Every counselor is different and every practice has unique needs. CounSol.com gives you more power
over how you manage your practice than any other practice management software, allowing your personal
and professional identity to be the foundation of your management system. Nearly every feature on
CounSol.com is customizable to fit your precise needs.
Control
Complete Practice Management
CounSol.com complete practice management allows you to easily manage
your practice and focus on what is most important; your clients. Your entire counseling practice -
client notes, records, appointments and billing, for both online and offline clients - can now be
managed from one easy to access site.
Custom Client Site
Easily create your custom client site to match your current website.
Our tools allow you to choose fonts, colors, and add text and images. You simply post the
HTML on your current site so your clients can click the link that directs them to the secure
client portal. There your clients login to view their secure emails from you, schedule appointments,
view/pay bills, and write in their private journal. Through the client portal, clients can also
access
secure online video and chat sessions.
Client Billing & Invoicing
Send invoice notifications via email to your clients, and process
credit cards within CounSol.com using a third party payment processor that we have partnered with.
With a payment processor, your clients
can pay their invoices directly online through your portal without needing you to be available. Your
private admin keeps
track of payments received and alerts you to any pending invoices.
HIPAA Compliant
Our state-of-the-art service was designed to protect the privacy of
all counselors and clients. Our servers are housed in a Tier-IV data center with SSAE16, HITRUST,
ISO 27001 & PCI 2.0
compliance. PCI (Payment Card Industry) standards are applied to our internal systems and software.
All traffic is required to use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) with 256-bit encryption. All users have a
unique login, and all user activity is recorded and stored. No sensitive information is ever sent
via email, and data is backed up hourly again with 256-bit encryption. Our number one priority is
making sure your information is safe and secure.
Secure Client Records
Client information is safe and secure thanks to our state-of-the-art
encryption system. You will be the only one with access to encrypted client information, and you’ll
never have to worry about losing information as all your notes, files, and information are backed up
hourly using a 256-bit encryption process at our Tier IV data center.
Custom Forms and Questionnaires
Create your own optional and required client forms, practice terms,
and policy agreements to be filled out online. Forms can be customized by the types of questions
and answer methods to assist you in gathering the most relevant and pertinent information about
your clients. All forms and questionnaires are safely and securely stored in your admin for your
records.
Online Booking and Availability
Clients can login to view your available time slots for the hour,
day, week and month. Offer as many different session lengths as you want, each with it’s own
listed
rate, and add flexibility for your clients. Clients can then schedule appointments in any time
slots you choose to make available. Online booking gives your clients more options and control
over fitting sessions into their own schedules increasing the ease and frequency of appointments
booked.
Electronic Insurance Claim Submission
We coordinate with a third party clearinghouse so you can easily submit
your 837 EDI claims electronically through our system. Simply set up an account with the
clearinghouse
and enter your account credentials into CounSol.com. Pre-populated information allows you to
complete
the 1500 form with ease. CounSol.com makes creating claims, submit claims, and viewing claim status
simple. If you submit claims offline, just complete the CMS-1500 form in our system and print
it onto an OCR-scannable red ink paper form.
Client Journaling
Your clients can log in to their secure account and write in
their personal private journal at any time. Clients have the option to share each entry with
their with their counselor or let it remain saved as private.
Schedule Group Sessions
Offer and schedule group sessions for office visits, phone calls,
or online chat sessions. Set the time, location, duration, rate and size of the group, and clients
can view and register for groups sessions from their client portal. (Group Video Sessions are not
supported)
Client Treatment Plans
Prepare Treatment Plans with our easy to use templates featuring:
Diagnosis descriptions, diagnosis axis codes, current risk assessments, concerns/issues, short-term
and long-term goals, treatment objectives, treatment strategy, interventions and more.
Appointment Reminders
Send automatic appointment reminders to your clients 24, 48, or 72
hours before their appointment time by email, text message, and/or phone call recording. Appointment
reminders make your practice look professional and reduce the frequency of no-shows.
Work less. Do more.
Efficiency
With CounSol.com, clients can book their own appointments online, saving you time to focus on the
work that really matters. Credit card processing, insurance claim filing, secure messaging to one or
all of your clients - you can do it all in one place with just a couple clicks. Prepopulated client
info and templates for session notes, progress notes, treatment plans, and more are built into the
system to make documentation quick and easy.
Go anywhere. Be everywhere.
Accessibility
The telemental health industry is growing fast. Get in while it’s still early and
keep your practice on the cutting edge by offering secure online video and secure online
chat sessions. All connections run through our 256-bit encrypted Tier IV data center.
