process variables
therapy process variables: what nexmin analyses
Process variables summarise five aspects of the therapeutic conversation and show excerpts associated with each score. Use them to locate passages, review the evidence and form your own reading of the process.
one real case, twenty-eight sessions, two years.
This is not a mock-up. It is a real educational case — October 2001 — October 2003 — shared with consent more than two decades ago for therapist education, and reanalysed with nexmin in 2026. The coloured line is the process index: the weighted average of the five variables. It starts at 37 and ends at 79.
Each ring marks a session where a life event surfaced. Only some carry a label: the detail of a biography does not belong on a public page, even with consent and twenty years of distance.
how to read changes in the scores.
The curve brings together estimates from the educational case sessions. It helps locate changes in scores and return to the excerpts that support them. A rise or fall deserves review: it does not on its own demonstrate clinical improvement or deterioration.
The scores describe aspects of the conversation according to nexmin’s analysis framework. They do not measure a person’s wellbeing or establish that a life event caused a change. Interpretation requires session context and professional judgement.
the five analysis variables
agency
30 → 80 in this casefrom helplessness to authorship
Who leads the story. Whether the person tells it as someone things happen to or as someone who acts with what happens.
flexibility
30 → 75 in this casefrom rigidity to flexibility
The ability to look at the same thing from another place: nuance a belief, try another reading, hold two truths at once.
emotional processing
35 → 75 in this casefrom overwhelm to integration
What the person does with what they feel in session: whether emotion carries them, they avoid it, or they can hold it in front of them and work with it.
alliance
50 → 85 in this casefrom distance to mature alliance
The quality of the working relationship as it sounds in conversation: agreement on the task, trust in the therapist, capacity to disagree.
active participation
50 → 85 in this casefrom low involvement to protagonism
How much the person brings to the session: initiative, between-session work, their own questions.
how to interpret these scores
These are computational estimates to support audio review, not a psychometric test or validated clinical measure. They do not diagnose or predict outcomes. Check each score against its cited excerpt and context; the series does not replace your judgement or represent a person’s process on its own.
frequently asked questions.
How are these scores calculated?
The AI reads the complete session transcript and scores each variable from 0 to 100, citing evidence with its minute so the therapist can check it against the real audio. The process index is the weighted average of the five. Everything goes through the therapist’s review: the AI proposes, you decide.
Is it a validated psychometric instrument?
No, and we say so plainly. These are computational estimates meant to guide the therapist’s listening between sessions — a clinical compass, not a test. They do not diagnose, predict or replace the judgement of the person who holds the relationship.
Where does the chart data come from?
From a real educational case: 28 sessions between 2001 and 2003, shared with consent more than two decades ago for therapist education, and reanalysed with nexmin in 2026. The data is frozen on this page; no database or active case is queried.
Does it work with only a few sessions?
Session-by-session reading works from the first one. The curve — the shape of the process over time — gains meaning after a few sessions: the series is where valleys, recoveries and what holds become visible.
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