Getting the Most from Session Prep

If you’ve ever walked into a therapy or coaching session and spent the first ten minutes trying to remember what happened since last time, Session Prep is designed to solve that problem.

The feature analyzes your recent mood data — the emotions you’ve logged, the context you’ve written, the patterns in your tracking — and generates structured talking points you can bring to your next session. Instead of “I think things have been… okay? I don’t know, it’s been a busy couple of weeks,” you show up with a clear picture of what actually happened and what might be worth exploring.

How It Works

You’ll find Session Prep on the Insights tab — look for the “Prepare for a Session” card. Tap it to open the Session Prep screen.

From there, you’ll set two things:

Session type. Choose from Therapy, Coaching, or Counseling. This shapes the tone and focus of your talking points. Therapy-focused output emphasizes emotional patterns and areas to explore. Coaching output focuses on progress and goals. Counseling output centers on coping strategies and support.

Lookback period. Choose how far back to analyze — one week, two weeks, or one month. If your sessions are weekly, one week is usually right. For bi-weekly or monthly sessions, extend the window to capture more data.

Then tap Generate Talking Points. The AI analyzes your mood entries from that period and produces your results in about a minute.

What You’ll Get

Session Prep generates five structured sections:

1. Mood Patterns — An overview of your emotional state during the period. What emotions came up most? How did your overall mood trend? Were there notable highs or lows?

2. Key Themes — Recurring topics from your context notes. If work stress, sleep issues, or relationship dynamics kept showing up in your entries, they’ll surface here.

3. Notable Moments — Specific entries that stood out — particularly high or low moods, significant events, or entries with unusually detailed context. These are often the most useful starting points for conversation.

4. Session-specific section — This one changes based on your session type:

   • Therapy: “Patterns to Explore” — deeper emotional threads worth unpacking
   • Coaching: “Progress & Goals” — what’s moving forward and what to focus on next
   • Counseling: “Coping & Support” — strategies that seem to be helping and areas where you might need more support

5. Discussion Starters — Conversation prompts you can use to open the session or shift to a new topic. These are phrased as questions you might ask yourself or bring to your therapist.

Tips for Getting the Most Out of It

Track with context. Session Prep pulls from both your mood scores and your written context. Entries with specific notes — what happened, what you were thinking, who you were with — produce significantly more useful talking points than bare mood ratings.

Generate it the day before your session. Don’t wait until you’re in the waiting room. Review your talking points the night before or morning of, so you have time to think about what resonates and what you want to prioritize.

Use it as a starting point, not a script. The talking points aren’t a checklist to get through. They’re a way to arrive at your session with a clear picture instead of a blank slate. Your therapist or coach will take it from there.

Copy or save your results. You can copy the talking points to your clipboard or save them as a PDF (on web). Some people paste them into their notes app or email them to their therapist ahead of time.

Check your recent history. Session Prep saves your past results, so you can look back at what you brought to previous sessions. This can be useful for tracking whether themes persist or resolve over time.

Why This Matters

Research on therapy outcomes consistently shows that clients who come prepared — with a clear sense of what they want to discuss and what’s been happening — tend to make faster progress. The therapeutic alliance strengthens when both parties are working from shared context rather than spending session time reconstructing the past week from memory.

Session Prep doesn’t replace the work of therapy. It removes the friction that prevents you from doing that work effectively. You’ve already been tracking your mood. Session Prep turns that tracking into something you can bring to the conversation — organized, specific, and ready to use.