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Carers CompassDifficult Conversations Simulator
A safe place to practise the conversations no one prepares you for.
A safe place to practise the conversations no one prepares you for.
Practise before it matters
Set up the person you're caring for, then choose a conversation and practise it with them — resistance, deflection and all. Pause for a debrief at any moment, pick up where you left off, and take a printed summary with you when you're done.
Private by design — nothing you type or say is saved in any conversation. It disappears when you close it.
Start here
Set up your loved one once — their name, who they are to you, and what they're like. Every conversation you choose will be with them.
You're practising with
Describe your person above, then these open up.
Conversation paused
A moment to step back and look at what's happening — for both of you.
Conversation closed
These conversations rarely resolve in one go — in real life they're a series of small talks, not a single showdown. You can print the full dialogue with your debriefs and some final tips to keep.
Print preview
Prototype note: this popup shows exactly what will be sent to the printer in the final application. Use the button below to test your browser's print dialogue.
Your person
This is who you'll practise every conversation with. What you set here shapes how they talk and react — it's never a script, and nothing is saved.
Nothing you enter here is saved. It shapes this one practice session and is cleared the moment you leave.
Nothing in this app is ever saved. If you leave now, this practice conversation is simply cleared — and you won't get a summary to take with you. To keep one, close the conversation first and print it.
Carers Compass — Difficult Conversations Simulator
Last updated 30 July 2026 · Performance Leaders Australia Pty Ltd, trading as Carers Compass. We handle personal information in line with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.
This simulator is designed so that we hold nothing about you. There are no accounts, no cookies, no tracking, and no stored transcripts. Your practice conversation exists only on your screen, and it is gone when you close it.
To generate the persona's replies, each message travels over an encrypted connection through our secure relay to Anthropic's Claude, the AI service that plays your person. Messages are processed only to produce the reply, are not used to identify you, and are not used to train the AI. We cannot see them.
Speech-to-text is optional and handled by your own browser's speech service — on some browsers (such as Chrome) that means the audio is transcribed by the browser's provider. We never receive or keep any audio. The microphone listens only while the button is pulsing, and you can type instead at any time.
To prevent abuse, our server keeps a temporary daily count of requests by network address. It contains no conversation content and expires automatically. Your printed summary is generated on your own device and never passes through us.
Contact us through carerscompass.com.au and we'll respond as soon as we can.
Carers Compass — Difficult Conversations Simulator
Last updated 30 July 2026
This simulator is a practice tool, not therapy or counselling. It is intended as a guide to having more empathic, better-prepared conversations with the person you care for. It does not provide medical, psychological, legal or financial advice, and it is not a crisis service.
You are practising with an AI-generated character, not a real person. The persona is a simulation: it may respond differently from your real loved one, and like all AI it can make mistakes. Use your own judgment, and treat everything here as rehearsal — real conversations take their own course.
For decisions about care, health or safety, speak with qualified people: your GP, My Aged Care (1800 200 422) or Carer Gateway (1800 422 737).
Caring is hard. If you're struggling, support is available — Carer Gateway offers free counselling for carers on 1800 422 737, and Lifeline is there any time on 13 11 14.