Built by a practicing therapist

The pre-licensed years ask a lot of you. Flowers is here to help.

Supervised hours tracking, note drafts, and session reviews for associate therapists, interns, and practicum students.

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macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later · Apple silicon · 16 GB RAM recommended

Free for up to 15 active clients, which covers most practicum caseloads · No account to create · Signed and notarized by Apple

Mock session with Bugs Bunny. No real client data.

Hours toward licensure

Logged, capped, and exportable

On-device AI

Transcription & notes run locally

Nothing uploaded

No vendor receives your clients

Free while you train

Up to 15 active clients

How it works

Three steps, and the note is done.

You have supervision to prepare for and a commute home. The session ends, and after a few minutes the draft is in front of you, waiting to be read and signed off.

  1. 1

    Record, or just jot a few lines

    Start a session in the room or on a telehealth call and Flowers transcribes it locally with Whisper. Not comfortable recording? Type a few reflections instead, and those work just as well.

  2. 2

    Flowers drafts the note

    SOAP, BIRP, DAP, Intake, or a Treatment Plan, in seconds. Placement sites rarely agree on a format, so Student mode also drafts a single block of plain text you can paste straight into whatever system your site uses. The model runs on your own machine, so nothing is queued or uploaded.

  3. 3

    You review and sign off

    Every draft is flagged not yet reviewed until you approve it, and editing or regenerating resets that flag. Flowers will only record a diagnosis you have stated yourself, and it never infers or suggests one. You sign the note. The AI never does.

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Hours toward licensure

The ledger you'll be defending in two years.

Every hour you log now is a number someone may check later. Flowers keeps that ledger properly: categories, weekly supervision, multiple sites, and the caps that decide how much of it actually counts.

California LMFT rules, built in

On the California MFT track, the BBS rule set is already encoded: the hour categories, the caps that limit how much counts (1,300 pre-degree, 750 pre-degree counseling and supervision, 1,250 non-clinical, 3,000 total), the six-year expiry, and the 90-day registration rule. Flowers warns you when a week breaks a supervision ratio or exceeds a cap, while there's still time to fix it.

Caps applied automaticallySix-year expiry trackedWeekly ratio warnings

Other states, and California's clinical social work (LCSW) and professional clinical counseling (LPCC) tracks, get a clean ledger plus targets you enter yourself. There's no built-in rule set for those boards, and Flowers doesn't verify your targets against current regulations. Checking your board's rules stays your job.

Hours dashboard showing total hours toward licensure, progress on post-degree, supervision, direct counseling and non-clinical categories, and a requirements checklist

Hours dashboard with sample data.

The actual board form

On the California MFT track, Flowers fills the real BBS Weekly Summary of Hours of Experience (form 37A-525), not a lookalike. You print it, your supervisor signs it, and you keep the countersigned copy in the app. Every other track exports the same log as a clean weekly PDF.

More than one placement

Sites and supervisors are tracked separately, each with its own pre-degree or post-degree status, so hours land in the right bucket. Moving from a traineeship to an associate role doesn't mean starting a new spreadsheet, and hours you earned before Flowers can be entered as a starting balance.

Stop retyping the same week

Supervision every Tuesday at two? Set it once as a recurring rule and Flowers fills it in. If you're also writing your notes in Flowers, it can turn completed sessions into logged hours for you, which is off by default and reviewable before anything is counted.

See exactly how hours work
The question your supervisor will ask

Flowers is safe to have on your own laptop.

"Be careful with client data" is the instruction everyone gets and nobody explains. Flowers answers it structurally: the work stays on your machine, encrypted, and no company receives it. There is no vendor in this picture to vouch for.

  • None of it comes to us. We never see, collect, or store your sessions, notes, or clients. There's no account and no server to send them to.
  • Nothing for your program to sign. No BAA to negotiate and no data-sharing agreement, because there is no third party holding your practicum records.
  • None of it feeds the big platforms. Your clients' words never train a model or land in someone else's data warehouse.
  • You hold the keys. Encryption keys live in your macOS Keychain. Backups are yours, password-protected, and go where you choose.

Flowers is built to run offline. It reaches the internet only for a few optional, non-clinical tasks: downloading the AI models once at setup, checking your license if you go Pro, syncing a calendar feed you connect, keeping the app updated, and sending appointment reminders through your own email if you turn them on. None of your sessions, transcripts, or notes are ever sent, and none of it goes to us. Read the full security overview →

The rest of the work

Hours tracking, note drafts, session reviews.

