Before my session
Therapy session prep, from your own notes
Keep a note when it comes up. Check each line the night before. Bring one page to your therapist or doctor, and hand it over if you want to. Nothing on it that you have not confirmed.
Free, no card. Dayora is a journal, not therapy, and this is a way to arrive with your own words.
How to prepare for a therapy session with Dayora
Most people walk in and try to remember the week. This is the other way round: the week leaves notes, and the night before you decide which ones count.
1. Keep a note when it comes up
Write what happened. When you mention the person you see, Dayora's reply offers to save a note for your next appointment. It lands on Your logs with its date and who it is for. You can also keep one from a conversation.
2. Check each line the night before
Open Bring this to my session. Every note shows where it came from. Confirm it, edit it, or leave it out. Add what you have been practising, how the last two weeks went, and one line of your own.
3. Bring one page
Copy it, save it as a PDF, or make a link that opens without an account, expires in seven days and can be taken down any time. Dayora sends nothing. You hand it over, or you just read it on the way.
What your therapist sees
Before my session
Sam, for the therapist, 3 November
To raise
- The call with my brother, and why I went quiet after it.From an entry on 28 Oct. Confirmed.
- Sleep is better on the days I walk. I want to say that out loud.From a conversation on 1 Nov. Edited.
Practising
“Say the thing in the moment, not three days later.”
Came up on 6 of the last 14 evenings.
In my words
I would like to leave with one thing to try before the next session.
Made by Sam from notes kept in Dayora. Nothing here was written for Sam.
One dated page. The things to raise, each with the day it came from and whether it was confirmed as written or edited. What you have been practising and how often it came up. How the last two weeks went, if you logged your mood. One line in your own words.
Not on it: your journal, your conversations, anything you left out, and anything Dayora wrote on its own. The page is made of your notes, and only of lines you confirmed.
The example is made up. Yours will be shorter or longer, and it is yours.
A therapy session prep worksheet for tonight
Five questions on paper, if you would rather not sign up for anything. Print it or download it. If you keep the answers in Dayora instead, they become the notes the page is built from.
Before my session: the worksheet
Five questions to answer the night before. Bring what you write, or just read it on the way.
1. What happened since last time that I still think about?
2. What did I try from last session, and how did it go?
3. What have I been avoiding, or hoping I do not have to bring up?
4. What has changed, for better or worse, in sleep, energy or mood?
5. What do I want to leave the session with?
Your answers are for you and whoever you choose to show them to. Dayora is a journal, not therapy, and this sheet is a way to arrive with your own words.
Why this is not a therapist portal
No practitioner account
There is nothing for a therapist to log in to and no standing access to anything you write. Your journal stays yours.
A link that ends
A link opens one page, expires in seven days, and can be taken down from Your logs at any time. At most three are open at once. Dayora never sends it; you do.
Line by line, by you
No line reaches the page without your confirmation, and you can see where each one came from. The page says who made it: you, from your notes.
Writing between appointments is its own habit. Journaling for therapy covers it, and the privacy policy says who can read what.
Questions people ask before a session
How do I prepare for a therapy session?
Three steps. When something comes up during the week, keep a note for your next appointment; in Dayora, the reply to an entry offers to save one when you mention the person you see, and the note lands on Your logs with its date. The night before, open Bring this to my session and check each line: confirm it, edit it, or leave it out, and add one line in your own words. Then take the page with you: copy it, save it as a PDF, or hand over a link.
What should I bring to therapy?
One page is enough: the things you want to raise, what you have been practising and how often it came up, how the last two weeks went, and one line in your own words about what you want from the session. You do not need to bring the journal itself. Dayora builds that page from the notes you kept and only from lines you have confirmed.
Does my therapist get access to my journal?
No. There is no practitioner account and no standing access. Your therapist sees nothing unless you hand them a page you built yourself, line by line, which expires in seven days and can be taken down at any time. Nobody else who uses Dayora can see your journal, and your entries are never sold. They do go to the AI providers that write Dayora's replies, which may use them to train their models. Who on the Dayora team can read entries, the other services involved, and what deleting your account removes are all in one place: the privacy policy at dayora.ai/privacy.
What does the link do, and who can open it?
The link opens one dated page, without an account, for anyone who has it. It expires seven days after you make it, you can take it down at any time from Your logs, and you can have at most three open at once. Dayora sends nothing: you pass the link on yourself, by message or email. The page is not indexed by search engines.
Is this free?
Yes. Keeping notes, building the page, copying it, saving it as a PDF and handing over a link are all part of free Dayora. There is no card to enter and no trial that ends.
Is Dayora therapy?
No. Dayora is a journal that writes back, not a mental health service. It does not diagnose, treat or advise, and the page you bring to a session is made of your own notes, not an assessment. If you are in danger right now, call your local emergency number; findahelpline.com lists free lines for every country.
Arrive with your own words
Keep the first note tonight. The page is there whenever your next appointment is.
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