Awesome Technology for Therapists
Software made for psychotherapists, counselors, social workers, psychologists and other mental-health clinicians.
Open source & proprietary — practice management, AI notes, measurement, insurance, licensure hours, directories and more.
What is this? A directory of software built for therapy practice. Each entry uses the vendor’s own description; the icons record what the vendor states about protecting client information.
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Legend
| Icon | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 🤝 | Business Associate Agreement (BAA) offered, per the vendor. |
| 🏠 | Self-hostable. |
| 🛡️ | SOC 2 or HITRUST certified, per the vendor. |
| ✨ | AI features (notes, matching, assistants). |
| 🧪 | Early stage: pre-launch, beta, or few users. |
Contents
- Practice Management
- Open-Source Practice Management
- AI Notes
- Measurement-Based Care
- Dictation
- Insurance Networks and Billing
- Clearinghouses
- Payments
- Intake and Matching
- Licensure Hours and CEUs
- Directories
- Websites
- Clinical Resources
- Comparisons
- Related Lists
Practice Management
- 🤝✨ ICANotes - Behavioral health EHR and EMR for mental health clinicians, not adapted from a general medical platform.
- 🤝 Owl Practice - Therapy practice management, taking the complexity out of mental health care.
- ✨ Sessions Health - All-in-one HIPAA-compliant EHR for scheduling, notes, billing, telehealth, and client care.
- 🤝🛡️✨ SimplePractice - HIPAA-compliant EHR and practice management software for therapists, health and wellness professionals.
- 🛡️✨ TheraNest - Mental health practice management from Ensora Health.
- ✨ TheraPlatform - Practice management, EHR/EMR and teletherapy platform for therapists, counselors and psychologists.
- 🤝✨ TherapyAppointment - All-in-one EMR for mental health practitioners, built by a therapist.
- 🤝🛡️✨ TherapyNotes - Behavioral health practice management and EHR, with TherapyFuel AI tools.
- 🛡️✨ Valant - Behavioral health EHR for therapy clinicians, prescribers and group practices.
Open-Source Practice Management
- 🏠✨🧪 limn-os - EMR for solo mental health practice. Free to self-host; a paid client portal is sold separately.
License to be announced - 🏠 My Practice - Self-hosted practice management software for therapy, coaching, and similar work.
AGPL-3.0Python - 🏠✨🧪 Synari EHR - Open-source practice management for therapists, a self-hostable alternative to SimplePractice.
AGPL-3.0
AI Notes
- 🤝✨ AutoNotes - AI progress notes for therapists and social workers.
- 🤝🛡️✨ Blueprint - AI assistant for therapists covering documentation, admin, and clinical care, alongside your current EHR or within its own.
- 🤝🛡️✨ Eleos - AI platform for community-based behavioral health organizations.
- 🤝🛡️✨ Mentalyc - AI platform for therapists that drafts clinical notes, treatment plans, progress tracking, and session insights.
- ✨ Pocket - Small AI device that turns everything you say and hear into clear notes, action items, and search. A general recorder advertised to therapists; no BAA found on its site.
- 🤝✨ Supanote - HIPAA-compliant AI therapy notes with SOAP, DAP, and custom templates.
- 🤝🛡️✨ Twofold - AI scribe that generates clinical notes in seconds. Serves many specialties, with a therapy note taker.
- 🤝🛡️✨ Upheal - AI therapy notes, scheduling and billing, designed for mental health providers and built by clinicians.
Measurement-Based Care
- 🛡️ Greenspace - Mental health measurement-based care, with screening tools and outcome measures.
- 🤝✨ NovoPsych - Evidence-based psychological assessments and an AI scribe for behavioral health professionals.
Dictation
Voice-to-text tools need not be built for therapists to be listed here; any clinician-grade dictation tool qualifies.
- 🛡️✨ Augnito - Voice AI for clinical documentation, including radiology.
- 🛡️ Dragon Medical One - The number one clinical documentation companion. Cloud speech recognition from Microsoft, working inside major EHRs.
- Dragon Professional - Desktop dictation for document-heavy work; speech is recognized on your Windows computer.
- 🏠✨🧪 SovereignBoard - Android keyboard with a dictation key and optional AI cleanup. Speech is transcribed on your own server, not a vendor’s. Built on HeliBoard.
GPL-3.0Kotlin - Fluency Direct - Medical voice recognition for creating, editing and signing notes directly in the EHR. From Solventum, formerly 3M M*Modal.
- 🤝🛡️✨ Heidi Dictate - Free HIPAA-compliant dictation software for clinicians.
- 🏠 MacWhisper - Transcribes audio, meetings and dictation locally on your Mac.
- 🤝🏠 OpenWhispr - Dictation app that runs locally or in the cloud; your voice is 3x faster than your keyboard.
MIT - Philips SpeechLive - All-in-one dictation and transcription for legal and healthcare.
- 🛡️✨ Pocket Scribe - The AI solution for medical note dictation. Built for medical clinicians, including psychiatry.
- 🤝🛡️✨ Suki - Clinical dictation and AI assistant for clinicians and health systems.
