Frequently Asked Questions
Using TherapySupervisor
What is TherapySupervisor?
TherapySupervisor is software for clinicians in training and practice who want a place to reflect on their psychotherapy work. You bring a situation or interaction you want to think about. The exchange is designed to help you hold on to more of what happened, put some shape around it, and develop your own thinking, including questions you may want to bring to supervision.
Who is this for?
Clinicians in training and practice who want a place to reflect on their psychotherapy work and develop more of their own thinking around it.
What if I'm not sure what to say?
That's fine. You don't need a full case presentation. A thumbnail of the situation is enough to begin.
Do I need to use it after every session?
No. Some sessions you may want to reflect on, but with many you won't.
How is this different from using ChatGPT or Claude?
General-purpose AI is designed to be useful across many kinds of requests. TherapySupervisor is software built for a narrower purpose: to create a reflective exchange that helps you stay with your own experience and develop your own thinking. The aim is not for the software to tell you what is going on, but to help you arrive at your own understanding—or sometimes a better question to take into supervision.
Does this replace supervision?
No. TherapySupervisor is meant to help you arrive at supervision with more of what happened and more of your own thinking available to work with. Clinical judgment, experience, and the supervisory relationship remain with the people involved.
What kinds of questions don't belong here?
Questions about medication decisions, treatment management, and safety concerns need the people responsible for care in real time. TherapySupervisor is built to recognize those edges and direct you back to them.
Access
How do I get access?
Create an account and you can start with a reflection right away. You don't need to open a case first. The initial reflection space is for you to see how you might use the tool to work through something you want to think about; it isn't designed for ongoing work. Casework is where work is held over time. If you'd like to use casework, it starts with a brief conversation about what that involves and how you might use it. There's currently no charge.
Privacy & security
Can my supervisor or program see what I write?
No. Your reflections are private from your supervisor and training program. They see only what you choose to bring into supervision. The only additional access is the technical administration needed to maintain the software.
Can I include identifying patient information?
No. Include the clinical detail you feel is important, but leave out identifying information. First names and age ranges are fine ("Sarah, 30s").
What happens to what I write?
What you write is stored within TherapySupervisor so the work can remain available where the software supports return and continuity. Your reflections are not visible to your supervisor or training program, and information you enter is not used to train AI models. Technical access is limited to what is needed to operate and maintain the software.
How is patient information protected?
TherapySupervisor is designed to be used with de-identified clinical material, not identifying patient information. Automated safeguards screen for identifying information before anything reaches the AI. The application, database, and model run within an AWS environment under a signed Business Associate Agreement, and information entered into TherapySupervisor is not used to train AI models.
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