA supervision always looks first at how the learner built and kept that relationship.

Evaluated in every session

Empathic attunement
Warmth and authenticity
Alliance and safety
Basic micro-skills

The Learner Journey.

From choosing your client to ELARA supervision, every session follows the same clear path.

ELARA client library: simulated clients David H., Sophie W. and Michael B., each with age, background, presenting concern and Easy, Difficult and Complex levels. — Real ELARA screens from a made-up practice session (Sophie is a simulated client), plus two illustrations for skills and levels. Select a screen to enlarge it.

ELARA briefing for Sophie W., age 27: her presenting concern, the learner's focus for the session, background on Sophie, and the chosen level. — Real ELARA screens from a made-up practice session (Sophie is a simulated client), plus two illustrations for skills and levels. Select a screen to enlarge it.

Step 1: Choose your client
Choose your client.
Choose from a large range of culturally, socially and demographically diverse clients, with detailed developmental histories, emotional states and authentic personalities from ELARA's General and DSM/ICD-aligned Advanced Clinical Population Libraries. (Module Configured)
ELARA · Clinical Practice Simulator
Choose your skills to practise
Micro-counselling Skills
Diagnostic Interviewing
Culturally Responsive Practice
Risk Assessment
Ethics
Supervision
CBT
ACT
Schema Therapy
Foundations
and more
Illustration
Step 2: Choose your skills
Choose the skills to practise.
Choose the skills you need to focus on: building the psychotherapeutic relationship, case formulation, culturally responsive practice, risk assessment and more. (Module Configured)
ELARA · Clinical Practice Simulator
Choose your difficulty level
EasyMild distress. Cooperative client. Practise basic rapport, empathy and open questions.
DifficultAmbivalence and defensiveness. Practise tolerating avoidance and working with shame, self-criticism and mixed motivation for therapy.
ComplexGreater emotional intensity and relational complexity. Practise advanced containment, nuanced empathy and gentle exploration of relational patterns.
Illustration · the level descriptions are ELARA's own
Step 3: Choose your level
Choose your difficulty level.
Every client can be met at three levels, Easy, Difficult and Complex, so practice grows with you: from mild distress and a cooperative client, through ambivalence and defensiveness, to greater emotional intensity and relational complexity.
Step 4: Briefing
Meet your client.
Every session starts with a briefing: who your client is, what brings them in, and prompts on what to focus on.
Step 5: The conversation
The conversation.
Speak or type with your simulated client, face to face with an immersive avatar.
There's no script: your client responds to what you actually say.
Available now Longitudinal session memory
Step 6: Reflect
Look back.
Before any feedback, pause and look back: what you noticed, what worked, and what you'd try next time.
Step 7: ELARA supervision
ELARA supervision.
Structured, nuanced supervisor feedback on the session from the ELARA supervision engine, with rubrics focused on your identified practice domains.

Real ELARA screens from a made-up practice session (Sophie is a simulated client), plus two illustrations for skills and levels. Select a screen to enlarge it.

Clinical safety in sessions

Simulated clients are instructed to stay in character, and never to give therapeutic advice or step into the therapist's role.
Every session is clearly labelled as a session with a simulated client, and learners are reminded they can pause or stop at any time. In development
A "Need support?" button on every learner page lists Australian crisis lines, including 000, Lifeline and 13YARN, alongside the learner's supervisor and university counselling service. In development

A New Level of Educator Support

Course completion and knowledge testing alone can't show how well people apply learning in complex interpersonal situations. ELARA bridges that gap: realistic conversations to practise in, reflection on every response, and structured, competency-based feedback.

Bespoke Curriculum Mapping

We can map and configure your curriculum requirements directly to ELARA's modular client libraries, professional frameworks, interventions and assessments with rubric-aligned supervision lenses.

Automated Assessment Tasks

Configure assessments to your students' curriculum and learning objectives, with automated rubric-aligned supervision and feedback, marking and "due date" tracking that automate in the learners' dashboard and Learner Journey.

Next Level Oversight and Governance

See complete cohort and individual student performance on the Supervisor Dashboard with domain heat maps and analytics. Identify students who need support and remediation early before seeing real clients.

Embedded Research Capabilities

Research made easy: design and configure ELARA analytics, and extract export-ready datasets, all from one Research and Governance Dashboard.

Dashboard Oversight

Progress you can see.

Overviews and analytics for learners, supervisors and researchers. All three views are real ELARA demo screens with sample data, not real results. Needs confirmation

Learner dashboard

Supervisor feedback on sessions, with session time, client insights, domain performance and suggested areas for deliberate practice over time.

Supervisor dashboard

Cohort analytics and individual progress, including domain performance heat maps and learners who may need extra support.

Research & Governance dashboard

Data analytics, export-ready research datasets, cohort and individual tracking over time, and integrated objective measures.

Explore ELARA for your university or workplace.

See ELARA in action, ask questions, and talk through what module configuration would suit your course or service.

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Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Whadjuk Noongar people as spiritual and cultural custodians of the land where ELARA resides, as well as the traditional custodians of all the lands throughout Australia, and the Indigenous peoples beyond our shores. We pay our respects to the Elders past, present, and emerging and their continued relationship with their land.