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XInsight: Integrative Stage-Consistent Psychological Counseling Support Agents for Digital Well-Being

arXiv 2603.06583 ↗First posted 21 Jan 2026cs.HC cs.CY cs.LGcited by 9

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Abstract (arXiv)

Web-based platforms are becoming a primary channel for psychological support, yet most LLM-driven chatbots remain opaque, single-stage, and weakly grounded in established therapeutic practice, limiting their usefulness for web applications that promote digital well-being. To address this gap, we present XInsight, a counseling-inspired multi-agent framework that models psychological support as a stage-consistent workflow aligned with the classical textitExploration-Insight-Action paradigm. Building on structured client representations, XInsight orchestrates specialized agents under a unified textitReason-Intervene-Reflect cycle: an Exploration agent organizes background and concerns into a structured Case Conceptualization Form, a Routing agent performs Adaptive Therapeutic Routing (ATR) across SFBT, CBT, and MBCT, a unified Therapeutic agent executes school-consistent submodules, and a Consolidation agent guides review, skill integration, and relapse-prevention planning. A Recording agent continuously transforms open-ended web dialogues into standardized psychological artifacts, including case formulations, therapeutic records, and relapse-prevention plans, enhancing interpretability, continuity, and accountability. To support rigorous and transparent assessment, we introduce XInsight-Bench with a Scale-Guided LLM Evaluation (SGLE) protocol that combines therapy-specific clinical scales with general counseling criteria. Experiments show improved paradigm alignment, multi-therapy integration, interaction depth, and interpretability over existing multi-agent counseling systems, indicating that XInsight provides a practical blueprint for integrating counseling-inspired support agents into web applications for digital well-being.

Key facts. Cited by 9 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Medical and scientific domain agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 16 of its 47 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 21 Jan 2026.

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