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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, Classic, or Flash — Beta
  • The SUDS curve — a graph of the session’s SUD trajectory, with a dot at each captured reading and a label below it
  • Three stat tiles — SUDS arc, Passes, Modalities
  • Two buttons — Copy and Done

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The SUDS curve

The curve plots every SUD value the session captured, 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 by what it captured — “Pre” for a baseline reading, “Set 1,” “Set 2,” and so on for between-sets readings, and “End” for the end-of-session reading. The area beneath the curve is shaded lightly to give a visual sense of cumulative distress over the session. When a session captures both a baseline and an end reading, the headline delta on the SUDS arc tile is baseline → end — a true pre/post read. Sessions without both anchors fall back to first captured → last captured, the same as before.

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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 Chips naming what ran — visual, audio. Useful for the chart record: “today’s session ran visual and audio at 1.5 Hz.” VOC arc Shows only when the session captured a VOC reading at both baseline and end — the belief-strength shift, 2 → 6. See The SUDS scale for what VOC captures and when.

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The Copy button

Tap Copy and a plain-text session summary lands on your clipboard. The format, for a session that used baseline + end check-ins with an on-demand reading mid-session and an optional VOC at both ends:
A session that used every-set check-ins (the EMDR 2.0 default) lists a SUD line for every set instead, and the summary line falls back to SUDS arc: first → last when there’s no baseline or end anchor to pair. 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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Where the arc goes

  • The SUDS values come from your browser’s session storage for the duration of the session
  • The stat tiles are computed from those values plus the session config
  • When the arc card renders, the outcome saves to the client’s chart automatically — no extra tap needed
  • The Copy button is still there any time you want the plain-text summary on your clipboard too, for pasting into an EHR note or a session log
If the session isn’t linked to a client — a call that didn’t start from a client check-in — there’s nowhere on the chart to save the outcome. The privacy callout on the card tells you plainly when that’s the case; Copy still works.
A linked session’s outcome is on the client’s chart the moment the arc card renders. Copy is for a second copy in your own workflow — an EHR note, a session log — not the only way to keep it.

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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.