Have you spent hours scouring the web for the right resources to use with patients, tools for your practice, or content to improve professionally? We know you have. We also know how hard you work to provide the best care for your patients, that's why we compiled this list of tools and resources, worksheets, AI assistants, psychology blogs, and practice software, to help you focus on being the best therapist you can be while keeping a work-life balance. The list is organized into four categories depending on your needs: AI Tools for Your Practice, Digital Practice Tools, Therapy Resources, and Content to Nurture Your Practice.
AI Tools for Your Practice
The newest addition to this list, and the fastest-growing category of tools therapists are adopting. Grouped by the job each one actually does for you.
Automate your work
Listens during your session (with client consent) and writes the progress note for you afterward. Free plan available, HIPAA-compliant.
Writes your session notes and tracks client progress with simple check-in surveys. Includes a free scheduling and billing system too.
Turns your session notes into whatever note format you need. Built to plug into the EHR you already use.
Patient access & engagement
Acts as an additional staff member handling patient communication, covering scheduling, reminders, instructions, no-show and cancellation rescheduling, and recalling patients who are due for their next visit, following how your practice works and integrating with your EHR.
Sends new clients a short questionnaire before their first visit. You start the session already knowing their history.
Checks in with clients between sessions by text or video. Flags you if something seems off before it becomes a crisis.
Digital Practice Tools
You probably already have an EHR to keep track of your patients' progress. Here's the rest of the stack, split by what each tool is actually for.
Marketing & website
A DIY website builder with templates and an easy editor to create your therapy practice page. Now also offers a HIPAA-compliant option.
Website templates and SEO tools built just for therapists. Includes a free six-month Psychology Today listing when you subscribe.
Custom websites and marketing solutions for therapists. Plans include ready-made templates for blog posts and social media.
Operations & payments
An all-in-one system for scheduling, billing, and notes. The most popular EHR for solo therapists.
A free online payment platform, a simple alternative to Zelle, cash, or your EHR's billing feature, to collect payments from patients.
The HIPAA-compliant version of Google: Meet for teletherapy, Forms for intake questionnaires, a business Gmail address, and Calendar to manage your schedule.
Therapy Resources
Worksheets, activities, and ideas to improve your sessions.
A resource library with worksheets, guides, media, and activities on almost any topic.
Handouts, exercises, and guides that patients can complete online.
Mostly free CBT self-help worksheets you can use in or after a session.
Free self-help CBT worksheets and exercises. Email Veronica Walsh for permission to reprint or distribute.
Psychoeducational handouts, quizzes, and group activities.
Courses, techniques, tools, and tips grounded in positive psychology.
Content to Nurture Your Practice
Blogs, articles, and continuing education to help you stay current on mental health issues and new ways to provide therapy.
Founded by Victor Yalom, Ph.D. Offers continuing education videos, in-depth articles, and blogs.
You probably already have a PT profile, but their blog covers a wide variety of mental health topics too.
You're likely already subscribed to their newsletter, but their site also has therapy articles and research updates.
Whether or not you're in their directory, GoodTherapy has articles for professionals on mental and emotional wellbeing.
Webinars, newsletters, and resources focused mainly on anxiety, depression, and co-occurring disorders.
Dedicated to addiction and behavioral health professionals: articles, industry news, and how-to information.
We hope this list was useful. Remember, being a super therapist doesn't mean you have to be a superhuman too. Surround yourself with the right tools, human and AI, to make your life easier and improve your mental health services. They're out there.