Therapy & Mental Health Scheduling Software

Flexible for clients, predictable for you

TheraNest® is built for therapy scheduling, not adapted from a general-purpose calendar. Recurring sessions, group rosters, room assignments, and automated reminders are all built in, no workarounds needed. 

Therapist scheduling software built for real practice complexity

Recurring appointments without the rigidity

Set up a recurring series once. When one session needs a different time, location, or clinician, edit just that appointment and leave the rest of the series alone. Assign it to a room and TheraNest blocks anyone else from booking that room at the same time.

One calendar for your whole practice

See every clinician, service type, and location on one calendar, or filter down to just one, without switching accounts. Sync with Google Calendar in both directions, so your appointments show up in Google and your Google commitments block time in TheraNest. Apple Calendar gets a one-way feed of your appointments.

Let clients book on their own terms

New and existing clients can request appointments through the client portal based on your real-time availability. You decide which services, clinicians, and time slots are available, and you confirm or decline each request before it’s booked. Less phone tag, fewer emails, same level of control.

Telehealth made easy

No links to copy and paste, no separate app. Telehealth links are created automatically when you schedule the session and go out with the client’s reminder. Attendance connects to billing and reporting, so a video session doesn’t mean extra work once it ends.

Scheduling that holds up under pressure 

Real mental health practices don’t run on simple calendars. Group rosters change, clients are created automatically when you schedule the session and go out with the client’s reminder. Attendance connects to billing and reporting, so a video session doesn’t mean extra work once it ends.

Your whole day, at a glance
Group scheduling that handles roster changes
Reminders that actually reduce no-shows
Turn missed sessions into applied fees
Your whole day, at a glance

See who’s coming in, how they’re meeting you, which room they’re in, and what’s changed since yesterday. Individual and group sessions show the same details side-by-side, so you start each day knowing where to be and who’s in the room.

Group scheduling that handles roster changes

Each group session keeps its own roster, location, and attendance, so adding or removing a member never touches anyone’s individual appointments. Mark attendance once per session, and it feeds the Group Attendance report so you can see how a group is doing over time.

Reminders that actually reduce no-shows

A reminder that gets ignored isn’t a reminder. TheraNest sends automated reminders by email, text, or phone call. You choose the channels, set the timing, and override defaults for individual clients when their situation calls for it. Their answer shows up on your calendar. Set the defaults once for the whole practice, then adjust them for any client who needs something different. 

Turn missed sessions into applied fees

Set your late cancellation and no-show policy once: the window, the fee, and any exceptions. When you mark a session as a late cancel or no-show, TheraNest adds the fee to the client’s invoice, and you can still waive it for anyone. No tracking it by hand, and no awkward conversation three weeks later about a fee nobody wrote down.

Practices that fixed their scheduling

Renita B., Clinical Licensed Social Work
“It has streamlined my practice with everything all in one place. My clients are impressed with the ease of scheduling and completing intake.”
Verified User in Mental Health Care, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
“The customer service has been really exceptional. I love the ease of customization. It was incredibly easy to learn the system and integrate it into our practice. […] I also love the ease of the online scheduling system. That has saved me countless hours on phone calls and emails.”
Verified User in Mental Health Care, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
“I love that patients have access to the portal, like the easy navigation between the documents and scheduling!”
Skylar T., Mental Health Counselor
“I most appreciate how accessible information is. The layout of TheraNest helps make scheduling, case notes, telehealth, and diagnoses go smoothly.”
Todd C. Director and counselor
“I like that the software has additional features such as advanced scheduling, a secure client portal, telehealth, and the Wiley planner.”
Verified User in Mental Health Care, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
“I can schedule and conduct telehealth appointments, send out forms, treatment planning and do billing all through Theranest. [It’s] really a one stop shop.”
Verified User in Mental Health Care, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
“I like the scheduling interface the most.”

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use TheraNest’s scheduling for both individual and group sessions?
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Yes. Individual appointments, group therapy sessions, telehealth visits, and multi-staff appointments all live on the same calendar. Group sessions track their own participants, location, and attendance, so a roster change in your Tuesday group never touches an individual client’s appointment.
Can I modify a single recurring appointment without changing the whole series?
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Yes. Open the session you need to change and edit just that appointment. You can give it a different time, location, or clinician, and the rest of the series stays as it is.
How do automated reminders work?
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TheraNest sends reminders by email, text, or phone call, anywhere from 30 minutes to 6 days before the session, and you can schedule more than one reminder per appointment. Clients can confirm or cancel from the reminder, and their answer updates the appointment status on your calendar. Your default settings apply across the practice, and you can change or pause reminders for any individual client at any time.
What happens if a client no-shows or cancels late?
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You set your late cancellation and no-show policy once: the window, the fee, and any exceptions. When you mark a session as a late cancel or no-show, TheraNest adds the fee to the client’s invoice. You can still waive it for any client.
Can I prevent rooms from being double-booked?
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Yes. Create rooms for each location and assign appointments to them. When a room is already booked for a time, TheraNest won’t let a second appointment take it, no matter who’s scheduling. So if one clinician books the group room for 4:00 PM on Thursdays, nobody else can book it for that hour.
Can I see my whole team’s schedule in one place?
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Yes. See every clinician, service type, and location on one calendar, or filter down to one clinician or location, without switching accounts.
Does TheraNest’s calendar sync with Google or Apple?
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Yes. Google Calendar syncs both ways. Your TheraNest appointments show up in Google, and events from the Google calendars you choose show up in TheraNest, where anything marked Busy blocks that time so no one books over it and clients can’t request it. Only you see your Google event details; other staff see “Busy.” You still edit TheraNest appointments in TheraNest and Google events in Google, and the original one-way sync stays available if you’d rather keep it. Apple Calendar is one-way, through a subscription link.
How does telehealth scheduling work?
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Telehealth comes with the Premier plan and is an add-on for Essentials and Advanced. When you schedule a telehealth session, TheraNest creates a unique link for that client and clinician. The link can go out in the email or text reminder, and clients can also join from the client portal with nothing to download. Telehealth is set per session rather than on a whole recurring series, so for a weekly video client you’ll mark each occurrence. Supported browsers are listed on the telehealth page.
Can I track attendance for group sessions?
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Yes. Mark attendance for each group session, and it feeds the Group Attendance report in the Reports tab. The report lists every group appointment in the date range you pick, with who attended, who was absent, and each session’s status, so you can see how a group is doing over a month or a quarter without opening each session.
Does this work for practices with multiple locations?
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Yes. TheraNest supports multi-location mental health practices. Each location gets its own set of rooms, and every appointment carries the location it’s booked at. Filter the calendar by location to see or manage one site, or view every location together to check the whole practice at once. Clinicians who work at more than one site keep a single calendar.
What is therapy appointment software?
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Therapy appointment software is the scheduling part of a practice’s electronic health record (EHR) or practice management system. It books individual and group sessions, sets up recurring appointments, sends reminders, lets clients request appointments online, and tracks cancellations and no-shows. It’s different from a general calendar app because each appointment connects to a client record, a session type, a room, and billing. TheraNest includes it as part of its mental health EHR.
Can you make your own scheduling software as a therapist?
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Yes, and some therapists have, with no-code tools or an AI coding assistant. Before you trust one with client appointments, look at what it doesn’t come with. HIPAA requires a signed business associate agreement (BAA) from any vendor that stores or handles client information for you, and many no-code and consumer AI tools don’t offer one. You’d also be the one making sure reminders go out, keeping a record of what was sent, and fixing it when it breaks. TheraNest’s scheduling comes built, supported, and covered by a BAA.