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Describe the session activity, the group structure, and any notable moments. Anara references your uploaded treatment protocols and produces a formal third-person clinical note in the format your program uses. One brief description in, one structured clinical record out. For behavioral health clinicians who write group notes after every session and need to do it consistently.

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1. Describe the task

Every group session produces a note. The activity, the structure, the participation level, the clinical relevance to the treatment framework. Written in third-person clinical language, formatted to the standards your program requires, and completed before the next session begins. The note takes twenty minutes written from scratch. It takes five minutes with Anara when your treatment protocols are in your library. You describe what happened in the session, Anara references the protocol document for the correct note format and clinical framework, and returns a formal note ready for the clinical record. You review, adjust any detail that needs changing, and file it. The differentiator from a generic AI writing tool is the library. Anara references the treatment framework, the note format, and the therapeutic rationale from documents you have already uploaded, so the note reflects your program’s specific clinical language rather than a generic template. Here a therapist at a substance use treatment program has her group curriculum, session protocols, and note format guidelines uploaded to her library and runs groups three times a week. 
Write a group therapy session note for the following session. Reference my uploaded group curriculum and note format guidelines for the correct structure and clinical language.

Session details:
Program: Substance Use Recovery Group, Week 4
Activity: "Hot Potato" with therapeutic questions. A ball was passed while music played. When the music stopped, the person holding the ball answered one of three rotating questions: (1) What is your substance of choice? (2) What is the most difficult consequence of your use? (3) What is one thing you are doing differently this week?
Group size: 8 participants
Notable moments: One participant disclosed for the first time. Two others provided peer support. One participant passed the question, which was accepted without pressure.

Format the note in third-person clinical language. Include the therapeutic rationale for the activity grounded in the program framework in my library.

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2. Give Anara context

Required context
  • Your treatment protocols, group curriculum, or note format guidelines, uploaded to your library.
Optional context
  • A completed example note from a prior session. Anara matches your note structure and clinical phrasing conventions.
  • The specific therapeutic model your program uses (CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing, 12-step facilitation). Anara frames the therapeutic rationale using that model’s language.

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3. What Anara creates

A formal, third-person clinical note covering the session activity, group structure, participant engagement, notable clinical moments, and therapeutic rationale, formatted to match the standards in your uploaded protocol documents. The note is what goes in the clinical record: not a summary you rework, but a draft close enough to final that the review pass is a matter of minutes. The therapeutic rationale is drawn from your uploaded program framework, not from generic clinical language.

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4. Follow-up prompts

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Add an individual progress note

When the session included a specific participant moment that warrants a separate individual note. 
Write an individual progress note for the participant who disclosed for the first time in today's session. Note the disclosure in clinical terms, the group's response, and the clinical significance given the participant's treatment goals. Keep it to three sentences, third-person, formal.

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Adjust the clinical framing

When the note is structurally correct but the therapeutic rationale needs to align more closely with your model. 
The note reads well but the rationale section sounds generic. Revise it to ground the activity's therapeutic purpose specifically in motivational interviewing principles as described in my uploaded clinical guidelines. Keep the rest of the note as is.

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Generate the note for next week’s planned session

When you want to draft the note template in advance of the session. 
Next week's session will use the "Anonymous Fear Sharing" activity from Week 5 of the curriculum. Draft a note template for that session with the activity description and therapeutic rationale already filled in, leaving the participation and notable moments sections blank for me to complete after the session.

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5. Tricks, tips, and troubleshooting

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How you word your prompt shapes what you get

The prompt works best with a brief, specific session description: what the activity was, who participated in what way, and any moment worth noting clinically. You do not need to write clinical language in the description; plain description of what happened is enough and Anara converts it. Naming your uploaded protocol document directly (“reference my note format guidelines”) prevents Anara from generating a generic clinical note format. If your program has a specific note structure (SOAP, DAP, or a custom format), name it in the prompt.

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Check the output against your own understanding

You were in the room. You know what happened, who participated in what way, and whether the clinical framing in the note is accurate. Read the note before filing it and correct any factual description that does not match the session. Anara’s therapeutic rationale draws from your uploaded curriculum, which means it is accurate to the program framework but may not reflect the specific direction the session took in practice. Adjust that section to match what actually happened rather than what the protocol prescribes.

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What to do with the output next

Review the note, adjust any details that need correction, and file it directly into the clinical record. If your program requires a supervisor review before notes are filed, save the draft as a note in Anara and share it with your supervisor before finalizing. For sessions with individual disclosures or critical incidents, use the individual progress note follow-up to create a separate clinical record alongside the group note.