What you want from therapy

First or second session, before formulating a treatment plan. Useful when the client lists one presenting problem but you suspect there’s more they aren’t naming.

The form has 8 fields.

A clinical note worth holding: mismatch between the symptom list and the stated main goal. If the client lists six physical symptoms and one social complaint but their main goal is “feel less anxious,” that gap is the conversation. The “how will you know things are better” question is the most useful one in the form, since vague answers there usually predict slow progress on outcome measures.

In my-cbt, this is one of the bundled system templates. You preview, customise, and assign it from the case file in two clicks. Submissions save to the file with a timestamp.