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AI · December 2, 2023

ChatCBT – AI-powered cognitive behavioral therapist for Obsidian

ChatCBT is an AI-powered cognitive behavioral therapist for your local Obsidian notes. You have the choice to use OpenAI, or a 100% local model with Ollama for total data privacy. When you're done with your conversation, ChatCBT can automatically summarize the chat into a table listing your negative beliefs, emotions, categories of negative thinking, and reframed thoughts. This way you can start to recognize patterns in your thinking and begin to rewire your reactions to disturbing circumstances. Conversations are stored in markdown files on your local machine, ensuring privacy and…

ChatCBT – AI-powered cognitive behavioral therapist for Obsidian launched on December 2, 2023 with 69 votes, #695 of 3,780 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

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In plain words

ChatCBT is an AI-powered cognitive behavioral therapy tool that integrates with Obsidian for local note-taking. Users can choose between OpenAI or a fully local Ollama model for privacy. After conversations, the tool automatically generates a summary table organizing negative beliefs, emotions, thinking patterns, and reframed thoughts to help identify thinking habits. All conversations save as markdown files on the user's computer, allowing easy organization and sharing with therapists. It is designed for people seeking structured therapeutic exercises between professional sessions.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

AI-powered journaling plugin for your Obsidian notes, inspired by cognitive behavioral therapy - clairefro/obsidian-chat-cbt-plugin

In the maker’s words, at launch

ChatCBT is an AI-powered cognitive behavioral therapist for your local Obsidian notes. You have the choice to use OpenAI, or a 100% local model with Ollama for total data privacy. When you're done with your conversation, ChatCBT can automatically summarize the chat into a table listing your negative beliefs…

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