general term
Process reading
Process reading is the review of several sessions together to see how therapeutic work develops: which themes return, what changes in the way the person talks about them and what remains open.
It complements the review of each session on its own. Psychotherapy process research studies how change happens in therapy, and as early as 1958 Carl Rogers described therapy as a process that can be observed in the way a person expresses their experience. It can be done with your own notes; what a tool mainly adds is having what was said in earlier sessions at hand, with quotes.
Fictitious example
Going over eight sessions, you notice that from the fifth on the person stopped describing feeling overwhelmed in impersonal terms (“you get overwhelmed”) and started speaking in the first person (“I get overwhelmed when…”). You note it as a question for the next session.
What to check
- That each observation can be traced back to specific sessions and sentences.
- That the set includes every relevant session, not only those analysed with the tool.
- That you distinguish what recurs from what caught your attention only once.
Inside nexmin
In the App, “Process reading” appears in two places: in each analysed session, as the block Pensa prepares, and in each person’s view, as an overview of recurring themes, patterns and progress that is updated with analysed and approved sessions.
Limit
A trend across sessions describes how the conversation has changed, not why: attributing a cause to it remains a hypothesis.
Related terms
Sources
- Carl R. Rogers. A process conception of psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 13(4), 142-149 (1958).
- Robert Elliott. Psychotherapy change process research: Realizing the promise. Psychotherapy Research, 20(2), 123-135 (2010).
Sources checked on 04/10/2026.
Last updated: 2026-10-04