An app for session notes and reflections from therapy.
Record sessions with everyone's consent, or capture what matters in your own words. Freud helps turn conversations into detailed session notes and bring conversations, reflections and questions together into a bigger picture.
Session notes, reflections, questions and the bigger picture — together in one app
Conversations with your psychologist and personal reflections between sessions stay together. You can revisit a conversation, find a question or see how your materials connect over time.
Session notes
A conversation you can come back to.
Your own notes
What you've noticed, in your own words.
Your questions
Something you'd like to explore with your psychologist.
The bigger picture
Connections across sessions, reflections and questions.
After the conversation I spent ages trying to find a word. Unpleasant — that much I know. My shoulders are tense and I want to do something else. Then the guessing starts: anxiety, anger, tiredness?
I have left it like that for now. I was about to look up definitions, but today I did not.
Question
What do I know, and what have I filled in?
How can I notice when I have already turned my girlfriend's question or silence into a conclusion about how she feels about me? I want to look at one conversation without deciding in advance who was right.
Personal reflections and questions for your psychologist
Thoughts after a session, everyday observations and questions for next time each have their own place. What matters stays close until the next conversation.
Your own notes work without an audio recording. With your permission, they can also contribute to The bigger picture.
An overview of your sessions, reflections and questions
The bigger picture brings saved materials together, highlighting recurring themes, possible connections and questions to explore with your psychologist.
It helps you recall what came up in different conversations and prepare for your next session. You can update it as new materials are added.
Across these six sessions, a difficulty recurs: you can explain a situation in detail, imagine another person's perspective and work out what to do, while your own experience remains less clear. Sometimes tension is the first thing you notice.
For the next session
What happens just before I start explaining everything?
Affirmations, meditation and other practices between sessions
Freud includes prompts for walking and meditation, affirmations, breathing and movement practices.
Themes from your own notes and The bigger picture can offer a starting point for reflection between sessions.
Affirmations
I can notice my fear without expecting myself to solve everything right away.
Meditation
Noticing before explaining.
Walking
What am I feeling right now?
Breathing
A comfortable rhythm, with gentle guidance.
Movement
A little stretching or a short walk.
Access to your materials — in your hands
You choose which processing features are enabled and which personal materials your psychologist can access. Permissions and sharing can be changed in settings.
App permissions
AI analysis and transcription each require your permission.
Your own notes and session notes work without AI.
Personal materials are encrypted in storage.
Materials sent to AI through Freud are not used to train models.
Permission changes apply to future actions.
Your psychologist's access
Connected participants can access the recording and transcript of their shared session.
Sharing your bigger picture and personal session notes is separate from sharing your other notes.
Permissions can be changed, and the connection to your psychologist can be ended.
Yes. You can keep your own notes, session notes and questions. AI processing is optional and requires separate permission.
Does my psychologist need an account?
Not for your personal notes and questions. You can bring selected materials to a session. Working together inside Freud uses invitations and separate sharing permissions.
Do I need my psychologist's permission to record?
Recording a conversation requires the participants' consent, whether or not your psychologist has a Freud account.
Is The bigger picture a professional assessment?
The bigger picture is an overview of saved materials, with possible AI interpretations and questions. AI can be wrong. This is neither a diagnosis nor a measure of how well therapy is working. You can check important points against the original materials and discuss them with your psychologist.
Where is my information sent?
Deepgram handles audio transcription, and external providers handle AI processing. Transcription, AI and sharing each have separate permissions. The data-processing information explains more.
Audio is available in Freud for 24 hours after saving. Transcripts and other materials that have already been created remain under their own access rules. External providers have their own retention terms.
Can I use Freud without AI?
Yes. Personal notes and questions work on their own. AI features require separate permission.
What if earlier sessions weren't recorded?
You can start with new materials or write down what you remember. Freud cannot recreate conversations that were never recorded.