Therapeutic techniques
How to keep the techniques you work with in Alchely, share your centre's, take the ones other therapists publish, and which techniques Augmented Memory suggests after a session.
Before you start
Therapeutic techniques is your inventory of working techniques: a stabilisation exercise, a record sheet, a sequence of questions, a body-based protocol. It comes with every plan, Basic included, and it is not a marketplace tool: there is nothing to adopt.
- In the sidebar, as Therapeutic techniques, just above Reports.
- On a phone, in the tools sheet, also before Reports.
The catalogue needs nothing else; the suggestions do. Writing, copying and publishing techniques works on any plan. Having Augmented Memory suggest techniques after a session needs that module and your patient's AI consent: see Techniques suggested after a session.
Creating a technique
Create technique opens the editor. A title, at least one step and at least one format are all that is required; fill in the rest when it helps you.
| Field | What goes in, and how much fits |
|---|---|
| Title | Between 3 and 120 characters |
| Summary | In a sentence or two, what it is. Up to 500 characters |
| Goal | What it aims to achieve. Up to 500 characters |
| Steps | At least one and up to 30, each up to 1,000 characters. They can be moved up, moved down and removed |
| Indications | When it is indicated. Up to 15, of 300 characters each |
| Contraindications | When not to use it, or with what caution. Up to 15, of 300 characters each |
| Estimated duration | Optional, between 1 and 240 minutes |
| Format | Individual, couple or group. At least one |
| Therapeutic approaches and presenting problems | Up to 12 of each. If yours is not on the list, type it and press Enter |
| Materials and references | What needs preparing, and the authors, books or articles of reference. Up to 2,000 characters each |
Every new technique is private. Saving never publishes: publishing is a separate step, and you can take it later, whenever you like.
Your catalogues
The section has two tabs, My techniques and Public catalogue —three if you work in a centre, with Centre catalogue.
| Tab | What it holds | Who edits it |
|---|---|---|
| My techniques | The ones you wrote, and the copies you took from other catalogues | You |
| Public catalogue | Those published by other therapists, by centres and by Alchely | Nobody from here: they are copied |
| Centre catalogue | Your centre's, if you belong to one | Only the centre's administrators |
You search by title or summary and filter by Therapy, What for and Format. In the public catalogue you can also filter by Author and sort by Most recent or Most liked. You see them as cards or as a list, and each one opens in a preview or on its own full page.
Alchely's techniques
The public catalogue holds techniques written by Alchely, marked with the Alchely badge and published under a CC BY-NC licence. For now they are written in Spanish.
They cannot be edited or deleted: to adapt one to the way you work, add it to your catalogue and change your copy.
The centre catalogue
A centre's techniques are visible to its whole active team, therapists and mentors. Anyone can read them and add them to their own catalogue to adapt them.
- Only the administrators create, edit and delete them, with Create centre technique. A change to a centre technique is seen by the whole team.
- Administrators can publish them to the public catalogue. By default they go out with the centre's name as the author.
Publishing and copying
A published technique can be read, liked and copied by other practitioners signed in to Alchely.
Public does not mean open to anyone. Only therapists with an account, signed in to Alchely, can see the public catalogue. There is no techniques page anyone can open without an account.
Publishing yours
- Publish… asks for an author: without a name to credit, nothing is published.
- You choose the licence, and it travels with the technique and with every copy anyone takes. They are the same as for meditations, and the default is All rights reserved.
- Withdraw from the public catalogue is always available. Copies others have already taken stay with whoever took them.
| Licence | What it allows |
|---|---|
| All rights reserved | The default. It can be viewed and copied inside Alchely, and nothing more |
| CC BY | Crediting the author |
| CC BY-NC | Crediting the author, non-commercial |
| CC BY-SA | Crediting the author, and sharing alike |
| CC0 | Public domain |
Taking someone else's
Add to my catalogue takes a copy, not a link. The copy is private and yours, you edit it as you like, and it still says who wrote it and under which licence. If you already have it, the button becomes Open my copy: copying twice duplicates nothing.
You can like published techniques, once each, and never your own. Your own published techniques do not show in the public catalogue: you already have them in yours.
Techniques suggested after a session
With Augmented Memory, a session's analysis no longer suggests techniques only in the abstract: it can point to a specific technique you already have to hand.
When they appear
Only with Augmented Memory active and with AI consent from everyone in the session —the same conditions the analysis already has. Without them, no technique goes to any model.
Where you see them
- In the session analysis, in the Have you considered these techniques? block: first up to three catalogue techniques, then the ideas that are not in it. Each technique carries the reason, tied to what happened in the session, a caution where it applies, and which catalogue it comes from: Your library, Your centre, Public · author or the Alchely badge.
- In the recommendations for the next session, a suggested technique can link to its catalogue technique: View catalogue technique.
- Another therapist's technique opens from the suggestion, and from there you add it to your catalogue. If you had already copied it, it says Already in your library.
A suggestion, not a prescription. It is labelled AI suggestion, and the AI neither writes nor rewrites techniques: it only chooses among those that already exist. If you decide to use one, the decision and how you apply it stay yours.
Where they come from
The candidates are your techniques (copies included), your centre's, Alchely's and those other therapists have published. Never anyone's private ones. Only those that fit the session's format —individual, couple or group— are kept, ranked by how well they match the approach and the presenting problem; on a tie, the closest wins: yours, then your centre's, then Alchely's, then the community's. A public technique you have already copied is offered once, as your copy.
What goes to the model
- Each technique goes with an opaque reference, without its steps, and with the text a therapist wrote passed through the same anonymiser as the notes.
- What the model returns is checked on the server: a reference it was not offered is discarded.
- If you delete a technique that was already suggested, the suggestion still shows its title, as no longer available.
Problems
| What you see | What is going on |
|---|---|
| “Check the marked fields before saving.” | Something required is missing —a title, a step, a format— or a field is over its limit. Each field says which |
| “Enter an author to publish.” | The author is missing. Nothing publishes without a name |
| “This technique is already yours: no need to copy it.” | It is yours or already in your catalogue. Open it from My techniques |
| “You cannot like your own techniques.” | Likes are for other people's |
| “Only the centre's administrators can do this.” | Centre techniques are changed by the administrators. Add it to your catalogue if you want to adapt it |
| “This technique does not exist or is no longer available to you.” | It was deleted, withdrawn from the public catalogue, or you no longer belong to the centre that had it |
| There is no Centre catalogue tab | You do not belong to a centre |
| The analysis suggests no catalogue technique | Augmented Memory or the AI consent is missing, or none of your techniques fits that session's format. The block may carry only free-text ideas |
| A suggested technique says no longer available | It was deleted, or stopped being visible to you, after the suggestion |