@inproceedings{qiu-etal-2026-client,
    title = "Client Simulation via Conversational Trajectory Modeling for Both Trainee Practice and Model Evaluation in Mental Health Counseling",
    author = "Qiu, Huachuan  and
      Chen, Zhaoming  and
      Chen, Yuqian  and
      Xie, Yuan  and
      Lu, Yu  and
      Lan, Zhenzhong",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.45/",
    pages = "975--1016",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}