Best behavioral health EHR, according to Google’s AI

Which EHRs Google’s AI names most often

On 28 October 2026, Google’s AI named SimplePractice in 80 of 114 answers about behavioral health EHRs. TherapyNotes followed with 74. After them the count drops to 42 for Sessions Health and 41 for ICANotes. In all, the answers named 70 companies.

A name in an answer is not always a suggestion. In answers about community mental health centers, SimplePractice appears only as the kind of tool solo practices use. In “simplepractice alternatives” it is the product being replaced. The matrix and the tables below leave such mentions out.

What Google’s AI said about the most-named EHRs

On 28 October 2026, these were the eight EHRs Google’s AI named most often. For each: the kinds of practice it was named for, one of the lines about it that came back word for word most, how often answers linked to its own site and which page its entries linked to most. The lines are Google’s words, not Wonderflow’s, and we have not checked them against the products. In the entries quoted here, lines about SimplePractice, TherapyNotes and Sessions Health linked to lists published by RXNT and DeepCura, two companies that sell software to practices themselves.

SimplePractice: named in 80 of 114 answers

In the matrix below, SimplePractice is named for six of the eight kinds of practice, all but addiction and residential treatment and community mental health centers. One of the lines about it that came back word for word in the most different answer texts is “Polished client portal and modern design”: six answers, two different texts.

Its own site was linked in 14 answers. Its entries linked to RXNT’s “The 6 Best EHRs for Mental Health Practices in 2026” and DeepCura’s “Best EHR for Private Practice (2026): 10 Systems Ranked” most often, in 11 answers each. In one AI Overviews answer to “best ehr for counselors” (run 1), its entry linked to DeepCura’s “Best EHR for Private Practice (2026): 10 Systems Ranked” and read “Best Overall for Private Practice.” In one AI Mode answer to “best behavioral health ehr for small clinics” (run 1), its entry linked to RXNT’s “The 6 Best EHRs for Mental Health Practices in 2026” and read “Best for Independent & Small Group Practices.”

TherapyNotes: named in 74 of 114 answers

In the matrix below, TherapyNotes is named for six of the eight kinds of practice, all but addiction and residential treatment and community mental health centers. One of the lines about it that came back word for word in the most different answer texts is “Best for Insurance-Based Practices”: six answers, four different texts.

Its own site was linked in 18 answers. Its entries linked to its own home page most often, in 18 answers. In one AI Mode answer to “best behavioral health ehr for small clinics” (run 1), its entry linked to RXNT’s “The 6 Best EHRs for Mental Health Practices in 2026” and read “Best for Workflow Simplicity & Documentation.” In one AI Mode answer to “simplepractice alternatives” (run 1), its entry linked to DeepCura’s “Best EHR for Private Practice (2026): 10 Systems Ranked” and read “Best for insurance-based and growing practices.”

Sessions Health: named in 42 of 114 answers

In the matrix below, Sessions Health is named for five of the eight kinds of practice, all but psychiatry, addiction and residential treatment and community mental health centers. One of the lines about it that came back word for word in the most different answer texts is “Best Value for Solo Therapists”: five answers, four different texts.

Its own site was linked in 14 answers. Its entries linked to DeepCura’s “Best EHR for Private Practice (2026): 10 Systems Ranked” most often, in 16 answers. In one AI Mode answer to “best ehr for therapists in private practice” (run 1), its entry linked to DeepCura’s “Best EHR for Private Practice (2026): 10 Systems Ranked” and read “Best Value for Solo Therapists.”

ICANotes: named in 41 of 114 answers

In the matrix below, ICANotes is named for six of the eight kinds of practice, all but private practice and switching from another EHR. No line about it came back word for word in two different answer texts.

Its own site was linked in 19 answers. Its entries linked to EHR in Practice’s “Compare Behavioral Health EHR Software” most often, in 10 answers. In one AI Mode answer to “best ehr for intensive outpatient programs” (run 3), its entry linked to ClinicMind’s “Top Mental Health EHR Software: A Buyer’s Guide” and read “Best for documentation speed and clinical compliance.”

TheraNest / Ensora: named in 30 of 114 answers

In the matrix below, TheraNest / Ensora is named for general questions, private practice and switching from another EHR, and not for the other five kinds of practice. One of the lines about it that came back word for word in the most different answer texts is “Highly customizable forms and adaptive workflows”: six answers, two different texts.

Its own site was linked in four answers. Its entries linked to DeepCura’s “Best EHR for Private Practice (2026): 10 Systems Ranked” and a Jotform blog post on SimplePractice pricing most often, in four answers each.

Valant: named in 28 of 114 answers

In the matrix below, Valant is named for general questions, psychiatry, addiction and residential treatment and switching from another EHR, and not for the other four kinds of practice. No line about it came back word for word in two different answer texts.

Its own site was linked in 14 answers. Its entries linked to its own “Best EHR for Psychiatric Prescribers in 2026” and EHR in Practice’s “Compare Behavioral Health EHR Software” most often, in six answers each. In one AI Overviews answer to “best ehr for psychiatric nurse practitioners” (run 1), its entry linked to DeepCura’s “Best EHR for Private Practice (2026): 10 Systems Ranked” and its own “Best EHR for Psychiatric Prescribers in 2026” and read “Best for dedicated psychiatry group practices and larger clinics.”

Carepatron: named in 27 of 114 answers

In the matrix below, Carepatron is named for five of the eight kinds of practice, all but psychiatry, addiction and residential treatment and community mental health centers. One of the lines about it that came back word for word in the most different answer texts is “Low-cost entry point for tight budgets”: six answers, two different texts.

Its own site was linked in two answers. Its entries linked to ChoosingTherapy’s “Best Mental Health & Therapy EHR Software of 2026” most often, in four answers.

Behave Health: named in 25 of 114 answers

In the matrix below, Behave Health is named for five of the eight kinds of practice, all but private practice, group practice and psychiatry. One of the lines about it that came back word for word in the most different answer texts is “Substance Use & Addiction Treatment”: six answers, two different texts.

Its own site was linked in 24 answers. Its entries linked to its own page “Behavioral Health EHR Software” most often, in eight answers. In one AI Mode answer to “best ehr for residential treatment centers” (run 2), its entry linked to its own “7 Best EHRs for Small Behavioral Health Centers” and read “Built specifically as an all-in-one integrated platform combining EHR, CRM (for admissions pipelines), and Revenue Cycle Management (RCM/billing).”

Which EHRs Google’s AI names for each kind of practice

On 28 October 2026, none of the 15 EHRs Google’s AI named for private practice came up for addiction and residential treatment. We grouped the 20 questions into eight kinds of practice and need. A filled cell means Google’s AI named the EHR in at least two of three runs for at least one question of that kind, in AI Mode or in AI Overviews. There is no total per EHR: filling more columns doesn’t rank an EHR higher.

Below, each kind of practice with its questions, including EHRs named in fewer than ten answers overall.

Best behavioral health and mental health EHR overall

Of the 12 answers to “best behavioral health ehr” and “best mental health ehr software” on 28 October 2026, Google’s AI named TherapyNotes and OmniMD in all 12, then BestNotes and Qualifacts in 9 each. For “best behavioral health ehr for small clinics,” it named SimplePractice and ICANotes in all six, then TherapyNotes in five. SimplePractice is on the AI Mode list for “best behavioral health ehr” and not on the AI Overviews list.

Best EHR for therapists in private practice

Of the 11 answers about therapists in private practice and solo therapists on 28 October 2026, Google’s AI named SimplePractice and TherapyNotes in all 11, then Sessions Health in 10. For “best free ehr for therapists,” it named Sessions Health in all six, OpenEMR in four, then CharmHealth and Practice Fusion in three each. AI Mode mentioned SimplePractice and TherapyNotes there only as paid options, so they are not counted. Free EHRs got a list of their own: Sessions Health is the only EHR that both AI Mode and AI Overviews named for “best free ehr for therapists.”

Billing and insurance

Of the 12 answers about practice management with insurance billing and mental health billing software on 28 October 2026, Google’s AI named SimplePractice and TherapyNotes in all 12, then Upheal in 6. For both billing questions, SimplePractice and TherapyNotes are the only names on both the AI Mode and the AI Overviews lists.

Group practices and counselors

Of the five answers to “best ehr for group therapy practices” on 28 October 2026, Google’s AI named SimplePractice and TherapyNotes in all five, then Upheal in four. For “best ehr for counselors,” it named SimplePractice and TherapyNotes in all six, then Sessions Health in five. Four EHRs are on both the AI Mode and the AI Overviews lists for counselors: SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Sessions Health and ICANotes.

