Genograms for therapists
Build a client genogram in your browser, on the standard symbols. Export a PDF for your session notes, or hand the client a link.
1 free genogram · up to 50 people · no card
The notation you already use
Squares and circles, three generations, the index person marked separately. Family ties: marriage, divorce, separation. Emotional lines: close, distant, hostile, fused, cut off. A cut-off that was later repaired has its own marker, as does a separation that ended in reconciliation.
This is the notation Bowen set out and McGoldrick and Gerson developed, so anyone who works this way can read a genogram you build here. You are not explaining your own shorthand to a client or a supervisor.
What you can record on a person
Clinical indicators
Mental health, physical health, substance use, illnesses. With three generations side by side, you see the repetition without adding a word: which branch carries the same problem, and where it started.
Placement and family structure
Adoption and foster placement have their own markers and a year, so reconstituted families need no workarounds. Deceased members, birth and death dates, and the nicknames a family uses in place of names.
Notes per person
A notes field on every person. A line from the session, a hypothesis you want to return to, a date the client was unsure about. It stays with the genogram instead of in a separate file.
Between sessions
Export the genogram as a PNG or a PDF, so it goes into your session records in a form you can print and bring to supervision.
Send the client a view-only link, or invite them to edit if they are going to ask their family about missing dates between sessions. You can revoke any invitation or link later.
We encrypt genogram content in the database: the title, the description, and the whole layout of people and relationships. The privacy policy covers the details.
What it costs
The first genogram is free and holds 50 people. That is enough to test the tool on a single case before bringing it into your practice.
A paid genogram holds up to 200 people. Client work needs that room. You can edit for a year and extend after that; credits come in packs of 1, 5, 10, and 25, paid once, with no subscription.
Try it on one case
Take a case where the conversation keeps circling the family, and put it on a diagram. One genogram is enough to tell whether this fits the way you work.