Progress tracking, built on three complementary perspectives
Your patient's daily self-reports, the tests they retake regularly and what you observe at every session all come together in their record. You track their progress with confidence and spot changes early.
Journal · Tuesday
Good
“The presentation went better than expected”
GAD-7
6
Mild anxiety
Session assessment
7/10
More relaxed, less avoidance
Three perspectives on progress, brought together in one chart
What your patient goes through day to day, what their tests measure and what you observe in session all come together in their record. Life events sit on the same timeline, so when something changes, you understand why.
Patient progress
The patient's daily self-report
Their mood and emotions, logged every day: what they go through between sessions, unfiltered by memory.
Standardized measures from validated tests
Depression, anxiety and stress, measured at regular intervals and read against published cutoffs.
Your expertise at every session
Your assessment of their overall state, given at the end of every session.
When all three agree, you're on solid ground. When they don't, you have something to explore in session.
Their day-to-day experience, in under a minute a day
Every day, from their phone, your patient logs their mood, names up to three emotions and answers a question. The good stretches and the harder ones show up on their own, without you having to piece them together in session.
How are you feeling today?
What could improve my mood right now?
Mood on a five-point scale
From “Awful” to “Great,” day after day. Months of their life, readable at a glance in the record.
Up to three emotions
At peace, motivated, proud… or anxious, worried, tired. Precise words where “fine” says nothing, so the session starts from something concrete.
A daily question
Your patient answers freely, then chooses whether to share their answer with you or keep it to themselves.
Tests repeat on schedule, without you having to think about it
Set the pace once and SessionFuel handles the rest: the invitation, the test itself, the scoring and filing the result in the record. No reminders to write, and progress stops being a gut feeling.
You choose the pace
Every week, every 10 days or every two weeks, depending on what their care calls for. And you stop it when it no longer makes sense.
Your patient is invited
“A new follow-up test is available to measure your progress.” They start it with a single tap, at the right moment.
The score lands in the record
Scored as soon as the last answer is in, it's added to their history. Nothing to re-enter, nothing to calculate.
A simple link works too. Send it to your patient: they open the test on any device, and use the same link again for each new round.
Every score arrives already interpreted
Every completed test is read against the instrument's published clinical cutoffs, with its reference norms and their source. Before the session, the record sums up the latest results at a glance.
PHQ-9
8/27
◉ Score interpreted against validated clinical cutoffs: the colored band shows the severity.
General population
Mean score: 3.3
adults without a depressive disorder
Clinical / target population
Mean score: 17.1
major depressive disorder
Source: Kroenke, Spitzer & Williams (2001).
Tests
See more ›Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21) · 28 August 2026
Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7)
Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)
Three instruments, three different readings, summed up before every session.
Your clinical eye, at every session
At the end of each session, you rate your patient's overall state on a scale of 1 to 10 and note what you observed. Session after session, your perspective builds its own history, alongside what the patient reports and what their tests measure.
Patient evaluation
Overall state, from 1 to 10
Session notes
“More relaxed, back to exercising. Brings up her difficulties at work for the first time, with no avoidance.”
This week, from all three perspectives
Patient self-report
Mood “Good” five days out of seven
Standardized measurement
DASS-21: anxiety at 12, moderate and trending down
Your assessment
7 out of 10: “more relaxed, back to exercising”
All three point the same way: the improvement is real, and you can build on it in session.
Prefer to take notes on paper? Snap a photo: the text is recognized and added to the record.
Your patient chooses what they share
Entry by entry
Each time they write, your patient chooses “Therapist” or “Private.” You receive what they decide to share with you, and nothing more.
Explicit consent
Before anything is shared, your patient confirms they're in therapy with you and agrees to send you their answers. Without that consent, nothing reaches you.
You set the rule
Depending on how you practice, you can let your patient keep some entries to themselves, or choose to have everything shared with you.
Patients who trust that nothing gets out write more freely. That's what keeps the record honest, and useful in session.
Frequently asked questions
What does progress tracking bring together?
Three perspectives that complement each other: the patient's daily self-reports, the standardized tests they retake regularly and your assessment at every session.
Isn't it a lot to ask of the patient?
No. Their daily check-in takes less than a minute, and tests are spaced out at the pace you choose: every week, every 10 days or every two weeks.
What does the overview look like?
A chart in the record that brings together how they feel, their scores and your assessments, alongside the key events in their life. Improvement, a plateau or a relapse shows up early.
How do I spot things getting worse?
Each score lands in the record as soon as the test is completed, in the color of its clinical severity band. A move to another band is visible at a glance, and you can raise it at the very next session.
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