AI Scribe for Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
Document psychiatric evaluations and medication-management visits without staying late to chart. Dictate a recap, record the session, or type shorthand—SOAPNoteAI drafts a SOAP, DAP, or BIRP note in about two minutes, and you review every word.
HIPAA compliant. BAA available. First 20 notes free, no credit card.
The Documentation Problem for PMHNPs
Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners carry a documentation load that looks nothing like a primary-care panel. A typical day mixes 45- to 60-minute initial psychiatric evaluations with a run of short 15- to 30-minute medication-management follow-ups—often 15 to 25 patients, much of it telehealth. Every one of those visits generates a structured note, and psychiatric notes are dense.
Each encounter typically needs a Mental Status Exam— appearance, behavior, speech, mood, affect, thought process, thought content, perception, cognition, insight, and judgment—plus a risk assessment for suicidal or homicidal ideation and, where relevant, a safety plan. Controlled-substance and stimulant prescribing brings its own PDMP and documentation context. On top of that sits the coding reality: initial psychiatric diagnostic evaluations (90792 with medical services, or 90791 without), E/M medication-management visits (99213, 99214, 99215), and psychotherapy add-on codes (+90833, +90836, +90838) layered onto a med visit when you provide therapy in the same session.
The result is a repetitive, high-volume charting burden that pushes work into the evening. A prescriber who wanted to spend the day with patients ends up spending it—and the hours after—typing. That is the specific problem this page is about, and it is different from the general nurse practitioner documentation grind and from talk-therapy progress notes. PMHNPs are prescribers, and the note has to reflect that.
How SOAPNoteAI Fits a Psychiatric Practice
An affordable, flexible AI scribe that handles both ends of the PMHNP workload—not a psychiatry-pharmacology engine. You stay in control of clinical content.
Behavioral-health-native formats
Generate SOAP, DAP, or BIRP notes. SOAP and DAP fit med-management progress notes and follow-ups; BIRP is there when your practice requires it. DAP and BIRP are behavioral-health formats.
Dictate without recording the session
For visits that touch SI/HI, trauma, or substance use, skip recording entirely. Dictate a short recap afterward and the AI builds the note—a privacy option most ambient psych scribes do not offer.
Long evals and fast med checks
Record an in-person or telehealth session up to 2 hours for a long initial evaluation, or type shorthand (Pro tier) for a quick repetitive med-check and have it expanded into a full note.
1-click SimplePractice sync
The free Chrome extension fills all four SOAP sections into a SimplePractice appointment note in one click—a concrete workflow win for the many solo and group PMHNP practices on SimplePractice.
Works with your existing psych EHR
No migration. Paste or dictate into TherapyNotes, Osmind, Valant, Kipu, Charm, a health-system Epic or Athenahealth chart, or your Alma, Headway, or Grow Therapy panel.
You review every note
SOAPNoteAI drafts the note; the MSE, risk documentation, and prescribing decisions are yours to review and edit before anything reaches the chart. It does not auto-populate an MSE or check drug interactions.
Add what you missed with Penny
Penny is SOAPNoteAI's built-in AI assistant—type or talk to it. After the draft is ready, tell Penny a med-management or MSE detail you forgot, or reassign a statement to the right speaker, and it folds the change into the note. Penny can also answer questions about your notes and generate documents like treatment plans, referral letters, or visit summaries.
New to structured psychiatric notes? Start with our psychiatry SOAP note guide and examples.
Priced for Real PMHNP Caseloads
Psychiatry-capable documentation without a psychiatry-specialist price tag.
Plans start at Lite, $29/mo for 30 audio notes (or $200/yr)—a fit for a low-caseload, moonlighting, or cash-pay solo PMHNP. If you run a full panel, Standard is $69/mo for unlimited audio notes (or $600/yr), and Pro is $79/mo (or $700/yr), adding typed and shorthand text input for fast, repetitive med-check follow-ups. One-time credit packs start at $59 with no subscription, so a low-volume prescriber can simply pay as they go.
Every plan is HIPAA compliant, SOAPNoteAI signs a BAA, and your first 20 notes are free with no credit card. See every tier on the pricing page or read how we handle HIPAA-compliant AI scribing.
Who It Is For
Prescribing behavioral-health clinicians running medication-management panels and psychiatric evaluations.
Solo & cash-pay PMHNPs
Low overhead matters. Start on Lite at $29/mo or buy credit packs and pay as you go—no enterprise contract, no per-seat minimum.
