Ask it eight questions

Before you trust an app with your clients' data, run the audit on us first — we answer all eight, in writing. Then compare the whole field.

Sourced comparison · June 2026
The short answer

Therapy clients get about 4 sessions a month. The other 26 days they're on their own. We compared the twelve platforms a therapist actually weighs, and VibeCheck.luxury is the only one whose client app fills those days — daily check-ins, an AI companion the client can talk to, crisis support always on — measured against the R.A.V.E.S. framework. Every competitor number on this page is sourced and linked below — most from the company's own pricing page — and verified June 2026.

Run the audit on us first

Eight questions. Eight straight answers.

Before you trust any platform with your clients' data, ask it these eight. Most behavioral-health tools can't answer all eight cleanly. We answer them in writing — every answer verifiable, built and audited by a practicing LCSW.

  1. Is there an executed BAA?Yes. PHI in VibeCheck.luxury is covered by our executed Business Associate Agreements. Shaula is office staff — she runs on your own computer, never touches PHI, and never speaks to your clients, so she needs none.
  2. Where does the client data actually live?Your clients' clinical data lives in VibeCheck.luxury — encrypted at rest, under our executed BAAs. Shaula runs on your own computer and never touches client data.
  3. Is PHI encrypted at rest?Yes, encrypted at rest (pgcrypto) in VibeCheck.luxury, with patent-pending PHI isolation.
  4. Who is the AI talking to — the clinician or the client?Shaula speaks only to you, never to your clients. The between-session companion is clinician-governed, with the guardrails set by you, never engagement-seeking, and never an AI therapist.
  5. Can the AI act on its own?No. It drafts; you review and sign every output. It can never finalize a note or send on your behalf.
  6. What's the SOC 2 status?SOC 2 Type II is in progress. We say "in progress," not "certified," on purpose.
  7. Is the AI included, or an add-on?Included. Not a $40–50/mo scribe add-on like the platform tools charge (their own pricing pages, June 2026).
  8. Who built it?A practicing therapist — Matthew Sexton, LCSW, NATC, who runs his own practice on it. The story.
The field

We compared the whole field.

Not three cherry-picked names. The twelve a therapist actually weighs: SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Jane, TheraNest, Sessions Health, Carepatron, Mentalyc, Upheal, Headway, Grow Therapy, Alma, and Quenza. Three honest things came out of it.

1 · Nobody bundles all three

Practice tools, an AI assistant, AND a between-session client app — nobody else puts them in one product, anywhere on that list. Every other route is two or three subscriptions stitched together.

2 · We're not the cheapest, and won't pretend to be

Carepatron has a free tier. Sessions Health is $39/mo (their own pricing pages, verified June 2026). If you want the budget lane, it's real. Our case is one bundle and the 26 days.

3 · The 26 days are ours alone

What a client actually holds between sessions — daily check-ins, an AI companion, a pattern mirror, crisis support. On the client side, the board goes empty for every name above.

The client side

The empty board.

Eight things a client could hold in their hands between sessions. Here's who ships them. A ✓ means the client gets it; a ✕ means it isn't on the client side of that product. Verified June 2026 — sources at the bottom of the page.

What the client holds VibeCheck.luxury SimplePractice TherapyNotes · Jane · Sessions Health · Carepatron client portals Mentalyc · Upheal AI scribes, no client app Quenza worksheet pathways · no AI · billed per client
Daily check-ins (STOICK method) ✓ the daily loop, scored against R.A.V.E.S. ✕ ✕ ✕ ✕ pathways are scheduled worksheets, not check-ins
AI companion the client talks to ✓ clinician-channeled — your voice, your guardrails ✕ ✕ ✕ ✕ no AI
Journaling + pattern mirror ✓ ✕ ✕ ✕ ✕
Homework worked in-app, with AI support ✓ ✕ ✕ ✕ ◐ worksheet pathways — no AI support
Self-assessments auto-scored ✓ PHQ-9, GAD-7, 16 instruments ✓ assessment library ✕ ✕ ◐ inside pathways
Crisis support always on (988 / 741741) ✓ built into the client app, with human escalation ✕ ✕ ✕ ✕ no crisis rails
Graduation tail after discharge ✓ support does not stop at the last session ✕ ✕ ✕ ✕
Pattern notes back to the clinician ✓ what changed, what is stuck, what slipped ✕ ✕ ✕ ✕

Everyone else's "client experience" is a portal for forms and invoices.

