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Anchr · Talk it Through

The chat that knows what you assigned.

Talk it Through is the only between-session AI with full context of the work. It reads the modules you assigned, every lesson your client has finished, and every reflection they've written beside each one - and walks them through the tough bits in their own data, in their own language, in their own moment.

Phase-aware. Integrative across CBT, DBT, ACT, Psychodynamic, IPT. Crisis-flagged. Captured to your chart. Governed by you.

4Phase-Aware Stages
~170Therapeutic Techniques
6Clinical Modalities
3Structured Outputs · Every Session
Full Context of the Work

It reads everything your client is doing.

A generic chatbot doesn't know your client did the catastrophising exercise on Thursday, or that they wrote four lines beside the cognitive-defusion lesson at 11pm last Tuesday. Talk it Through does. The Guide opens with the full context of the work already loaded - and it shapes every response.

Modules you assigned
3 active · CBT rumination, ACT defusion, IPT communication
Lesson content
Psychoeducation + exercises + practice activities - the actual material your client is working through
Their lesson notes
"Sunday-night dread - exactly like the rumination loop on p.4" - captured the moment they wrote it
Mood & defusion entries
14-day mood trajectory, defusion journal, Living Compass alignment
Prior Talk it Through transcripts
What they've already worked through with the Guide - patterns, techniques tried, what landed
Modules you wrote yourself, in your voice
Your custom modules sit alongside the 276 evidence-based ones - and the Guide reads them the same way, with the AI orientation you reviewed at publish time anchoring the trigger phrases that matter
Anchr Guide replies ...grounded in their data, not generic boilerplate.

Homework that comes with a tutor.

When your client opens a tough lesson on Sunday night and gets stuck, they don't sit with it for a week and forget it ever happened. They tap the Guide. The Guide knows which lesson they're on, what the psychoeducation block actually says, what the exercise asked them to do, and what they wrote about it last time.

It doesn't explain the concept generically. It explains their version of it - anchored to what they wrote, what they've already noticed in their own life, what's come up in mood entries this week. The conversation is genuinely continuous with the work.

And because every reflection they write is read by the Guide, the AI's response evolves alongside their understanding. The Sunday-night chat about catastrophising sounds different in week six than it did in week one - because the data underneath it is different.

Your modules, taught by the Guide between sessions - in your voice.

Beyond the 276 evidence-based modules in Anchr's library, you can write your own - your framing, your exercises, your language. The Guide treats them no differently. When you hit Publish, an AI pass reads the lesson content and drafts the orientation metadata - trigger phrases your client might say that map to the module, contraindications, techniques it teaches, and which preset modules pair well. You review and edit before it goes live. So between sessions, when your client says something the module addresses, the Guide notices - and walks them through the concept using your wording from the lesson, not a generic AI's approximation of it.

This is the part no other between-session AI does: the modules you wrote, taught by the Guide in your clinical voice, anchored to your client's own reflections beside each lesson. Bespoke content, between-session continuity, no hand-off.

What this looks like in practice

A 10pm Tuesday, between sessions.

Tuesday, 10:14pm · Module 03 · Rumination Pathway
S
i did the worry tree exercise tonight and got stuck. i can't tell if "is this hypothetical" applies to the thing with mum on saturday - feels real and not real
A
That uncertainty itself is useful information - the worry tree is doing what it's meant to. I'm looking at your note from lesson 1 of this module: "I notice when something's actually happening vs. when I'm rehearsing what might happen." Saturday with mum - was anything actually happening in that moment, or were you rehearsing how the call might go?

If it helps: the practical/hypothetical distinction isn't usually clean on the first pass. Sometimes a real conflict is wrapped in a worry about a future conflict that might never happen. We can untangle that.
References: rumination module · lesson 1 note
S
ok yeah saturday she said the thing about christmas. real. but then i spent two hours thinking about january which hasn't happened
A
That's the cleanest worry-tree split we've had together. Real conflict = Christmas comment, can be addressed. Hypothetical = the two hours about January, can be parked. Want to use the rest of tonight to draft what you'd actually say to her about Christmas? That's the half of this that's solvable.
Captured to Session Card

Tuesday morning, that conversation is on your chart - with the moment Sarah finally got the practical-vs-hypothetical split. You walk into Thursday's session already inside it.

The Therapeutic Arc

Phase-aware, not transactional.

Talk it Through doesn't lecture, doesn't rush, and doesn't shove a technique at the first opportunity. It moves through a four-stage arc - selecting modality and depth based on where your client is right now, not where the AI wishes they were.

Phase-Aware Therapeutic Arc
1
Opening

What is your client bringing today - a sticky thought, a hard week, a 2am realisation, a stuck moment in this week's lesson? Different opening, different work.

