Genogram Tool for
Marriage & Family Therapy Students
Create Bowen-style genograms with emotional overlays, triangles, and multigenerational patterns. Built for MFT coursework, practicum, and COAMFTE portfolio documentation.
MFT Programs Are Demanding
We understand the unique challenges of Marriage and Family Therapy training
Bowen Theory Requires Proper Mapping
Your professor wants to see differentiation of self, triangles, and emotional cutoffs mapped correctly. Generic diagramming tools don't have these symbols.
MFT programs go deep on family systems theory. You need tools that speak the same clinical language as your coursework.
COAMFTE Standards Are Specific
Your accredited program has specific documentation requirements. Your genograms need to demonstrate clinical competency for portfolio reviews.
COAMFTE-accredited programs have high standards. Your clinical work needs to reflect professional-level assessment skills.
Practicum Families Are Complex
Your first real clients have multigenerational trauma, multiple divorces, step-families, and emotional patterns you're just learning to identify.
The jump from textbook families to real clinical families is huge. You need tools that handle complexity while you're still learning.
Limited Time Between Classes and Practicum
Between coursework, practicum hours, and supervision meetings, you have maybe an hour to create a genogram for tomorrow's case presentation.
MFT programs are intensive. Every minute counts when you're balancing academic and clinical demands.
What MFT Students Need in a Genogram Tool
Features designed for family systems assessment
Emotional Relationship Overlays
Map close, distant, fused, hostile, and cutoff relationships. Show the emotional patterns Bowen theory emphasizes.
Triangle Identification
Visualize emotional triangles in the family system. Essential for understanding family dynamics and planning interventions.
Multigenerational Patterns
Map patterns across 3+ generations. Show how anxiety, conflict styles, and relationship patterns transmit through families.
Professional Documentation
Export high-quality images for case presentations, supervision, and your clinical portfolio.
Use Across Your MFT Curriculum
One tool for every course that requires family mapping
Family Systems Theory
Create genograms demonstrating Bowen concepts: differentiation, triangles, nuclear family emotional process, multigenerational transmission.
Clinical Practicum
Develop intake genograms for client families. Track progress. Prepare case presentations for supervision.
Assessment & Diagnosis
Use genograms as family assessment tools. Document relational patterns relevant to DSM-5 relational codes.
Couples Therapy
Map both partners' family-of-origin patterns. Identify how inherited patterns affect the couple system.
From Family Description to Clinical Genogram
Describe the family system
Type a description including emotional patterns: 'Mother is enmeshed with youngest child, father is emotionally cutoff from his family of origin...'
AI generates the structure
GenogramAI creates the genogram with correct symbols for each relationship type and emotional overlay.
Add clinical observations
Note triangles, differentiation levels, multigenerational patterns. Add medical/mental health history.
Export for supervision
Download high-resolution PNG for case presentations, supervision meetings, or portfolio documentation.
FAQs for MFT Students
Can I use GenogramAI for COAMFTE portfolio documentation?
Yes. GenogramAI exports high-resolution PNG images suitable for clinical portfolios and competency documentation. The genograms use standard McGoldrick-Gerson-Petry notation recognized in MFT education and practice.
Does it support Bowen family systems concepts?
Absolutely. GenogramAI includes emotional relationship overlays for mapping fusion, cutoffs, conflict, and distance—all central to Bowenian assessment. You can visualize triangles, multigenerational patterns, and differentiation levels.
Is there a free option for students?
Yes! The free plan includes 2 genograms with full feature access—all 48 relationship types, emotional overlays, medical quadrants, and professional export. No credit card required.
Can I use AI to help create my genogram?
Yes. Describe the family system in plain English (e.g., 'The mother is fused with the oldest daughter, while the father is emotionally distant from all children') and AI creates the structure with appropriate symbols.
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Free for students. No credit card required. Portfolio-ready in minutes.
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