Free ecomap maker built for clinical work.

Building an ecomap with GenogramAI takes about five minutes for a standard case. You can work manually on the canvas or describe the situation in plain language and let the AI draft the diagram — then review and adjust.

1. 1

   Place the client node

   The central bubble represents the individual or household unit you are mapping. This anchor stays at the center; all environmental systems radiate out from it.

2. 2

   Add environmental systems

   For each domain the client interacts with — extended family, work, school, healthcare, faith, recovery network, friends, legal, community — add a system node and assign it a category. Categories set default colors so the finished diagram is readable at a glance.

3. 3

   Draw the connections

   Link each system node to the center with a connection line. Select the relationship quality: strong (solid bold), normal, weak (thin), stressful (parallel lines), or conflictual (zigzag). These styles follow Hartman's original published conventions, so supervisors and multidisciplinary teams will recognize them immediately.

4. 4

   Set energy flow directions

   For each connection, indicate whether energy flows toward the client (the system provides support), away from the client (the client invests without return), bidirectionally, or is blocked. This layer reveals which systems are depleting and which are sustaining — critical for treatment planning.

5. 5

   Export or share

   Export as a PDF with the legend embedded, share via a published link with optional password protection, or print directly. In Clinical Mode (paid), identifying data is stripped before any AI call and all canvas data is encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM.