58. Revolutionize Therapy with Berries’ Session Assistant

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Revolutionize Therapy with Berries’ Session Assistant

Feeling overwhelmed with treatment planning and documentation during client sessions? Berries’ Session Assistant might be exactly what you’ve been waiting for. In this episode of Run Your Private Practice with AI, I’m sharing a game-changing update from Berries that puts a real-time, HIPAA-compliant AI assistant right beside your recorded sessions.

Berries’ Session Assistant helps you stay present, organized, and collaborative, without toggling between charts or notes. It’s a must-see if you’re ready to streamline your clinical workflow and get real-time feedback during sessions.

AI Tips You Don’t Want to Miss:

  • What Berries’ Session Assistant is and how it works during live therapy sessions
  • How to co-create treatment goals and interventions with clients in real time
  • Ways to use AI to reference past notes, progress, and medication details instantly
  • How this tool can streamline documentation without leaving the client conversation
  • Ideas for using the assistant to enhance your clinical decision-making on the fly
Revolutionize Therapy with Berries' Session Assistant

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Sponsored by Alma: www.helloalma.com/kym
Sponsored by Berries: www.heyberries.com/therapists

Transcript:

[00:00:00] Hi everybody. Happy Wednesday. Just wanna tell you guys, Berries has just released something totally amazing.

[00:00:07] I’m really excited about it. I’m just gonna talk about that today. So let me know if you have any questions. Right after this, I’m going over to make a video sort of an explainer video of how to use this new tool that I’m gonna tell you about.

[00:00:19] So you guys probably remember those of you using Berries if you don’t know what Berries is, let me back up. Of course. I’m Kim Tolson. I’m the clinical technical advisor, clinical advisor for Berries. I also host the Between sessions with Berries podcast, which I’m really excited about.

[00:00:34] We’ve got amazing guests on there, So part of what I do is bring the clinical piece to Berries to talk about like what us as clinicians we want, that sort of thing. So a few months ago we introduced the ChatGPT HIPAA compliant AI assistant inside of Berries, where you could go and chit chat with the assistant about the client, you could see their progress notes and their treatment plans and all of that.

[00:00:58] But you had to go into the client chart to be able to do that essentially. We just released something amazing yesterday. it’s incredible. If you already have berries, please go check this out. You’re just not even gonna believe this. It’s like next level clinical assistant, basically, and it’s called Session Assistant.

[00:01:16] Okay? So it’s the HIPAA compliant ChatGPT, but now it’s available on the same screen. You know that screen inside of Berries if you’re not a user yet, you basically can turn on recorded session, so you’re in a session with a client, it’s recording the session, the session assistant now, the HIPAA compliant ChatGPT is in a side-by-side screen, so it’s right next to your session that you’re working in with a client.

[00:01:42] So you’re recording the session, but you can see the AI assistant and you can use it in real time while you’re interacting with your client. blows my mind and it’s only gonna get more advanced from here. But right now, let’s say for example, you’re in with your client and you’re trying to, you know, talk about treatment goals, treatment plans.

[00:02:00] You can even share your screen with your client and do it with them and show them how the AI is helping in the session, if you feel comfortable with that. But you can literally have this up while you’re recording, open it up, this assistant, and you can talk to it in real time while it’s recording the session so it knows what’s happening while you’re in the session.

[00:02:18] So you could say something like, okay, yeah, we’re really wanting to work on, you know, this treatment goal right now, and what, what treatment goal should we do? Say it to the assistant, talking to the client, say it to the assistant, going back and forth and formulating your ideas, your thoughts, your processes while you’re in session with the client.

[00:02:34] So you can say. Gosh, you know, and it’s reading old treatment plans, old progress notes, assessment. It knows all that information about the client while you’re in session. So you can say, gosh, right now we’re talking about, you know, grief. The client’s working on, I need a really awesome intervention to help them because they’re stuck.

[00:02:52] we’re in real time with the client talking to the AI assistant, recording the session all at the same time. This is all happening at once, talking back and forth with the assistant, and then it’s like, okay, oh, amazing. You say to the client. What do you think about doing this? Let’s say for the next two weeks you do blah, blah, blah.

[00:03:09] Okay, so you’re like doing this in real time, developing the treatment plan. That’s what we’re supposed to do anyway. I think, honestly, a lot of us don’t do that. We’re supposed to develop treatment plans, goals, interventions, objectives with our clients in real time. They’re supposed to sign off on their treatment plans in a lot of cases, especially if you’re insurance based.

[00:03:26] This changes that, right? Because you’re not having to like formulate this whole thing. You can say, okay, you, oh, you don’t wanna, oh, you don’t like journaling? Okay, no, she doesn’t like journaling. Let’s think of something else. And this assistant is right there beside you thinking of something else to give them as a treatment plan goal.

[00:03:41] And then right there you say the assistant, okay, turn this into a goal, a goal with three objectives, make it measurable, blah, blah, blah. Spits it out, read it back to the client. Client says, yes, that sounds perfect for me. That’s what I wanna do. Tell me that’s not the coolest thing ever. Like I’m so jealous that I did not have this when I started out as a clinician, especially like in agency work.

[00:03:58] Oh my God. Writing all those treatment plans and everything. So super excited about this. There’s so many use cases for it. You can literally interact with this thing about the client. While you’re in session with the client or after, you know, after it writes the note, it’s gonna be right there side by side and you can do the same thing.

[00:04:13] So you can look at the note that’s come up, you can interact with the assistant and say like, gosh, how could I have handled that sentence better? Or how could I have educated them better about the medication that they brought up in the session? Or what is the medication they brought up in the session?

[00:04:28] It’s gonna be in the note. You’ll be able to see it. Oh, they’re now taking this. Interact with the assistant. Can you tell me more more about this medication? I wanna make sure I fully understand. Can you write an email to the psychiatrist because I wanna tell the psychiatrist I’m concerned about this medication for some reason or another.

[00:04:42] All in real time while you’re looking at the client note and writing this information. So it’s just happening all at once. HIPAA compliant ChatGPT is my favorite. You guys know I love ChatGPT more than Claude or any of those other ones. It’s right there inside of the system. It’s protected, it’s HIPAA compliant.

[00:04:58] You can use it instantly and just get like immediate feedback about your clinical work that you’re doing while it’s looking at the work you just did with the client or that you’re doing in real time with the client.

[00:05:08] In my mind, and we’ve talked to, you know, Berries and I have talked about this talent u of all the co-founders maybe this assistant eventually is kind of giving like suggestions on the side throughout the session. Just like, oh, maybe you should ask about the medication a little bit more.

[00:05:22] You know, just giving like smart suggestions based on what you’re talking about in the session too. I don’t know how you guys would even feel about that. To me, that seems next level. I think I would love it if I had just a little popup say, wait a minute, follow up on that. Wait a second. Wasn’t this an intervention she was supposed to do two weeks ago?

[00:05:39] Like that kind of feedback while in session? what do you guys think about that? Would that be wild or would it be distracting and annoying? I just wonder how you guys would feel about it.

[00:05:48] I’m trying to think, think of some other things that it could do. I took some notes. You could see your recent notes, your insights, your past sessions highlighted in that one clean panel that you’ll see in the video that I’m gonna share in a little while.

[00:06:00] If you’re already in Berries, go check it out. It’s a feature, it’s there if you have clients today, utilize it, open the assistant right next to the session that you’re in. It’s. Crazy, incredible. And you’re gonna love it. You could update the goals on the fly while you’re right there. Digging around, not losing focus, like trying to go into their chart and do this and that. It’s just all right there for you.

[00:06:21] I’m just so excited about, I’m excited about Berries. to me it’s just the most innovative tool out there that we have to help with our clients and it just makes our lives so much easier. So I wanted to tell you about this update today and the next week we have another huge update, but I’m gonna wait and tell you about it then it’s a contest that you guys can enter.

[00:06:39] If you haven’t checked it out yet, we also have launched the Berries podcast, which is between sessions with berries. We’ve had so many cool guests.

[00:06:48] I think I’ve recorded. Almost 18 sessions so far, and each episode is like totally different and amazing and helps support the clinicians between sessions. So I hope you guys are checking that out. I’ll put the link down under here too. Exciting stuff. Yeah, so if you watch this back, if you have questions, if you try the session assistant, let me know.

[00:07:09] I wanna hear your feedback. We love to hear what you think. If there’s things that. Maybe we could move this button here or this button here, or make it a little bit easier for you to use. Or if you just absolutely love it and thought of a really cool way to use it, we wanna hear that too.

[00:07:24] So If you’re listening to this on the podcast, of course you can always reach out to me at info@kimtoon.com. It’s K-Y-M-T-O-L-S-O n.com. And if you’re not using Berries yet, go to heyberries.com/therapist.

[00:07:39] Check it out. You get 20 sessions free. No credit card required. and it’s just, it, it’s gonna blow your mind, especially if you haven’t tried it out yet, you’re gonna be like, oh my gosh, I can’t believe I lived and worked as a clinician not using this tool. It’s just like life changing. So anyway, okay, I’ll see you guys later.

[00:07:56] Have a great rest of the week and I’ll see you next week. Bye.