Built by psychologists · Independently owned

100% human therapy.
100% honest software.

One login. Your whole practice. Scheduling, telehealth, notes, marketing, analytics, hiring, credentialing, contracts, claims, payments, and a unified inbox.

One honest price. No AI. No games.

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The better dashboard — today's schedule, pending tasks, and practice metrics
better for your clients. better for your practice.
$60
per clinician, per month — one flat price
$0
admins, billers & schedulers — always free seats
120
insurance claims included, per seat, per month
2.9%
+ $0.30 card processing, directly to your processor
The Human Standard100% human, by design. No AI touches your clinical work — and we published the standard that would have to change that.Read the standard
one connected platform

Your complete practice operating system.

From first inquiry to lasting outcomes — care powers the business, the business funds growth, and growth brings the next client. Follow the tour, or tap any step to see what’s inside.

Deliver care
Run the business
Grow the practice
Always on, behind every step
Client Inquiry

New clients discover your practice and request care.

  • Booking & waitlist widget — interest routes to your other therapists in a group
  • Every email, text, and call tied to the chart from the first touch
  • No re-typing: inquiry becomes the chart
= uniquely Better — no one else does this step like this.
in the session

100% human therapy — with everything you need, right there.

Stay fully present with your client. On one side, telehealth. On the other — one tap away — your handouts, psychotherapy notes, progress notes, and measures. No tab-juggling, no breaking eye contact to dig through files. The connection stays unbroken; the work stays organized.

The Better session workspace — telehealth beside the clinical overview, notes, and measures
built for the way you practice

Running a group? This is the command center.

The back office group owners actually lose sleep over — organized the way the work flows: your revenue cycle (payers, services & rates, rate case) and your operations (team, payroll, analytics). One record, one home — payroll, contracts, rates, and compliance, out of the spreadsheets.

The Command Center — owners see revenue and margin; providers see earnings and their next move.

The Command Center — owners see revenue and margin; providers see earnings and their next move.

moving in, moving out

Your data moves in with you — and stays yours.

Here’s the whole move, using SimplePractice as the example. Group practice? You can pilot first — send one or two clinicians onto Better ahead of the full roster.

1

Export from SimplePractice

Run a few exports — we send you the exact click-path.

2

Better moves & syncs it all

Clients, notes, history, services, rates — imported and synced in a few clicks.

3

Two small to-dos

You place appointments on your Better calendar; your clients re-save their cards in the portal.

4

Live — nothing left behind

Claims already in flight reconcile with your migrated history. One system from day one — no paying for two.

We’re here the whole way

Want help planning the cutover — or need someone to swoop in mid-move? A founder answers, before, during, and after: hello@betterehr.com · (858) 208-0380

No-hostage export

Your complete records export any time you choose, in usable formats. Your charts and billing history belong to your practice — with Better, and after Better.

Better has no AI.

Not a beta. Not an add-on you have to switch off. None — in your notes, your sessions, or your clients' records.

Every major EHR now sells an AI add-on that records or transcribes therapy — each with retention policies, consent complexities, and a monthly fee. We weren't comfortable putting that between clients and their privacy, so we didn't build it. better for your clients. better for your practice.

Nothing listening in

Just you, your expertise, and your client in the session. No recording, no transcription, no model reading along.

Pro-evidence, pro-planet

We're tied to our impact, not just the balance sheet. Running models at scale has a real environmental cost — we won't pass that to your clients or the planet chasing a trend.

Built by us, shared with you

Better is the operating system we built to run our own practice. We're sharing it so you benefit too.

Our major concerns Reviewed every 6 months · last: July 2026 — no change.
Trust through transparency

New company. Nothing to hide.

We’re both in the business of trust and care — you with your clients, us with you, your practice, and your clients’ data. As the new kids on the block, we’re not asking you to just take our word for it. We’re publishing a live feed of the key milestones our founding practices hit as they build their business on Better — starting with our own: a 4-state, 9-psychologist private practice.

