Psychological Counseling Cannot Be Achieved Overnight: Automated Psychological Counseling Through Multi-Session Conversations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06626v1
• Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2025 02:00:45 GMT
• Title: Psychological Counseling Cannot Be Achieved Overnight: Automated Psychological Counseling Through Multi-Session Conversations
• Abstract summary: We introduce a dataset for Multi-Session Psychological Counseling Conversation dataset (MusPsy-Dataset)<n>Our MusPsy-Dataset is constructed using real client profiles from publicly available psychological case reports.<n>We also developed our MusPsy-Model, which aims to track client progress and adapt its counseling direction over time.
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• Abstract: In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in automated psychological counseling. However, current research focuses on single-session counseling, which doesn't represent real-world scenarios. In practice, psychological counseling is a process, not a one-time event, requiring sustained, multi-session engagement to progressively address clients' issues. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a dataset for Multi-Session Psychological Counseling Conversation Dataset (MusPsy-Dataset). Our MusPsy-Dataset is constructed using real client profiles from publicly available psychological case reports. It captures the dynamic arc of counseling, encompassing multiple progressive counseling conversations from the same client across different sessions. Leveraging our dataset, we also developed our MusPsy-Model, which aims to track client progress and adapt its counseling direction over time. Experiments show that our model performs better than baseline models across multiple sessions.

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