For clinicians · Private beta

Retire the PDFs and clunky tracking apps for your clients.

Pacing is a therapy companion for evidence-based practice. Your clients log between sessions on a tool that works alongside your 1:1 sessions. Log onto the session prepped and ready to understand how your client's week actually went.

Solo practitioners, US-basedHIPAA-ready architectureOnboarding cohorts of ~10
Weekly digest · Pre-session

M.K.

Next session · Thu, May 7 · 2:00 PM
2 urgent
Adherence6 / 7 days
Top behaviorDoomscrolling · 4×
Skills usedTIPP, Opposite Action
Anxious · 3.4Depressed · 2.8Stressed · 4.1Joyful · 1.6

Friday peak. Anxious 5, panicked specifier. Used TIPP. Flagged urgent at 11:42 PM. Note: "after the call with mom. couldn't tell if it was panic or just done."

The work between sessions

The diary card is the engine of the work. The tools we have for it are bad.

Most of what I get on Thursday is what they remembered on Wednesday night. The week itself is gone.DBT clinician, 12 years private practice

Pacing replaces the printout, the photo of the printout, and the app that turned your diary card into a mood-of-the-day emoji. It's structured for the modality you trained in, and it sends you a digest, not raw data.

  • 01
    Paper diary cards get backfilled. Five blank rows in the five minutes before the call. You've been there.
  • 02
    PDFs get lost. Chain analyses, missing-links worksheets, cope-ahead. Emailed as attachments and never returned.
  • 03
    Most apps don't take the modality seriously. Generic mood trackers don't distinguish ashamed from guilty. They never will. They weren't built to.
  • 04
    Session starts with a recap. Half the hour reconstructing the week before any actual work happens.
What your client gets · What you get

Three surfaces. One careful loop.

We built the smallest set of features that close the between-session loop with clinical integrity. No skill libraries to maintain. No coaching calls. No on-call promises.

The 90-second card

A daily diary card structured to Linehan's standard. Six emotion cores with optional specifiers. Client-defined target behaviors. Locked to yesterday. Done in a minute and a half on a phone, on the bus, in bed.

The pre-session digest

One page per client, refreshed continuously, anchored to the next session. Adherence, emotion summary, target behaviors, skills used, and any urgent flags, surfaced the way you'd actually scan a chart. Optional AI narrative, off by default.

The urgent flag

A client-initiated flag inside the relationship, never auto-detected. They see crisis resources first. You get a notification. It's not a coaching call, it's not a guarantee, and we're explicit about that with both of you. The flag is an act of trust, not a tripwire.

A real digest

Designed for the five minutes before your next call.

The digest is the thing you actually use. Adherence at a glance. Specifier-level emotion summaries that distinguish panicked from worried, numb from empty. Urgent entries surfaced in full. No dashboards to learn.

The optional AI narrative is generated on demand, not stored. You stay clinically in charge of what gets read into the week.

Maya K.

Active 9 weeksLast entry · 4 hr agoNext · Thu 2:00 PM
2 urgent flags
Adherence · this week
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Emotion summary · 7-day average
Stressed4.1
Anxious3.4
Depressed2.8
Joyful1.6
Specifiers this week: panicked (4), overwhelmed (3), empty (2), resentful (2), hopeless (1).
Urgent · Friday 11:42 PM
Flagged by client
The fight with my sister sent me into the worst spiral I've had in months. Used TIPP twice. Didn't want to be alone but couldn't bring myself to text anyone. Wanted you to see this before Thursday.
A companion for evidence-based practice

DBT today. ACT next. One spine.

Pacing isn't a DBT app. It's a platform for clinician-assigned, between-session practice across the modalities clinicians actually use. We started with DBT because the daily structure is the most demanding. ACT comes next, with assignable worksheets and committed-action tracking.

Now · MVP

DBT

Diary card, target behaviors, 6-emotion model with specifiers, urgent flag, weekly digest.

  • Linehan-standard structure
  • Specifier-level emotion granularity
  • Manual urgent flag
Beyond

Whatever you teach

CBT, CPT, IFS. Modalities are added in collaboration with clinicians who actually practice them. We don't ship a modality we can't do well.

  • Clinician-led design
  • One client per modality at a time
Posture

What Pacing is, and isn't.

The category is overcrowded with tools that promise too much and deliver a mood ring. We'd rather be honest about scope than sell you a feature list you'll never use.

Pacing is
  • A companion to your therapy
  • Built on your modality, not on top of it
  • HIPAA-ready by architecture
  • Designed with clinicians in the room
  • Quiet by default, loud only when it matters
Pacing isn't
  • A crisis service
  • A self-guided therapy app
  • A wellness tracker
  • An EMR
  • A coaching-call platform
Questions clinicians ask

A few things, up front.

Is this HIPAA compliant?
The architecture is HIPAA-ready: row-level security in Postgres, encryption in transit and at rest, audit logging on all PHI access, and BAA-eligible vendors only. The MVP launches with wellness-app framing and disclaimerswhile we complete legal review and a Notice of Privacy Practices, at which point we flip the marketing language without re-platforming. We'll be explicit with every design partner about which phase we're in.
Who owns the data?
The client owns their entries. You see them through the relationship. If either of you ends the relationship, the client retains read-only access and export for 30 days; data is purged after. We do not sell, share, or train models on client data.
What happens if a client uses the urgent flag?
They see a confirmation screen with 988, Crisis Text Line, and a prompt to use their personal safety plan if they have one. They confirm. You get an email and an in-app notification. The entry is tagged urgent in the digest and on your home. The flag is not a guarantee of response time and the disclaimer says so. This is stated at onboarding for both sides, and reinforced every time the flag is used.
Will it work for IOPs or group practices?
Not in MVP. Pacing is 1:1, solo-practitioner only at launch. Multi-clinician relationships are on the roadmap but won't ship until the solo experience is excellent. If you're at an IOP and want to be early on group features, the waitlist is the right place. Note it when you sign up.
What about ACT, when is that real?
ACT is v2. We're not pre-building scaffolding for it now. We'd rather design the worksheet engine when ACT clinicians are in the room than guess at the abstraction. If you're ACT-trained and want to be a design partner for that build, say so on the waitlist form.
What does it cost?
A flat monthly clinician subscription with unlimited active clients. Pricing is being set with our first design partners. Beta participants get a meaningful discount on first-year pricing, locked in.

Be early.
Help us build the version of this that's worth using.

We're onboarding clinicians in small cohorts, with real time on the phone, real input into what we ship. Not a marketing list. A design partnership.