For therapists, psychologists & trainees
Skill is built on safe-to-fail reps and honest feedback, and both get scarce once training ends. Verke gives you both: sessions with simulated clients, and coaching grounded in what the client was actually holding back — so you learn where you connected and where you lost them.
Where you practice
Sessions with simulated clients — by voice or text, in the scenarios you choose.
Who you practice with
An AI coach sits in on every practice session, gives feedback live, and tracks your progress.
Early access, founder pricing, and a say in what we build.
Why this exists
Once training ends, the observation ends with it. The rupture you didn't repair, the silence you filled too fast, the client who gets under your skin — you replay them alone, with no one to tell you what you missed.
Supervision helps, but it's rationed: an hour a week if you're lucky, and well over a hundred euros a session if you're paying for it yourself.
And experience alone doesn't close the gap. Research on therapist development has repeatedly found that clinicians don't reliably improve with years on the job. What helps is deliberate practice: working a specific skill, with feedback, over and over.
What you'll be doing
You run a session — by voice or text — with an AI client playing a specific presentation. They stay in character, carry their own history and hidden feelings, and respond to what you do. You choose who you sit with, so you can practice the cases you rarely get — or the ones you'd rather avoid. A few examples:
The reluctant referral
“I'm only here because my doctor insisted. There's nothing really wrong with me.”
Testing your boundaries
“Can I just text you between sessions? You actually get me — not like the last one.”
Angry, and blaming you
“Last week was useless. I don't think you have the first idea what this is like.”
Wanting an answer you can't give
“Just tell me what to do — should I leave him or not?”
A first hint of risk
“Sometimes I think everyone would be better off without me.”
Filling every silence
“Sorry, I'm rambling again — what should we be talking about?”
What you'll get better at
CBT, psychodynamic, emotion-focused, ACT, motivational interviewing — Verke trains the cross-cutting craft beneath all of them: reading people, working with emotion, repairing the alliance, and handling the moments that rattle you. These are the interpersonal skills the research keeps tying to effective therapists — the ones that separate more from less effective clinicians, largely regardless of years on the job or orientation. You work one at a time, pitched just past where you are — whether you're a student or fifteen years in.
Reflect the feeling instead of fixing the problem; sit with a silence instead of filling it.
Catch what the client hasn't quite said — so they feel understood, not parroted.
Notice the moment you lose someone — a withdrawal, a flash of pushback — and turn toward it.
Draw out an ambivalent client without arguing, warning, or talking them into it.
Stay steady and curious when the hostility is pointed straight at you.
Catch the quiet signal under a flat line, and ask about it directly and calmly.
Notice your own reactions — the urge to rescue, to be liked — before they steer the session.
Hold the frame when it's tested, and close a session without dropping it.
Vera builds each scenario to put the skill you're working under real pressure — and, just as deliberately, sometimes to check whether you can tell when there's nothing hidden at all. Reading people means knowing when to stay on the surface, too.
Meet your coach
Clinical practice coach
Vera plans what you work on and sits in on every practice session — giving feedback as you go, then talking it through with you afterward. Because she can see the simulated client's hidden inner state, her feedback is based on what was actually going on, not a guess. And she remembers your earlier sessions, so each one builds on the last.
Vera works with you over time — picking the skills to focus on, building scenarios around your weak spots (the guarded first session, the client who tests boundaries, the rupture you keep avoiding), and adjusting as you improve:
You and Vera agree on development goals and the skills to target, in an order that fits where you are.
Vera designs scenarios for your gaps, and you run them as many times as you need.
In the moment, coaching cards show you what landed and what slipped — grounded in the client's hidden state.
Afterward, Vera walks you through what happened, what it means, and what to try next.
Vera remembers how you did and pitches the next challenge — so every session builds on the last.
The simulated client is where you practice. The coach is who you practice with.
What the coaching looks like
A human role-play partner is improvising the same feelings you're trying to read, so their feedback is part guess. Because the client is simulated, its inner state is authored, not divined: it's written as the client reacts to you, and never rewritten afterward to grade you. That's what lets Vera show you, concretely, where you connected and where you lost the person.
You decide how much she says in the moment. Turn the live hints down, or off, and save it all for the debrief afterward — the way many experienced clinicians prefer to work.
Simulated client
“I don't know why I even brought up my mother — that's ancient history. Anyway, the real problem is my sleep. I just need something to help me sleep.”
Hidden inner state — only Vera sees this
Talking about my mother cracked something open and it scared me. Pivoting to sleep is me slamming the door — if he chases the sleep thing I'll feel relieved, and unseen.
