AI Therapy Notes Assistant
Speech-to-SOAP-notes for therapists, built so the sensitive part never leaks.
- ~70%
- Less documentation time
- 2 wks
- To real-world adoption
- 0
- PHI exposure points
A counselor I knew spent every evening writing up sessions from memory. This listens to the whole session and drafts the note. The real work wasn't the transcription — it was making sure protected health data never ended up somewhere it shouldn't.
The problem
Writing notes is a tax on care: hours of after-hours typing, and details slip when you're reconstructing from memory. The obvious AI fix runs straight into the catch — this is about the most sensitive data there is.
What I built
The pipeline runs audio through WhisperX, generates the note with Azure OpenAI, and returns a structured SOAP note, with a Next.js front end over a FastAPI backend. I kept protected health data isolated at every step, and tuned generation on full sessions so the notes follow the arc of the hour rather than a few keywords.
Outcome
A practicing counselor adopted it within two weeks, replacing a fully manual routine and cutting write-up time by about 70%.