Anonymous surveys for your patients' inner circle. Get the perspectives that transform treatment.
80%
of cases at risk of deterioration are missed when therapists rely only on session signals
2x
higher improvement rate when therapists receive structured feedback from outside the session
100%
anonymous responses, because protecting the people who help is part of responsible clinical practice
Four steps. Five minutes to set up. Insights that change sessions.
Anonymous patient identifiers. No real names stored.
Choose a template or build custom. Share one-time links.
Friends and family respond anonymously. Only relationship shown.
Aggregated views, charts, relationship filters, PDF export.
Psycontext was built for one purpose: getting honest, unfiltered perspectives from a patient's world — without compromising anyone.
PDF export
Download reports before auto-deletion
Auto-erasure
Responses deleted 15 days after survey closes
Encrypted
All data encrypted in transit and at rest
Minimal data
Only what's clinically needed
Decades of clinical research show that gathering perspectives from people in a patient's life leads to better outcomes.
93%
of therapy clients admit to having held back or softened the truth with their therapist. Getting context from people who know them fills the gaps.
Blanchard & Farber (2016), Counselling Psychology Quarterly — survey of 547 psychotherapy clients
When different people in a patient's life disagree about symptoms, it reveals how those symptoms manifest differently across social contexts — crucial information for treatment planning.
De Los Reyes et al. — Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
Therapists who receive structured external feedback show clinically significant improvement rates almost twice as high as those who rely solely on their own clinical judgment.
Lambert & Shimokawa — Psychotherapy, meta-analysis of 24 studies
An international study across 14 countries confirmed that information from people in a patient's life does not merely duplicate what the patient reports — it adds genuinely new clinical insight.
Rescorla, Achenbach, Ivanova et al. — Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
The first standardized measurement tool for collateral information (M-CICAS) found a direct association: clinicians who review more informant sources take more therapeutic actions per appointment.
Owoyemi et al. (2021) — JMIR Mental Health
Neurologically-based insight deficits (anosognosia) affect a substantial proportion of patients with schizophrenia, making external perspectives essential for accurate assessment.
Lehrer & Lorenz (2014) — Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience
No. Respondents never create accounts, and we don't collect names, emails, IP addresses, or device fingerprints. The only thing a respondent shares is their relationship type (e.g., friend, family member, coworker). The therapist sees the responses grouped by relationship type but has no way to identify who specifically wrote what.
Yes — and they should. The therapist discusses this with the patient during sessions and gets their consent before sending any surveys. The patient is the one who typically tells their friends and family to expect a link. Psycontext is a collaborative tool, not a surveillance tool.
Privacy is at the core of Psycontext. Survey respondents are fully anonymous: we never collect names, email addresses, IP addresses, device fingerprints, or cookies. Each therapist can only access their own data, and response data is automatically deleted 15 days after a survey closes. Our infrastructure providers (Supabase and Vercel) encrypt all data in transit and at rest.
Psycontext includes a library of clinical templates designed for different therapeutic situations — from initial context gathering to follow-up assessments — all based on research about collateral information in mental health. You can use them as-is, adapt them, or create fully custom questions. Question formats include Likert scales, open text, multiple choice, and yes/no.
Yes. You can download a complete PDF report of any survey at any time. We recommend exporting before the 15-day auto-erasure window. After a survey is closed and 15 days pass, the response data is automatically and permanently deleted from our servers — only the survey structure remains.
This is intentional. We believe therapists should own their data, not us. The 15-day window gives you time to review responses and export a PDF for your records. After that, we erase the data to minimize our footprint and reduce privacy risk. This is a feature, not a limitation.
Absolutely. Psycontext works well for individual therapy, but it's also valuable in couples and family contexts. You can create separate patient codes for each person and gather perspectives from overlapping social circles. The relationship-type filtering helps you see how different people perceive the same individual.
Respondents see a clear consent screen before starting the survey and can choose to skip non-required questions. They can also close the browser at any time without submitting. We emphasize on the consent screen that participation is voluntary and anonymous.
Psycontext is built around data minimization: we collect only what is clinically necessary, we never store identifying information from survey respondents, and all response data is automatically deleted 15 days after a survey closes. You stay in control of your data at every step.
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