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Nov 26, 2025
Clinical documentation doesn't have to drain your energy or steal hours from your evening. Berries AI transforms note-writing from a tedious administrative burden into a seamless, automated process that takes seconds instead of hours, allowing you to reclaim your time while maintaining the clinical quality your practice demands.
Why Therapists Are Switching to AI-Generated Notes
Mental health professionals spend 15-20 hours weekly on administrative tasks, with clinical documentation representing the largest time drain. That's nearly half a work week spent writing notes instead of seeing clients, developing your practice, or simply resting.
Berries eliminates this burden. The platform captures your sessions and generates comprehensive notes within 60 seconds of ending your session. No more staying late to finish documentation. No more weekend catch-up sessions. Just finish your session, and your note is ready.
The Simple Three-Step Process
Using Berries couldn't be more straightforward. Select your patient and template, start the session, and conduct therapy exactly as you normally would. When you're done, end the session. That's it. Berries handles everything else—transcribing the conversation live, organizing clinical content, formatting according to your preferred template, and generating a complete note that meets insurance standards.
Clinical studies show that therapists using AI documentation report feeling more present during sessions. Without the mental burden of remembering details for later documentation, you can focus entirely on your client. Many therapists describe finally feeling like they can engage fully in the therapeutic process without that nagging voice reminding them to capture specific phrases or symptoms for their notes.
Your first 20 sessions are completely free, giving you nearly a month to experience how much easier your workday becomes when documentation handles itself.
Your Clinical Partner: The Session Assistant
The Session Assistant makes every aspect of your clinical work easier by putting all the information you need in one convenient panel. Click the Session Assistant button when you select a patient, and the panel stays open throughout your session—no more toggling between screens or hunting through past notes.
Start Every Session Prepared
The Preparation tab shows you exactly what you need to know before your client walks in. See follow-up points from the last session and a quick summary of what you covered. No more scrambling through previous notes trying to remember if you were supposed to check in about medication side effects or how that difficult conversation with their partner went.
This quick orientation helps you demonstrate consistency and attention to detail, strengthening your therapeutic alliance without requiring you to memorize every detail from sessions that may have occurred weeks ago. Your clients feel heard and remembered, and you feel confident and prepared.
Access Complete Client Context Instantly
The Summary tab eliminates the need to scroll through months of previous notes searching for relevant history. Everything important lives in one place—medications, risk factors, effective interventions, treatment milestones, and pending follow-up items.
When you need to remember which therapeutic approaches worked well or which medications your client tried before, the information appears immediately. This comprehensive view supports better clinical decision-making without the time-consuming chart review that used to interrupt your workflow.
Get Clinical Support in Real-Time
The Assistant Chat brings AI-powered clinical intelligence directly into your session. Ask questions like "What interventions have worked best for this client?" or "How has their depression severity changed over the past month?" and receive instant, contextually relevant answers based on your actual documentation.
Need suggestions for treatment goals? Want ideas for evidence-based interventions? Wondering about appropriate billing codes? Just ask. The Assistant Chat draws from your client's complete history and current clinical literature to provide helpful guidance without requiring you to conduct time-consuming searches or consult multiple resources.
Early-career therapists particularly appreciate having this clinical support readily available, though experienced clinicians report that the convenience of instant access to relevant information improves efficiency across all experience levels.
Let AI Suggest Accurate Diagnoses
Smart Diagnosis takes the guesswork out of diagnostic coding. After your session, review AI-generated diagnosis suggestions based on the actual content of your notes and ICD-10 codes. Each suggestion includes a brief explanation showing which session details led to the recommendation.
Approve suggestions that fit, search manually for others, and know that approved diagnoses automatically save to your client's profile for future sessions. Accurate diagnostic coding directly impacts treatment authorization and reimbursement, and Smart Diagnosis ensures you're capturing the most clinically appropriate and financially sustainable codes without extensive manual review.
Customize Notes to Match Your Style
Berries adapts to your preferences rather than forcing you to adapt to a rigid system. The platform learns your documentation style and offers extensive customization options that make your notes feel authentically yours.
Switch Templates Instantly
Different situations call for different note formats. Switching templates takes one click—select any note, click the current template name at the top right, and choose your preferred format. Berries regenerates the note in seconds using the new structure.
Whether you prefer SOAP notes for certain clients, DAP notes for others, or specific formats required by different insurance companies, switching between styles happens instantly without rewriting content manually.
Regenerate Notes with One Click
Sometimes you want a fresh take on how a session is documented. The Regenerate feature recreates your note instantly, offering a quick way to explore different phrasings or organizational approaches without starting from scratch. Click the Regenerate icon at the bottom right of any note, confirm, and review the new version.