Best EHR for psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners

Of the six answers to “best ehr for psychiatrists” on 28 October 2026, Google’s AI named SimplePractice in all six, then ICANotes and Osmind in five each. Headway and Alma are not counted there: the AI Overviews named them as credentialing and scheduling services to pair with an EHR. For “best psychiatric ehr with e-prescribing,” it named ICANotes and RXNT in five of six, then Valant in four. For “best ehr for psychiatric nurse practitioners,” it named SimplePractice in all six, then Valant and CharmHealth in four each. For e-prescribing, ICANotes and RXNT are on both lists, and SimplePractice is on neither.

Addiction treatment and residential programs

Of the six answers to “best ehr for substance abuse treatment facilities” on 28 October 2026, Google’s AI named BestNotes in all six, then Behave Health and Netsmart in five each. For “best ehr for residential treatment centers,” it named Behave Health in all five, then Netsmart and Qualifacts in four each. For “best ehr for intensive outpatient programs,” it named BestNotes in five of six, then Valant and Alleva in four each. For “best ehr for addiction treatment centers,” AI Overviews did not appear and the saved AI Mode answers held only introductory sentences. In AI Overviews, Behave Health was the only EHR named for residential treatment centers in at least two of three runs.

Community mental health centers

Of the six answers about community mental health centers on 28 October 2026, Google’s AI named ICANotes, Netsmart, Qualifacts and NextGen in four each. SimplePractice and TherapyNotes came up here only as the kind of tool solo practices use, so they are not counted. AI Overviews named only Behave Health and BestNotes, and AI Mode named neither.

Alternatives to SimplePractice and TherapyNotes

Of the six answers to “simplepractice alternatives” on 28 October 2026, Google’s AI named TherapyNotes, Sessions Health and Jane App in all six. For “therapynotes alternatives,” it named SimplePractice and Upheal in all six, then TheraNest / Ensora and Carepatron in five each. The product being replaced is not counted in its own question. Every EHR AI Mode named as an alternative to SimplePractice is also on the AI Overviews list.

SimplePractice vs TherapyNotes in Google’s AI answers

On 28 October 2026, Google’s AI tied SimplePractice to a client portal, telehealth and solo practitioners, and TherapyNotes to billing and insurance. Of the 114 answers, 51 suggested both, and SimplePractice was the first EHR named in 31 of them and TherapyNotes in 7. The count leaves aside the questions about replacing either, the answers about community mental health centers and mentions for contrast.

The answers framed the two differently. Entries on SimplePractice mentioned a client portal in 44 of 62, telehealth in 38 and solo practitioners in 36. Entries on TherapyNotes mentioned billing in 44 of 58 and insurance in 42. These are the answers’ words, not our comparison of the products.

Some labels stuck. Each line below came back word for word in at least two distinct answers, not only in repeated runs of one answer.

Which pages the answers cite

On 28 October 2026, the 114 answers from Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews carried 666 links. Of these, 490 (74%) led to the sites of companies that sell software or services to practices: product pages, blog posts and their own lists of the best EHRs. All but one of the 114 answers link to at least one such page.

Real estate CRM, our second study from the same day, looks different. There, companies selling to agents drew 33% of the links, general-purpose software such as HubSpot and Pipedrive another 14%, and YouTube, Reddit and other video and forum sites 29%. See the real estate CRM study. Download all 108 linked sites (CSV) to see which kind we gave each one.

The most-cited list in this study comes from a company the answers never named. DeepCura’s “Best EHR for Private Practice (2026): 10 Systems Ranked” was cited in 24 of the 114 answers, in 21 different answer texts, and none of the 114 named DeepCura. It was cited in 19 of the 74 answers that named TherapyNotes and in 17 of the 42 that named Sessions Health. Only OmniMD’s page about its own mental health EHR was cited as often, in 24 answers with 12 different texts.

Ease Health and ClinicMind show the same pattern on a smaller scale. Pages on their sites were cited in 18 and 13 answers, while each company was named in 5. In the AI Mode answers to “best behavioral health ehr” and “best mental health ehr software,” the name Qualifacts was itself a link to an article on Behave Health’s blog. That happened in six answers with two different texts.

If you’re choosing a behavioral health EHR

If you use Google’s AI answers to start a shortlist, four things in the answers we saved on 28 October 2026 are worth knowing. They describe what Google’s AI said that day, not which software fits your practice.

1. 1

   Most links lead to companies that sell to practices

   Of the 666 links, 490 led to the sites of companies that sell software or services to practices, EHR vendors among them. DeepCura’s list of the best EHRs for private practice was cited in 19 of the 74 answers that named TherapyNotes.

2. 2

   AI Mode and AI Overviews give different lists

   On each of the 19 questions both AI Mode and AI Overviews answered, the lists differed. For “best ehr for community mental health centers,” they had no name in common.

