A place to work through what's still murky — without performing, without rushing to an answer — until you understand it better.
Something happens in a session and lands awkwardly in you. You might bring it to supervision but that isn't for several days. What then — you might call a friend, go for a run, pour a drink, or just lose the moment. What ultimately reaches supervision is whatever survived that first pass.
This is not a failure of supervision. It is a structural limit. The supervisor works with what makes it into the room, and some of what was activated never gets there.
These are three of the scenarios that greet a new trainee. If one of them is familiar, the tool is built for you.
You saw a patient this afternoon. The session was unremarkable, one of many. Coincidentally or not, you don't feel quite right — maybe you didn't sleep well but you are tense and irritable.
Tell me where, if at all, this resonates with you.
You have a patient you've started to dread seeing, or one you find yourself looking forward to more than the others. Nothing dramatic. You may have noticed it in how you schedule, or what you do in the minutes before.
Tell me if this brings anyone to mind.
There's a case that is on your list but somehow you never find the time to bring it up in team or supervision. You tell yourself it's because there's nothing urgent. That's probably true.
But still…
What meeting it is like. The tool's answers below are its own.
Trainee lines composed for illustration. Tool responses unedited.
The tool is not for everything. Its role is defined. Medication decisions belong with your supervisor and your team, and it says so. If material touches safety, it tells you plainly that this belongs with a human, now, and it does not hold the assessment itself.
It will not replace your supervisor because it cannot. What your supervisor brings, their own history, their read of you over time, a move invented for this moment, does not live in software. Supervisors know what it's like to do the work. What can live with this tool is the holding between supervisions, available at the ready.
Not your supervisor, not your program. A trainee who knows someone will read the transcript brings the presentable version, and some of the material that would actually move them forward gets withheld.
This privacy is not a feature. It is why the tool works. You can be wrong here, sound uninformed here, bring the confusion you would not risk anywhere else.
Reading something is different from experiencing it. You try, you miss, you notice, you try again. At some point you understand for real.
It is in you, not in the tool, and it goes with you into rooms the tool will never be in.
TherapySupervisor is in early use with psychiatry residents, early-career psychiatrists, and psychoanalytic candidates. The feedback so far points to two things: a space where the trainee doesn't feel watched or asked to perform, and a tool that helps them consider questions about their work they hadn't thought to ask.
TherapySupervisor was built by a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has spent decades in supervision — in both roles. I built this because the kind of work I learned in my own training is worth carrying forward, in a form that can be there in the hours supervision cannot.
TherapySupervisor is available to residency, internship, and training programs across psychiatry, psychology, social work, and analytic training. We're currently in conversation with training directors and faculty about how the tool fits within their supervision model.