The journal is a private place to write between sessions. It’s free on every Open Therapy account, whether you’ve booked a session or not.
Where your entries live
On your device. Nothing leaves it unless you choose to share an entry with a therapist.
Because entries are stored on the device you wrote them on, they won’t follow you to a different
phone or computer, and clearing your browser data will remove them. Copy anything you want to keep
permanently.
Writing an entry
Each entry has a date, a title and a body. You can also add:
Prompts
If you’re not sure where to start, the journal offers three sets.
Not sure where to start
Before a session
On a hard day
- What took up the most room in your head today?
- What went better than you expected?
- Where did you feel it in your body, and when?
- What did you avoid, and what did it cost?
- What do you want to make sure you say this week?
- What’s changed since last time, in either direction?
- What did you try, and what actually happened?
- What would you say to a friend in exactly this week?
- Name three things that are still true, and small.
- What’s the next hour going to be, not the next month?
Sharing with your therapist
Turn on Share with therapist on an entry and it’s attached to your next session for them to read beforehand. Everything else stays private.
Sharing an entry is often more useful than trying to remember a difficult week out loud at the start
of a session. It also gives the therapist time to think before you’re both in the room.
Streaks and word counts
The journal tracks consecutive days written and how much you’ve written. It’s there if it helps and ignorable if it doesn’t — a broken streak isn’t a clinical event.
Prompts from the library
Audio sessions in the library each carry a journal prompt — “What made you open this today?”, “Where did your mind keep going?” — which you can carry straight into a new entry. See Membership. 
