Enoa is a journaling web app for therapists.

I built an AI-driven web app for therapists to easily document client encounters. Beyond note-taking, it serves as a professional journal, helping users track their own growth, improve clinical care, and reduce burnout. By supporting both client care and personal development Enoa empowers care professionals to be more intentional and effective in their work.

Background

Caring professionals give feedback about their problem

Therapists often feel isolated, lacking feedback to assess their performance, growth, and challenges. Their current solution to this is costly, time consuming consultation with a clinical supervisor.

Additionally, they struggle with note-taking, an uncompensated task tied to what feels like adversarial payer and oversight systems. They aim to document enough for treatment without compromising privacy. While shortcuts are tempting, thorough notes require time and focus—both scarce amid packed schedules and declining reimbursement rates.

Clinical supervisors and experts provide context

Clinical documentation is meant for therapist reflection but rarely serves that purpose. Introspection is key to managing the therapeutic alliance, yet most only take mandated notes. Clinical skills rely on DIY tools with little support, and post-training supervision is scarce and costly.

Poor quality clinical documentation imposes risk and expense on clinics. High turnover means that they make substantial ongoing investment in training clinicians for proper documentation.

Research on client advisor relationships offers insight

Studies show that therapists who regularly engage in self-reflection are better at recognizing biases, improving decision-making, and adapting their approach to clients’ needs.

Research also highlights that self-awareness and reflective practice reduce emotional exhaustion and enhance resilience, critical for long-term effectiveness in caring professions.

Therapists who engage in reflective supervision or personal journaling improve their therapeutic alliance with clients, leading to better treatment outcomes

Designing a solution

Entirely therapist centered, and provide maximum control

  • Design for therapists to make their jobs easier, and to increase their efficacy and confidence in the care they provide.

  • Facilitate work without deteriorating clinical skills or replacing the therapist in the creation of progress notes.

  • Leave therapists in charge of the therapeutic alliance. Enoa doesn’t record and transcribe therapy sessions, because our core function isn’t about facilitating care, it’s about facilitating skills development for the therapist.

  • Plenty of solutions exist to support therapist’s administrative functions - work that can be “automated away”. No solutions exist to engage with therapists to drive their growth.

How Enoa works

  • Therapists log in to their private account, where they have:

    • A client roster

    • A log of prior progress notes organized by patient and date

    • A journal of personal notes organized by date

    • A dashboard that displays trends and insights about their work

    • Tools to create new progress notes and journal entries

  • Progress note creation:

    • Answer 3-5 questions about the session in plain language.

    • AI processes the answers to these questions, and produces a draft of session progress notes for review and acceptance.

    • Progress notes are designed to meet clinical criteria and address key information needs like the client’s state, interventions used, key themes and topics discussed, and next steps.

  • Journal entry creation:

    • Post session check in - therapists rate their experiences in their session, and answer a few brief questions and items customized to the therapists goals.

      • Rating questions like: On a scale from 1-5 how taxing was that session for you? On a scale from 1-5 rate how present you were in session.

      • Tag the session with reactions and feelings like: “tiring”, “frustrating”, “confusing”, “engaging”, “comfortable”, “easy”

      • Answer open ended questions like: What questions do you still have about your client’s experience or behavior? What stood out to you about today’s session? How is your client different from you?