Applications
Bridging the gap between training and demonstrated practice
Universities, services, agencies and researchers use practice for different reasons. ELARA is configured for each one.
- Available now in the current pilot
- In development being built, not yet in the pilot
- Planned on the roadmap
- Needs confirmation preview only, awaiting sign-off before launch
Professional Practice Frameworks
Aligned to your profession's standards.
Configurable frameworks for each discipline, aligned to accreditation standards, ethical codes, professional competencies and regulatory expectations.
Professional Practice Frameworks
Needs confirmationConfigurable modules for discipline-specific professional practice frameworks (psychology, psychiatry, social work, counselling, occupational therapy and allied health), aligned to accreditation standards, ethical codes, professional competencies and regulatory expectations.
Professional Framework & Standards Modules
Psychology
Aligns practice with psychology training, ethical conduct, formulation, assessment, intervention and professional competencies.
Suggested training focus
- Therapeutic relationship and formulation
- Assessment and intervention planning
- Ethical and professional conduct
- Risk awareness and documentation
- Evidence-informed practice
Social Work
Aligns practice with social work values, systems thinking, advocacy, social context and professional standards.
Suggested training focus
- Person-in-environment perspective
- Systems and family context
- Advocacy and social justice
- Risk, safety and safeguarding
- Interagency collaboration
Counselling
Aligns practice with counselling skills, relational presence, process awareness and ethical practice.
Suggested training focus
- Therapeutic presence
- Reflective listening
- Emotional process awareness
- Boundaries and ethical practice
- Client-centred communication
Occupational Therapy
Aligns practice with functional assessment, participation, occupation, adaptation and person-centred care.
Suggested training focus
- Functional assessment
- Participation and daily living
- Strengths and environmental adaptation
- Goal setting and rehabilitation planning
- Collaborative care
Nursing
Aligns practice with patient-centred communication, safety, care coordination and professional nursing standards.
Suggested training focus
- Patient-centred communication
- Risk and safety awareness
- Care coordination
- Escalation and clinical judgement
- Professional boundaries
PsychiatryNeeds confirmation
Aligns practice with psychiatric assessment, diagnostic reasoning, risk formulation, treatment planning and professional standards.
Suggested training focus
- Psychiatric interviewing and mental state examination
- Diagnostic reasoning and differential diagnosis
- Risk assessment and formulation
- Communicating diagnosis and treatment options
- Multidisciplinary and collaborative care
Automatic
Needs confirmationContextual Relational Practice Layer
How ELARA adapts to each client's identity, culture and context. It switches on automatically from the client library chosen, and enriches the Foundations of the Psychotherapeutic Relationship.
Examples
- First Nations culturally safe practice
- Neuroaffirming practice
- Disability-informed practice
- LGBTQIA+ affirmative practice
- Older adult responsive practice
Higher Education
Configured for your course
Set up for you, then locked for the term.
ELARA is modular. Each course gets the clients, modules and levels it needs, and nothing changes mid-term. Needs confirmation
Choose
Together with ELARA, choose the client libraries, skills modules and levels that fit your curriculum or workplace training.
Configure
ELARA's administrators set your course up. Learners and staff don't change it, so the experience stays as agreed.
Lock for the term
The configuration is locked for the teaching term, so every learner practises the same course. It can be reviewed between terms.
More practice before placement.
For psychology, social work, counselling, occupational therapy and allied health programs.
The need. Learners need many hours of practice with clients before and during placement. Placements are scarce, and real clients can't be practice partners.
Full Simulated Placements now available on ELARA
How ELARA helps
- Available nowPractise with simulated clients between classes and before placement, as often as needed.
- Available nowReflection after each session, then structured feedback from ELARA supervision.
- Needs confirmationConfigured to your curriculum, then locked for the teaching term, so every learner practises the same course.
- Needs confirmationSupervisor dashboards for cohort and individual progress.
- Needs confirmationAssessment experiences, including tailored OSCEs.
Designed to complement, not replace
ELARA complements supervision and field education placements, giving learners repeated practice and structured evaluation without exposing real clients, families or communities to risk.
Illustrative use cases
Pre-Placement Readiness
Scenario
Psychology students have strong theoretical knowledge but limited opportunities for repeated interviewing practice before placements.
ELARA solution
ELARA offers simulated client sessions focused on pre-placement readiness, micro-counselling skills, rapport building, listening, questioning and therapeutic boundaries, followed by structured reflection and feedback.
Practising CBT Skills
Scenario
A postgraduate program wants students to apply and practise CBT, ACT and motivational interviewing techniques to match a teaching unit over 10 weeks.
ELARA solution
ELARA enables targeted practice of all skill domains using configured intervention competencies, with automated assessments through the 10-week course.
Competency Assessment and Curriculum Alignment
Scenario
A university wants a clearer way to connect simulation activities with professional competencies and course outcomes.
ELARA solution
ELARA supports configurable competency feedback.