- 🤝🛡️🏠 Superwhisper - Turn your voice into polished text, with on-device models.
- 🤝🛡️ Wispr Flow - Voice dictation for any app, with a HIPAA mode and a BAA individuals can sign in the app.
Insurance Networks and Billing
Networks credential you and bill insurers under their own contracts; they are not clearinghouses.
- 🤝 Alma - Premium solutions for clinical efficiency and practice growth. Insurance network for therapists, with a monthly membership.
- Grow Therapy - Insurance network for therapists, with free credentialing and weekly pay.
- Headway - Your practice, powered by Headway. Insurance network for therapists and psychiatric prescribers, free to join.
- Rula - Insurance network for mental health providers, free to join.
- SonderMind - Professional therapy covered by insurance. Network for therapists.
- TheraThink - Mental health insurance billing service for therapists and psychiatrists.
Clearinghouses
Not built for therapists; they carry claims for every kind of practice. Listed because an insurance-billing practice needs one.
- 🤝🛡️ Availity - Healthcare network for claims and eligibility; free for payers that sponsor it.
- 🛡️ Claim.MD - EDI clearinghouse for claims, remittances and eligibility.
- 🤝 Eligible - Insurance billing APIs for healthcare businesses.
- 🛡️ Inovalon Provider Cloud - Clearinghouse and revenue tools, formerly ABILITY Network.
- 🤝🛡️ Office Ally - Medical clearinghouse; free claims to participating payers.
- Optum EDI Network - Payer network for exchanging claims, formerly Change Healthcare. Hit by a 2024 ransomware attack that HHS calls the largest health-care breach in U.S. history.
- 🛡️ pVerify - Real-time insurance eligibility verification. Checks coverage; does not send claims.
- 🤝🛡️ Stedi - Headless clearinghouse with APIs for developers building billing software.
- 🛡️ TriZetto Provider Solutions - Clearinghouse and revenue cycle management, part of Cognizant.
- 🤝🛡️ Waystar - Healthcare revenue cycle management and payments.
Payments
- 🤝 Ivy Pay - Instant pay for therapists, charging a client’s card on file.
Intake and Matching
- ✨ Breksey - Operations for therapy practices: inquiries, intake conversion, and client matching.
Licensure Hours and CEUs
- 🧪 Confirm - Tracks supervised hours toward LMFT, LPCC and LCSW licensure and CE renewals in all 50 states.
- License Trail - Log clinical hours, verify them against your state’s board requirements, and export board-ready reports.
- Time2Track - Track, verify, and manage experiences for clinical training and internships.
- Track Your Hours - Track hours for BBS licensure as an LMFT, LCSW or LPCC.
Directories
- Inclusive Therapists - Directory of verified mental health providers centering BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and people with marginalized identities.
- ✨ MyWellbeing - Matches clients with a therapist or coach.
- Open Path Collective - Affordable therapy you can count on. Sliding-scale directory; clinicians join free and charge $40–70 a session.
- Psychology Today - Directory of therapists, psychologists and counselors, searchable by location, specialty and insurance.
- Therapy for Black Girls - Directory for finding a therapist for Black women and girls.
- TherapyDen - Inclusive directory of mental health professionals.
- Zencare - Vetted therapist directory, searchable by specialty, availability, and insurance.
State by state: see State Therapist Directories, covering all 50 states and DC.
Websites
- ✨ Brighter Vision - Custom websites and marketing for therapists. HIPAA email add-on runs through Hushmail.
Clinical Resources
- Therapist Aid - Worksheets, treatment guides, and videos for mental health professionals.
Comparisons
Unverified means the vendor’s own pages did not say. Sources for every cell are in standards.md.