This feature proves particularly helpful when you're not quite satisfied with the initial note but don't want to spend time manually revising content. Let Berries try again, and you'll often find the second version captures the session even more effectively.
Create Treatment Plans Automatically
Treatment plan creation traditionally requires significant time—synthesizing session content, identifying appropriate goals, selecting evidence-based interventions, and formatting everything according to insurance requirements. Berries generates comprehensive, personalized treatment plans automatically based on your session notes.
Open the Treatment Plan tab at the top of any note and click Generate. Berries analyzes symptoms, progress, and therapeutic goals to create a tailored plan complete with recommended goals, interventions, and strategies specific to your client's needs. Review the plan, make any desired edits using the Magic Edit feature for AI-assisted revisions, and copy it directly into your EMR.
After future sessions, simply click Update to adjust the plan based on recent progress. The platform ensures treatment plans stay current without requiring you to rebuild them from scratch each time modifications are needed.
Personalize Your Note Preferences
The Note Preferences menu lets you customize exactly how Berries formats your documentation. Click the Preferences icon at the bottom right of any note to adjust settings that match your clinical style.
Customize how you refer to patients or clients, include or exclude direct quotes from sessions, select your most commonly used interventions for quick insertion, and control whether dates and diagnoses appear when you copy notes. These preferences apply automatically to all future documentation, eliminating repetitive formatting adjustments and ensuring consistency across your entire caseload.
Copy and Paste Notes into Your EMR
When your note is finalized, copying it into your electronic medical records system takes one click. The Copy Note button at the bottom right of each note transfers your complete documentation to your clipboard, ready to paste directly into your practice management software.
Berries works seamlessly with any EMR system, maintaining your existing workflows while eliminating the time-consuming documentation process. You're not learning a new charting system—you're simply automating the creation of notes that fit perfectly into the system you already use.
How Berries Transforms Your Practice
Mental health professionals using Berries consistently report reclaiming 10+ hours weekly that previously disappeared into documentation. That's time for additional clients, professional development, business growth, or simply rest and recovery that prevents burnout.
More importantly, therapists describe feeling more engaged during sessions and more energized after work. The mental load of documentation—that constant background stress about notes piling up—disappears. You finish your last session of the day knowing your documentation is already complete, not facing hours of writing ahead.
The platform maintains strict HIPAA compliance with data encryption and secure processing protocols, ensuring client confidentiality while providing the documentation efficiency modern practices require. Ready-to-use consent forms, student and early-career discounts, and responsive support make implementation straightforward regardless of your practice setting.
Getting Started Takes Minutes
Beginning with Berries requires no technical expertise or lengthy setup. Create your account, add your clients, and start your first session. The platform handles everything else. Your first 20 sessions are completely free with no credit card required—experience how much easier your professional life becomes when documentation handles itself.
Frequently Asked Questions
How accurate are AI-generated therapy notes?
Berries uses AI specifically trained on mental health terminology, therapeutic language, and clinical modalities, ensuring notes accurately capture session content and clinical nuance. The platform understands references to defense mechanisms, therapeutic interventions, and assessment terminology that general healthcare AI often misses. You maintain full editorial control, reviewing and editing notes before copying them to your EMR.
Will using AI notes affect my clinical credibility?
AI documentation tools are becoming standard practice across healthcare settings, including mental health. Berries generates notes that meet insurance requirements and clinical standards while reflecting your therapeutic approach and documentation style. The technology serves as a time-saving tool, similar to using electronic scheduling or digital intake forms, rather than replacing clinical judgment.
How does Berries maintain HIPAA compliance?
Berries maintains strict HIPAA compliance through data encryption, secure processing protocols, and more industry-leading security measures designed specifically for mental health practice. All client data remains protected according to relevant privacy regulations, with ready-to-use consent forms provided to inform clients about AI-assisted documentation.
Can Berries work with telehealth sessions?
Yes, Berries supports both in-person and telehealth sessions seamlessly. The platform captures conversations regardless of session format, making it equally effective for remote therapy, in-person appointments, or hybrid practice models.
What if I have a unique documentation style?
Berries allows you to customize your documentation preferences and adapts to your clinical style over time. Including template selection, terminology preferences, intervention libraries, and formatting controls—ensure notes feel authentically yours rather than generic AI outputs.
How long does it take to generate a note?
Berries generates comprehensive clinical notes within 40-60 seconds after you end a session. The entire process from ending your session to having a complete note typically takes under two minutes, including your review.
Who is Berries AI for?
Berries AI is designed for licensed mental health professionals including therapists, counselors, psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and other clinical practitioners. Whether you're in private practice, group therapy settings, community mental health, or telehealth, our AI scribe adapts to your clinical workflow and documentation style to reduce administrative burden.