Configuration Examples
Pre-Placement Readiness: eight weeks
Practising CBT, ACT & MI Skills: ten weeks
Competency Assessment & Curriculum Alignment: eight weeks
Workforce & NGOs
Onboard and refresh with confidence.
Organisations invest significantly in workforce education, yet course completion and knowledge testing alone cannot show how effectively employees apply learning in complex interpersonal situations.
ELARA complements existing education by giving employees opportunities to practise new training knowledge in realistic conversations, reflect on their responses and receive structured, competency-based feedback.
The need. New staff need a safe place to practise the conversations the role asks of them, and experienced staff need refreshers that fit around client work.
How ELARA helps
- Available nowPractise engagement, empathy and difficult conversations without risk to the people you serve.
- Available nowThe same simulated clients across teams and sites, for consistent training.
- In developmentSpecific presentations such as alcohol and other drug use, and suicide and self-harm, through the Advanced Clinical Population Library.
- Needs confirmationA configuration chosen for your service's training needs.
Illustrative use cases
Preparing Youth Workers for Complex Conversations
Scenario
A youth services organisation needs to prepare staff for challenging conversations with young people experiencing trauma, distress and family conflict.
ELARA solution
ELARA provides realistic simulated young people so workers can practise rapport, responding to distress, boundaries and escalation awareness, followed by reflection and competency-based feedback.
Developing Trauma-Informed Practice
Scenario
A community organisation has delivered trauma-informed training but needs staff to practise applying its principles in client interactions.
ELARA solution
ELARA presents simulations involving mistrust, withdrawal or frustration, allowing staff to practise relational safety and trauma-informed communication with structured feedback.
Supporting Employee Onboarding
Scenario
An NGO recruits counsellors, social workers and support staff with different experience levels and needs consistent client-facing preparation.
ELARA solution
ELARA offers role-relevant simulation pathways covering engagement, boundaries and difficult conversations, with reflection and configured supervision feedback.
Configuration Examples
Preparing Youth Workers for Complex Conversations: eight weeks
Developing Trauma-Informed Practice: eight weeks
Supporting Employee Onboarding: eight weeks
Government & Human Services
Practice for frontline conversations.
For departments and agencies whose staff work with people in complex situations.
The need. Frontline staff often meet people at hard moments. Skills like engagement, trauma-informed and culturally safe practice are built through practice and feedback.
How ELARA helps
- Available nowCulturally, socially and demographically diverse simulated clients.
- Available nowStructured feedback on relational and culturally safe practice.
- Needs confirmationModules matched to your workforce frameworks.
Illustrative use cases
Sensitive Child Protection Conversations
Scenario
Child protection practitioners must engage children, young people and families in emotionally charged situations.
ELARA solution
ELARA offers simulated conversations to practise sensitive engagement, professional boundaries, responses to disclosures and recognising when escalation is needed.
Suicide Risk Assessment Practice
Scenario
A public mental health service needs practitioners to rehearse sensitive risk-related questioning in a safe training environment.
ELARA solution
ELARA's suicide risk assessment and safety planning module supports simulated questioning, exploration of risk and protective factors, and competency-based feedback. It does not replace clinical judgement or risk procedures.
Culturally Responsive Practice
Scenario
A human services agency wants staff to move beyond cultural awareness training towards more reflective, culturally responsive interactions.
ELARA solution
With appropriate First Nations consultation and governance, ELARA can support scenarios exploring cultural humility, assumptions, relationships and Social and Emotional Wellbeing.
Configuration Examples
Sensitive Child Protection Conversations: eight weeks
Suicide Risk Assessment Practice: eight weeks
Culturally Responsive Practice: eight weeks
Research
Standardised clients for research.
For pilot studies, PhD research and evaluations of clinical education.
The need. Research on clinical skills needs consistent conditions. A simulated client can meet every participant the same way.
How ELARA helps
- Available nowSimulated clients with a stable profile, so every participant meets the same client.
- Needs confirmationResearch & Governance mode: export-ready, de-identified datasets and cohort tracking.
- Needs confirmationIntegrated objective measures to support pilot studies and governance oversight.
Illustrative use cases
Effectiveness of Simulation-Based Training
Scenario
Researchers want to investigate whether repeated simulated clinical encounters improve observable interviewing skills.
ELARA solution
ELARA can provide structured practice sessions and, under approved research governance, support analysis of transcripts, reflections and competency feedback over time.
Reflective Practice and Skill Development
Scenario
A research team wants to examine how learners recognise their strengths and limitations across clinical training.
ELARA solution
ELARA captures post-simulation reflections that can be compared with competency feedback to explore self-assessment and reflective development.
Comparing Clinical Training Methods
Scenario
A university wants to compare peer role-play, AI simulation and blended clinical skills training.
ELARA solution
ELARA can form one arm of an approved educational study, with consistent simulated encounters and independent human ratings alongside learner feedback.
Let's talk about your setting.
Tell us about your learners or staff, and we'll show you how ELARA could be configured for them.