Documentation is only part of what these years ask of you. Flowers also helps you walk into the room prepared, think a case through in the model you're being trained in, and look honestly at your own sessions.

Generate clinical notes

SOAP, BIRP, DAP, Intake, or a Treatment Plan, drafted from the transcript or your reflections in seconds. Structured forms keep every note consistent and fully editable in your own voice, and each one is saved as a document you can revisit alongside files you import for the client.

5 note typesStructured formsEditableSaved as documents
Flowers app generating a clinical note: the Clinical Note tab active, showing a SOAP note being written on-device

Look at your own work Pro

Have your private, on-device AI review a session you recorded and reflect back where you did well and where there's room to grow, drawn from specific moments in the transcript. Useful preparation for taking a session to supervision.

A reflective aid, not formal supervision or evaluation. The model can be wrong, so treat each observation as a prompt for your own reflection.

Think it through in your model

See a session through the framework you're being trained in. Eleven modalities including CBT, DBT, EFT, and ACT, with follow-up questions when you want to go deeper into a case.

Walk in prepared

Before each appointment, Flowers pulls together what happened last time, what you said you'd pick up, and where you left off. Have it read aloud on the way in.

See the long arc

Flowers reads across a client's history to surface themes and progress over time, including the slow shifts that are hard to notice week to week. It cites its sources.

Initials only, if that's the rule

Student mode identifies clients by initials or an alias instead of a full name, which is often exactly what your site's policy requires on a personal device. Nothing about the chart lives here anyway.

Your week in one place

Link the calendar you already use and your appointments come in automatically. Once you're licensed and seeing your own clients, billing and income planning are there too.

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All of it on your own machine, free while your caseload is under 15 active clients.

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Why Flowers exists

We built the tool we wanted to exist.

Flowers started with a practicing clinician doing paperwork at 9pm and looking at the AI note-takers that promised to fix it. Every one of them wanted to upload the session first, which never sat right. The pre-licensed years turned out to be where that matters most: least support, most paperwork, tightest budget, and an hours ledger you'll be answering for years. Nobody was building for that, so we did.

Your data outlives us

Records live in files on your Mac, and you can export everything unencrypted at any time. If this company disappeared tomorrow, nothing of yours would switch off.

No ads, no data sales, no insurers

Flowers is funded by the people who use it. There is no second business model reading over your shoulder, because there is nothing for one to read.

Flowers App LLC · California Signed & notarized by Apple Published security overview HIPAA & BAA position A real person answers
From people using it

What pre-licensed therapists say.

Flowers is what I wish I had when I was an associate therapist. It's the best tool I've seen for navigating pre-licensure for therapists!
A therapist, on their own associate years
My therapy internship is confusing, and I really wish I had more support during this time. Flowers is at least trying to bridge that gap of unmet needs.
A therapy intern
You are just... giving this away for free? Flowers feels like something I should be paying for.
A pre-licensed clinician
Pricing

Free for most of your training.

AI note tools for therapists commonly run $40 to $100 a month, partly because someone has to pay for storing and processing your sessions on their servers. Flowers runs on hardware you already own, so there is no server bill to pass on to you. Hours tracking and note writing are free on every plan, and a caseload under 15 active clients costs nothing at all.

Free
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Covers most practicum and traineeship caseloads.

  • Hours tracking, in fullEvery category, every site, and the board form export
  • AI notes, transcription & prepFree for up to 15 active clients (plus a rolling 30 within any 90 days)
  • Scheduling and calendar sync
  • On-device & encrypted, always
  • Full read access to every client and note, always
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An active client is anyone on your current caseload, meaning anyone you haven't discharged, plus a rolling allowance of 30 in any 90-day window so discharges and test clients never count against you. Reaching either limit pauses new generation only. We never paywall data you already have: every client and note stays readable, free, forever.

Flowers Pro
Early Bird First 100 subscribers · locked in forever
$20/ monthreg. $25

Lock in $20/month forever. Price rises to $25/month after the first 100 subscribers.

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited AI generationNo caseload cap
  • Session review and feedback
  • Income projections, for later
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Upgrade anytime from within the app

Anyone you haven't worked with in over 90 days frees up a slot automatically, and Flowers warns you as you approach the limit. Pro removes both limits and can be cancelled from within the app at any time, and your records stay readable either way.

Studying right now? You don't need a code for the free tier, and hours tracking is free on every plan. Some training programs hand their cohort a code for a free year of Pro. If yours hasn't, send them this page.

