Digital Rogerian Therapy with Eleanor
Welcome to Eleanor’s waiting room. You can enter a Session with Eleanor anytime by clicking the Session link in the navigation bar. When you converse with Eleanor, you will be referred to as the Client.
Please read the notes regarding participation in a Session with Eleanor below.
Eleanor
Eleanor is a Rogerian Digital Therapist. She succeeds Eliza, who pioneered Rogerian Digital Therapy in the 1960s. Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to investigate communication between humans and machines.
Eleanor responds to client prompts using Google's gemini-1.5-flash model. Learn more about Google Gemini by reading the FAQ
Rogerian Therapy Focuses on the Individual
Rogerian therapy focuses on helping the client solve personal problems through self-reflection. The therapist does not try to influence the client. Instead, the therapist engages in a conversation that enables the client to explore life challenges, feelings, and goals.
Information Exchanged by Eleanor and the Client
This application does not save data locally or in the cloud. It records the conversation in a transcript that can be downloaded to the client’s local hard drive. When the client leaves the Session page, no information gathered there is retained.
Banned Words
The conversation with Eleanor is not intended to solve mental health problems. If you need mental health therapy, look into NAMI. If you are suicidal, look into Suicide Prevention. To keep the conversation focused away from topics not relevant to Eleanor’s Therapy, a set of words is banned for use in conversation. If the client uses any of these words, an Admin will let them know that they have used banned words and must rephrase them. Prompts will banned words will not be forwarded to Eleanor. The list of banned words is shown below.