VibeCheck is clinical infrastructure for the other 166 hours and 15 minutes. Measurement-based care, between-session continuity, and AI-as-tool — built and audited by an LCSW.
Founder thesis
I am an LCSW. I have watched therapists burn out on admin for fifteen years. The clinical work is not the problem. The problem is the 167 hours of life that happens between sessions — and the absence of any tool that lets a clinician hold that frame without giving up evenings and weekends. VibeCheck is the tool I wanted in private practice and never had.
Five gaps in solo and small-group practice
Each gap is grounded in published outcomes research or in operational data we can show you on a call. Citations under each card.
01 — Session-2 cliff
VibeCheck instruments the digital intake and the first two weeks: structured pre-session prompts, brief between-session check-ins, and a clinician-visible early-warning view. Practices using structured early-engagement protocols hold 70%+ retention through session 2.
Wierzbicki & Pekarik 1993 · APA Practitioner Pulse 2023 · internal pilot (n=412)02 — Between-session blackout
Between-session check-ins (mood, sleep, homework completion, safety screen) feed a one-screen pre-session brief. Therapist walks in with the last seven days, not a blank page. Pilot avg: 14:32 reclaimed per session.
Internal pilot 2026, n=18 LCSW/LPC, 4-week observation window03 — Measurement theater
Validated measures (PHQ-9, GAD-7, PCL-5, etc.) are scheduled at clinically meaningful intervals with delta alerts at ≥5 points — the established cut for reliable clinical change. Measurement-based care is associated with significantly improved depression outcomes versus treatment-as-usual.
Kroenke et al. 2001 · Löwe et al. 2004 · Lewis et al. 201904 — Crisis plans you cannot find at 9 PM
Stanley-Brown safety plan template, structured C-SSRS screening, 988 fall-back, and a clinician notification path that fires inside 24 hours of a flagged check-in — not in 7 days at the next session. Designed and reviewed by a licensed clinician.
Stanley & Brown 2012 · SAMHSA 988 Lifeline · C-SSRS (Posner et al. 2011)05 — Admin tax
Structured intake, automated reminders, validated-measure scoring, between-session ingestion, and AI-assisted (clinician-reviewed) note scaffolding. AI is a tool inside a clinician’s workflow, never a replacement.
BLS 2024 · Norcross & Wampold 2011 · Olthuis 2016 (Cochrane)Retention figures are computed against a four-week new-client cohort with a fixed observation window. Reclaimed-time figures are stopwatched: clinician self-reports start of session and start of focused clinical work, delta logged. PHQ-9/GAD-7 reliable-change thresholds follow the published validation studies. Crisis-detection latency is measured from the moment a flagged check-in posts to the moment a clinician is notified — not until acknowledgment.
Pilot data is internal and unpublished; we will share the methodology document on a call. Outcomes research is cited inline.
What “working” looks like in numbers
Why we built it for therapists, not clinics
Roughly 40% of licensed therapists run a second clinical income stream — supervision, consulting, side-practice, niche groups. The tooling does not exist for that life. It exists for billing departments.
Before VibeCheck
With VibeCheck
Common questions from licensed clinicians
VibeCheck is a clinician-controlled software platform for between-session continuity. Therapists use it to track client progress, run measurement-based care, and capture clinical signals from text, voice, and async channels while maintaining HIPAA-architected boundaries. Built by Matthew Sexton, LCSW and LICSW.
Licensed therapists in private practice, including LCSW, LMFT, LPC, LMHC, PsyD, and PhD clinicians. It is built for solo practitioners and group practices up to 30 clinicians in the United States.
Coming soon. Pricing is being finalized against AI compute costs and final feature scope. Book a 20-minute walkthrough to be first informed when pricing publishes.
The marketing site is zero-PHI by architecture. The app surface is HIPAA-architected with AWS BAA, PostgreSQL with pgcrypto encryption-at-rest, RDS managed under AWS BAA, and Vertex AI for AI workflows under Google Cloud BAA. Patent-pending architecture (USPTO 64/059,214).
No. VibeCheck is a between-session intelligence layer that sits alongside SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Practice Better, or whatever EHR you already use. We do not ask you to migrate.