Pacing vs TherapistAid

PDFs leave your practice. Pacing keeps the work inside it.

TherapistAid hands you a worksheet you'll never see filled in. The patient prints it, fills nothing, brings nothing back, and you reconstruct the week from memory in session. Pacing hands you a completed worksheet, anchored to the affect ratings and notes from the day the patient actually did it. The cost of the difference is whether between-session work becomes part of treatment, or stays a thing you hand out and hope.

Side by side
Dimension
Pacing
TherapistAid
What it is
A between-session companion built around the clinician-patient relationship
A library of free downloadable PDFs
Patient account
Each patient logs in; you invite them
None. You hand out PDFs
Daily diary card
Six emotions + specifiers, sleep / meds / substances, tracked behaviors, urgent flag
Not in scope
Worksheet completions
Come back to you, time-stamped, tied to the patient's daily entry from that day
Live and die as PDFs on the patient's desk
Pre-session digest
One page per patient: emotions, behaviors, urgent flags, skills used, what they completed this week
No patient view at all
Urgent flag
Patient marks an entry urgent; you're notified before next session
No notification channel
DBT depth
48 worksheets + 25 lessons covering the named Linehan catalog
~25 DBT worksheets in a much broader library
Other modalities
DBT-deep, ACT next
Broad: CBT, ACT, parenting, kids, etc.
Pricing
Subscription, per clinician
Free + premium tier for templates
When TherapistAid is the right call
  • You need a one-off PDF to print and hand to a client this week, full stop. Nothing to track, nothing to follow up.
  • Your practice doesn't have a between-session model. Session is the work; the rest is the patient's responsibility.
  • You want a worksheet for a modality outside DBT (parenting, kids, CBT-only practice). The TherapistAid library is broader.
When Pacing is the right call
  • You assign a Chain Analysis on Tuesday and want to see what the patient actually wrote, anchored to what they were feeling that day, before they walk in on Thursday.
  • You want one place the patient logs daily, one place they complete worksheets, and one page you read before session. Not three apps and a stack of PDFs you can't find.
  • Your patient flags an entry urgent on Saturday. You want to know before you next see them, not on Thursday at 1:55pm.
  • You're DBT-deep and want a catalog that takes Linehan seriously. Chain analysis, missing links, cope ahead, the full mindfulness set, the addiction skills. Not a sampling that runs out.
  • You want to see a completed worksheet next to the patient's affect ratings from that same day. The clinical context is half the read.
  • You want the between-session work to be a real part of treatment, not a thing you give out and hope.
  • You want a tool your clients use, not a PDF that sits in their inbox.

TherapistAid will keep being useful when you need a printable. But if the between-session work matters to your practice, a library of PDFs is not the same shape as a platform that brings the work back to you.

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Pacing is in private beta with US-based clinicians. Drop your email and we'll be in touch.