9
Providers, across four states, whose practice runs on Better every day
$814K
Trailing-12-month practice revenue as of 2026-07
6
Months building & stress-testing BetterEHR before go-live

Grounded Therapy — Better’s founding practice, owned and run by Dr. Stacy & Matt Bonds — is Better’s first customer.

3-month live stress test — begins 2026-07-26
Anchor practice, live: this is Grounded Therapy’s own data — one practice, ours — updated as the stress test progresses. Every external practice that follows gets its own dated entries here.
Join the Founding Practice ProgramYour first year free — a $720 value — plus a direct line to our developers to request the feature you’ve been waiting for. Help us build something better, for your clients and your practice.Apply now
The Grounded Therapy clinical team — the psychologists who built Better
Clinicians who guided the design — and the first to use it, every day.
why we built better

We built this because we needed it.

It started with a group of psychologists who were tired of being on the wrong end of their own software — AI pushed toward our sessions that nobody asked for, support that treated us like a ticket number, features built for investors instead of clinicians — and prices that climbed every year anyway. Meanwhile our contracts and rates sat buried in spreadsheets, and the data that helps you charge what your work is worth stayed locked up with the big players.

So we partnered with a data-security engineer we trust and built the platform from the ground up. We built it, we use it in our own practice every day, and our development team answers to the clinicians who use it — not to investors.

the people behind better

The Founders

Small on purpose — enterprise-grade by background. No private equity, no outside investors: built for, and tested in, the practice Matt and Stacy still run.

Dr. Stacy BondsDr. Stacy BondsFounder & Clinical Officer

Stacy is a PhD counseling psychologist, licensed in California and New Zealand, and founder and Clinical Director of Grounded Therapy — the multi-state group that runs on Better every day. VA-trained, she practices evidence-based care across trauma, OCD, anxiety, and gender-affirming work. She holds the ethics line in the product: if it doesn’t serve the therapy, it doesn’t ship.

Ron LeonGuerreroRon LeonGuerreroFounder & Technology Officer

Ron is a security engineering leader with a career spent hardening systems for Fortune 500 companies — architecture set at enterprise scale, proven under real audits and real adversaries. In therapy, a breach isn’t a headline; it’s someone’s private life, exposed. Ron builds Better like those are the stakes — one accountable engineer who owns the architecture, data protection, and audit trail end to end.

Matt BondsMatt BondsFounder & Operating Officer

Matt has spent his career fixing systems that stopped working for the people inside them — turning defaulting small businesses into stable, growing employers. He built Grounded Therapy into a multi-state group and sits across from insurance payers to negotiate real rate increases for the clinicians doing the work. And as a trans man, he knows firsthand what’s at stake when sensitive health records aren’t protected — at Better, security is the default, not a checkbox.

on your side, by design

We answer to therapists — not investors.

Legacy EHRs dump every burden back on you. Aggregators take your contracts. better is the opposite — clinician-led, independently owned, and built to keep your practice yours.

Clinician-led. Independently owned. On the hook.

No private equity, no outside investors — Better answers to therapists and the people they help. It runs the founders' own nine-provider, four-state practice every day: if it breaks, it breaks on them first. And it's priced to sustain itself at dozens of practices, not thousands.

HIPAA-compliant & secure, BAA included

Your Business Associate Agreement is part of signup, not a request you have to make. Security architecture is owned end to end by a career security engineer — one accountable person, not a ticket queue.

A human replies

Email hello@betterehr.com and a founder answers. Prefer a walkthrough before anything else? Book a live demo — you'll get a founder, not a rep.

simple, honest pricing

One price. Everything included.

$60 per clinician, per month, plus card fees. No nickel-and-diming, no volume games — one low, dependable price you can lock in, legally, for the long term.