Group & telehealth practices
High-volume med-check days go faster with dictation and shorthand input, and SimplePractice sync keeps the appointment note clean.
Panel & platform clinicians
Practicing under Alma, Headway, or Grow Therapy? SOAPNoteAI works alongside whatever charting system the panel puts you in—no migration required.
Moonlighting prescribers
Picking up occasional psychiatric shifts or a small side panel? Pay-as-you-go credit packs from $59 keep documentation cheap when volume is low.
Comparing psychiatry scribes? See how SOAPNoteAI stacks up on our comparison hub.
Create Your Psychiatric Note in 2 Minutes
Start with 20 free SOAP notes. No credit card required.
Plans from $29/mo · HIPAA-compliant with signed BAA · 1-click sync to SimplePractice
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. SOAPNoteAI turns a dictated recap, an in-person or telehealth recording (up to 2 hours), an audio upload, or typed shorthand into a structured note in about two minutes. That fits both ends of a PMHNP panel: long initial psychiatric evaluations and fast, repetitive med-management follow-ups. It generates SOAP, DAP, and BIRP notes, so it matches how prescribing behavioral-health clinicians actually chart. It is an affordable, flexible general AI scribe—not a psychiatric-pharmacology engine—so you always review the note before it reaches the chart.
No. SOAPNoteAI offers a dictation mode: instead of recording the encounter, you dictate a short recap afterward and the AI builds the note from that. For med-management and eval visits that touch suicidal or homicidal ideation, trauma, substance use, or other high-sensitivity content, many PMHNPs and their patients prefer not to have the session recorded at all. You can still record in-person or telehealth sessions when it makes sense—the choice stays with you, visit by visit.
Yes. The free SOAPNoteAI Chrome extension syncs all four SOAP sections into a SimplePractice appointment note in one click—useful for the many solo and group PMHNP practices that chart in SimplePractice. It also works alongside whatever else you use: TherapyNotes, Osmind, Valant, Kipu, Charm, or a health-system Epic or Athenahealth chart, and panels like Alma, Headway, or Grow Therapy. There is no migration—you keep your existing EHR and paste or dictate the finished note into it.
SOAP, DAP, and BIRP. SOAP and DAP are common for medication-management progress notes and follow-ups, and BIRP is supported where a practice requires it. DAP and BIRP are behavioral-health-only formats. You can document an initial psychiatric evaluation, a 99213/99214/99215 med-management visit, a treatment-plan update, or a note with a psychotherapy add-on layered on the med visit—the structure follows the format you pick.
Plans start at Lite ($29/mo for 30 audio notes, or $200/yr)—a fit for low-caseload, moonlighting, or cash-pay solo PMHNPs. Standard is $69/mo for unlimited audio notes (or $600/yr), and Pro is $79/mo (or $700/yr) and adds typed/shorthand text input for fast med-check follow-ups. One-time credit packs start at $59 with no subscription, so a low-volume prescriber can pay as they go. Your first 20 notes are free with no credit card.
No, and we want to be honest about that. SOAPNoteAI does not auto-populate a Mental Status Exam from a database, and it does not do drug-interaction checking, titration guidance, prior authorization, or revenue-cycle management—those are features of purpose-built psychiatry tools. SOAPNoteAI is an affordable, flexible scribe: it drafts the full note, including the sections you dictate or discuss, and you review and edit every part—including the MSE and any prescribing decisions—before it reaches the chart.
Yes—that is what Penny, SOAPNoteAI's built-in AI assistant, is for. Once your note is drafted, type or talk to Penny to add a med-management or MSE detail you forgot, or to reassign a statement to the right speaker, and it folds the change into the note. Penny can also answer questions about your notes and generate documents like treatment plans, referral letters, or visit summaries. Conversations with Penny are encrypted, are not used to train AI, and are auto-deleted after 30 days.
SOAPNoteAI is an affordable, flexible AI scribe. It does not provide psychiatric pharmacology guidance, drug-interaction or titration checking, Mental Status Exam auto-population, prior authorization, or revenue-cycle management; clinical content and prescribing decisions are the responsibility of the clinician, who reviews every note. SimplePractice, Osmind, TherapyNotes, Valant, Epic, Alma, Headway, and Grow Therapy are trademarks of their respective owners; SOAPNoteAI is independent and not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of them. Pricing is accurate as of July 2026 and may change.