Notes in your approach · CBT
AI session notes for CBT, written the way CBT writes.
A CBT note has a shape. Agenda at the top, the cognitions that actually came up, the technique named rather than described, and homework closed off and set again. Cogent drafts it that way from your shorthand or from the session transcript.
The elements a CBT note has to carry.
Pick CBT at the start of a note and the draft comes back with this structure, using cognitive behavioural therapy terminology precisely and leaving blank anything you did not record.
- Agenda items as they were set, including anything carried over.
- Cognitions elicited in the client's own words, not paraphrased into flatter language.
- Techniques named precisely, so a thought record is a thought record and a behavioural experiment is not filed as one.
- Behavioural work, including what was avoided and what was attempted between sessions.
- Homework reviewed and the forward task agreed, which is the part most scribes drop.
A note that splits the difference fits no one.
A general-purpose tool writes a competent summary of a conversation, which is not a CBT note. It loses the agenda structure, blurs a Socratic dialogue into narrative, and reports that homework was discussed without recording what was set. Reviewers and supervisors read for exactly those elements.
The questions psychologists ask before they try it.
Can AI write CBT session notes?
It can draft them for you to check and sign off, which is a different thing from writing them. Cogent takes your shorthand or the session transcript and returns a structured CBT note with the agenda, the cognitions elicited, the techniques used and the homework set. You remain the author of record and nothing is filed until you accept it.
Will it invent content that was not in the session?
No. The drafting is constrained to what you actually recorded, and where something a CBT note usually carries is missing, the draft marks the gap rather than filling it with plausible text. That behaviour came directly out of beta feedback from clinicians who found other tools confabulating standard procedure.
Eight approaches at launch, each written as itself.
If you work across models, the template is chosen per note rather than per account.
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