Notes, letters, formulations, supervision. The thinking in between. Built for HCPC Psychologists.
UK-hosted. Identifying details get masked in your browser before anything leaves your device. It already knows the difference between defusion and cognitive restructuring.
You're using a GP tool for psychology work.
Most “AI for clinicians” was built for ten-minute consultations, SOAP notes and a NICE-shaped evidence base. It doesn't know what a CBT maintenance cycle is. It can't tell defusion from cognitive restructuring. It writes in the register of general medicine when you write in the register of clinical psychology. What it gives you back is readable, but it isn't the kind of thing you'd actually put in a clinical record.
The documentation you write each week isn't the same problem a GP solves between appointments. You're writing about long sessions. Formulations that develop across months. Letters that travel between you, a GP, an insurer, a referrer or the client themselves. Supervision summaries that have to evidence reflective practice, not just events. Risk that has to be present in every note, even when there's none.
Cogent Clinic was built for that work, by clinicians who do it.
Three things, done thoroughly.
Modality-specific session notes
Detailed session notes drafted to the conventions of the approach you actually used. Not a customisable template. A curated draft, shipped to standard. Includes: CBT, EMDR (phase, SUDS, VOC, body scan), CFT (three systems, FBRs), Schema (modes, EMS, chairwork), ACT (hexaflex, defusion, values), Integrative, Assessment.
Diagnostic assessment reports
Long-form ADHD, autism, and combined neurodevelopmental assessment reports. 2500–5000 words, structured to NICE NG87 and CG142, aligned to HCPC and BPS conventions. Multi-session transcripts supported as input. You diagnose; the tool drafts the write-up.
Letters, formulations, supervision
Client formulation letters in plain language. Supervision summaries built around your question. Clinical letters to GPs, insurers, occupational health and referrers.
Non-clinical chat and research
A general writing and research workspace for everything else: admin, draft replies, professional reading, CPD reflection. Same compliant environment, no need to switch tools.
Drafted in your modality, not translated into one.
| Modality | What the draft preserves |
|---|---|
| CBT | Agenda items, cognitions elicited, named techniques, behavioural work, homework review and forward task. |
| EMDR | Phase, target memory, NC/PC, starting and ending SUDS/VOC, BLS modality, channels of association, closure status. |
| CFT | Three-systems focus, self-criticism work, FBRs, compassionate-mind training practices, evolutionary framing. |
| Schema | Schemas activated (from the eighteen EMS), modes, mode work, experiential techniques, healthy-adult observations. |
| ACT | Hexaflex processes in focus, defusion techniques, values clarification, committed action, workability framing. |
| Integrative | Theoretical lenses applied, technique sources named, clinical reasoning for the integration. |
| Assessment | Mental-state observations, history calibrated rather than exhaustive, tentatively-framed initial formulation, explicit risk. |
More modalities (CAT, DBT, systemic, psychodynamic) are on the roadmap and prioritised by what users ask for.
You write the clinical content. Cogent Clinic drafts. You sign it off.
Capture the session
Type, paste, dictate, or upload a recording. Whatever's easiest after the session. Local-first; nothing leaves your browser yet.
Cogent transcribes
Live in-session transcription (Professional tier) streams audio browser-direct to AWS Transcribe in London. Only text comes back, and audio is never stored.
Confirm what's masked
Cogent spots identifying details (names, NHS numbers, postcodes, UK phone formats, dates) and highlights them. You confirm before anything is sent.
Generate the draft
Claude drafts on AWS Bedrock in London. Tokens are translated back to your originals in your browser, never on our servers.
Edit, sign off, export
Edit and approve. Export as .docx or .txt. Your source content isn't kept on our servers by default.
HCPC and BPS conventions, by default.
The product is opinionated, on purpose. You shouldn't have to teach it that “client” is the default term, that risk has to be present in every note, that a formulation letter is written to the client and not about them, or that a supervision summary leads with the supervision question. It already knows.
- ¶ HCPC record-keeping standards in every session note
- ¶ BPS house-style register: clinical, precise, no gratuitous jargon
- ¶ Modality-specific terminology used precisely (defusion isn't restructuring; limited reparenting isn't generic warmth)
- ¶ “Client” as default; other terms only where the modality calls for them
- ¶ UK English spelling and clinical phrasing
- ¶ Risk explicitly documented, even when there's none
- ¶ Formulations framed tentatively
- ¶ Plain-language formulation letters that respect the client's dignity and language
Identifying details don't sit on our servers.
