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The session arc card is the closing surface of the EMDR Workspace. It renders after the last set’s SUDS is captured and gives you a clean session-level read before you close the session — plus a one-tap export of a plain-text session summary that drops into your chart.

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What the arc card shows

A glass-card overlay centered on the dimmed session canvas. Top to bottom:
  • Session complete title with a green check icon
  • A mode pill showing whether the session ran in EMDR 2.0 or Classic
  • The SUDS curve — a 380×96 SVG drawing of the SUDS trajectory from Set 1 to the final set, with a dot at each set’s value and the set number labeled below
  • Three stat tiles — SUDS arc, Passes, Modalities
  • Two buttons — Copy and Done

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The SUDS curve

The curve plots the SUDS values you captured between sets, one point per set, with the y-axis running from 10 (top) to 0 (bottom). The shape of the curve is the diagnostic surface — a steady descent reads as productive reprocessing; a flat or rising curve is a signal that the work didn’t settle. Each dot is labeled “Set 1,” “Set 2,” and so on. The area beneath the curve is shaded lightly to give a visual sense of cumulative distress over the session.

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The stat tiles

Three tiles render the session-level numbers at a glance. SUDS arc The first SUDS, an arrow, the final SUDS, and the delta in parentheses. Example: 7 → 1 (-6). A negative delta is the typical productive outcome. Passes The total number of bilateral passes across all sets. This is the count of L↔R sweeps the stimulus made — useful as a session-volume number when comparing across sessions. Modalities Single-letter chips for the modalities that ran — V (visual), A (audio), H (haptic). Useful for the chart record: “today’s session ran V+A at 1.5 Hz.”

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The Copy button

Tap Copy and a plain-text session summary lands on your clipboard. The format: 
EMDR session — EMDR 2.0
Client: [name if captured]
Date: 2026-06-21
Duration: 28 min
Sets: 4
Passes: 168
Rate: 1.5 Hz
Modalities: visual, audio
Stimulus: butterfly
Path: horizontal
Backdrop: photo_forest

SUDS by set:
  Set 1: SUDS 7
  Set 2: SUDS 5
  Set 3: SUDS 3
  Set 4: SUDS 1
SUDS arc: 7 → 1 (-6)
Paste this directly into your EHR session note, into a session log you keep yourself, or into a SOAP-note Rivet template. It captures everything your chart needs from the session without any extra typing. The button briefly shows a green check + “Copied” state to confirm. If your browser blocks clipboard access, the Workspace falls back to an older copy method that works in older browsers.

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The Done button

Done closes the Workspace and returns you to the regular session view. The video call continues — closing the EMDR Workspace does not end the call. You can take time for closure work, the Container resource, or just talk before ending the session normally. This is intentional. The session arc card is the end of the bilateral stimulation portion, not the end of the therapy hour.

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Privacy

Everything on this card is on your device only:
  • The SUDS values come from your browser’s session storage
  • The stat tiles are computed from those values plus the session config
  • The Copy output is built locally and lands on your clipboard
  • Nothing is written to a Rivet server
When you tap Done and the Workspace closes, the SUDS values clear from session storage. If you didn’t tap Copy, the trajectory is gone — by design.
The Copy output is the way to preserve a SUDS arc beyond the session. Get into the habit of tapping Copy before tapping Done if you want the session data in your chart.

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What the arc card isn’t

  • Not a clinical assessment. The SUDS curve is a process measure, not a validated PTSD outcome measure. Pair with a PCL-5 across sessions to track diagnostic and outcome change.
  • Not auto-sent. Rivet doesn’t send the session summary to an EHR or to your client. You decide where it goes — paste destination, your call.
  • Not a recording. There is no audio, no video, no transcript. The session arc is a numeric summary built from your between-sets captures.
  • Not editable. If a SUDS value was captured wrong, edit it in the Copy output before you paste. The card itself is read-only at this point in the flow.

The SUDS scale

Wolpe’s 0–10 scale, the between-sets capture flow, and the session sparkline.

Practitioner controls

Spacebar start, pause, and the controls that bring you to the arc.

EMDR templates

Calm place, Container, Body scan — pair with the Workspace for full Phase 2 and Phase 7 closure.