Better — everything included
$60/clinician/mo

The whole platform. Telehealth, notes, scheduling, billing, analytics — everything on this page.

or $03 or fewer appointments a month? That seat is $0 — including its clearinghouse activity. Ramping, per-diem, on-leave, or just opening: a seat costs nothing until it’s busy.+$0Insurance claims — 120 per provider, per month, included. Metered platforms charge about +$48 a month per clinician on top of your membership for the same volume. Here: in the price.+$0Marketing, credentialing & hiring. Built in — and your data is already there, so it auto-fills.+$0Admins, billers & schedulers. Every seat that supports your clinicians is free.+2.9%+ $0.30 card processing — paid by your practice directly to its processor, not to us.
Your rate never goes up as long as you stay. A signed price-freeze rider — a 12-month term that renews automatically for as long as you’re subscribed. Cancel anytime.
Sign up — $60 per clinician / month

No founding spot required — same software, rider signed at signup.

The Founding 250 of 25 claimed · applications open
$720per clinician, on us — your first 12 months

Want to skip paying for an EHR for a year? We pay your claim processing too — you only cover card fees. Then $60 per clinician, with the price-freeze rider signed on day one.

A monthly feedback call with the founders — your practice steers the roadmap.An honest public review at day 60, published on the receipts — in your words.Share your migration story, with your logo on it.Group practice? You pilot first — one or two clinicians ahead of the full roster, on a written cutover plan.
Apply for a founding spot

Applications reviewed personally by the founders.

No tiers to upgrade to — everyone gets everythingNo AI upsell — we don't sell AI, so there's no $35/mo add-onPrice-freeze rider — your rate never goes up as long as you stayCancel anytime — your data exports in a click

See how $60 flat compares? Run your practice through the true-cost calculator ↓ · The fine print on claims, caps & overages lives in the FAQ · Solo and fully cash-pay? Sessions Health genuinely costs less — our comparison shows that math too

true-cost calculator

What your practice actually pays.

Sticker prices hide claim fees, add-ons, and card rates. Enter your practice and compare the true monthly cost, all-in.

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Whole-practice monthly figures. We back into the billing math for you: ≈ 144 claims/mo at ≈ $115 payer-paid per claim (rate − copay), with copays and out-of-pocket sessions on card (90% card share). AI notes add each vendor's published AI price for every clinician — Better has none, so it's $0 either way. Out-of-pocket rate = your blended full + sliding-scale average.

Better
$715/mo
IntakeQ / practiceQest
$723/mo
Jane
$781/mo
Sessions Health
$803/mo
TherapyNotes
$886/mo
TheraNest (Ensora)
$893/mo
SimplePractice
$954/mo
Tebraest
$1,440/mo

All-in for this practice, Better is $715/mo — software, claims, and card fees included, with no AI add-on waiting to change the math.

Cheaper isn't the only thing you're getting — what's included with Better:
Built by practicing psychologistsNo AI add-on — everClaims included — no per-claim feeAdmins, billers & schedulers freeRate Radar & payer benchmarkingOne-click data export — no lock-inWhite-glove migration includedPrice-freeze rider — the rate never rises

Standard (non-promotional) monthly-billed pricing as published July 6, 2026, from each vendor's pricing page; estmarks figures not confirmed there (clearinghouse pass-through ~$0.25, SimplePractice claim overage, Tebra quotes). Tiers auto-select (SimplePractice Plus for groups; TheraNest picks its cheaper plan; practiceQ Starter/Pro by appointments per practitioner). Card fees computed from your card-revenue share and average transaction at each vendor's published rate.

the models, compared

Two ways to rent your practice — and one way to own it.

What it takes to run a practice
Legacy EHRs
Aggregators
Better
In-network contracts in your own name
Keep your clients & data if you leave
EHR, notes, scheduling & telehealth
Claims, ERA & card processing
Payer-transparency rate benchmarking
Outcome analytics → rate-negotiation packet
Locked pricing — no surprise hikes
Built in Partial / costs extra Not offered
Dig into how we stack up against SimplePractice, Sessions Health & the aggregators
the founding 25 · applications open

Apply for a founding spot.

Free for 12 months — $720 per clinician, on us, claim processing included; you only cover card fees. After that, $60 per clinician — with the price-freeze rider signed on day one, so your rate never goes up as long as you stay. Twenty-five practices, chosen for fit — tell us about yours and we'll be in touch.

Starting fresh is welcome — you don't need to be leaving another platform to apply.

No commitment. We read every application ourselves — no bots, no AI.