Pre-Session Symptom Organizer
A private, journal-style app that helps someone who's been struggling pull together the last two weeks of sleep, mood, energy and event notes into a clear, structured summary they can hand to their therapist at the next session.
Adults who have booked a first or follow-up therapy appointment and feel overwhelmed about where to start
- Quick daily check-ins (one-tap mood, energy, sleep, a sentence) with smart skip days
- Auto-summarized two-week view grouped by DSM-5-TR symptom domains, written in plain language the user understands
- Shareable PDF or private link the user can send to their therapist before the session
- Crisis-language detection that surfaces hotlines and a 'pause and reach out' card immediately
Average wait for a therapy appointment is weeks; people arrive under-prepared and the first session is often wasted on history-taking that a simple organizer can do at home.
Validated by existing paid products (Prethera, Symplia, Notes For Therapy), Rosebud reports 100,000+ users with 83% in therapy, and CIHI data shows median ~1 month wait for community counselling — confirming users arrive under-prepared.Prethera: Get More From Every Therapy Session ↗Symplia — Your Therapy Companion ↗1 in 10 Canadians wait 4 months or more before receiving community mental health counselling ↗
Market is crowded with near-identical offerings: Prethera (exact same pitch), Symplia, Notes For Therapy, Reflectly, Rosebud, Daylio — all already cover mood tracking + AI session prep for therapy clients.Prethera: Get More From Every Therapy Session ↗Symplia — Your Therapy Companion ↗Notes For Therapy ↗
Proven subscription pricing: Prethera Plus is $15/mo, Reflectly Premium ~$9.99/mo or $59.99/yr, both positioned as 'fraction of a therapy session' — clear willingness to pay in this category.Prethera: Get More From Every Therapy Session ↗Reflectly App Review 2025: Is This AI Journal Worth Your Time? ↗
Mental-health journaling demand is durable, but the category is being commoditized by foundation-model features; moat is thin and large consumer journaling apps (Day One, Apple Journal) can bolt on therapy-prep features quickly.Best Journal App of 2025: Our Firsthand Experiences - Choosing Therapy ↗Prethera: Get More From Every Therapy Session ↗
Prethera already shipped a full version using Supabase/Postgres, Whisper-class voice transcription and LLM summaries in a short timeframe — a comparable MVP is buildable in weeks with off-the-shelf AI tooling.Prethera: Get More From Every Therapy Session ↗