Thought Garden
Walk through a complete thought record: situation, emotions, automatic thoughts, thinking patterns, evidence, and a more balanced response.
Helpful for: intense automatic thoughts
Private skills practice, carried forward
Understand the thought.
Understand the thought.
Choose what comes next.
ThoughtForward turns the practical skills taught in CBT courses into a friendly set of guided tools and learning games people can use privately, at their own pace, on their own device.
On-device
Private by design
Practical and supportive
Your private toolkit
What would help today?
Reflect
🌱Thought Garden
🌳Worry Tree
⚖️Decision Balance
Practise
🧪Prediction Lab
👣Small Steps
Play & Learn
🧠Patterns
🔎Evidence
💗Emotions
Entries stay on this device
Guided, step by step
No provider surveillance
Why ThoughtForward exists
Course skills are most useful when they are easy to practise in real life.
Paper worksheets can be helpful, but they are not always nearby when a difficult thought, worry, decision, or emotional reaction appears. ThoughtForward gives people a private digital place to slow things down and work through the same core skills in a calm, structured way.
The tools do not diagnose, judge, or report back to a provider. They simply help a person practise what they are already learning—between sessions, after a course, and whenever the skill is needed.
The toolkit
A different tool for a different kind of moment
Some moments call for reflection. Others call for action, experimentation, or a little practice through play.
Reflect
Slow down and understand what is happening
Worry Tree
Sort practical worries from hypothetical worries, choose a useful action when one exists, and return attention to the present when it does not.
Helpful for: looping worry and uncertaintyDecision Balance
Explore both sides of a difficult decision, weigh what matters, clarify values, and choose a next step without forcing premature certainty.
Helpful for: ambivalence and difficult choices
Practise
Turn understanding into a small real-world action
Prediction Lab
Make an anxious prediction, design a small and safe experiment, record what actually happened, and compare certainty before and afterward.
Helpful for: testing feared outcomesSmall Steps
Turn low motivation, avoidance, or overwhelming tasks into manageable actions, then notice what changes in mood, energy, and confidence.
Helpful for: getting unstuck and building momentum
Play & Learn
Build skills through friendly, repeatable games
Thinking Pattern Trainer
Practise recognizing common thinking styles such as catastrophising, mental filtering, overgeneralisation, and emotional reasoning.
Helpful for: learning cognitive distortionsEvidence Detective
Separate facts, assumptions, predictions, feelings, and alternative explanations while solving realistic everyday case files.
Helpful for: checking the story against the evidenceEmotion Detective
Learn the difference between situations, thoughts, emotions, body sensations, urges, actions, and results by solving complete reaction chains.
Helpful for: finding where a reaction loop can change
How it works
Access from a course. Practise privately on your device.
Receive access
A participating course provider sends a secure activation email.
Choose your device
Open the activation link on the phone, tablet, or computer where you want to use the toolkit.
Activate securely
Complete the one-time verification process and install the toolkit.
Use it privately
Open any tool when it is useful. Personal entries and progress remain on that device.
Privacy by design
Your provider gives you access. What you do with the tools remains private.
ThoughtForward is intentionally designed so personal exercise content stays in the browser on the participant’s device. Course providers can see that access was issued, but they cannot read private entries, worries, predictions, decisions, game answers, or personal history.
No cloud journal. Personal content is not stored in a provider dashboard.
No repeated login. Once activated, the toolkit is ready on that device.
Optional protection. Participants can add a local app lock and create encrypted backups.
Works offline. The tools remain useful even without a constant internet connection.
For CBT course providers
Give participants something useful to take with them.
ThoughtForward extends the value of a structured CBT course without creating another clinical record for staff to manage. Providers issue access. Participants use the tools privately. The course teaches the skills; ThoughtForward makes them easier to practise afterward.
✓ Simple participant activation
✓ No access to private exercise content
✓ No participant subscription required
✓ Consistent tools across an entire program
The provider can grant access without becoming the keeper of personal thoughts.
Common questions
Clear answers before getting started
ThoughtForward is built to be simple for participants and low-maintenance for course providers.
Is ThoughtForward therapy?
No. ThoughtForward is a private skills-practice toolkit designed to support concepts taught in structured CBT courses. It does not diagnose, monitor, or replace professional care.
Can a provider see what someone writes?
No. Personal entries and progress stay on the participant’s device. Providers can manage access, but not read private exercise content.
What happens when someone changes devices?
They can reactivate access using the email address from their original invitation. Private records transfer only when the participant exports and restores an encrypted backup.
Does the toolkit require a constant internet connection?
No. After installation, the core tools are designed to work offline. Internet access is mainly needed for activation, updates, and optional reactivation.
ThoughtForward
Explore the toolkit
Private tools for healthier thinking.
Understand the pattern, practise the skill, and choose what comes next.