3. 3

   The most-named EHRs are not named for every kind of practice

   SimplePractice and TherapyNotes did not come up for addiction and residential treatment or for community mental health centers.

4. 4

   Asking again is not a second opinion

   In 10 of the 39 groups of three runs, all three returned the same text word for word.

If we were building a shortlist from these answers, we’d check three things first. Start from your kind of practice, not the overall count. Open the page behind any “best for” label: it can be another vendor’s list, so read it as that company’s view. And ask your own question in both AI Mode and AI Overviews, since they gave different lists for every question both answered.

If you sell a behavioral health EHR

Three things in Google’s AI answers of 28 October 2026 matter if your company sells an EHR. They describe what the answers said that day, not how Google decides.

1. 1

   Being named and having your own page cited are different

   SimplePractice was named in 80 answers and its own site was linked in 14. Behave Health was named in 25 and its site linked in 24.

2. 2

   Other companies’ lists describe you

   DeepCura’s list of the best EHRs for private practice was the link in TherapyNotes’ entry in 13 answers and in SimplePractice’s in 11.

3. 3

   AI Mode linked to vendors more often than AI Overviews

   On 28 October 2026, 250 of 314 links (80%) in AI Mode led to vendors, against 240 of 352 (68%) in AI Overviews.

Missing from the answers, or described wrong?

The tables above show every EHR Google’s AI named in at least two of three runs. In all, the answers named 70 companies, some only once, and linked to the sites of 24 more that they never named. Download the list of all 94 companies (CSV) to see how often each was named and how often answers linked to its site.

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We can’t change what Google says. The answers link to pages like the ones above: vendors’ own pages and other sites that describe them. When we measure again, the new results will appear on this page, and this measurement will stay available with its date.

Questions about AI answers on behavioral health EHRs

What is the best behavioral health EHR, according to Google’s AI?

In 114 answers from Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews on 28 October 2026, SimplePractice was named most often, in 80 answers, followed by TherapyNotes in 74, Sessions Health in 42 and ICANotes in 41. The list changes with the question, and answers about addiction treatment named other systems. For the exact search “best behavioral health ehr,” AI Overviews named TherapyNotes, Sessions Health, ICANotes, Valant, Qualifacts, OmniMD, Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner) and Veradigm (Allscripts) in all three runs, which returned the same text, and did not name SimplePractice. AI Mode named SimplePractice, TherapyNotes and 10 others in all three runs. This is a record of AI answers, not our recommendation.

Does Google’s AI name SimplePractice or TherapyNotes more often?

SimplePractice, by a small margin: 80 answers against 74 on 28 October 2026. Leaving out answers where either is the product being replaced or a contrast, the count is 66 against 63. Of the 51 answers that suggested both, outside the questions about replacing either, SimplePractice came first in 31. The answers tied SimplePractice to a client portal and telehealth more often, and TherapyNotes to billing and insurance.

What does Google’s AI say about TherapyNotes?

On 28 October 2026, entries on TherapyNotes mentioned billing in 44 of 58 and insurance in 42. One of the lines about it repeated most often was “Best for Insurance-Based Practices,” in six answers with four different texts. For SimplePractice, one of them was “Polished client portal and modern design.” These are the answers’ words, not our assessment.

Which pages do Google’s AI answers about EHRs link to?

Mostly to vendors’ own sites. Of 666 links in 114 Google AI Mode and AI Overviews answers on 28 October 2026, 490 (74%) led to companies that sell software or services to practices, including their own lists of the best EHRs. In AI Overviews alone the share was 240 of 352 links (68%), in AI Mode 250 of 314 (80%). The rest led to video, forum and social sites such as YouTube and Reddit (94), publishers, review sites and directories (59), other sites (15) and general-purpose software companies (8).

How do EHRs get into Google’s AI answers?

We can’t see how Google decides what goes into AI Overviews or AI Mode. We can see what the answers link to. In our study of 114 answers on 28 October 2026, 490 of 666 links (74%) led to vendors’ own sites, including their lists of competitors, and a company could be cited without being named: DeepCura’s list was cited in 24 answers and DeepCura in none.

Is this a ranking of EHRs?

No. It records which EHRs Google’s AI named on 28 October 2026 and which pages it linked to. We have not tested or scored the software.

Is any company named here a Wonderflow client?

No. None of the companies named on this page is a Wonderflow client. Wonderflow sells search and AI visibility work to software companies and may offer it to companies named here. That does not change what this page reports.