Reflection Note
Learn how to create reflection notes for examining your own thoughts, emotions, and reactions as a therapist, use templates, and interact with yellow highlighted text.
What Is a Reflection Note?
A reflection note is a personal note type that allows you to examine your own thoughts, emotions, and reactions as a therapist. It is used after sessions, difficult experiences, or for deepening clinical observations.
Personal category
Reflection notes are under the Personal category — separate from clinical records, a space just for you.
Self-examination
Used to identify and analyze your own reactions, emotions, and thought patterns in the clinical process.
Reflection notes are completely personal — a space kept only for you.
Why Write Reflections?
Countertransference awareness
Recognize and analyze intense, unexpected emotions you feel toward your client.
Professional development
Record what you learn from sessions, evaluate your techniques.
Burnout prevention
Process and release the emotional weight of difficult sessions through writing.
Discover clinical patterns
Notice recurring themes and your reaction patterns over time.
Supervision preparation
Prepare for your supervision meetings with concrete notes.
Regular reflection writing improves the quality of the therapeutic relationship and helps prevent therapist burnout.
Creating a Reflection Note
There are two different ways to create a reflection note.
By Selecting Text (Linked Reflection)
Select text
Select at least 3 characters of text in the note editor.
Click the compass icon
Click the compass icon in the toolbar that appears.
Automatic creation
A new reflection note is automatically created. Your selected text is marked with yellow highlighting.
Quote block
The selected text appears as a quote block in the new note, with space below for writing your thoughts.
An automatic connection is created between the source note and the reflection note.
Direct Creation
Create a new note
Create a new note.
Select note type
Select "Reflection" as the note type.
Apply a template
Optionally apply one of the ready-made templates.
Write your note
Write your note.
This method does not create an automatic connection; it is an independent reflection note.
Ready-Made Templates
There are four ready-made templates available for reflection notes.
Reflection Template
Personal deepening on clinical observations.
4 sections
Countertransference Analysis
Analyzing intense emotions felt toward the client.
3 sections: Emotion & Trigger, Analysis & Differentiation, Action Plan
Post-Session Decompression
Emotional release after an intense session.
2 sections: Status Check (stress scale), Regulation & Closure
Professional Development & Learning
Training, book, and article notes.
3 sections: Learning Source, Key Ideas, Goals
You can customize templates or create new ones from Tools > Note Types > Reflection section.
Yellow Highlighted Text Interaction
In reflections created by selecting text, the selected text in the source note is marked with yellow highlighting.
Title and preview
Clicking the yellow text opens an info bubble showing the reflection note's title and content preview.
"Go to Note" button
Allows you to navigate directly to the reflection note.
"Remove Connection" button
Allows you to delete the yellow highlighting and the connection.
Yellow highlighted text is editable (unlike connection text).
Important Notes
Reflection notes are in the "Personal" category, kept separate from clinical records.
Reflections created by selecting text have automatic connections; directly created ones do not.
The reflection connection type is managed by the system — it cannot be changed manually.
Reflections cannot be created on text that already has another connection or highlighting.
Reflection notes inherit the client information of the source note (clinical context is preserved).