TheraPlatform vs SimplePractice: Which Suits Your Practice?

Short answer: TheraPlatform is built around teletherapy, and if most of your sessions are virtual it gives you integrated video plus documentation without enterprise implementation overhead. SimplePractice is the broader platform with a better mobile app and a larger ecosystem. Choose on how much of your practice happens on video, because that is where the two genuinely differ.

We make a competing product, so treat the closing section as an advertisement. Oasys sits at the infrastructure layer of working practices, and from our ongoing conversations with therapists and group practice owners, the teletherapy question comes up in almost every one.

At a glance

On pricing. SimplePractice publishes Starter at $49, Essential at $79 and Plus at $99 a month. Group practices need Plus, with additional clinicians tiered at $74 each for two to five, $72 for six to fifteen, and $69 for sixteen or more. TheraPlatform starts around $39 a month with a 30-day trial. Verified 30 July 2026; confirm before you sign anything.

Where TheraPlatform is genuinely different

Telehealth is the product, not a feature. Most EHRs added video during 2020. TheraPlatform was built around it, and that shows in the session tooling: interactive whiteboards, therapy-specific activities, and resources designed to be used live with a client on screen.

For practices doing play therapy, speech work, or anything where you need shared interactive material during a virtual session, this is a meaningful gap in your favor.

Low implementation overhead. It is aimed at smaller organizations that want integrated telehealth and documentation without a long onboarding project.

Where SimplePractice is stronger

Mobile app. Consistently better.

Ecosystem and community. More templates, more answers, more people who have already solved your problem.

Breadth of practitioner types. If your clinic is mixed, SimplePractice covers more.

Client portal maturity. Intake tends to complete more reliably.

The question that actually decides it

What share of your sessions are virtual?

Above roughly seventy percent, TheraPlatform's session tooling starts to pay for itself and the ecosystem gap matters less, because your daily workflow is the video session.

Below about thirty percent, you are buying depth you will rarely use, and SimplePractice's polish and ecosystem serve you better.

Between those, it is genuinely close, and we would test both with two clinicians before deciding.

What neither addresses

Both are solo-first products. The gaps that appear as practices grow are the same in each:

Supervision that does not distinguish credential status. A provisionally licensed clinician who is independently credentialed with payers gets the same forced co-sign as a first-year intern.

Coarse permissions. Once you have an office manager, a biller, and clinicians who should not see one another's caseloads, admin access that is close to all-or-nothing stops working.

No payroll modeling. The number that stayed with us came from a practice with a couple of dozen clinicians: about 20 hours a week of their billing manager's time went into converting EHR data into a payroll ledger. Half a full-time role, permanently, on a line item that appears on no invoice.

Which should you choose?

Choose TheraPlatform if most of your sessions are virtual, you want interactive tools during sessions, and you are solo or a small group.

Choose SimplePractice if you are mostly in person or hybrid, you want the better mobile app, or you value a large ecosystem.

Consider neither if you are past fifteen clinicians and the friction is supervision, permissions, or payroll rather than session delivery.

Before you move either way

Ask both vendors the same question: how would I get my data out in three years, and what exactly comes with it? Assessments, intake forms, and future appointments are the three things most often left behind, and they are the three you will miss first.

Migration is the question we are asked about most. Rather than make promises in a blog post, ask us directly what moving your particular system would involve, what comes across, and what happens to appointments already booked.

FAQ

SimplePractice vs TheraPlatform: how do they compare for a therapy practice? It comes down to virtual session share, the number that decides the rest of this comparison. Above roughly seventy percent virtual, TheraPlatform's session tooling and lower implementation overhead pay for themselves. Below about thirty percent, SimplePractice's mobile app and ecosystem serve most practices better.

Is TheraPlatform or Simple Practice better for teletherapy? TheraPlatform, if teletherapy is most of the practice. It was built around video sessions rather than adding video to an existing product, which shows in the session tooling: interactive whiteboards and activities designed to be used live on screen. Simple Practice added telehealth later and it works, but it was not the product's starting point.

Does either TheraPlatform or SimplePractice handle group-practice supervision and payroll? No, and it's the same wall noted above: past about fifteen clinicians, the friction shifts from session delivery to supervision, permissions, and payroll, and neither platform closes that gap. Oasys is built for that later stage specifically, with supervision scoped by role and credential status and a payroll ledger produced directly rather than rebuilt by hand.

Our position, labeled

We make Oasys, an EHR for mental health group practices, at $80 per clinician per month on an annual contract with no add-ons. If you are a small, mostly virtual practice, TheraPlatform is a reasonable answer and we would not pretend otherwise.