For mental health & counseling practices
Reclaim the hour you spend writing progress notes. Keep the therapeutic relationship untouched.
Solo therapists, group practices, LCSWs, LMFTs, psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners. Mental health has specific ethics around AI that we take seriously, and specific back-office pain points (notes, intake, claims, credentialing) that we can meaningfully help with.
Serving North America jurisdiction-specific requirements confirmed during scoping
Mental health is the corner of healthcare where AI boundaries matter most. The therapeutic relationship is the treatment. Anything that dilutes, impersonates, or corrupts that relationship hurts patients and violates the ethics codes of every major mental health profession. So before we describe what we do, let's describe what we don't do. We do not build AI that interacts with patients in a therapeutic capacity. We do not generate responses to patients that the therapist hasn't authored or reviewed. We do not put PHI through consumer AI services. We do not train models on session content. We build inside explicit, conservative boundaries.
Inside those boundaries, the operational pain in independent mental health practices is significant and largely solvable. Therapists routinely spend 15-25 minutes per session on progress notes, often written hours later, from memory. A 24-session week is 6-10 hours of after-work documentation. Intake and screening paperwork, insurance verification, claims denials, and credentialing with payers consume enormous staff time. Solo practitioners carry all of this personally.
Well-scoped engagements in mental health focus on: progress note drafting from structured therapist capture (voice or tablet; never session recording), intake/screening workflow (PHQ-9, GAD-7, trauma screeners, history intake), insurance verification and claims review, and credentialing support. We are particularly careful about HIPAA, HITECH, and state mental-health-specific privacy rules, requirements are among the strictest in healthcare.
This page is not legal, regulatory, tax, or professional advice. Data handling and jurisdiction-specific requirements are documented in the engagement scope; no control or certification is implied. Read the scoped data-handling approach.
What we'd automate first
Where a carefully scoped workflow may earn its keep.
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Per-note time: 15-20 min → 3-5 min
Progress notes that pile up all week
Therapists routinely accumulate 10-20 undone progress notes by Friday afternoon. Structured post-session capture (2-minute voice note or keyboard capture) with drafted progress-note for therapist review typically cuts per-note time to 3-5 minutes and eliminates weekend catch-up.
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Weeks to days
Intake packets that take clients two weeks to complete
Intake paperwork, initial screeners, informed consent, insurance collection, manual and fragmented. A structured digital intake with validation and direct EHR integration cuts intake completion from weeks to days and improves first-session preparation.
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Claims denials that quietly eat 4-8% of revenue
Mental health claims face specific denial patterns (wrong CPT, documentation issues, medical necessity). Pre-submission claim review against payer rules typically recovers several points of collections.
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Credentialing that takes 90 days and drops halfway through
Insurance credentialing with new payers is a paperwork grind that frequently stalls. Automated tracking, documentation assembly, and follow-up cadence keeps credentialing applications moving.
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No-shows in virtual practice (especially) hitting 15-20%
Teletherapy no-show rates run higher than in-person. Thoughtful reminder sequencing, not intrusive, respectful of mental health context, typically drops no-shows meaningfully while preserving the therapeutic tone.
Group mental health practice (8 therapists): weekend documentation recovered
An eight-therapist group practice was losing most therapists' weekends to catching up on progress notes. Burnout was cited as the primary reason the practice couldn't retain mid-career therapists. We deployed structured post-session capture with drafted progress notes for therapist review, calibrated to the treatment modalities in use (CBT, DBT, EMDR, trauma-focused). Per-note time dropped to an average of 4 minutes. Seven of eight therapists reported reclaiming their weekends within the first month. Practice retention of existing therapists improved materially; recruiting also improved because 'no weekend charting' became a real differentiator in hiring.
Result: Per-note time: 17 min → 4 min; weekends recoveredRough numbers first
Estimate the opportunity in your own numbers.
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Common questions
Questions to resolve before implementation.
Will you record sessions?
No. We do not record sessions or build workflows that require session recording. Post-session therapist capture (voice note summary, bullet points, whatever the therapist prefers) is the input.
How do you handle HIPAA and state mental health privacy laws?
The required data handling, vendors, access, review steps, and jurisdiction-specific obligations are identified during scoping and documented in writing. No certification, agreement, hosting model, or technical control should be assumed from this page.
What about the ethics codes (APA, NASW, AAMFT, etc.)?
We design around them. Every engagement includes a compliance review step; if something is disallowed under your license's ethics code, it doesn't ship.
Do you integrate with SimplePractice, TheraNest, TherapyNotes, Ensora?
Yes, all major mental-health EHRs.
Solo therapist vs group practice, does it scale?
Works well at both scales. Solo practitioners often benefit most from the progress-note workflow because they have no team to absorb the load. Group practices benefit more from billing/credentialing/claims work.
Describe what is actually happening in this workflow.
Glen replies in writing with whether a Nano-Pilot fits or the honest answer is “not yet.”
Send a written intakeRelated industry paths
Selected related paths.
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