For programs and supervisors

Teaching a cohort that's about to start logging hours?

There is nothing to install centrally, no data-sharing agreement to negotiate, and no vendor holding your students' practicum records, because we never receive them. Students install it themselves.

What programs should know

  • Nothing for you to administer. No accounts to provision, no roster to maintain, and nothing for the program to endorse.
  • No student record reaches us. Everything stays on the student's own machine, so there is no vendor to vet.
  • It replaces nothing about supervision. It is a documentation and hours aid. It generates no diagnosis, treatment recommendation, or risk assessment.
  • The hardware requirement is real. It needs a Mac with Apple silicon and runs best with 16 GB of memory. Worth saying out loud before a cohort tries to install it.
Questions

What trainees ask first.

Only for one track, and we'd rather say so plainly than let you find out later. The California MFT track has the BBS rule set built in: the categories, the caps, the six-year expiry, the 90-day registration rule, and the weekly supervision ratios. Every other board, including California's own LCSW and LPCC tracks, gets a clean ledger where you enter your own targets. Flowers tracks and totals your hours correctly either way, but outside CA MFT it doesn't know your board's rules, and it never checks them against current regulations. Verifying that stays your responsibility.
Yes, with the caveat above. Clinical social work and professional clinical counseling trainees get the full ledger: eight hour categories, telehealth and conjoint and triadic flags, multiple sites with their own supervisors, pre and post-degree separation, prior-hours balances, recurring entries, and a weekly PDF export. What you don't get is a pre-loaded rule set, so you enter your board's minimums yourself and Flowers tracks progress against them. Most people find that's the part they wanted anyway, since the tedious bit is the arithmetic, not looking up the numbers once.
On the California MFT track, Flowers fills the actual BBS Weekly Summary of Hours of Experience (form 37A-525), so what your supervisor signs is the form they already know. Everywhere else it produces a clean weekly summary PDF. In both cases the signature lines print blank: you print it, your supervisor signs it by hand, and you keep the countersigned copy in the app. Flowers doesn't collect signatures, doesn't send anything to a board, and doesn't verify anything with anyone. It keeps the ledger and prints the paperwork.
No, and not through us either. Everything lives locally under your own macOS user account. There is no dashboard for a program to log into, no roster, and no server holding anything, so there is nothing for anyone to request from us. When you need to share something, for supervision or a submission, you export it deliberately and hand it over yourself.
Windows and Linux, no. Flowers runs the AI model on your own machine, which means it's macOS only, on Apple silicon, and we'd rather tell you now than after a download. On 8 GB it will run, but the language model has to be a smaller one and the notes are noticeably weaker, so 16 GB is what we recommend. Flowers checks your machine during setup and suggests the right model size. If your hardware isn't a fit, that's a real answer and we won't pretend otherwise.
Hours tracking and note writing are free on every plan, with no card and no account. The free tier covers up to 15 active clients, which is more than most practicum caseloads, plus a rolling allowance of 30 within any 90 days so discharges and test clients never count against you. Anyone you haven't worked with in over 90 days frees up a slot automatically, and Flowers warns you as you approach the limit. Pro is $20/month and adds unlimited generation and session review. Reaching a limit only ever pauses new generation: every client, note, and hour you already have stays readable, free, permanently.
It writes a draft. You review it, edit it, and sign it, and until you do it stays flagged not yet reviewed. Editing or regenerating resets that flag. Flowers will only record a diagnosis you have stated yourself, and it will never infer, suggest, or generate one, nor a treatment recommendation or a risk assessment. That's a deliberate design limit, not an oversight: it keeps Flowers a documentation aid rather than something that reaches into clinical judgment. The clinical thinking is yours, and so is the signature.
Yes. Transcription and note generation run on your computer with on-device models, and your data is encrypted at rest with a key stored only in your macOS Keychain. There is no account and no cloud sync. Your sessions, notes, and clients never reach us, an insurer, or any platform. The one exception is optional appointment reminders, which go straight from your own email account to your client and never through us.
Yes. After a one-time model download at setup, transcribing a session and writing a note run entirely offline and never need the internet. A few optional extras reach out only when you use them, like syncing a calendar you connect or sending appointment reminders through your own email. Skip those and Flowers stays fully offline.

More detail lives where it belongs: how hours tracking works, security and what happens to your data, our HIPAA and BAA position, and billing for licensed practice.

Get the hours right. Get your evenings back.

Start the ledger properly, let Flowers carry the paperwork, and keep all of it on your own machine. Free for up to 15 active clients.

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