Pacing vs DBT Travel Guide

A reference your patient installs once. A routine they actually use.

DBT Travel Guide is a pocket reference from a different era of mobile design. Hard to navigate, no customizable target behaviors, no real emotion tracking, and the only way it reaches you is a CSV or a PDF the patient has to remember to export. Pacing is a daily-use platform built for the relationship: the patient logs, you see it before session, worksheets come back filled in. Two apps, two different products. One is a static reference. One is the routine.

Side by side
Dimension
Pacing
DBT Travel Guide
What it is
A daily-use platform shared by clinician and patient
A patient-side DBT skills reference app
Design
Built in 2026 with the patient's actual phone in mind
Reference-app aesthetic from an earlier era of mobile design
Daily diary card
Six-emotion diary card with specifiers, sleep / meds / substances, urgent flag
No real emotion tracking
Customizable target behaviors
Patients track their own behaviors, on their own goals
Fixed reference content; no per-patient tracking
Clinician account
You onboard first, then invite the patient
Clinician is not part of the product
How the clinician sees the data
Live in your dashboard, updated continuously
CSV or PDF the patient has to manually export and email you
Pre-session digest
One page per patient: emotions, behaviors, urgent flags, skills used, worksheet completions
Not in scope
Worksheet assignment
You assign; the patient sees the assignment and submits it back
No clinician-side workflow
Urgent flag
Patient flags urgent; you're notified before next session
No notification channel
Skills coverage
Full Linehan named-skills catalog as completable worksheets + lessons
Reference-shaped library of the skills
Designed for
Clinicians whose DBT practice depends on what happens between sessions
Patients who want a static skills reference in their pocket
When DBT Travel Guide is the right call
  • Your patient is between treatment and wants offline skills reference in their pocket, with no clinician involvement.
  • You already have an EHR / charting system and want the patient to have a personal supplement that doesn't touch your workflow.
When Pacing is the right call
  • You do DBT and the homework is half the work. You want to walk into Thursday session knowing what your patient logged Monday, not reconstruct the week from a 90-second check-in.
  • Your patient flags Friday night urgent. You want to know Saturday morning, not Thursday at 1:55pm when you read the CSV they emailed you.
  • You want to assign your patient's actual target behaviors. Binge-eating. Avoiding the application. Texting the ex. Not picking from a fixed list someone wrote in 2014.
  • You want a daily-use product. Apps that are hard to navigate get opened twice and forgotten. The DBT diary card only works if it gets done daily.
  • You assign a Cope Ahead for next week's family dinner. You want to read what the patient wrote, anchored to how they were feeling the day they planned it, not download a PDF and open it in another app.
  • You want one platform that handles the diary card AND worksheet completions AND skill use, with one place to read it all. Not a CSV export, a PDF export, and a guess at how the week went.
  • You want a tool that doesn't make you spend session time on tech support. Modern UX is clinical efficiency.
  • You want the relationship bidirectional from day one. You invite, the patient signs up, the connection is the product.

DBT Travel Guide was a useful product when it shipped, and it still works as a reference. But a reference is not a routine. If your patient's DBT depends on daily practice and your clinical eye on what they logged, you need a product that lives in their phone every day and ends up on your dashboard every time they open it.

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