Therapists have to pack too much into their schedule. They might have a 52 minute session, and somehow, even if the client leaves on time, there's only 8 minutes before the next session begins? And in those 8 minutes, they need to:
- Use the bathroom
- Get a refill of coffee or tea
- Mentally prepare for the next session
- Write their therapy progress note for the last session
Unfortunately, that #4... The therapy progress note? That's getting pushed. Until later? Until tomorrow? Until the end of the week? But it's critical! But the bathroom break and coffee is necessary too, and there's simply no time to squeeze in a quality note.
So therapists look for ways to write their therapy notes faster. Quicker. Easier. A cheat sheet, if you will. Surely there must be a template that can help make this go faster, so that their Friday evening can be at home, not shuffling through piles of hastily-scribbled notes from the prior week's therapy sessions.
Quill offers these therapy note cheat sheets, if that's helpful! Quill also outlines all of the various formats for therapy notes, from DAP to SOAP to BIRP to everything in-between. But more importantly, Quill offers a better way to escape the burden of notes!
The therapist simply records a couple of minutes of audio, rambling about what happened in session, how the client was, what will happen next, etc., and then Quill will put those details into a beautifully-crafted and well-organized therapy note! This resulting therapy note can be copy-and-pasted into their favorite EHR -- Simple Practice, Jane, whatever happens to be used by their practice. You can have your therapy note ready to go in only a few minutes!
You can start generating free therapy notes today! (We offer a free trial that gives you five free therapy notes, plus it's just $20 per month for unlimited therapy notes after that. Plus unlimited treatment plans!)
And it's ethical and secure, because Quill:
- Does not record the client session. (Yikes, please do not do that.)
- Does not store any provided or resulting data.
So yes, therapists should optimize their process and utilize those cheat sheets and templates. And they can use Quill as a tool to further streamline their therapy progress note writing!
And if you'd rather stick with the cheat sheets, here are some direct links:
We also offer our SIMPLE therapy note format, but it's so simple, there's no need for a cheat sheet for that!
