Leaders in therapy note software for over 10 years
Note Designer
At Note Designer, your clinical expertise remains at the forefront – with Ethical AI as an optional support tool. Our clinician-focused platform puts you in charge of your documentation.
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Built, owned and operated by fellow clinicians
Designed with privacy, ethics, and simplicity in mind.
At Note Designer, everything we build is shaped by the real needs of mental health professionals. From secure data handling to intuitive workflows and optional AI, our platform puts you and your values first.
Privacy-First
We never record sessions or store client data. Your clinical notes remain fully confidential.
Ethical AI
Optional AI that never trains on your inputs. Use it when you want it, or not at all.
Time-Saving
Write better notes faster and get your time back—without cutting corners.
Trusted by over 10,000 therapists.
Note Designer is built by clinicians for clinicians, making therapy documentation faster, easier, and fully customizable.
Includes SOAP, DAP, BIRP, GIRP, SIRP, PIE notes, treatment plans, intake reports, and more — including optional AI assistance. No hidden fees. Ever.
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Why therapists choose Note Designer
Built by clinicians
Designed by and for mental health professionals. We understand documentation challenges. Helping our fellow clinicians save time and reduce stress is our goal.
Secure
Fully HIPAA and PIPEDA-compliant. Your data stays in your control – no identifying information is ever stored in the cloud or anywhere else.
Affordable
Choose a flexible plan that fits your needs. Unlimited number of clients and notes. Pay monthly or annually with no hidden fees, caps, or gimmicks.
Powerful features that fit your practice
Smart Templates For Any Note Style
Use built-in templates for SOAP, DAP, BIRP, GIRP, SIRP, PIE notes, treatment plans, intake reports, and more.
Save time and stay clinically aligned. All templates are fully customizable.
Optional AI For Smarter Note Writing
Ethical AI helps rewrite or summarize your notes when needed, without ever replacing your clinical judgment.
Stay in full control of your clinical voice. Or don’t use AI at all - your choice.
Supports Diverse Treatments
Covers over 20 therapy approaches for individual, Couples, Child, Family and Groups (e.g., ACT, CBT, DBT, EMDR, Trauma-Focused, Play Therapy and more)
Built to support every approach you practice.
AI Insights at Your Fingertips
Get clinical support while writing. Our AI assistant answers questions and offers instant guidance.
Your thinking partner in clinical care
What therapists are saying
FAQs
We know therapists value clarity and control. Here are some of the most common questions about Note Designer to help you feel confident before getting started.
When you reach out to us, you’re not speaking to a bot or navigating a help desk maze. You’re connecting with fellow professionals who care about your experience and are committed to helping you succeed. Whether you have a technical question, need help customizing a template, or just want to offer feedback, we’re here — and we listen.
In a time when automated support is the norm, our users consistently tell us how refreshing it is to get fast, thoughtful, and human responses. Your feedback truly shapes how we grow, and we’ll always do our best to help you feel supported every step of the way.
No. Your notes are never uploaded or stored in the cloud — you stay in control of where and how your notes are saved.
Yes – Note Designer was built with flexibility in mind, making it easy to create progress notes that reflect your individual clinical style and therapeutic approach.
There are many ways to customize. For each note you create with Note Designer, you can readily add your own tailored content. For instance, you can choose to add introductory and closing paragraphs to each of your notes. You can also modify the wording of our 500+ pre-set statements to match your particular clinical situation and style. The program also allows you to generate and add your own content (e.g., common difficulties you work with, particular types of interventions you make, typical exercises you implement) that can be saved for use in all your future notes. If you choose to use our AI-rewriting feature, you are also free to edit and modify your note output by making additions or deletions as you wish.
Finally, the program has been set up to allow for even more extensive customization by the user: You can create entirely new note templates by moving around elements or even creating new tabs, subtabs, or categories of content. All of these features are designed to balance structure and convenience with flexibility and customizability. Your customizations are stored on our secure server so they are available on all your devices.
Whether you’re a psychologist, social worker, counselor, or psychotherapist, Note Designer helps you write better, faster, and more personalized clinical notes — your way.
Yes. Note Designer is built to help you write therapy notes quickly and effectively, with the flexibility to use them in your own secure systems.
Most users either print their notes, export them as PDFs, or copy and paste the completed note into their EHR (Electronic Health Record) system or into a word processing program like Microsoft Word for final editing, formatting, and secure storage.
Note Designer is not an EHR and does not transmit or store your notes on the cloud or on our servers. It’s a documentation tool — not a storage platform — designed to support structured, efficient, and customizable note composition.
For guidance on secure storage options and best practices, visit: https://notedesigner.com/resources/storage
Because Note Designer is a note writing software and not a record storage system (such as with Electronic Health Records), and because user-identifying information never leaves your browser, HIPAA compliance is not an issue. You are fully in charge of where and how you store your confidential data – with Note Designer your identifying protected health information is never stored in the cloud or on our server – they remain in your hands on your device. Read more about HIPAA here.
Note Designer’s Ethical AI is built on the principles of transparency, user control, and security. Our AI system is not powered by a third party—instead, we manage a private instance of an open-source model (currently Microsoft’s Phi-4) hosted on our HIPAA-compliant AWS server space. Because we manage the AI model, Microsoft has no access to your client data, and no information is ever shared externally.
Key features of our Ethical AI approach include:
- No identifying client information is ever sent to the AI. Patient details from your Headings tab remain entirely within your browser.
- AI processing is encrypted and secure. When you click “AI Rewrite,” only non-identifiable note content is sent to the AI model, and results are securely returned to your browser.
- Nothing is stored or reused. Inputs and outputs are never stored, never shared, and never used to train any AI model. The model we use is pre-trained and static.
We are committed to ethical clinical AI. For more thoughts on this, we invite you to read Patricia’s blog posts or reach out to us directly at info@notedesigner.com.
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