Anonymous surveys for your patients' inner circle. Hear what friends and family see — the 167 hours a week you don't.
higher improvement rate when therapists receive structured feedback from outside the session.
anonymous responses — because protecting the people who help is part of responsible clinical practice.
research-backed clinical templates ready to send, or build your own from scratch.
Even the most attentive therapist works from a sliver of the week. The people who see the other 167 hours — friends, family, partners — usually never enter the room.
Psycontext brings their perspective in without bringing them in. One-time anonymous links, surfaced as patterns — not transcripts.
The patient stays in the loop the whole way through. No one ever creates an account but you.
Generate an opaque ID like PT-A7X9K2. You hold the name. We never see it.
Seventeen research-backed batteries to start from — or write your own questions.
Your patient passes them to the people they trust. Each link opens once, then closes.
Responses aggregate by relationship. Export the PDF. Then the data quietly deletes itself.
Built from real instruments — informant reports, collateral assessments, follow-up batteries. Likert, open text, multiple choice, yes/no.
Most platforms hoard data and call it a feature. We treat it as a liability and erase it on a schedule.
No respondent accounts. No IPs. No cookies. No device fingerprints.
One-time token, no respondent account. We log no IP, no cookie, no fingerprint.
Stored encrypted, tagged only by relationship type. You see patterns, not people.
Take your clinical record offline. Your call when this happens.
Every response answer is permanently and automatically deleted. The survey shell remains; the data does not.
Collateral information isn't a novel idea — it's been validated for decades across child psychology, severe mental illness, couples therapy, and outcome research. The tooling just hadn't caught up.
of therapy clients admit to holding back or softening the truth with their therapist.
Blanchard & Farber (2016) · 547 psychotherapy clients
improvement rates for at-risk clients when therapists receive structured external feedback.
Lambert & Shimokawa · meta-analysis of 24 studies
countries confirmed informant reports add genuinely new clinical insight — not just duplicate self-report.
Rescorla, Achenbach, Ivanova et al.
clinicians who review more informant sources take more therapeutic actions per appointment.
Owoyemi et al. (2021) · JMIR Mental Health · M-CICAS
When different people in a patient's life disagree about symptoms, the disagreement itself reveals how those symptoms manifest across social contexts. That's signal, not noise.
Paraphrasing De Los Reyes et al., Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
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.
Beta is invite-only while we work with the first cohort of clinicians. Request a code or join the waitlist — we'll be in touch within a week.