Vera · live hintbefore you reply
She opened a door, then moved to shut it. Don't chase the sleep — gently name the retreat.
Your reply
“Okay, let's look at your sleep — how many hours are you getting, and what's your bedtime routine?”
Vera · feedback
You followed her to sleep — the retreat she just predicted. The loss she risked goes unspoken.
Try: “Can we stay with your mother a moment, before the sleep?”
Across your sessions: third session — second time a turn toward a parent slid to a body complaint. Worth naming.
Illustrative example. Real interface captures land before launch.
Practice out loud
You talk, and the client talks back — out loud and in real time, with the hesitation, the catch in the voice, the flat “I'm fine” that doesn't match what's going on inside.
And you practice answering in the moment. A chat box lets you draft, delete, and reword; a real client doesn't. Voice takes that away, so you practice what a real session asks of you: staying composed, timing, sitting with silence, thinking on your feet.
Voice isn't a stripped-down version. Vera still sees the client's hidden state and still coaches you while you speak, the same as in text.
Simulated client
Voice session in progress
Client · speaking
“I'm fine. Really. It's… it's nothing.” — voice catches, then goes flat
Vera · live hint
She's gone quiet — let the silence sit. Don't rescue it.
Your turn
Mic open — respond out loud
Illustrative — the live call interface looks different.
Why practice this way
It's built around deliberate practice: one skill at a time, feedback right away, at a level a little past what you can already do.
Run the same opening three times, or try three different ones. There's no real person on the other side, so nothing is at stake.
Tell Vera the kind of case you want to work on, and she builds a client to match — so you can practice the situations you don't see often.
Try the moments you usually avoid, where you're not sure the move will land. No client is affected and no one's watching, so you can take the risk and learn from it.
Where it fits
Supervision time is limited. Spend it on judgment and case formulation, not on role-play. Practice here first, then bring the hard moments to your supervisor — you'll get more out of both.
Between jobs, after licensing, somewhere that doesn't offer it, or just unable to afford it often — this is a way to keep practicing instead of standing still. It isn't supervision of record, but it keeps you working at your craft.
What it runs on
RCT
Of our coaching app
Stockholm University
6 methods
Peer-reviewed bases
CBT, PDT, ACT, EFT, CFT, NVC
Voice + text
Multi-agent engine
55 languages
Verke Practice runs on the same engine as Verke's consumer coaching product — whose coaches are being evaluated in an ongoing randomized controlled trial at Stockholm University, and whose six coaching methods each rest on their own peer-reviewed literature. That track record is about the platform underneath — not a claim that this training use case has been clinically validated. We're building that evidence next, and early-access members help shape how we measure it. Read about the research.
Honest answers
You're never practicing alone — a coach watches every turn and flags drift in the moment, so you can catch and correct it instead of repeating it without noticing. And when the coach gets something wrong, that's what your human supervisor is for.
It isn't meant to replace real clients. It's the rehearsal room where you build the reflexes before you're in the room with a real one, with feedback grounded in what the client was actually holding back.
With a real person, no one gets the answer key — and a tool that taught you otherwise would make you worse. But the simulated client isn't a real mind we claim to read: it's authored, so there genuinely is a fact of what it's holding beneath the surface. That makes it more like a flight simulator than a lie detector: the thing you're scored against is real within the exercise, even though no one could do this with a living client. Vera uses it to show where the evidence in the room actually pointed, and to reward holding a read loosely when the cues were thin — the opposite of teaching you that feelings are always knowable.
Honestly: it's a well-grounded bet, not yet a proven result. The skills we train are the ones research ties to effective therapists, and rehearsal with feedback is how skill is built in every other demanding field. But whether reps here carry over to your real caseload is exactly the kind of claim that needs evidence, and we won't pretend it's settled for this use case. We're building that evidence, and early members help shape how we measure it. Until then, treat this as the rehearsal room and let your real work and your supervisor be the test.
No. It's deliberate practice, not supervision of record, and it doesn't count toward supervised hours. Use it alongside your supervisor — or to keep growing on the weeks you don't have one.
It's the one place you can fumble the hard cases with zero stakes — no client harmed, no colleague watching. Your practice and your development record are yours.
What this is — and isn't
The waitlist
Two quick questions: your email, and where you are in your career. Students, clinicians accruing hours, licensed practitioners, and educators are all welcome — early.
Verke Practice is in development. Join the waitlist for early access — and to help shape what we build.
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