Notes in your approach · CFT
AI session notes for CFT, written the way CFT writes.
Compassion focused work carries a vocabulary that generic summarising flattens into warmth. Cogent keeps the three systems, the fears blocks and resistances, and the practices you actually used.
The elements a CFT note has to carry.
Pick CFT at the start of a note and the draft comes back with this structure, using compassion focused therapy terminology precisely and leaving blank anything you did not record.
- Which of the three systems was in focus, and how the balance shifted in the session.
- Self-criticism work, including the form the critic took and how it was worked with.
- Fears, blocks and resistances named as FBRs rather than described loosely.
- Compassionate mind training practices used, including imagery and breathing work.
- Evolutionary framing where you used it, since the psychoeducation is part of the intervention.
A note that splits the difference fits no one.
General tools read compassion focused work as supportive conversation and write it up as rapport. The result reads pleasantly and records almost nothing a supervisor could work with, because the specific mechanism, whether that is soothing system activation or an FBR being met, has been smoothed out.
The questions psychologists ask before they try it.
Does Cogent understand CFT terminology?
The CFT template is built around the model's own language, so three systems, FBRs, compassionate mind training and self-criticism work appear as themselves rather than being translated into generic therapeutic description. Terms are used precisely, so soothing is not treated as a synonym for relaxation.
Can I use it for a compassion focused formulation letter?
Yes. Alongside session notes, Cogent drafts plain-language formulation letters written to the client, and the CFT framing carries into them. Mary Welford's framework is on the roadmap for the formulation diagrams following beta feedback.
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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