Automatic Running Formulations
How AirNote automatically updates a clinically grounded Running Formulation after each session, saving therapists time and supporting continuity of care.
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Therapy unfolds across sessions. Patterns become clearer, circumstances change and earlier assumptions sometimes need revisiting. A formulation helps hold those developments together.
A working understanding
A formulation is a working psychological understanding of the client’s difficulties, grounded in their experiences and circumstances. It connects what brings them to therapy with relevant history, relationships, coping patterns and strengths, helping therapist and client decide where the work should focus.
Keeping that understanding current helps you recognise recurring patterns, notice meaningful change and reconsider explanations that no longer fit. It gives the work a clear direction while remaining open to what the client brings next.
Updated automatically after each session
AirNote’s Running Formulation keeps that broader picture available without requiring you to rewrite it. After each session, AirNote automatically updates the formulation and saves it to the client.
It draws on saved notes across the client’s previous sessions alongside the latest note. Earlier themes remain in view as new material adds detail, challenges an assumption or reveals a useful connection. Grounding those connections in the documented work supports a more accurate, insightful understanding of the client over time.
In a few seconds, the updated formulation appears in AirNote, ready for your review. It brings together current concerns and goals, the working understanding, strengths and relevant uncertainties, where the session notes support them.
More time for the clinical work
Maintaining a formulation can mean rereading months of notes and rewriting the same overview as the work develops. Across a busy caseload, that takes considerable time and attention.
AirNote's Running Formulation gives you a current starting point for preparation, reflection and supervision. You can return to the client’s wider story more quickly, consider what has changed and keep the therapeutic direction in view.
You bring the understanding of the person and the relationship. AirNote helps keep the documented picture coherent, leaving more time and attention for the care you deliver.
