What Is VibeCheck? The Between-Session Companion, Explained

VibeCheck is the between-session companion for therapists and their clients: clients check in daily, and the therapist walks into each session already knowing what kind of week it was. A client gets roughly four therapy sessions a month; the other 26 days are where the patterns actually run, and until now they produced no clinical signal at all. The gap between clinical contacts is the highest-risk terrain in behavioral health — it is why the National Committee for Quality Assurance maintains entire HEDIS measure sets (follow-up after hospitalization, treatment initiation and engagement) built specifically around what happens between visits (NCQA, 2024). VibeCheck is built to close that gap.

Quick answer: VibeCheck is a clinician-built platform where clients check in daily and their therapist gets a pre-session brief before every appointment. It is one product at one price — $77.77 per clinician seat per month, unlimited clients — and it includes Shaula, a free AI office app. It was built by Matthew Sexton, LCSW, NATC, who runs his own practice on it.

What VibeCheck actually does

Two things, on two sides of the same relationship.

For the client: a daily check-in that takes less time than ordering coffee — a short, six-area read of how the week is actually going. No essay, no homework, no performance.

For the clinician: a pre-session brief before every appointment, assembled from those check-ins. Instead of spending the first ten minutes reconstructing the week from memory and self-report, the therapist walks in already oriented. Across a full caseload, that is the difference between guessing and knowing.

The point is not more data. It is the right data, at the moment of care, on every chair in the practice.

One product, one price

VibeCheck is $77.77 per clinician seat, per month. Flat. Unlimited clients per seat.

There are no tiers, no per-client charges, and no feature ladder where the useful parts cost extra. Twenty seats is $1,555.40 a month — you can do the whole pricing table in your head, which is the point. For a group practice, “enterprise” means the conversation gets bigger (rollout, BAA addenda, reporting), never the number.

Shaula: the free AI office

Every seat includes Shaula, and Shaula is also free on her own — a download you keep, no card, no clock.

Shaula runs the non-clinical office work and refuses the clinical kind. She is built to say no to session notes, to billing, and to anything involving protected health information. She is a helper for the 26 days of running a practice that have nothing to do with the clinical hour — not a therapist, not a scribe, and never near a client’s record.

How the AI is handled

This is the part clinicians are right to interrogate, so here is the plain version.

AI inference runs on Gemma, an open-weight model served on Amazon Bedrock, under an executed AWS Business Associate Agreement. Client data never trains a model and never touches a consumer AI endpoint. The architecture is HIPAA-eligible with executed BAAs — not “HIPAA-compliant,” because no such certification exists for software, from anyone.

And the AI never acts alone. Four human gates stand between the model and the client: the clinician signs every note, approves every draft, sets every guardrail, and can suspend the companion for any client at any time. The license stays with the licensed human.

Who built it, and why that matters

VibeCheck was built by Matthew Sexton, LCSW, NATC — a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Narcissistic Abuse Treatment Clinician who runs his own fee-for-service practice on the platform every day. He is the founder, the architect, and customer number one. The first deployment is his own caseload, which means the product ships only what a working clinician will actually use in session.

The client app is live on the Apple App Store. An EMR module is in development; when it ships, it lands inside the same $77.77 seat at the same price — teased honestly, not sold before it exists.

FAQ

What is VibeCheck? VibeCheck is the between-session companion for therapists and their clients. Clients check in daily, and the therapist walks into each session already knowing what kind of week it was. It is one product at one price — $77.77 per clinician seat per month, unlimited clients — and it includes Shaula, a free AI office app. It was built by Matthew Sexton, LCSW, NATC, who runs his own practice on it.

How much does VibeCheck cost? $77.77 per clinician seat per month, flat, with unlimited clients per seat. No tiers, no per-client fees, no feature ladder. Twenty seats is $1,555.40 a month. Enterprise for a group practice is a conversation about rollout, not a higher price.

Is Shaula free? Yes. Shaula is a free AI office app — a download you keep, no card, no clock. She handles the non-clinical office work and refuses the clinical kind: no session notes, no billing, no PHI. She is also included on every VibeCheck seat.

Is VibeCheck HIPAA compliant? There is no HIPAA-compliant certification for software. VibeCheck runs on HIPAA-eligible architecture with executed Business Associate Agreements. AI inference runs on Gemma via Amazon Bedrock under an executed AWS BAA; client data never trains a model and never touches a consumer AI endpoint.

Who built VibeCheck? Matthew Sexton, LCSW, NATC — a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Narcissistic Abuse Treatment Clinician who runs his own practice on the platform. He is the founder, the architect, and customer number one.

Is there an app? Yes. The VibeCheck client app is live on the Apple App Store. The clinician side runs the between-session companion; the client side is where daily check-ins happen.

Sources

National Committee for Quality Assurance, HEDIS Measures — Follow-Up After Hospitalization for Mental Illness (FUH) and Initiation and Engagement of Substance Use Disorder Treatment (IET), 2024, https://www.ncqa.org/hedis/measures/ — establishes the industry-standard quality measures built around the period between clinical contacts, the terrain VibeCheck is designed for. Figures current as of July 2026.

Disclaimer

This article is for educational and informational purposes only. It does not constitute medical, clinical, legal, or financial advice, and reading it does not create a therapist-client relationship with Matthew Sexton, LCSW or Mental Wealth Solutions, Inc. Although the author is a licensed clinical social worker, the content in this article is not clinical assessment, diagnosis, or treatment.

Product details, pricing, and availability described here are accurate as of the publication date and may change; verify current details at vibecheck.luxury before relying on them.

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