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Backup & restore

About backups

Your data lives only on this device. Export regularly and keep the file somewhere safe away from this device, such as a USB stick. Restoring replaces everything on this device.

Your backup file is locked with the passphrase you use to open the app (AES-256-GCM encryption). You type it when you export. That passphrase is the only thing that opens the file, on any device. That's what makes it a real backup. Keep the passphrase and the file in different places: anyone with both can read everything in it.

Your records stay with you. There's no central database of client notes for anyone to hack or leak. Everything is encrypted on this device, and only your passphrase opens it. You look after your clients' data. Your passphrase can't be recovered, so keep it written down somewhere safe. Keep backups on something separate, like a USB stick.

Calendar

Booked Confirmed  ·  Drag an appointment to another day to reschedule. Tap a day to add, tap an appointment to edit.

Invoices

    Banking & reconciliation

    Import a bank statement (CSV) and match payments received to your invoices. The file is read on this device — nothing is uploaded. Currency and date format follow your practice country (set in Your practice details).

    No statement imported yet. Export a CSV from your online banking, then import it here.

    Which banks work?

    Most CSV exports work automatically. In the UK that includes Monzo, Starling, Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Halifax, NatWest, Santander, Nationwide and Revolut. In the US: Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citi, Capital One and Amex. If a layout isn't recognised, you'll be asked to point us at the date, description and amount columns. Reconciliation matches by amount and a name in the payment reference. Always confirm each match before you mark an invoice paid.

    Auto-match rules

      Income & tax year

      The UK tax year runs from 6 April to 5 April. Received counts income when you were paid (the cash basis). Invoiced counts it when you raised the invoice (the traditional, or accruals, basis). Most sole traders use the cash basis. This covers invoices created here only. It doesn’t include expenses, or income you haven’t invoiced in the app. So it’s a starting point for you and your accountant, not tax advice.

      Your practice details

      Session types & rates

      Used when booking a session — picking a type sets the fee and the invoice description (e.g. EMDR, person-centred, missed appointment <24h).

        Email wording

        The words in each email the app opens for you to send. Words in braces, such as {client first name}, are filled in for each client when you send. Invoices are not here.

        Data protection

        Are you a registered health professional under the Data Protection Act 2018? For example, HCPC-registered. Most counsellors and psychotherapists are not.

        Your answer changes which tips are shown on clients' subject access requests. The Data Protection Act 2018 lists who counts as a health professional (for example, HCPC-registered professions); most counsellors and psychotherapists aren't on it.

        Tip: if a client returns a form by email, consider deleting the email copy once it's uploaded here.

        SAR letter

        Data encryption

        When a client is waiting

        Notify me when a client is waiting

        A notification from your device, even while you're in another app. It works only while Therapywork is open on this device: nothing is sent from a server.

        Show the client's name in notifications

        Notifications can appear on your lock screen, where others may see them.

        Import from WriteUpp

        Bring your client list and appointment history across from a WriteUpp export. Nothing is imported until you confirm the preview. The files are read on this device — nothing is uploaded.

        No files chosen yet.

        Import a client file (.zip)

        Import everything for one client — their notes, forms and appointments — from the .zip you downloaded from WriteUpp. If this client isn't in Therapywork yet, they'll be created for you.

        No file chosen yet.

        Note tags

        Tag clinical notes to find them again — in a client's notes, or across your caseload with Notes. Renaming a tag renames it on every note. A tag can only be deleted once no note uses it.

          Licence

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          Your key is not in your backups — it belongs to this device, not to your records. Copy it somewhere safe while this device works; it is also in the receipt email for every payment.

          Display

          High contrast

          Stronger outlines on buttons, boxes and fields.