CBT mood tracker

CBT often asks you to notice mood shifts and the situations around them between sessions. A CBT mood tracker keeps that homework small, and Andy reduces it to a quick tap with an optional note so the task survives a busy week. Small and consistent beats thorough and abandoned when the goal is to have something real and specific to work with in session.

1)Capturing mood and context

Tap how you feel on a five-point scale, then add one short line about the situation when it helps, such as a trigger, a thought, or what you were doing at the time. The note is optional, so a plain mood tap still counts.

That mood-plus-context pairing is close to what many CBT worksheets ask for, kept short enough to finish in the moment rather than hours later when the detail has faded.

2)Homework that survives a busy week

Therapy homework gets skipped when it feels heavy. Keeping entries to a tap plus an optional sentence makes it realistic to log even on the days you would otherwise forget, which is exactly when the data is most worth having.

You are not writing a full thought record in the app; you are capturing enough to discuss it later. The detailed work still belongs in session, with the entries as a starting point.

3)Bringing entries into session

Before a session, scroll the timeline or open the charts to spot the moments worth unpacking. Concrete entries beat trying to recall the last two weeks from memory, which tends to over-weight the most recent or most intense day.

Andy is a logging tool, not therapy itself. It supports the work you do with a clinician rather than replacing it, and you decide what to bring and what to leave out.

A short habit between sessions also keeps the work continuous rather than restarting cold each appointment. When you can point to a specific Tuesday and what was happening around it, the session spends less time recalling and more time on the actual thinking. That is the practical value of capturing context while it is still fresh.

4)Therapy and export

If you bring history to therapy, export a file you control or show charts in session. You decide what to share and when.

Andy is a logging tool, not a substitute for professional care. It supports honest review alongside treatment you already trust.

5)Download Andy

Download Andy from the App Store and log between sessions for a couple of weeks. Show charts in session or export a file you control, depending on what your therapist finds most useful.

For related reading, see the feelings and notes feature page and the mood tracker for therapy use case page.