Pre-supervision briefs
Walk into supervision with the right page already open.
A short brief drawn from the client's living formulation and the most recent sessions, with case snapshot, recent trajectory, current focus, and the questions you actually want to bring all sitting in one document, ready to open in supervision and read in the order you would say it in the room.
A snapshot of where the work is, rather than a recap of what is already in the diary.
Supervision time is finite and expensive, so the brief surfaces the part of the case worth raising in the shape your supervisor expects, which means you will not spend the first ten minutes of the hour recounting what happened in the room.
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Case snapshot
Pseudonymous identifier, modality, session count, and current phase of work, written as the orientation a supervisor needs in three lines.
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Recent trajectory
What has shifted in the last three or four sessions, drawn from the living formulation, including where gains are holding, where they are not, and what you have been working with.
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Current focus
The intervention plan as it stands, including anything live that is either working well enough to consolidate or stalled enough to be worth revisiting in supervision.
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Questions you want to raise
The questions you would ask in any case, written by you rather than generated by Cogent, with the brief carrying them in alongside the snapshot so they do not get lost on the way to supervision.
Briefs use placeholders, so they can be shared with a supervisor without re-anonymising them yourself.
The brief is generated from the placeholder version of your living formulation, so the names and identifiers your supervisor receives are [PERSON_1], [NHS_1], and the rest of the placeholder set, which means you can hand the brief to a peer supervision group, paste it into a written supervision request, or read from it in a session without having to re-anonymise anything yourself. If your supervisor needs the real names for any reason, the decision to disclose them sits with you in the conversation, and the document itself continues to carry placeholders.
Try it on this week's work.
The free tier covers ten generations a month with no card to start and no time limit on the trial, so you only upgrade when Cogent has earned at least the cost of a session in time saved.
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