license: other
license_name: rail-d
license_files: LICENSE-RAIL-D.txt
task_categories:
- text-generation
- question-answering
language:
- en
tags:
- medical
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
pretty_name: Amod - Mental Health Counseling Conversations
Amod/mental_health_counseling_conversations
This dataset is a compilation of high-quality, real one-on-one mental health counseling conversations between individuals and licensed professionals. Each exchange is structured as a clear question–answer pair, making it directly suitable for fine-tuning or instruction-tuning language models that need to handle sensitive, empathetic, and contextually aware dialogue.
Since its public release in 2023, it has been downloaded over 100,000 times (As of Nov 2025); hitting 10,000+ downloads in Nov 2025 alone. The data is provided in a clean format, allowing for straightforward integration into training pipelines with minimal preprocessing.
Table of Contents
Dataset Description
- Point of Contact: [email protected]
Dataset Summary
This dataset is a collection of real counselling question-and-answer pairs taken from two public mental-health platforms.
It is intended for training and evaluating language models that provide safer, context-aware mental-health responses.
Supported Tasks
Text generation and question-answering with an advice-giving focus.
Languages
English (en)
Dataset Structure
Data Instances
Each instance contains:
- Context – the user’s question
- Response – the psychologist’s answer
Data Fields
Context:stringResponse:string
Data Splits
No predefined splits. Users may create their own.
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
Created to advance AI systems that deliver compassionate, evidence-based mental-health guidance.
All data were anonymised and retained verbatim to preserve conversational integrity.
Source Data
Collected directly from two publicly accessible counselling websites; no private or paid sources were used.
Personal and Sensitive Information
Content is sensitive by nature. All personally identifiable information has been removed during curation.
Licence and Commercial-Use Terms
This dataset is released under RAIL-D.
Free non-commercial research use
Academic, scientific, educational and other non-profit uses are royalty-free. Users must comply with the ethical restrictions in LICENSE-RAIL-D.txt.
Commercial use — mandatory donation
Any commercial use requires a donation of USD 100 or more to the CCC Foundation mental-health helpline.
Donation page: https://1333.lk/donations
Email proof of donation to [email protected] within thirty (30) days before or after first commercial deployment.
Commercial rights terminate automatically if proof is not provided.
No content modification
Filtering or subsetting is allowed, but individual question-and-answer pairs must not be rewritten, deleted, or altered.
Redistribution
Permitted only in the original, unmodified form and with this licence attached.
The full legal text is provided in LICENSE-RAIL-D.txt within this repository.