Practice Management
| Tool | BAA | Trains on your data | Self-host | Certification | Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| limn-os | You host | No | Yes | — | Yours |
| My Practice | You host | No AI | Yes | — | Yours |
| Owl Practice | Listed on site | Unverified | — | — | Unverified |
| Sessions Health | Unverified | Unverified | — | SOC 2, HITRUST (claimed) | U.S. servers |
| SimplePractice | Self-serve | No | — | HITRUST | AWS (AI feature) |
| Synari EHR | You host | Your AI provider | Yes | — | Yours |
| TheraNest | Unverified | Unverified | — | HITRUST e1 | AWS |
| TheraPlatform | Unverified | Unverified | — | — | Unverified |
| ICANotes | Offered | Unverified | — | — | Unverified |
| TherapyAppointment | Executed BAA | No plans to | — | — | Unverified |
| TherapyNotes | Self-serve | No | — | HITRUST | Unverified |
| Valant | Unverified | Not without consent | — | HITRUST i1 | Unverified |
AI Notes
| Tool | BAA | Trains on your data | Session audio | Certification | Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutoNotes | Yes | Unverified | Unverified | SOC 2 (unconfirmed) | Unverified |
| Blueprint | In terms of service | De-identified (terms) | Unverified | SOC 2 | U.S., provider unnamed |
| Eleos | Yes | De-identified audio | De-identified copy may be kept | SOC 2, HITRUST | AWS |
| Mentalyc | Self-serve | No | Deleted once the note is ready | SOC 2 | AWS |
| Supanote | Yes | Unverified | Deleted after scribing | — | Unverified |
| Twofold | Every plan | No | Raw audio not stored | HITRUST | Unverified |
| Upheal | Self-serve | Opt-in only | Unverified | SOC 2 | AWS |
Measurement-Based Care
| Tool | BAA | Trains on your data | Certification | Price for one clinician |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenspace | Unverified | No AI | SOC 2 Type II | $24.99–39.99/month |
| NovoPsych | In the terms | No | — | Free plan; Pro paid |
Dictation
| Tool | BAA | Trains on your data | Where speech is processed | Certification | Price for one clinician |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Augnito | Not found | Unverified | Vendor cloud | SOC 2, ISO 27001 | Unverified |
| Dragon Medical One | Unverified | Unverified | Microsoft Azure | HITRUST | $79–99/month by term |
| Dragon Professional | Not needed (local) | Unverified | Your computer | — | Unverified |
| SovereignBoard | You host | No | Your server | — | Free |
| Fluency Direct | Not found | Unverified | Solventum cloud | Unverified | Not public |
| Heidi Dictate | On request | No (de-identified data may improve services) | Vendor cloud | SOC 2, ISO 27001 | Free tier; paid unverified |
| MacWhisper | Not needed (local) | Unverified | Your Mac (cloud optional) | — | Free; Pro €64 once |
| OpenWhispr | Business plan, on request | No | Your computer or cloud | Unverified | Free local; Pro $80/year |
| Philips SpeechLive | Not found | Unverified | Microsoft Azure | Unverified | $17.90 + $25.90/month |
| Pocket Scribe | Mentioned only | No (enterprise agreements) | Vendor cloud (MedStack) | SOC 2 Type II | $65/month |
| Suki | Signed with customers | De-identified only | Google Cloud | SOC 2 | Not public |
| Superwhisper | Enterprise, on request | No | Your computer (cloud optional) | SOC 2 Type II | $8.49/month |
| Wispr Flow | Self-serve in the app | On by default unless BAA signed | Vendor cloud | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 | $15/month |
Insurance Networks and Billing
| Tool | Kind | BAA with you | Cost to you | Certification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alma | Network | In membership terms | $125/month or $1,140/year | Unverified |
| Grow Therapy | Network | Unverified | Free | Its host (AWS) only |
| Headway | Network | Unverified | Free | Unverified |
| Rula | Network | Unverified | Free | Unverified |
| SonderMind | Network | Unverified | Unverified | ISO 27001 |
| TheraThink | Billing service | Unverified | Share of paid claims + $35/month | None found |
Clearinghouses
| Tool | BAA | Price for a solo practice | Certification |
|---|---|---|---|
| Availity | Standard agreement | Free for sponsoring payers | HITRUST |
| Claim.MD | Unverified | From $30/month plus per claim | HITRUST r2 |
| Eligible | Required | Unverified | Unverified |
| Inovalon | Unverified | Not public | SOC 2, HITRUST |
| Office Ally | Standard form | Free to participating payers; $44.95/month for others | SOC 2, HITRUST |
| Optum EDI Network | Unverified | Not public | EHNAC |
| pVerify | Unverified | From $125/month (eligibility only) | SOC 2 |
| Stedi | Yes, published | Per claim, no monthly minimum | SOC 2, HITRUST r2 |
| TriZetto | Unverified | Not public | SOC 2, HITRUST |
| Waystar | Through its contract | Not public | SOC 2, HITRUST |
Payments and Intake
| Tool | Type | BAA | Trains on your data | Certification | Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breksey | Intake | Not mentioned | Unverified | None found | Unverified |
| Ivy Pay | Payments | In terms of service | Unverified | None found | Unverified |
Licensure Hours and CEUs
| Tool | BAA | Stores client identifiers | Board-ready output | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confirm | Unverified | Unverified | BBS verification forms | Free during beta |
| License Trail | Not stated | No, per the vendor | PDF reports | Unverified |
| Time2Track | Not stated | Unverified | Unverified | Unverified |
| Track Your Hours | Not stated | Unverified | BBS forms | 30-day free trial |
Directories
| Directory | BAA for the listing | Client messages go to | Sells your data | Third parties named |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inclusive Therapists | No | Matched providers; deleted within 90 days | No | Unverified |
| MyWellbeing | Not stated | Unverified | Unverified | Unverified |
| Open Path Collective | Not found | Unverified | Unverified | Unverified |
| Psychology Today | No (only its video product) | Your email | Unverified | Unverified |
| Therapy for Black Girls | Not found | Unverified | Unverified | Unverified |
| TherapyDen | No | Unverified | No | Stripe, Brevo, Google Analytics, Cloudflare |
| Zencare | Unclear which products | Unverified | Unverified | Unverified |
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Contributing
Contributions welcome. Read the contribution guidelines first.
Footnotes
- Sources for every claim are in standards.md.
- Disclosure: the maintainer, Jeremiah Hackett, LCSW, builds limn-os and SovereignBoard, which are listed here.