Our Story
The idea and the groundwork of making an EHR started years before the COVID lockdowns and isolation. However, the mission to make a private practice tool with a heart, one that focuses on the client relationship as much as the nuts and bolts of running a mental health practice, began during this time. Sessions Health actively works to provide technology that makes our ties stronger.
Sessions Health is proud to be located in Minnesota, the heart of the nation’s healthcare capital. We’re also a team focused on continuously improving based on hearing about your experiences using Sessions Health in your practice. We warmly invite you to be a part of our story, too.
Our Philosophy
We believe that there’s a mental health crisis within our society that we’re all affected by. We feel the best way for us to serve that cause is doing what we do best to help mental health professionals like you do what you do best.
Psychotherapy depends upon science, but it must be rooted in ethics. If psychotherapy doesn’t entail veracity, client autonomy, fidelity, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice, it falls short of what people need. Our technology company follows a similar approach.
At our core, we make decisions from an ethical perspective, meaning decisions are made (or not made) because it’s the right thing to do. Some examples of this are making our product friendly for LGTBQ+ people, thinking hard about how the user-interface can make our product easier to use, and taking extra steps to listen deeply to your needs and respond with care.
How Ethics Guide Our Decisions
Veracity
We aim to communicate truthfully with you from the start. If you ask for something and we believe we can provide it, we will tell you. If we don’t think we can, we’ll tell you that too. We have nothing to gain from just telling people what they want to hear.
Autonomy
We aren’t trying to trap you into a business relationship with us. We want to provide you with a product that helps you as a mental health professional work more efficiently and create better client relationships. If we aren’t doing that for you, we make it easy to take your data and use a different product that better meets your needs.
Nonmaleficence
We aren’t going to make decisions knowing it will harm our customers. This is true for our privacy polices, terms and conditions, the use of AI, and pricing decisions. For example, when we’ve raised our prices, we’ve never raised them for our current customers. We aim to do what’s best to help you succeed.
Fidelity
To the best of our ability, we will do what we say we will do. Our company mottos aren’t empty slogans, we really think about how to make your job easier and how to build an EHR that actually helps with the therapeutic relationship.
Beneficence
Almost everything we do is to help you. We don’t make decisions with an exploitative mindset. We do it with a mindset that if we’re helpful, we’re succeeding.
Justice
We recognize that all types of people are in therapy. We want to make a product that helps to foster healthy therapeutic relationships with people of all walks of life.
We hope that decisions based in these ethics will impact the experience of whoever chooses to work with us. The extra thought is worth it to us because we have interactions that involve these types of decisions every day. These interactions become our business, our reputation, and how we experience meaningfulness in what we’re doing. We share this to say that we intend to be here for you in the long haul because we’re passionate about what we’re doing and how we’re doing it.
