omar-salama/PsychoCounsel-Theraspace-Llama3-8B

Thera-Space: Llama-3-8B for Psycho-Counseling

Model Description and Motivation

This repository hosts Thera-Space, a specialized variant of Llama-3-8B, fine-tuned to act as a conversational therapist. The goal is to provide empathetic, supportive, and reflective responses in a counseling-style context.

The base model, PsychoCounsel-Llama3-8B, was already aligned using a preference dataset grounded in professional psycho-counseling principles, achieving strong results against GPT-4o. On top of this, we fine-tuned it further with additional high-quality counseling conversations to strengthen empathy, consistency, and therapeutic tone.

This model is intended for experimental and role-playing purposes only — not as a substitute for professional mental health care.

Available Formats

• Full Model: suitable for fine-tuning or research.
• Quantized GGUF (q4_k_m): optimized for efficient inference on local devices.

Training Data

Thera-Space was fine-tuned using a curated mix of publicly available mental health and counseling datasets, including:

• Counsel-Chat
• Psych8k
• AnnoMI
• AMOD Counseling Conversations

These datasets helped shape the model’s empathetic, reflective, and therapist-like conversational style.

Use Cases

• Role-playing therapy-style conversations.
• Exploring empathetic conversational AI.
• Research in counseling-aligned LLMs.

⚠️ Disclaimer: This model is for research and role-play only. It is not a replacement for professional therapy.