Cogent Clinic is built around one load-bearing commitment: identifying details are masked on your device, and you confirm them before anything is sent. The mapping between the masked tokens and the originals stays encrypted in your browser for the document session, and isn't persisted on our infrastructure.
UK-only processing
All infrastructure in AWS London (eu-west-2). No cross-border transfers. When UK regulators change the rules, we follow UK rules.
Browser tokenisation
Identifying details detected and replaced in your browser; mapping stays encrypted locally. No training on content. Inference via AWS Bedrock; your content isn't used to train any model.
Inspectable controls
2FA enforced. TLS in transit; AES-GCM at rest. Append-only audit log, operational metadata only. Privacy notice, DPA, sub-processor list and security overview all published. ICO-registered.
A clear boundary, deliberately drawn.
Cogent Clinic is a writing assistant. It drafts text. It doesn't assess, diagnose, predict risk, recommend treatment or interpret psychometric data. Every output is a draft you review and sign off before it becomes part of a record. We treat that boundary as the test for every feature we ship.
It's intended for qualified UK practitioner psychologists and allied mental-health clinicians. It isn't for the people you see, members of the public, or unqualified practitioners. It isn't a medical device under UK MDR 2002 and isn't CE or UKCA marked.
Read the full intended-use statement ↗Built for a job none of the obvious tools were built for.
There are good tools in adjacent spaces. None of them was built for the documentation a UK practitioner psychologist or mental-health clinician actually writes: long-format therapy, modality-specific, formulation-heavy, BPS-styled. That's the job Cogent Clinic does.
| Cogent Clinic | Heidi | Tandem | NovoPsych | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | UK practitioner psychologists and allied mental-health clinicians | General medicine (GP, hospital) | Therapy practice administration | Psychometric assessment |
| Primary action | Drafting session notes, formulations, letters, supervision summaries | Ambient session transcription into SOAP | Client and case management | Administering and scoring measures |
| Modality-specific drafts | CBT, EMDR, CFT, Schema, ACT, Integrative, Assessment, by default | Customisable templates | n/a | n/a |
| Formulation support | Yes, per modality, including client-facing letters | No | No | No |
| Supervision summaries | Yes, structured around the supervision question | No | No | No |
| De-identification | In-browser tokenisation; no identifying data on our servers | Server-side processing of audio | Stored client records | Stored assessment data |
| UK data residency | AWS London (eu-west-2) | Verify with vendor | Verify with vendor | Verify with vendor |
| Pricing posture | Free, £22, or £59 / month | ≈ £115 to £120 / month | Practice-management pricing | Per-clinician, assessment-tier |
This comparison reflects how each product positions itself publicly as of April 2026. Verify current scope and data-handling practices with each vendor before adopting.
Try it free. Stay if it earns its keep.
For trying the workflow on real (de-identified) work.
- 10 generations / month, £2 / day cap
- All document types
- Single user
- Community support
For early-career and part-time clinicians.
- 300 generations / month, £10 / day cap
- All document types
- Single user
- Email support
Recommended. For full-time private-practice clinicians.
- 1,000 generations / month, £35 / day cap
- ADHD, autism, and combined neurodevelopmental assessment reports
- 25 hours of live session transcription / month (optional overage at £0.04/min)
- Premium model for complex formulation and medico-legal work
- Full template library
- Priority support
- Word export
Built inside a working clinical psychology practice.
Cogent Clinic was built by Dr Aisha Tariq, a UK HCPC-registered clinical psychologist and Clinical Director of Illuminated Thinking, a specialist clinical psychology practice in Glasgow with twenty-five clinicians. She qualified in 2013 and has worked in UK clinical psychology since, first in NHS services and then in private practice.
The product started as a set of internal tools written for her own clinicians, after years of trying to make scribing and notes platforms designed for general medicine fit work that simply isn't general medicine. Cogent Clinic is the version of that work made available to the wider UK practitioner psychology and mental-health community.
FAQ
Is Cogent Clinic a medical device?
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How does the de-identification work?
What's the difference between Cogent Clinic and Heidi?
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Do you record sessions?
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