For therapy, counseling & psychiatry practices

The patient who finally worked up the courage to call should not land in voicemail.

First calls to a therapy or psychiatry practice are hard to make and easy to lose. They come after hours, between sessions, or in a moment of resolve that fades fast, and when your front desk is with a client the call rings out and the person books with whoever picked up. We put a HIPAA-aware system on your line that answers every intake call, captures what they need in plain, minimal terms, and books the appointment or routes them to your team. It never gives clinical advice, and anything that sounds urgent goes straight to a human, your on-call protocol, or 988.

  • Answers intake calls after hours and between sessions
  • HIPAA-aware builds on BAA-backed vendors
  • Crisis language routes to your staff or 988
  • Reminders, reschedules, and waitlist backfill

Where it leaks

The gaps that quietly cost you bookings.

01

The first call is the hardest one to lose

Reaching out for therapy can take weeks of nerve, and that resolve is fragile. When a first-time caller hits voicemail, many do not call back and do not leave a message. They either book with the next practice or put it off again. It is the highest-stakes call your practice gets, and the easiest to miss while you are in session.

02

After-hours and between-session calls go unanswered

Most people call when they finally have a private moment: a lunch break, a late evening, the drive home. If the office is closed or the desk is mid-session, the call rings out. The motivated ones keep dialing until someone answers, and that someone is often a competing practice.

03

Insurance and 'are you taking new patients' stall the booking

Before they commit, callers want to know whether you take their plan and whether you have openings. When that answer waits on a callback that never comes, the booking drifts. A clear, approved answer in the moment is often the difference between a booked intake and an empty slot.

04

No-shows leave gaps you cannot backfill by hand

A late cancellation is an hour of clinical time that is hard to re-fill in time. Reminders depend on a busy team sending them, and the waitlist patients who would happily take the slot never hear that it opened up.

What we build

Your growth system, built to fit.

Done-for-you automation tuned to how your practice actually runs. It lives on tools you own, so you always have the keys.

HIPAA-aware AI intake receptionist

Answers every call in your practice's voice, after hours and between sessions. It captures the reason for the call in plain, minimal terms, works only from a script you approve, and never diagnoses or gives clinical advice.

  • intake calls
  • HIPAA-aware

After-hours intake capture

When the office is closed it still answers, takes the request, and books the appointment or schedules a callback, so the person who reached out at 10pm is not lost by morning.

  • after-hours
  • capture

Crisis language routes to a human

If a caller's words suggest urgency or risk, the system does not try to counsel them. It escalates immediately to your on-call staff, your crisis protocol, or 988, exactly the way you tell it to.

  • crisis routing
  • escalation

Insurance and appointment intake

Answers 'do you take my plan' and 'are you accepting new patients' from your approved script, captures the intake basics, and books the appointment or the consult.

  • insurance
  • booking

Reminders and reschedules

Confirms upcoming appointments to cut no-shows and makes rescheduling a text away instead of a round of phone tag.

  • reminders
  • no-shows

Waitlist backfill

When a slot opens from a cancellation, it offers the time to your waitlist so clinical hours do not sit empty.

  • waitlist
  • gap-fill

How it runs

One automation, wired into your tools.

We build the automation flow and connect it to the phone, CRM, calendar, and email you already use. Every message it sends is yours to approve, and the whole system lives in your accounts. If we part ways, you keep it.

The diagram is a schematic of the workflow we build for you. It is drawn for your business, not a stock template or a screenshot of someone else’s system.

Intake call to booked appointmentautomation workflow

Inbound intake call rings out, or an after-hours request lands

Trigger

1

Answer & greet

Picks up in your practice's voice, no voicemail

2

Listen for urgency first

If anything signals crisis or risk, it routes to a human or 988 before anything else

3

Capture the request

Notes the reason in plain, minimal terms: new patient, follow-up, reschedule

4

Answer from approved script

Insurance and new-patient questions only; no diagnosis, no clinical or medication advice

5

Book or route

Offers an intake slot, sends a booking link, or schedules a staff callback

6

Hand off to staff

Clinical questions and anything out of scope go to a person

Intake booked or routed to your team, logged with a minimal data footprint. No clinical advice given

Run your own numbers

If your practice misses __ intake calls a week, and a new patient is worth $__ across an episode of care, here's what's slipping away. Run it with your own numbers.

Intake calls missed per week

example: 7

Value of a new patient (intake + episode of care)

example: $1,500

Share of those calls a 24/7 line could have caught

example: half

These are illustrative placeholders to show the framing, not results we're claiming. Your real miss rate and patient value are yours to plug in. That's the number worth running before you decide.

What it costs

Priced against what you’re losing, scoped by your audit.

Recovery

$499/mo

after-hours missed-call coverage

Growth

$899/mo

24/7 answering + booking workflow

Pro

$1,499+/mo

multi-location & advanced follow-up

one-time setup from $3,500 · test agent in ~3 business days

  • Built in accounts you own — no lock-in
  • A human approves before anything goes live
  • Monthly care, monitoring, and a real-numbers report
  • No-PHI by default; BAA-backed when needed

FAQ

Fair questions.

Does it ever give therapy, diagnosis, or medication advice?

No. It handles scheduling, insurance, and intake from a script you approve, and routes anything clinical, like symptoms, diagnosis, medication, or treatment questions, to your staff. It does not counsel, diagnose, or stand in for a provider.

What happens if someone is in crisis?

It does not try to handle a crisis itself. If a caller's words suggest urgency or risk, the system escalates immediately to your on-call staff, your crisis protocol, or 988, exactly the way you tell it to. The rules are yours, set before it goes live.

How do you handle patient privacy?

These are HIPAA-aware builds on BAA-backed vendors, and we work with a minimal data footprint by default, collecting only what the system needs to book or route. We're glad to walk your practice through exactly what data is touched and where it lives before you commit. HIPAA-aware means built on BAA-backed vendors; it is not a substitute for your own compliance review.

What does it cost, and how fast can we test it?

No commitment up front. You start with a free Growth Leak Audit on your own numbers, then hear a test agent on a forwarded number within about three business days, before it ever touches your main line. Setup starts around $3,500 and scales with your call volume and the booking and follow-up you want. ClinicFront care plans run $499/mo for after-hours recovery, $899/mo for full answering and booking, and $1,499+/mo once reminders, waitlist backfill, and reporting are included. It goes live only after QA passes and you approve it.

More verticals

We build the same engine for other trades.

Free · no commitment · audit in ~2 days

See where your practice is leaking booked revenue.

See exactly which intake calls your practice is missing, and what they're worth, before you spend a dollar.

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