Writing
Notes on AI in clinical psychology from inside the practice.
AI in psychology, the texture of clinical work, and the questions that come up when you sit with both for long enough, with some of these posts about the product and most of them about the work that surrounds it.
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Practice
Can I use ChatGPT for therapy notes? A UK psychologist's honest answer
The most-asked question in private practice, answered properly for 2026: which ChatGPT you mean changes everything, the version almost all of us use trains on your input by default and offers no contract for patient data, and even the enterprise tiers that fix that are not built for a solo practitioner.
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Architecture
When you press 'generate', what does the AI actually see?
Most AI scribes send identifying client content to the AI and trust contracts and encryption to keep it safe, but Cogent was built on a different bet: that the safest thing you can do with a client's name is never send it to the AI in the first place. This post walks through what that looks like in practice and the trade-offs it carries on the build side.
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Practice
UK GDPR and AI in private psychological practice: a working guide
What HCPC-registered psychologists need to know in 2026, including lawful basis, sub-processors and the data chain, the clinical record, and professional indemnity, written as the orientation I would have wanted two years ago, with a full PDF guide carrying the templates and worked examples.
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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