# Rachel Okonkwo, LCSW — Private Practice, 12 clients/week solo — read of Progress Notes AI, June 9 2026

> Nine years licensed, mostly trauma and attachment work, currently running a solo practice out of a shared suite in Oakland. SimplePractice for scheduling and billing, still doing my actual notes in a Google Doc like it's 2014 because nothing else has felt right.

## How I got here

My supervision group had a whole side conversation last Thursday about documentation fatigue. Someone mentioned they were trying AI tools. I Googled "AI progress notes for therapists" on my lunch break and this came up, not in the top three results but maybe fifth or sixth. I clicked it mostly because the URL looked like a real product and not a Reddit thread.

## What I clicked first

"Your Therapy Notes Don't Have to Take Forever" landed okay. It's honest about the problem. But "Progress Notes AI turns hours of clinical documentation into minutes" made me scroll immediately to look for proof. That's a big claim. Hours to minutes is not a tweak, that's a 10x improvement. I wanted to see who was saying that before I read anything else.

## Where I paused

The FAQ answer about EHR integration listed "SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Psychology Today, etc." Psychology Today is a therapist directory. It is not an EHR. It doesn't hold clinical notes. Anyone who actually knew this space would not put Psychology Today in that list. That one sentence told me a lot about how much the people who built this have actually talked to therapists versus read about therapists.

## What I distrusted

"73% Less time on documentation / 94% Therapists would recommend / 6.2 hrs Reclaimed per week." No source. No n. No link. Those numbers are formatted exactly like the kind of stats you put on a slide when you want people to feel like there's research without actually having research. And then buried lower on the page it says "we don't have live customers on this idea yet." So those numbers came from where, exactly? The AI that trained on therapy blogs?

Also: "Making therapy documentation frictionless since 2026." That's this year. The product is months old at best, possibly weeks. The stat block above it implies a real user base. That contradiction is not subtle.

The "Built by Wishdeal Studio" footer, plus the visible links to TypeDraft and DemoForge and "Adopt this idea for $99" made it pretty clear this is a studio-generated concept page, not a product someone's been running for two years. I'd have felt differently about the stats if I hadn't scrolled far enough to see that.

## What would convince me

A real note, or even a fake-but-plausible note, showing what the output actually looks like. Not a feature list. Show me a session summary input and the resulting SOAP or DAP note that came out. Let me judge the clinical quality myself. I have strong opinions about what makes a good progress note and I cannot tell from "clinically accurate, HIPAA-compliant" whether the output is usable or garbage.

One named therapist, on the record, with their license number and state, saying this saved them time. Not a percentage. A person. "I'm a licensed MFT in Colorado and I use this for my DBT clients" is worth more to me than any stat.

## What I'd ask in an email reply

1. That Psychology Today / EHR list bothered me. Can you show me actual documentation of a SimplePractice integration working? Screen recording, not a feature bullet.

2. The page says the AI "learns your clinical voice after 10-15 sessions." What does that actually mean technically? Does it fine-tune on my notes? Does it store them? If my notes are used to train a model, even one specific to me, I need to understand what that means for client confidentiality under HIPAA.

3. Who built this and do any of them have clinical backgrounds? Not asking to be rude. Asking because the Psychology Today slip made me wonder.

## Verdict: on-the-fence

The problem is real and I'd genuinely pay for something that solved it. But I can't tell yet if this is a product or an idea someone is trying to sell me before they've built it, and the stats on a page that also says "no live customers" make me feel like I'm being shown a menu for a restaurant that isn't open yet.

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*Memo by skeptic persona, generated 2026-06-09. Studio breaks own self-grading loop.*