Notes in your approach · IFS
AI session notes for IFS, written the way IFS writes.
IFS notes need parts named as parts, with the role and the felt sense that came with them. Cogent keeps that structure rather than rewriting the session into a description of feelings.
The elements a IFS note has to carry.
Pick IFS at the start of a note and the draft comes back with this structure, using internal family systems terminology precisely and leaving blank anything you did not record.
- Parts named with their role and the felt sense reported, kept in the client's language.
- Self-energy present in the session and how it was accessed.
- The 6 Fs work with protectors, step by step.
- Polarisations between parts, and how they were held.
- Blending and unblending as they happened in the room.
- Trailheads noted for the next session.
A note that splits the difference fits no one.
Generic summarising collapses parts language back into ordinary emotion words, so a manager part and a firefighter both become anxiety, and the map you were building across the work disappears. The note has to keep the client's own naming to be worth anything later.
The questions psychologists ask before they try it.
Will it keep my client's own names for their parts?
Yes. Parts are recorded with the name and felt sense the client gave them rather than translated into standard emotion words, because the client's language is the working material in IFS. Identifying details are still masked before anything is sent for drafting.
Does it record trailheads for next time?
Yes, where you noted them. Cogent also carries a four-section plan across the client's folder that updates as you sign off each session, so what was left open stays visible in the next one.
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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