Cognivia: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Copilot for Evidence-Based Mental Healthcare

Researchers introduced Cognivia, a lightweight LLM-based CBT assistant for mental healthcare.

Trained on authoritative therapy texts and mental health Q&A data, it detects cognitive distortions and generates rational responses using structured prompting and expert supervision.

The team also built a hierarchical evaluation framework and reported stronger results than baseline systems in both automated and human assessments.

The work suggests a more evidence-based way to scale CBT support while improving safety and tone in AI mental health tools.