The Practice Field
PracticeField: A Tool Suite in Progress + A Movement Taking Root
PracticeField is more than a platform—it’s a growing ecosystem of therapist-designed tools and a grassroots invitation to reimagine how we extend care between sessions.
This is for clinicians who want to live at the cutting edge of AI integration without compromising relational ethics or clinical depth. Each tool is in active development, grounded in trauma-informed principles and designed to support emotional rehearsal, relational resilience, and client agency.
As a therapist, you’ll gain access to a secure, evolving library of client-facing tools that you can assign, adapt, or recommend. These aren’t worksheets. They’re relational practice fields—modular spaces where clients can rehearse disclosure, regulate distress, and cultivate internal witness work… while staying tethered to you and the therapeutic alliance.
We need to create tools that practice what we preach: presence, pacing, repair, and the courageous rehearsal of being human.
Current and Emerging Tools Include:
- ShadowBox– A structured practice space for clients to rehearse sharing trauma, shame, or risk-related disclosures. Through conversational scaffolding and psychoeducation around duty-to-warn protocols, clients build trust, emotional pacing, and language for more supported, transparent disclosures in session.
- Difficult Conversations Studio – A roleplay tool where clients rehearse high-stakes dialogues—centered around their unique attachment style, relational patterns, and emotional pacing. By practicing boundaries, repair, and emotional expression in a safe environment, clients build confidence, clarity, and increased readiness for real-life interactions.
- VoiceField – A somatic dialogue tool that helps clients explore how voice tone, rhythm, and pacing affect their nervous system. Designed to build distress tolerance, deepen metacognitive awareness, and surface unintegrated relational trauma—especially from early childhood—through the nuances of spoken communication.
- InnerVoice Co-Design – Clients co-create a personalized, compassionate inner voice using guided prompt engineering. By choosing tone, rhythm, and relational energy they develop a warm observing self they can return to between sessions—strengthening internal regulation, narrative agency, and emotional self-support.
- Attachment Style Lab – Clients engage in guided dialogues with AI personas that reflect different attachment styles (secure, anxious, avoidant, disorganized). This immersive exploration fosters self-awareness, highlights relational patterns, and opens space for intentional shifts in how clients relate to themselves and others.
- Grief Listening Bench – A spacious, attuned companion tool for clients moving through loss. With gentle prompts and reflective pacing, it offers space to speak the unspeakable, name what’s been lost, and stay connected to grief without being overwhelmed—supporting integration and honoring memory.
- Withness – A tool for in-session use where clients and therapists co-witness AI-generated relational scenarios (e.g., "The Critic," "Absent Parent" or “Younger Me”). By bringing implicit relational content to the surface, it allows for live processing, co-regulation, and deeper therapeutic metabolization.
- Critic Dialogues – A guided tool to help clients externalize and engage with their inner critic. Through structured conversation and therapist-framed pacing, clients begin to soften harsh self-narratives, cultivate inner compassion, and disrupt shame-based internal cycles.
- Reflective Journaling Studio -A customizable journaling companion where clients select a reflective voice—such as a wise elder, gentle coach, clinical guide, or even a future version of themselves. Clients can toggle features like mirroring, summary synthesis, or clarifying questions to shape the interaction.This tool helps clients externalize and explore their inner world with a tone that feels safe, resonant, and personally meaningful—supporting emotional expression, insight generation, and material that can be brought into the therapeutic conversation.
- Argument Clinic – A nod to Monty Python, this tool helps clients rehearse distress-tolerant responses to misunderstanding, pushback, and emotionally charged dialogue. Designed to stretch relational capacity and practice staying present through activating interactions—with a dose of humor and regulation.
As therapists, we must remain in the lead & sculpt a new practice, together.
Co-Craft the Movement With Me
PracticeField is not a finished product—it’s an evolving practice, shaped by clinicians who know the depth of this work from the inside. We invite you to help build it.
What relational practices from your own work deserve a digital extension?
Which psychoeducational frameworks, parts models, or somatic methods could be reimagined into practice fields?
From Moreno’s psychodrama to Satir’s family sculpting, from IFS to DBT, from Winnicott’s holding to AEDP’s undoing of aloneness—this is your lineage, your creativity, your field.
