The Office, where the practice is run.
The Workshop, where the case work happens.
The Library, where the craft is studied.
The app on your own machine — private alpha, nothing leaves your computer. Or open the live demo first — no account, nothing to install.
Local-first· Your records stay on your machine· Built by a practising therapist
Five things the research is saying — about AI generally, and about AI in clinical contexts specifically:
So I built something different.
Peribolos is designed to increase your clinical thinking, but never do the formulating or thinking for you. The Workshop is not a supervisor, it is a private place you can take your material to do your thinking work between therapy sessions.
Peribolos is practice infrastructure. Note-drafting is one thing it does. What it holds is the whole practice.
Clients, sessions, the calendar, invoicing, and an append-only clinical record that locks and keeps its own audit trail. The administrative practice, held in one place you control.
The room for the work between sessions — formulation, post-session reflection, note transformation. You bring the material; the more you bring, the sharper the questions that come back. Identifiers on record are stripped before note content reaches the API, and audio never has to leave your machine.
More than 100 clinical references across attachment, trauma, personality, rupture-repair, and more — indexed, cross-linked, and held until you’re ready. The Library doesn’t push reading at you. It waits.
Local-first, by design. The clinical record lives on your computer, not as a tenant in someone else’s cloud. Nothing leaves unless you choose to send it — and when note content goes out to be worked on, identifiers are stripped first.
Refuses to write what wasn’t said. · Audio never has to leave your machine. · De-identified before any API call. · Your data is never training material.
I’m Sebastian Kitchen, a practising integrative psychotherapist. I built Peribolos because I wanted to use it — to run my own practice, and to do the case work between sessions somewhere better than the back of a notebook.
It’s in private alpha. I run my whole practice on it, every week. I’ve kept it honest about what AI can and can’t do, because I have to trust it in my own clinical work before I’d ask you to trust it in yours.
— Sebastian Kitchen
PACFA-registered integrative psychotherapist · regional Victoria
A live demo with fictional clients and a year of sessions — the three rooms, exactly as they run. No account, nothing to install.
A universal Mac build, for Apple Silicon and Intel. Windows too — unsigned for now, so you’ll click past a SmartScreen warning. Everything runs on your own machine.