Psychological counseling is a highly personalized and dynamic process that requires therapists to continuously monitor emotional changes, document session insights, and maintain therapeutic continuity. In this paper, we introduce PsyCounAssist, a comprehensive AI-powered counseling assistant system specifically designed to augment psychological counseling practices. PsyCounAssist integrates multimodal emotion recognition combining speech and photoplethysmography (PPG) signals for accurate real-time affective analysis, automated structured session reporting using large language models (LLMs), and personalized AI-generated follow-up support. Deployed on Android-based tablet devices, the system demonstrates practical applicability and flexibility in real-world counseling scenarios. Experimental evaluation confirms the reliability of PPG-based emotional classification and highlights the system's potential for non-intrusive, privacy-aware emotional support. PsyCounAssist represents a novel approach to ethically and effectively integrating AI into psychological counseling workflows.
@article{arxiv.2504.16573,
title = {PsyCounAssist: A Full-Cycle AI-Powered Psychological Counseling Assistant System},
author = {Xianghe Liu and Jiaqi Xu and Tao Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.16573},
year = {2025}
}