Headway, Grow Therapy, Alma, and TheraNest aren't in the grid because their client side is booking and paperwork — same empty board. Quenza is the only one even playing: worksheet pathways on a per-client meter, with no AI and no crisis rails (Capterra, June 2026).

Money

How they charge.

No adjectives. Their own published numbers, dated, with the links at the bottom of the page.

The marketplaces

Headway and Grow Therapy hand you free software, then keep roughly 20–30% of every insurance reimbursement, for as long as you see that client (healthaidaily.com, verified June 2026).

The platforms

SimplePractice runs $49–99/mo, and the AI scribe is about $50/mo on top. TherapyNotes is $69/mo plus $40–50/mo for the AI (their own pricing pages, June 2026).

The meters

Quenza charges per block of clients — about $130/mo at 40 clients (Capterra, June 2026). Your caseload grows, your bill grows.

Ours

The VibeCheck.luxury EMR is currently in beta. Pricing is not publicly listed; email [email protected] for more information.

Free

Shaula is free.

A free local assistant for the office side of practice — a separate free download that runs on your own computer. Nine capabilities — your practice website, a weekly blog, page copy, decks and handouts, proposals, ad creative, your newsletter, and more. Bought piece by piece, that stack runs $250–400 a month. Shaula drafts, you approve. Nothing publishes without your yes.

Meet Shaula
The measurement

Progress you can point at.

Every check-in and every pattern note is scored against R.A.V.E.S. — progress you can point at, not vibes.

  • Recognition — the client names what's actually happening, in real time.
  • Alignment — choices start matching values.
  • Value — self-worth that holds up on a bad day.
  • Evidence — concrete, observable proof of change, tracked.
  • Sovereignty — the client graduates equipped, not dependent.
The full framework
One membership, both jobs

The VibeCheck.luxury EMR is currently in beta.

VibeCheck.luxury sits beside the EMR you already run — keep your current system for charting and billing, and it adds the between-session client layer; Shaula, a free local assistant, covers the office side as a separate free download. When you are ready, the same product runs the whole practice: scheduling, AI-drafted notes you sign (the AI can never finalize one), and claims that go out and come back paid, to your own payment processor. We take 0% of what you collect, and card processing passes through at the raw 2.9% + 30¢ — never marked up.

Email [email protected] for more information about the beta.

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Plainly priced

One price. Exact.

VibeCheck.luxury

Beta

Email [email protected] for more information about the VibeCheck.luxury EMR beta.

Enterprise

By contact

The same product at organization scale — for larger practices, organizations, and EAPs. Book a walkthrough, the founder runs it.

The VibeCheck.luxury EMR is currently in beta. Email [email protected] for more information.

Price exact, never rounded. HIPAA-eligible architecture with executed BAAs. Patent pending — U.S. Provisional 64/059,214. Built by Matthew Sexton, LCSW, NATC, who runs his own practice on it.

See the other 26 days filled.

The VibeCheck.luxury EMR is currently in beta.

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Receipts

Sources, dated.

Every competitor figure on this page is linked to its source — the company's own pricing page where published; Capterra and healthaidaily.com otherwise. All verified June 2026, re-verified before every update.

Common questions

  1. What makes VibeCheck.luxury different from SimplePractice or TherapyNotes?

    SimplePractice and TherapyNotes are practice-management platforms. VibeCheck.luxury is built around the other 26 days a month, when the client is between sessions. The VibeCheck.luxury EMR is currently in beta; email [email protected] for more information.

  2. Is VibeCheck.luxury the cheapest option?

    VibeCheck.luxury pricing is not publicly listed during the EMR beta, so a truthful price ranking is not currently possible. Email [email protected] for more information.

  3. Is the VibeCheck.luxury EMR available?

    The VibeCheck.luxury EMR is currently in beta. Email [email protected] for more information.

  4. How do I learn more?

    Email [email protected] for information about the EMR beta.