Therapy Prep

The First 15 Minutes

Most therapy sessions start the same way: "So, how have you been?" And most clients answer the same way — with whatever they can remember from the past week, filtered through how they feel in that moment. Monday's breakthrough gets forgotten. Wednesday's rupture gets minimized. The thing they meant to bring up never comes up at all.

Therapists know this. The recall gap between sessions is one of the most persistent barriers to effective therapy. Clients aren't withholding — they're human. A week is a long time, and memory is selective.

Therapy Prep closes that gap. It turns a week of micro-journaling into a structured one-page summary — themes, mood trajectory, notable moments, and suggested discussion topics — delivered to the client the evening before their session, ready to share with their therapist.

For Therapists

If a client handed you a one-page summary before every session — their week in their own words, with emotional arc, recurring themes, and self-identified discussion topics — how would that change your first 15 minutes?

Therapy Prep is designed to give you what you'd get from a client who journals consistently and brings their journal to every session. The difference is that the client captures fragments throughout the week (voice memos, quick text entries, photo moments — each under 10 seconds), and AI compiles them into a clinically scannable document overnight.

You receive:

• A narrative overview of the client's week — not a symptom checklist, but how they experienced their days in their own language
• Mood trajectory — the emotional arc from day to day, including shifts, triggers, and recovery patterns
• Recurring themes — patterns the AI identified across multiple entries (e.g., "need for validation," "sleep quality," "workplace relationships")
• Notable moments — specific timestamped entries the AI flagged as significant, with brief context
• Session prep reflections — topics the client intentionally flagged for discussion, separated from day-to-day entries so you can see what they want to work on vs. what happened organically
• Suggested discussion topics — AI-generated starting points, phrased as gentle prompts rather than clinical recommendations

The summary arrives as a clean PDF the client can text or email before the session. You scan it in under two minutes. When the session starts, you already know what happened. The client knows you know. The first 15 minutes become the most productive 15 minutes.

What's in a Summary

Every Therapy Prep summary contains six sections, each generated from your actual journal entries for the week:

• Week Overview — A 2–3 paragraph narrative of how your week unfolded. Not a bullet list — a story.
• Mood Trajectory — How your emotional tone shifted day by day. Tracks the arc from start of the week through the end.
• Recurring Themes — 3–5 patterns the AI identified across your entries. Displayed as tags for quick scanning.
• Notable Moments — Specific entries that stood out — peak positive moments, difficult conversations, turning points.
• Session Prep Reflections — If you answered any session prep prompts during the week, they're synthesized here.
• Suggested Topics — 3–4 discussion topics the AI suggests based on what it found in your journal.

How It Works

Therapy Prep runs on the same weekly cycle as your daily wraps — automatically, in the background, with no extra effort required.

Session Prep Reflections

Most entries capture what happened — a moment, a thought, a reaction. Session prep prompts ask a different question: what do you want to work on?

These are optional prompts the client can answer at any point during the week. They're designed to help surface intentional discussion topics — not just what happened, but what the client wants to bring to the room. In the compiled summary, session prep responses are separated from day-to-day entries, so you can immediately distinguish between what the client experienced and what they're actively asking to explore.

In the sample above, the client completed two session prep entries: one after the Wednesday interaction (about proportional emotional responses) and one on Friday (about the validation pattern across three relationships). Both became the backbone of the "Suggested Discussion Topics" section.

Between-Session Continuity

One of the hardest problems in outpatient therapy is continuity. A client has a breakthrough in session, but by the following week the insight has faded. Homework gets forgotten. The emotional context of a key moment is lost.

DaySnip doesn't replace between-session homework — but it captures the texture of the week that homework assignments are embedded in. If a client is practicing cognitive restructuring, their snips will show the automatic thoughts as they happen, in real time, with the emotional context still intact. If they're working on behavioral activation, the entries show what they actually did, not what they remember doing.

For therapists who assign journaling, Therapy Prep offers something better than a blank notebook: a low-friction capture tool the client actually uses (10 seconds per entry), with an AI that organizes the output into something you can work with clinically.

The PDF

Every summary exports as a single-page PDF — formatted in Georgia serif, clean section headers, comfortable margins. It's designed to be scanned in under two minutes, printed or read on a tablet, and kept in a client file if needed.

The PDF includes: week overview, mood trajectory, recurring themes, notable moments, session prep synthesis, and suggested discussion topics. An AI disclaimer is included on every export.

Sharing is always client-initiated. DaySnip doesn't send anything automatically. The client exports the PDF through Apple's Share Sheet and sends it however they choose — text, email, patient portal. You never have access to the app, the raw entries, or anything the client doesn't explicitly share.

Privacy

Therapy Prep summaries are stored locally on the client's device. They are never synced to iCloud, never stored on our servers, and never accessible to anyone — including us — unless the client exports and shares the PDF themselves.

When a summary is generated, entry text is sent to an AI service over encrypted TLS connections. The content is used solely for compilation and is not retained, logged, or used to train AI models. The AI processes and discards — nothing persists beyond the client's device.

This matters for clients working through sensitive material. Their journal is private by default. Sharing with their therapist is an intentional, controlled act — not an automatic sync or a standing permission. For full details, see our Privacy Policy.

Getting Started

Therapy Prep is available as a monthly add-on within DaySnip. Clients can try 3 free summaries before subscribing — enough to see the value across three sessions before committing.

Setup takes under a minute: choose the session day and time, and DaySnip compiles the summary the evening before each session. The client wakes up with it ready to share.

If you're a therapist considering recommending DaySnip to clients, the app requires no account, no login, and no data leaves the device unless the client chooses to share. The barrier to entry is as low as downloading any free app.