Cognitive Behavioural
- Agenda
- Cognitive work distinct from behavioural
- Behavioural experiments reviewed and set
- Homework
- Risk in every entry
Notes in your approach
Written the way your approach writes.
Session notes, assessment notes, formulation letters, and supervision write-ups, in any of eight approaches at launch. The way each one is written is already built in, so you never have to teach the tool the difference.
01Eight approaches
Notes that read like the therapy in the room.
You should not have to teach a documentation tool that risk belongs in every entry, or that an EMDR note carries phase and SUDS. Cogent already writes each note the way a supervisor would expect to find it, across eight approaches.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
- Phase (1–8)
- Target memory
- SUDS and VOC, before and after
- BLS sets
- Channels of association
CFT, ACT, IFS, schema, integrative, and assessment notes keep their own shape the same way. All eight approaches →
02The principle
A note that splits the difference fits no one.
General-purpose AI does not know that a CBT note has an agenda at the top, that an EMDR note carries phase and SUDS, or that an IFS note names parts with role and felt sense, so it writes a generic note that fits none of them. Pick the approach at the start and the draft comes back with the right structure and the terms used precisely: defusion is not restructuring, and limited reparenting is not generic warmth.
03What each approach keeps
Eight approaches at launch, each keeping the elements that matter.
Pick the approach at the start of a note, and the draft comes back with the structure and terminology that approach expects.
| Approach | What the draft preserves |
|---|---|
| CBT | Agenda items, cognitions elicited, named techniques, behavioural work, homework review and forward task. |
| EMDR | Phase, target memory, NC and PC, starting and ending SUDS and VOC, BLS type, 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. |
| IFS | Parts named with role and felt sense, Self-energy presence, 6 Fs work with protectors, polarisations, blending and unblending, trailheads. |
| 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 approaches (CAT, DBT, systemic, psychodynamic) are on the roadmap, prioritised by what users ask for.
04Document types
The whole spread of clinical writing handled in one place.
- Session notes
Written the way the approach used writes them, with risk documented even when no active risk is present.
- Assessment notes
Mental-state observations, history calibrated rather than exhaustive, and a tentatively-framed initial formulation that opens the door to the work rather than closing it.
- Formulation letters
Plain-language letters written to the client, in their language, that respect their dignity and the way they describe their own life.
- Supervision summaries
Case-reflection summaries that pull out what is worth raising in supervision rather than recapping the diary.
- Pre-supervision briefs
Case snapshot, recent trajectory, current focus, and your questions for the supervisor, all in one document and available on the Professional tier.
05Your voice on every draft
Cogent learns the writing you have already done, and works to a sample of the writing you want it to do.
Upload a short sample of your own writing for sessions, letters, and reports, and Cogent aims for that tone, sentence structure, and pace in each family of documents. It also draws on your recent accepted drafts, so the voice on the page stays the one you have already chosen to keep. Samples are de-identified in your browser like everything else.
06Custom templates
A template you have built for your own population, sitting alongside the eight built-in ones.
If a population asks for particular framing every time (under-eighteens, neurodiverse adults, court-bound reports), write an instructions overlay on any built-in template and it becomes your own template in the picker. The structure the approach needs stays in place underneath everything you add.
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