Therapist Session Compass
A zero-PHI-by-design clinician-support concept for bringing curated psychotherapy evidence into the flow of a session without turning the system into the clinician.
Evidence architecture
Twenty-four underlying evidence sources were consolidated into seventeen retrieval-oriented modules, reducing overlap while keeping condition-specific guidance separate where combining it would reduce retrieval precision.
What each module carries
- Retrieval capsule
- Scope rule
- Underlying sources
- Supported points
- Boundaries and cautions
- Session Compass rules and card mappings
Designed for the moment clinicians actually face
The concept organizes support around session situations, interventions, questions, exercises, psychoeducation, and cautions rather than around a generic chatbot conversation.
Zero-PHI first release
The initial concept is useful without storing a client record. It can know the type of clinical problem or session situation without needing to know which person has it.
Core product constraint
Session Compass surfaces bounded evidence and options. Diagnosis, treatment decisions, crisis disposition, documentation approval, and professional responsibility remain with the clinician.
Why this matters for clinical product work
The design exercise is less about adding AI to therapy than about translating clinical judgment into product structure: what the system should know, what it should not collect, which evidence can be combined, where specificity matters, what boundaries must remain visible, and when a human professional must remain the decision-maker.
Status: independent concept and evidence-architecture work using non-client information. It is not a deployed clinical product and does not process real-client PHI.