Who is PracticeField for?
PracticeField is for licensed therapists and their clients. It’s designed for practitioners who want to offer their clients more than worksheets or apps—but who don’t want to outsource care to poorly regulated chatbots. It’s for those holding complex emotional work and longing for tools that reflect the depth of what therapy actually involves. And it’s for clients who are already engaging AI informally—seeking resonance, practicing disclosures, or working through inner dialogues—without therapeutic scaffolding.
This platform is for therapists who see both the potential and the risk in AI—and want a way to ethically guide its use.
What therapeutic gap does it fill?
The space between sessions is rich with potential—but often under-resourced. Clients leave with insight but lack safe places to practice. Meanwhile, therapists face emotional overload, administrative demands, and little continuity between appointments.
PracticeField fills this gap by offering modular, AI-facilitated tools that support clients’ emotional integration and relational rehearsal between sessions—without replacing the therapeutic alliance. It bridges insight and action, reflection and regulation, without creating dependency or task-driven compliance. It’s not homework. It’s emotional infrastructure.
How is it different from existing digital tools?
Most therapy-adjacent tools focus on admin: notes, calendars, treatment plans. Others focus on self-help or direct-to-client coaching, often without clinical oversight or trauma-informed design.
PracticeField is different in five key ways:
- Therapist-Curated, Client-Facing – Tools clients use, but therapists guide.
- Relational Rehearsal, Not Compliance – The goal is not task completion, but growth in relational and emotional capacity.
- Designed for Emotional Complexity – Built for shame, grief, trauma, and voice-building—not just mood tracking.
- Modular + Customizable – Therapists can shape tools to align with their method, population, or phase of care.
- Ethically Engineered – No crisis response, no human mimicry, and full transparency about what AI can and cannot do.
Why now?
Many platforms focus AI on clinician admin. But clients are already turning to AI for something deeper: resonance, direction, and companionship and often in emotionally vulnerable ways, without human or therapeutic grounding and guidance. PracticeField meets that need head-on—with tools grounded in clinical ethics and relational care.
This is the moment to shape how we engage AI in therapeutic contexts—before it’s dictated by startups, insurance companies, or algorithms that don’t understand what care actually is.
We can do this differently. PracticeField is that difference.
AI Companionship
Across open-source communities, people are building deeply personal AI companions—coded confidants designed to offer presence, intimacy, and support.
These “homegrown” tools meet real needs: loneliness, touch-hunger, the longing to feel seen without fear. And they work—users report feeling soothed, known, even transformed.
But while AI can simulate resonance, it cannot metabolize it.
Relational healing still asks for a nervous system, a body, another human who can witness rupture and stay.
PracticeField.io aims to bridge the emotional power of AI with the grounded container of therapy.
It’s a space where clients can safely rehearse connection, co-create inner voices, and carry those learnings back into real relationships— with the clinical mental health frame both safely retained and powerfully expanded.
Elevating Clinical Disclosure & AI Education
As part of what I imagine will be a Practice Field subscription, therapists gain access to a specialized Client Disclosure Practice Package—including:
- Therapist-authored framing statements to clarify the scope and purpose of AI tool use
- Built-in guidance on the limits of confidentiality, duty-to-warn laws, and the difference between rehearsal and report
- Client opt-in processes and personalized framing of clinical use based on the therapist's own preferences and practice needs. Clients must explicitly opt-in to use the disclosure practice tools and any features that allow therapist review. All interactions are governed by consent-based access, with no default sharing or surveillance.
Shared Psychoeducation on Generative AI
An essential feature of this tool is offering a co-learning model designed to educate both clients and therapists on the realities and limits of generative AI:
- Clear, accessible psychoeducation on how large language models (LLMs) work
- Guidance on the risks of relational overreliance, projection, and simulated intimacy
- Framing of the AI as a non-human tool, not a sentient or therapeutic presence
- Optional learning modules therapists can assign or review alongside clients
- By embedding AI literacy into the therapeutic container, Practice Field empowers clients to use these tools reflectively and responsibly—always tethered to the human care.
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