{"id":"life-hc-therapy-session-prep","audience":"healthcare","category":"everyday-life","track":"life","technique":"audience","title":"Prepare your notes for a first therapy session","free":false,"task":"You have your first therapy appointment and want to walk in with a short list. From your journal notes, get exactly 3 numbered lines, each like \"1. Topic: what happened, from my notes\", picking the 3 things you wrote you most want to talk about, then one line starting \"My goal:\" in your own words from the notes. Don't label or diagnose anything, and add no advice or coping tips. Under 90 words, plain text. Write a prompt that gets you exactly that.","materialLabel":"Your journal notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Notes before my first session with Jamie Torres, LCSW (fictional) - Thursday 4 PM\n\n- Work: since the reorg in August, I check email at 11 PM almost every night. I want to talk about this.\n- Sleep: falling asleep around 1 AM, up at 6:30. Lying awake replaying meetings.\n- My brother: we haven't talked since Dad's birthday in July. That argument still bugs me, but honestly not first priority.\n- Night shifts: I picked up 2 extra night shifts in October and felt wiped for days after. Want to bring this up.\n- Running: I stopped running in September. I miss it.\n- Friend Tasha says I \"obviously have burnout\" and should take a leave.\n- What I want out of therapy: \"to stop feeling like I'm always on call, even on my days off.\"\n- Top 3 to talk about (I decided): work email at night, the extra night shifts, lying awake replaying meetings.\n- Insurance: covered, $20 copay. Bring card.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":3},{"type":"maxWords","max":90},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Picking the topics for you","why":"The AI chooses what seems most serious, like the brother, instead of what you said you want.","fix":"Add: \"Use my own top 3 from the notes.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Labeling your feelings","why":"The AI echoes Tasha and calls it burnout, which is for you and your therapist to explore.","fix":"Add: \"Don't name any condition. No advice or coping tips.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Losing your words","why":"The AI rewrites your goal in therapy-speak.","fix":"Add: \"My goal: use my own words from the notes.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Getting a long reflection","why":"The AI writes paragraphs and headings that are hard to glance at in session.","fix":"Say: \"Exactly 3 numbered lines, then My goal. Plain text.\"","checks":["numberedItems","plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for \"under 90 words\" and it often lands well over.","fix":"Cap each part: \"each line under 16 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Uses your own top 3","patterns":["my (own )?top","top 3","i (decided|chose)"]},{"label":"Rules out labels and advice","patterns":["don'?t (label|diagnose|name)","no (advice|tips|diagnos)","condition"]},{"label":"Asks for your goal","patterns":["my goal","goal"]},{"label":"Sets the number of lines","patterns":["\\b(3|three)\\b.{0,20}(lines?|numbered|items?|steps?)"]},{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)"]}],"hint":"The AI will try to help, which here means advice and labels. Tell it to organize your words, use your own top 3, and leave the rest to the session.","rubricLabels":["The 3 numbered topics are exactly the ones the notes chose: checking work email at night, the extra night shifts, and lying awake replaying meetings (not the brother or running)","Has a line starting \"My goal:\" that uses the notes' own wording about not feeling always on call, even on days off","Doesn't name a condition (such as burnout, anxiety or insomnia) and gives no advice or coping tips"]}