Guides and client handouts for therapists in private practice

What stays with you

Say this first, because it matters most. Chapbook is not a clinical tool and has no clinical reviewer. It can draft a confident paragraph about a technique that is wrong, out of date or wrong for your reader, and its read-through won’t catch that as a clinician would. You review every sentence, and your license, your professional code and your state’s rules apply to the book as they apply to your website.

That includes testimonials and client stories, and what you say about outcomes. Check what your board and your code allow before you add any of them. We don’t add disclaimers, crisis information or a statement of your credentials for you. If a book touches on anything urgent, add the crisis resources that fit your readers’ country yourself, and put them where a reader in trouble will see them.

“Can I use this without risking client privacy?”

Only if no client information goes in. That means no notes, no intake forms and no “a client of mine, a 42-year-old teacher.” What you type and upload is sent to the AI providers named in the privacy policy to do the work, and there is no business associate agreement. If HIPAA applies to you, its rules expect a written agreement with a vendor before it handles protected health information for you, so the plain answer is to keep that information out.

A client list is the same. Don’t import one to promote a book: HIPAA generally requires authorization to use protected health information for marketing, with narrow exceptions. A book page’s sign-up list is also not a chart. Its form takes only a name and an email address, and tags and notes on a reader should never hold anything clinical. Bear in mind that someone signing up for a book about panic has told you something about themselves. Choose your topic, and what your follow-up email assumes, with that in mind.

“It will sound like a wellness blog.”

It might, unless you steer it. Add two or three pieces you wrote yourself as voice samples, name the words you never use in the brief, and rewrite the outline until it reflects how you actually explain things. Every later change the assistant proposes is a suggestion you accept or reject. You can also decide what you tell readers about how the book was made. Nothing in Chapbook will decide that for you.

The sample on this page

The Welcome Sequence is a lead magnet about something else entirely: seven emails for a new newsletter. We show it because a reader-first guide takes the same shape, with short sections, second person and no statistics. It was generated from one brief and exported without editing, and it is not a therapist’s book. The brief beside this text starts one, and it asks for general information only.

What it does not do

Chapbook does not diagnose, screen, keep clinical records, take bookings or bill insurance. It doesn’t review a book for clinical accuracy or compliance, and it doesn’t email anyone on your list. It writes nonfiction in English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian and Dutch.