Portal logins kill conversion
Most self-scheduling tools require a portal login, password reset, or 30 minutes of forms before a slot is offered. New clients drop off.
40–60% intake funnel drop-off
Clients book themselves — conversationally
AI self-scheduling that books therapy sessions in a single conversation
Frontdesk lets new and returning clients book therapy sessions themselves — via voice, HIPAA-compliant SMS, web chat, or WhatsApp — with live availability from SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Jane App, CentralReach, TheraNest, and Fusion Web Clinic. No portal logins, no forms — just a conversation that ends with a booked session, the 24h / 2h / 30min cadence armed, and the file ready in the EHR.
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Coverage
Voice / SMS / Chat / WhatsApp
Channels
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Languages
SimplePractice +0
EHRs
Works with every major EHR & practice management system
SimplePractice
Mental health, speech, OT/PT
TherapyNotes
Mental health practices
Jane App
Multi-discipline clinics
CentralReach
ABA + autism services
TheraNest
Therapy + counseling
Fusion Web Clinic
Pediatric SLP/OT/PT
The Problem
Phone tag eats clinician time
When a client has even one question — “does this clinician take Medicaid?” — they fall back to a phone call. Receptionists pick up the queue.
$15K+/year per location in front-desk booking labor
After-hours and weekend bookings go to voicemail
Most therapy inquiries come outside 9–5. Without 24/7 self-scheduling, evenings and weekends become voicemail graveyards.
Lost intake, ranked-listing drop-off, lower utilization
Reminder tools don’t book — they remind
SimplePractice native reminders, TherapyNotes reminders, Spruce Health, Klara, Weave, and Solutionreach all remind. None of them run a conversational booking flow.
Self-scheduling stays portal-only, conversion stays low
How Frontdesk Works
Built for therapy practices and clinics on SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Jane App, CentralReach, TheraNest, Fusion Web Clinic — and every other major EHR. HIPAA-compliant by design with BAA, encrypted PHI, and audit logs.
Live call
+1 (415) 555-0142
Inbound · Zillow Rentals lead
AI Transcript
“Hi! I’d love to tour the 2-bedroom at Maple Heights. Any availability this Saturday?”
Frontdesk AI
“Yes! The 2BR at Maple Heights is $2,450/mo with a Feb 1 move-in. Saturday 11am or 2pm works for tours. Shall I book one?”
Answered in 0.4s
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Conversational self-scheduling across channels
Clients book via voice, HIPAA-compliant SMS, web chat, or WhatsApp — no portal login required. Frontdesk handles the full conversation in 30+ languages.
- Inbound voice self-scheduling (24/7)
- HIPAA-compliant SMS booking
- Web chat booking (practice site)
- WhatsApp Business booking
- 30+ languages, Spanish-first, ASL referral routing
Qualification
Looking for a 2BR around $2,400, move-in mid-February. Do you allow pets?
We have a 2BR at $2,450/mo available Feb 15. Cats and dogs under 50 lbs welcome. What’s your move-in date?
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Budget$2,400
Layout2BR
Move-inFeb 15
Pets1 dog, 35 lbs
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Live availability from the EHR
Frontdesk reads availability live from SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Jane App, CentralReach, TheraNest, and Fusion Web Clinic — and books directly into the calendar.
- Live availability lookup (no caching drift)
- Per-clinician + per-modality slots
- Telehealth vs in-person preference
- Recurring-series booking on intake
- Multi-location routing
More capabilities
Everything else your team needs
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Insurance + funding-source intake
Frontdesk asks about insurance, EAP, Medicaid, or self-pay during the booking conversation — and verifies eligibility through Availity, Office Ally, Trizetto, Waystar, and Change Healthcare before the session is booked.
- Insurance + funding-source capture
- Live eligibility check via Availity / Office Ally / Trizetto / Waystar
- BCBS / Aetna / Cigna / UnitedHealthcare / Humana / Kaiser / TRICARE
- Medicaid + Medicare verification
- EAP / Headway / Alma / SonderMind routing
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Clinician matching by specialty + preference
Frontdesk matches clients to clinicians by specialty (SLP, ABA, EMDR, couples, psychiatry), gender preference, language, and modality — and offers a shortlist of slots.
- Specialty + sub-specialty matching
- Clinician gender + language preference
- Modality (telehealth vs in-person)
- Urgency-based slot priority
- Spanish-speaking + bilingual matching
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Confirmation cadence armed on book
The moment a session is booked, the 24h / 2h / 30min confirmation cadence is armed — and no-show recovery within 5 minutes is ready to fire.
