Insights from sessions can fade for your clients between visits. Lucca holds them — so they're there when you sit down together.
A personal reflection journal — quiet, private, on their device. Some clients bring what surfaces into the room with you.
My clients started arriving with their own agenda. The first ten minutes feel different now — less fumbling, more of the real work.
And we don't want it to be. Here's where Lucca tends to help, and where we'd defer to your judgment.
Lucca tends to be most useful when therapy involves between-session practice, reflection, or homework. If your client journals, processes through writing, or comes back to themes between sessions, Lucca gives them a place to do that more easily.
Lucca was made for people who can reflect on their own thoughts and feelings without being destabilized. If a client is in an acute mental health crisis, recently destabilized, or struggles with reality testing, this probably isn't the right tool for them — and you'll know that better than we do.
Lucca is one tool among many. It's a personal reflection journal, not a clinical intervention, and not every client needs it.
The clearest way to evaluate Lucca is to see what your client lives with — six moments, in order.
What moment from this week keeps coming back to you?
In the days before their next session, Lucca surfaces an open question and a place to drag-sort what they want to bring up. No reminders. No guilt if they don't open it.
Recording with you.
Lucca records on the client's device. Audio is processed and discarded — it's never stored. The interface stays out of the way during session so it doesn't compete for attention.
Session complete.
Take a moment if you need it.
No celebration screens, no prompts to "process now." Just a brief, quiet acknowledgment before the rest of the day takes over.
I noticed I was holding my breath again — right when I started telling that story.
Clients can mark a "shift" — a moment, a sentence, a body sense. Lucca keeps it. The client doesn't have to remember it on their own to bring it back next week.
You've talked about your father in three of the last four sessions.
Themes that take months to surface in session become visible earlier. Lucca doesn't interpret — it shows the client what they themselves have been talking about.
The session revealed a struggle where your physical exhaustion was being framed as a personal failure rather than a limit worth honoring.
Your body has a limit that cannot be crossed
Is this still ringing true?
A digest of what surfaced — in their own hand. By the time they sit down with you, the threads are already in their head. The first ten minutes do real work.
Not in the abstract. The specific things you might notice in your practice.
Clients arrive remembering what they wanted to bring up — without you having to recap. The first ten minutes do real work.
Themes that take months to surface in session can be observed and named earlier — by the client, in their own words.
Lucca holds the work between sessions; you do the work in them. The AI doesn't give advice, doesn't try to solve problems, doesn't pretend to be a therapist.
Clients leave therapy with something that's theirs — a record of where they've been, what shifted, what they want to remember.
Three things, all true at once. No asterisks.
Audio is captured on the client's computer and discarded after transcription. Lucca does not store audio.
All AI insights are generated by a model running on the client's device. No cloud, no API calls, no third parties.
Transcripts are encrypted with AES-256 on the client's machine. Only they hold the key.
This isn't a privacy feature we added. It's the foundation we built on. We made this choice because a person's private reflections are among the most sensitive data they can produce — and no anonymization is good enough to send them anywhere else.
Honest answers to the concerns we hear most. Always expanded — these aren't questions worth hiding.
Will my client over-rely on Lucca instead of the work we do together?
Lucca is designed to point clients back toward the therapeutic relationship, not replace it. The AI doesn't give advice, doesn't try to solve problems, and doesn't hold itself out as a companion in the way a chatbot might. It surfaces the client's own words and patterns — and trusts you to do the rest.
What happens if my client has a crisis moment during a recording?
If someone expresses serious distress, Lucca surfaces support resources rather than generating reflection on that content. We're also explicit with clients that Lucca isn't a substitute for support during a crisis — that's what crisis lines, friends, and you are for.
Will my client share things with Lucca that they hide from me?
Possibly — and we think that's worth examining together rather than designing around. Some clients find their voice in writing before they find it in session. Lucca makes those reflections visible to the client; what they bring to you is still their choice.
Does the AI ever give clinical advice?
No. Lucca's AI surfaces patterns, themes, and questions in the client's own words. It does not diagnose, recommend, or interpret. The clinical work is yours.
Lucca is being shaped in conversation with practicing therapists — about scope, safety, and how to keep this useful without getting in the way. If you'd like to be part of that conversation, we'd be glad to hear from you.
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Lucca is free for the first 30 days. After that, it's $10/month. There's nothing else — no tiers, no add-ons, no per-feature pricing.
Lucca is a personal wellness journal, not a clinical record system. HIPAA covers protected health information held by covered entities — Lucca isn't one. That's also why we don't recommend therapists use Lucca to record their own sessions with clients.
For clients using Lucca as a personal reflection tool, the privacy model is stricter than HIPAA in practice: data lives on their device, encrypted, with no cloud copy.
Currently macOS. Windows and Linux are on the roadmap.
It stays on their device, encrypted. They can export it, delete it, or simply walk away. There's no backend copy to clean up.
Yes — sessions, transcripts, and shifts can be exported.
No. There is no therapist portal, no shared dashboard, no login for you. Your client sees what they see, and brings what they choose to bring into session.
Yes — Lucca works well as a personal reflection journal. Just don't use it to record sessions with your clients (see HIPAA note above).
Your client's data stays where it is — on their device, encrypted, exportable. Lucca being discontinued doesn't take your client's data with it.
Lucca works just as well as a personal reflection journal as it does for therapy clients. Try it for a week. See what your client would see.
A note: Lucca isn't built for recording sessions with your clients — it's a personal journal, not a clinical record system. Use it for your own reflection.