2
Active

The middle of the work. Reflective listening, gentle assumption-testing, and techniques drawn from your client's active modules - woven in without lecturing.

3
Deepening

One layer below the surface story - patterns, the want underneath the complaint, the value the pain points toward. Earned, never forced.

4
Integrating

Pulling threads together. Take-aways, lesson cross-references, and what to bring back into the next session with you.

The Guide does not push your client forward before they are ready, and does not pretend the conversation is over while they still have more to say. Stage-of-change calibration is enforced: no action-oriented techniques to a precontemplative client; no schema work in session two.

The Technique Library

~170 techniques across six modalities.

Underneath the arc sits a compressed catalogue of roughly 170 evidence-based techniques across six clinical modalities, each paired with a clinical reference and a voice-calibrating example. The Guide selects from the library based on phase, the function of what your client brings, their active modules, and what's worked in earlier chats.

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CBT

Thought records, behavioural activation, schema work, exposure, panic protocols

25
DBT

Mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, DEAR MAN, chain analysis

30
ACT

Defusion, values clarification, acceptance, committed action

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Psychodynamic

Pattern recognition, transference, mentalization, attachment, inner child

36
IPT

Communication analysis, role disputes, grief & transitions, boundaries

6
General

Modern stressors - financial, geopolitical, relational loneliness, AI anxiety

Selection is gated by stage-of-change (no action-oriented techniques in pre-contemplation), by device context (high avoidance ratio steers toward behavioural activation; mood volatility toward emotion regulation), and by pathway progress (the Guide can reference completed modules naturally but is forbidden from re-suggesting them).

What Reaches Your Chart

Every session gates on three structured artefacts.

What makes Talk it Through different from any chatbot a client could turn to: every conversation is gated on three structured outputs before it ends. These are the artefacts that reach your record - the things that turn a between-session conversation from invisible into clinically actionable.

Session Card

What was the focus, which techniques were used, which resonated, which threads were left open. The moment-of-truth summary - a one-page artefact that captures the shape of the conversation.

Session Summary

A signed structured note - themes, techniques tried, homework framed, risk markers, affect observations - with verbatim quote anchors and confidence labels. The kind of note you'd write yourself if you'd had the hour.

Case Formulation

An evolving clinical formulation that updates session-over-session. New evidence is integrated into the working frame - not appended as noise. The Guide tracks what's shifted, what's stable, and what's now contradicted.

Crisis Flags

Conversations crossing a clinical threshold - hopelessness language, ideation, scope-of-practice signals - surface in the portal immediately. The Guide pauses, refuses to "therapise" a crisis, connects to crisis services, and notifies you.

Crisis Safety · Built In

The Guide will never "therapise" a crisis.

Multi-tier safety protocols run in every conversation. Crisis content is surfaced - never silently filtered - even at low confidence. The Guide pauses, refuses to provide reassurance or behavioural prescriptions for an active crisis, connects to crisis services (Lifeline, 13 11 14 / Beyond Blue, 1300 22 4636 in AU), and propagates risk markers into your portal immediately.

Item-9 of PHQ-9 endorsements, hopelessness language, plan/intent/means signals - these reach you the same day, with the verbatim phrase and the timestamp. Built to escalate to a human, not to please a user.

Governance & Boundaries

Talk it Through never functions outside your oversight.

Talk it Through doesn't diagnose, doesn't prescribe, doesn't function as a therapist, and doesn't replace clinical judgment. Every conversation lives in the client record, and the client knows that going in. They're not talking to a generic chatbot - they're talking to their Anchr Guide, scaffolded by their work, visible to their therapist, governed by you.

Client-side AI consent is explicit and opt-in. PHI is gated. AU-hosted, Privacy Act 1988, RLS-gated end to end. Every claim cites the field it was grounded in - the 2:14am chat, the lesson note from April 18, defusion entry #14 - so you can audit exactly what each line was based on.

And the boundary holds: the Guide is built to be a clinical bridge, not a clinical replacement. If a client of yours stops seeing you tomorrow, their data follows them, not us.

The other half of the loop

Brainstorm With Anchr Guide

Ten minutes before Sarah's next session, you ask Anchr Guide for a brief. It reads every Talk it Through transcript, every lesson note, every mood entry - and returns a working formulation, falsifiable techniques with literal opening lines, and the one thread that's absent from her chart you should be screening for.

Stop losing the between-session moments. Capture them.

Talk it Through is the alternative your clients deserve to the generic chatbot they're already using - and the depth of context you've never had access to before.

Anchr is a self-care tool used alongside professional care. Talk it Through does not diagnose, prescribe, or replace clinical judgment. The Guide functions under therapist oversight, with explicit client consent, and never outside the boundaries of the therapeutic relationship.