- 24h / 2h / 30min cadence auto-armed
- Live AI escalation for non-responders
- 5-minute no-show recovery
- Cancellation + waitlist backfill ready
- Series-aware series preservation
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HIPAA-compliant intake capture
Frontdesk captures intake details (chief complaint, urgency, history) over HIPAA-compliant channels and pushes them into SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Jane App, CentralReach, TheraNest, or Fusion Web Clinic before the first session.
- HIPAA-compliant intake conversation
- Chief-complaint + urgency capture
- Intake-form completion (IntakeQ, Practice Better)
- Audit log of every booking conversation
- BAA + encrypted PHI by design
Integrations
Frontdesk is EHR-agnostic and integrates bidirectionally with SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, TheraNest, Jane App, IntakeQ, Practice Better, Kareo (Tebra), athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, WebPT, NetHealth (Optima), ChiroTouch, ClinicSource, Fusion Web Clinic, PtEverywhere, Power Diary, OwlPractice, TherapyAppointment, CentralReach, Rethink Behavioral Health, Catalyst, AccuPoint, Lumary, Total ABA, Theralytics, and TheraBe. New-client intake, scheduling, eligibility, prior-auth, superbills, and recall campaigns sync in real time — and every conversation is HIPAA-compliant by design.
SimplePractice
Mental health, speech, OT/PT
TherapyNotes
Mental health practices
Jane App
Multi-discipline clinics
CentralReach
ABA + autism services
TheraNest
Therapy + counseling
Fusion Web Clinic
Pediatric SLP/OT/PT
Full integration coverage
- SimplePractice (mental health, speech, OT/PT) bidirectional sync
- TherapyNotes for solo and group mental health practices
- Jane App for multi-discipline clinics (SLP / OT / PT / mental health)
- TheraNest for mental health and counseling practices
- IntakeQ + Practice Better for HIPAA intake form automation
- Kareo (Tebra), athenahealth, eClinicalWorks for medical-grade EHR sync
- WebPT and NetHealth (Optima) for OT/PT clinics
- Fusion Web Clinic, ClinicSource, PtEverywhere for pediatric SLP/OT/PT
- CentralReach, Rethink Behavioral Health, Catalyst, AccuPoint, Lumary, Total ABA for ABA + autism services
- Theralytics, TheraBe for ABA data + clinical operations
- Eligibility + benefits verification: Availity, Office Ally, Trizetto, Waystar, Change Healthcare
- Telehealth: Doxy.me, Zoom for Healthcare, SimplePractice telehealth, healow
- HIPAA-compliant by design: BAA available, encrypted PHI, audit logs
Customer stories
Real practices using Frontdesk to handle scheduling, intake, no-show recovery, and insurance verification — without adding front-desk headcount.
Who it's for
Solo therapists wanting 24/7 booking
Group practices with 10–50 clinicians
ABA clinics with parent-driven intake
Pediatric SLP / OT / PT clinics
Psychiatry / med-management practices
Telehealth-heavy practices on Doxy.me, Zoom for Healthcare
Practices replacing Spruce Health, Klara, Weave, Solutionreach
EAP-heavy practices on Headway, Alma, SonderMind
Multi-location therapy groups standardizing intake
The journey
Every step syncs to Yardi, RealPage, Entrata, AppFolio, Buildium, or ResMan in real time.
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Step 1
AI captures every client and caregiver interaction
Inbound voice, outbound AI voice, HIPAA-compliant SMS, web chat, and email are answered instantly with practice-aware context — across speech-language pathology (SLP), applied behavior analysis (ABA), mental health and counseling, psychiatry, occupational therapy (OT), and physical therapy (PT). Works with SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, TheraNest, Jane App, IntakeQ, Kareo, CentralReach, Rethink Behavioral Health, Fusion Web Clinic, and WebPT.
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Step 2
Records sync to your EHR, scheduling, and billing
New-client intake, scheduled appointments, reschedules, cancellations, waitlist updates, eligibility checks, prior-authorization status, and superbills flow into SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, TheraNest, Jane App, IntakeQ, Practice Better, Kareo, athenahealth, WebPT, NetHealth (Optima), Fusion Web Clinic, ClinicSource, CentralReach, Rethink, AccuPoint, and Catalyst in real time.
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Step 3
Automation runs reminders, recovery, and outreach
24h, 2h, and 30min appointment reminders, no-show recovery within 5 minutes, cancellation backfill from the waitlist, eligibility verification, prior-auth follow-up, recall campaigns, review-request automation, and parent/caregiver coordination fire automatically across voice, HIPAA-compliant SMS, and email.
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Step 4
Analytics surface what matters across the practice
Cross-discipline dashboards track new-client conversion, first-call answer rate, average response time, no-show rate, waitlist-fill rate, recall response rate, schedule density, and revenue impact — across SLP, ABA, mental health, OT, and PT lines of service.
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What this page covers
Topics, integrations, channels, practice types, and workflows covered by AI Self-Scheduling for Therapy.