You can conduct secure sessions through your laptop from anywhere in the US with
a good internet connection.
Video Sessions
Enhance your practice by offering clients HIPAA complaint secure live online video counseling.
CounSol.com has specially designed features exclusively for counselors and clients who prefer
counseling online via video sessions. Safe and secure video sessions take place within the
protected client portal site. Our video platform allows for Counselors to screen share their
desktop or specific windows on their computer. There are no software downloads; making it very simple to use
on both ends, and video sessions are of unlimited use. Available on the following devices:
Phones, Tablets, Laptops, Desktops.
Chat Sessions
Our online chat sessions are the safest method to preform instant
messaging for counseling. Connect with clients through your secure admin while clients access
the chat from their secure client site to ensure full security and privacy. All online chat sessions
are stored in your admin records, and chat sessions are of unlimited use.
Client Progress Notes
Maintaining accurate and up-to-date Progress Notes is simple,
and features customizable diagnosis descriptions, current assessments, symptom descriptions,
treatment plan status, notes, and plan of action with interventions
Secure Messaging
Send and receive secure messages from your admin directly to your client’s
secure site. Our secure message system helps prevent any outside individual from accessing personal
information communicated between client and counselor.
Client Scheduling and Calendar
Use your private admin Calendar for both personal and professional use -
clients will only see your set availability. Customize your calendar to show only the times and
session
lengths you want to offer, and choose to display by the hour, day, week, or month. It’s easy
to see
what’s scheduled and what remains available. Set preferences and display options for clients
to schedule online video sessions, online chat sessions, phone and office appointments. Both clients
and counselor have access to booking appointments based on your terms and preferred availability.
Calendar Sync/Subscribe
Sync your CounSol.com calendar appointments to your smart phone,
tablet, or desktop calendar by either calendar subscribe or iCal. With calendar subscribe your
device’s
calendar will automatically be updated (synced) with changes made in your CounSol.com calendar.
Personal Account Manager
We value all of our clients and take great pride in an
outstanding level of personalized customer service you won’t find anywhere else. We know your
time is valuable, so each account is assigned to one account manager who will assist you from the
very start, get to know you and your practice’s needs, and stay with you as your main contact
throughout your membership at CounSol.com.
CounselorListing
Increase your practice’s exposure online through
CounselorListing.com
where potential clients can
search the directory of counselors by the type of counseling and/or zip code. Listing your practice
is a fast and easy way to give your practice the added exposure needed to help maintain and grow
your client base.
Community Blog/Mailer
With the ever-growing need for counseling and therapy services, CounSol.com believes that to better
help those in need, we should also be helping each other. In our community blog and weekly mailer,
we showcase articles, features, and original writing by counselors for counselors so community
members can learn from, enlighten, comment on, and discuss ideas with other professionals in
the field. Be seen, get heard, and continue to grow with people who care.
Help Guide
We think it’s important to empower others and inspire confidence. While our account managers
are ready to assist you in a moment’s notice, we’ve also provided a comprehensive and
easy to use Help Guide right on your admin dashboard to help you familiarize yourself with
the system, learn the processes for specific functions, and understand the functionality
of all the great features provided on CounSol.com.
Referral Program
Since going live in 2011, every feature and design aspect of our service
has been developed and improved from suggestions and requests by members. Nearly all of
our business comes from referrals by our own members. To show our appreciation, we developed a
referral program that enables any member to automatically receive a reduction on their monthly
rate for each new counselor they refer - for as long the new counselor remains a member, and
with no limit to the number of referral credits that can be earned. We are eternally grateful
for all the outstanding approval and support of our CounSol.com family.
Real people. Real help.
Community
Being a counselor can be lonely. When you register with CounSol.com you are immediately
paired with an account manager who will stay with you for the duration of your membership.
No random help desk. No generic service. You have the personal assistance you need, and
the comfort of knowing someone is looking out for you. Our counselors look out for each
other too, sharing articles, tips, and advice in our community mailer.
"Since I began using Counsol.com for my counseling practice management a little over a year ago, my
practice has doubled in volume of clients and I am more and better organized than ever. My clients find
the portal easy to navigate and I also get positive feedback about the scheduling, notes, and journal
features. My clients appreciate the session reminders, and I rarely have missed sessions anymore. I find
the feature-rich service to meet all of my needs, and the developers continually improve upon them while
also adding more functionality and features. Most importantly the customer service is simply
outstanding! Using Counsol has been the best decision I have made for my private counseling practice,
and I recommend it to all of my colleagues."
David Llewellyn, LMHC, CSAT More reviews