Speaker: Erin Sachse, MEd, LCPC, LMHC, Sentience Mental Health
Can you describe how Blueprint has helped you? The more specific the better!
Erin Sachse, MEd, LCPC, LMHC: So Blueprint has helped me a lot um in terms of being able to connect what I'm doing in therapy, which always, always connects to a therapy goal. Um, Blueprint is able to kind of put those building blocks together. In a way that makes a lot of sense in a therapy note. I find that I am not, um. Struggling and I'm not. Having an issue with trying to synthesize, you know, everything in a particular uh clinical language. It just restates what happened in my therapy. Appropriately and just really well to make my therapy notes really high quality and really helpful. I choose to use the dictation. Um, I haven't ventured into recording the actual, um, The actual sessions, but That required only like maybe a two session learning curve before I realized the best way to dictate what I should include, how to make sure that the very best evidence-based high quality things were getting in my note, and the tools associated with everything that I have used have just been amazing. And the suggestions that it gives me and the treatment plans that it synthesizes for my clients, I was like, um, yeah, so. I would have done that exact same treatment plan, but It did it for me in like 30 seconds. And that's just amazing to me. It makes me so happy and gives me so much time back. I can't even express how good this tool is. And I've used other tools. I've used other AI assistants, and they've all been helpful in their own way, but this one just creates such high quality, useful. Helpful notes and suggestions for future um. You know, interventions and, and worksheets to do. I am just so appreciative of blueprint and the high quality notes it generates.
How much time have you saved on documentation as a result of Blueprint? Have you re-invested this newfound time into anything notable?
Erin Sachse, MEd, LCPC, LMHC: So in thinking about how much time I have saved using blueprint, um. I have. I, you know, maybe a lot of therapists experienced this. I'm not sure, but I find that in general it is difficult for me. To think in my brain, have a really high quality therapy session, and really do it justice on a page. Um, so I would say like an intake note would easily take me 45 minutes to an hour, um, especially, you know, then you're working in that treatment plan, um, without making it too generalizable or generic. Um, I find that it is so Helpful That blueprint actually does those things for me. It's like the part of my brain that I have the hardest time accessing, and that is synthesizing and packaging the words and the interventions I've done in a moment, and it just makes the biggest difference, and I'm just so appreciative. That I have this tool that I can use, and it is so high quality, and it just the time then that I spend is probably about, let's see. I'll do like a 3 to 6 minute recording and then um because I use the dictation, I, I don't use the, the recording of the. Of the Whole session. Um, so I use the dictation piece and I'll do about, you know, 33 to 6 minutes of recording and get a really high quality note out of that in whatever format with whatever focus I used in the, in that session, like um a CBT or um acceptance and commitment therapy. And then I am able to take that, paste it into my EHR and something that would have taken me 10 to 15 minutes, because again, I'm slow working. Something that would have taken me 10 to 15 minutes, takes me maybe that 3 minutes of recording, and then What? 2 minutes to cut and paste it into my EHR software, and that's like being dramatic. Like that, it probably takes about 1 minute to do that. I am just so grateful to have this time to be able to help serve my clients better, um. I'm able to like then. circle back with them, um, give them resources via email. Like, I'm able to reinvest that time in my, in, into my, um, clients. I'm able to reinvest that time into my family. And I am just so happy to be able to have this time back and to feel like the content that I'm putting out really matches the quality of my therapy, um, of my therapy sessions.
How do you describe Blueprint to clients when it comes to obtaining consent? How do clients react?
Erin Sachse, MEd, LCPC, LMHC: So one thing with blueprint and recording sessions is um. I feel like it isn't such a hard thing. It isn't such a big deal because that audio piece is deleted right away. I feel like the privacy is maintained. I love that it's just not sitting out there somewhere on a cloud for somebody else to potentially hack and pick up somewhere, um. The amount of security that Blueprint has, I feel like it is a very easy sell. Now, I haven't used the full recording um of therapy sessions. I usually use dictation, but I am This is the only conceivable place. I can imagine actually doing that where I allow recording of a session. So I feel like when I eventually do and the day is coming, I know it, um, when I eventually do, I feel very Good about. That I am recommending something that will cut down more of my documentation time. Like I don't even have to then dictate a note, but also preserve the client's um Preserve their. Their privacy and make sure that they can feel safe in healing because we just have such. You know, Blueprint has just such wonderful safeguards in place.
