Walk into every session already knowing how their week went.
TheraBasics is a daily check-in app for your clients, and a session-prep dashboard for you.
Your clients do the work between sessions. One honest paragraph about what they've been working on, ready before you sit down.
Twice this week she wrote about feeling disconnected from David, both after her mom called on Tuesday. She skipped her morning walk the three days that followed. Yoga class Saturday was the first time she laughed all week, and last night she wrote that she's dreading Monday.
- The disconnection from David, and what Tuesday's call stirred up.
- Three skipped walks, then what made Saturday feel different.
Therapy is once a week. Their life is every day.
Your client has been checking in each morning, writing on the hard days, marking the rituals you set. A whole week of small, honest work, and none of it is in front of you when they sit down.
Without it, the first ten minutes are reconstruction. With it, the first ten minutes are the session.
Less prep. Sessions that run on your clinical approach.
Half the prep, fully planned.
The work between sessions drops to almost nothing. You walk in already prepared, the week read and a focus ready before you sit down.
Every brief is framed through it.
Every session runs on your modality.
Each brief is framed through your theoretical orientation, so the session is driven by how you actually practice, not a generic template.
“When the deadline pressure builds this week, what is one small thing you could do before the walk slips?”
Interventions your clients actually do.
Assign evidence-based practices in one tap. Clients get them as prompts, in session and between, so there's nothing to print.
Options that fit every client.
Because it reads the data, TheraBasics can surface other clinically sound approaches that may fit just as well, or better, including culturally responsive and affirming care for every community you serve, LGBTQ+ and beyond.
How each brief gets made
We read the week for you. Here's everything the paragraph is built on: talking points, the clinical theory and research behind them, and the practices you can send in one tap.
The week they came from
Clinical summary
A mood-positive week with a significant intent-behavior gap: ritual completion at 41% despite low stress and positive affect. CBT framing around thought-challenging dropout is indicated.
Session focus
Talking points
“Your mood was great most of the week, but rituals only hit 40%. When things are going well, what gets in the way of keeping up the practices?”
“‘Challenge one negative thought’ got done 20% of the time, yet negative self-talk is the challenge you’re anticipating this week. What’s happening in that gap?”
“Is there a version of these rituals that feels natural to you right now, or does the structure itself feel like friction?”
Clinical theory
CBT behavioral activation and habit maintenance. When clients experience positive affect, they often deprioritize protective rituals because the immediate need feels absent. That is a classic maintenance-stage trap, and a concrete intent-behavior gap worth making explicit.
Research
Ritual dropout during positive mood states is well-documented in cognitive-behavioral relapse prevention literature; clients tend to attribute wellbeing to circumstance rather than practice (Marlatt & Gordon, 1985).
From the library
Lowest-completion rituals lack a concrete trigger. If-then planning could close the gap without adding load.
‘Negative self-talk’ is named as an anticipated barrier; making specific distortions visible now builds a ready tool for harder weeks.
A prompt you might send
When the negative self-talk showed up this week, what did it actually say, and what did you do next?
Grounds the abstract anticipated challenge in a concrete recent moment; feeds directly into CBT thought-challenging work.
Briefs are generated with Claude, a language model from Anthropic, using only what your client has chosen to share. Every brief is a first draft, always yours to edit, trust, or ignore.
Your clients already have somewhere to go.
The brief you see comes from a 30-second check-in your clients do for themselves, not for you. TheraBasics is a tool they actually want to use, with or without a therapist watching.
You invite them with a six-character code. They check in each morning, and everything they write stays theirs until they choose to share it. You see only what they've shared, and never more.
Founded on a simple idea
“I created TheraBasics to bridge the gap between starting therapy and achieving mental health goals.”
TheraBasics began as an education platform for people starting therapy. It was built to help them take an active role in their own care through reflection, daily practice, and informed self-awareness. The therapist dashboard exists for the same reason. When your clients are doing real work between sessions, the work deserves to be seen. Not as a progress report. As a short, honest note about the week they've been living.
Simple pricing, founding rate for early therapists
For solo therapists. Up to 20 active clients, 14-day free trial, no credit card to start.
For group practices. Three clinician seats included, shared billing, per-seat add-on if you need more.
Therapists who join during the early-access cohort keep their Pro founding rate as long as their subscription stays active.
Questions
Is this HIPAA-compliant?
Yes. TheraBasics is built on AWS with a Business Associate Agreement in place. Client data is encrypted at rest and in transit, and only shared with you when your client marks it shareable.
How is my client’s data protected?
Briefs, check-ins, and journal entries live in HIPAA-eligible AWS services in the US, encrypted at rest with AWS KMS and in transit with TLS. Your client controls what reaches you through per-category visibility. You can export or delete any client’s data on request.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. Pro starts with a 14-day free trial, and no credit card is required to begin. You can invite real clients and use every brief feature during the trial.
What if my client doesn’t want to use an app?
Then TheraBasics isn’t for that client, and that’s fine. It’s designed for the clients who already enjoy tracking things like mood, rituals, and cycles, and would do so with or without a therapist.
Can I edit the briefs?
Yes. Every brief is a first draft. You can edit, delete, or ignore any part of it, and your edits are never shared with the client.
Do you work with group practices?
Yes. Practice plans include three clinician seats, with shared billing and a per-seat add-on if you need more. Each clinician keeps their own clients and briefs private to them.
How does the brief reflect my clinical approach?
You can set a clinical lens in your settings (for example, CBT, ACT, or relational), and TheraBasics frames each brief through it. You can change it any time, and the next brief is rewritten in that lens.
What about Apple and Android?
The client app is launching on iOS first, with Android close behind. The therapist dashboard runs in your browser, on any device.
Can I export a client’s data?
Yes. Anything shared with you can be exported as a PDF or plain text for your records.
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