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Genograms for psychology students

You have read Bowen and McGoldrick. Now you need a genogram that shows emotional relationships, not just boxes joined by lines. Genogram Pro draws all 37 emotional bonds in standard notation, and the AI builds the first draft from a paragraph of family history.

  • Free editor, no signup
  • 37 emotional bond types
  • McGoldrick notation
  • AI builds it from text

Used by psychology students at

  • University College London
  • Montclair State University
  • Boston College
  • Lancaster University
  • Louisiana State University
  • NC State University
  • San Diego State University
  • University of Hawaii
  • Indiana University

Every psych student has hit this wall

Family systems theory meets a blank canvas

Bowen makes sense on the page. Turning a real family into triangles, fusion, and cutoff on a diagram is where most tools give up.

Generic tools have no emotional lines

Word, PowerPoint, and Canva give you shapes. None of them draw enmeshment, conflict, or estrangement, the relationships your assignment is actually about.

Hand-drawn genograms look like homework

Redrawing by hand after every edit is slow, and the result rarely looks like something you want a professor to grade.

Grad-student budget is real

You are not paying a clinician subscription to hand in one assignment. The free editor builds and exports without a card.

Built for family systems work

It opens already set up for the notation you are graded on, down to the relationship lines.

37 emotional relationship types
Closeness, conflict, cutoff, fusion, enmeshment, and more, each drawn in standard McGoldrick notation with one click.
Multigenerational patterns
Three or more generations on consistent levels, with index person, triangles, and household groupings.
AI builds the first draft
Paste a paragraph of family history and the AI lays out the people and relationships for you to refine.
Export for submission
Download a clean PDF or PNG that reads as professional work, not a sketch.

What it looks like on the canvas

The relationships and symbols from your coursework, drawn in standard McGoldrick notation.

A full three-generation genogram of the Chen family, with color-coded medical conditions and emotional bond lines between grandparents, parents, and children

A finished three-generation genogram, with the symbols and bond lines in place.

Open the example

See more genogram examples or read the genogram guide.

Your professor reads genograms

Graders know the notation. A diagram that uses the wrong symbol for cutoff or skips the index person costs marks. Genogram Pro keeps you on standard notation by default.

  • Standard McGoldrick symbols for sex, vital status, pregnancy, and loss
  • Correct relationship lines for closeness, conflict, cutoff, and fusion
  • Index person, twins, adoption, and household groupings supported
  • Clean PDF and PNG export sized for an assignment

Every symbol follows McGoldrick notation. See the full genogram symbols reference.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Genogram Pro free for students?
Building and viewing is free in the no-signup editor. Saving and exporting run on a 7-day trial of Professional. If your program or school has set up access, it is free for students.
Does it use the notation my course teaches?
Yes. Genogram Pro uses standard McGoldrick notation, the symbols and relationship lines from Monica McGoldrick's genogram texts that most psychology and counseling courses teach.
Can it draw emotional relationships like enmeshment and cutoff?
Yes. There are 37 emotional bond types including closeness, conflict, cutoff, fusion, and enmeshment, each drawn in standard notation.
Can the AI build a genogram from my notes?
Yes. Paste a paragraph describing a family and the AI drafts the people and relationships. You then refine it on the canvas.
How do I hand it in?
Export a PDF or PNG and attach it, or share an interactive view link. The output is sized to read cleanly in an assignment.

Build your genogram tonight

Open the free editor, no signup. Saving and exporting come with a 7-day trial, and some programs have free access set up for students.

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