Built for therapy practices where the booking funnel breaks on portals, forms, and phone tag. Unlike SimplePractice native reminders, TherapyNotes reminders, Spruce Health, Klara, Weave, and Solutionreach — which only nudge an existing portal — Frontdesk conducts the full intake-and-book conversation: collects insurance, funding source, clinician preference, modality, urgency, then books the slot live. HIPAA-compliant by design with BAA, encrypted PHI, and audit logs across SLP, ABA, mental health, psychiatry, OT, and PT.
EHR & practice management
- SimplePractice
- SimplePractice telehealth
- TherapyNotes
- TheraNest
- Jane App
- IntakeQ
- Practice Better
- Kareo (Tebra)
- athenahealth
- eClinicalWorks
- WebPT
- NetHealth (Optima)
- ChiroTouch
- ClinicSource
- Fusion Web Clinic
- PtEverywhere
- Power Diary
- OwlPractice
- TherapyAppointment
- CentralReach (ABA)
- Rethink Behavioral Health (ABA)
- Catalyst (ABA)
- AccuPoint (ABA)
- Lumary (ABA)
- Total ABA
- Theralytics
- TheraBe
Telehealth, scheduling & communication
- Doxy.me
- Zoom for Healthcare
- Google Meet for Healthcare
- SimplePractice telehealth
- TheraNest video
- healow
- Acuity Scheduling
- Calendly Health
- NexHealth
- Solutionreach
- Weave
- Spruce Health
- Klara
- Updox
- OhMD
Billing, payor & eligibility
- Availity eligibility
- Office Ally
- Trizetto Provider Solutions
- Waystar
- ClaimMD
- Apex EDI
- Change Healthcare
- TriZetto
- Medicaid eligibility verification
- Medicare eligibility verification
- Commercial payor verification (BCBS, Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, Humana, Kaiser)
- TRICARE eligibility
- TriCare West / TriCare East
- Good Faith Estimate (No Surprises Act)
- Superbills + self-pay invoicing
- EAP (Employee Assistance Program) intake
- Headway / Alma / SonderMind / Grow Therapy panel onboarding
Therapy workflows automated
- AI new-client intake (HIPAA-aware)
- AI insurance eligibility + benefits verification
- AI appointment scheduling and reschedule
- AI no-show recovery + cancellation backfill
- AI waitlist management and slot-fill outreach
- AI prior-authorization coordination
- AI superbill + receipt generation
- AI session reminders (24h, 2h, 30min cadences)
- AI parent / caregiver coordination (pediatric)
- AI crisis-line and suicide-risk triage with live escalation
- AI IEP/504 meeting coordination (school-based therapy)
- AI recurring appointment series management
- AI discharge planning + handoff
- AI review-request automation (Google, Healthgrades, Zocdoc)
- AI referral-source follow-up + thank-yous
Therapy specialties served
- Speech-Language Pathology (SLP)
- Pediatric speech therapy
- Adult speech therapy
- AAC evaluation and therapy
- Stuttering / fluency therapy
- Feeding and swallowing therapy
- Voice therapy
- Myofunctional therapy
- Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
- BCBA-supervised clinics
- Autism diagnostic evaluation
- Mental health and counseling
- Couples and family therapy
- Teen and adolescent therapy
- Trauma therapy / EMDR
- Eating-disorder treatment
- Substance-use intake
- Psychiatry / med management
- Occupational therapy (OT)
- Pediatric OT / sensory integration
- Physical therapy (PT)
- Orthopedic rehab
- Vestibular therapy
- Pelvic floor therapy
- Hand therapy
- Pediatric PT
- School-based therapy services
Communication channels
- Inbound voice (24/7 intake, after-hours hotline)
- Outbound AI voice (recall, no-show recovery, waitlist fill)
- HIPAA-compliant SMS and texting
- WhatsApp Business
- Web chat (practice site + EHR portal)
- 30+ languages (Spanish-speaking SLP, bilingual mental health, ASL referral routing)
Competitive alternatives
- SimplePractice Telehealth + Reminders alternative
- TherapyNotes Telehealth alternative
- Spruce Health alternative for voice + outbound
- Klara alternative
- Updox alternative
- Weave alternative for SMB therapy
- Solutionreach alternative
- NexHealth alternative
- OhMD alternative
- Headway / Alma / SonderMind / Grow Therapy front office
FAQ
Common questions about AI Self-Scheduling for Therapy
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Contact supportNo. Frontdesk runs the full booking conversation over voice, HIPAA-compliant SMS, web chat, or WhatsApp — no portal login, no password reset, no form-first flow. Unlike SimplePractice native reminders, TherapyNotes reminders, Spruce Health, Klara, Weave, or Solutionreach, which all sit on top of a portal.