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Arts Therapists

You watch the artwork and the person making it — no one can do that from behind a keyboard. Medical Scribe turns the session into a structured clinical note covering process, product, and progress.

Sample note

What your notes will look like

A real example of the documentation Medical Scribe generates for arts therapists — ready before your patient leaves the room.

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Subjective

28F with PTSD following a motor vehicle accident, session 9. Reports nightmares decreased from nightly to 2–3x/week. States she 'finally wanted to use color again' after weeks of working only in charcoal.

Objective

  • Chose watercolor for the first time in treatment; worked 30 minutes without pausing
  • Image: landscape with a road receding toward the horizon; client titled it 'Leaving'
  • Spontaneous speech while painting; described elements of the crash without dissociative pause
  • Affect congruent; briefly tearful discussing the title, self-soothed without prompting

Interventions

  • Directive: 'a place you are moving toward'
  • Verbal processing of imagery using third-person narration
  • Mid-session grounding check-in offered; client declined, remained regulated

Assessment

Shift from monochrome to color and future-oriented imagery suggests movement from avoidance toward integration. Sustained verbal processing of trauma content without dissociation for the first time in treatment.

Plan

Continue weekly individual sessions. Next session: extend the 'Leaving' image — where does the road go. Re-administer PCL-5. Coordinate with prescribing NP regarding ongoing sleep disturbance.

Illustrative example. Every note is fully editable, and you control the format — SOAP, DAP, or your own custom template.

Translating creative work into clinical notes is its own labor

The process is the data

How a client approaches materials, hesitates, tears up, or starts over is clinically meaningful — and impossible to observe while you're writing. Divided attention costs you the very observations your note depends on.

Images don't chart themselves

Turning symbolic content, formal elements, and affect during art-making into payer-acceptable clinical language often takes longer than the session did.

Groups multiply the backlog

One open-studio hour can generate eight individual progress notes. They stack up until evening, when the details of who made what have already blurred.

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Specialty Vocabulary

Recognizes terms, conditions, and procedures specific to your practice area.

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HIPAA Compliant

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Built-in templates

Note templates built for arts therapists

These aren't generic formats — they ship in the product today, structured around how you actually document.

Arts Therapist's Note

Subjective Objective Assessment Plan Interventions Evaluation

Mental Health Note

Psychotherapy Note

Presenting Problem Past Medical & Psychiatric History Social History Mental Status Examination Treatment Plan Risk Assessment

Plus 280+ templates across every specialty — or build your own in minutes.

Present for the whole creative process

An art therapy session asks you to track two narratives at once: what the client makes and what the client says. Medical Scribe records the session — in the studio or over telehealth — and drafts the note from the conversation and your spoken observations, so your eyes never leave the easel.

Structured the way arts therapists actually document

The built-in Arts Therapist’s Note template organizes the session into Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan, Interventions, and Evaluation — the media used, the directive given, the client’s response, and progress against treatment goals. The Psychotherapy Note template adds Mental Status Examination and Risk Assessment when your caseload requires the fuller clinical record.

Clinical language without flattening the work

Payers want measurable goals; you want the note to honor what happened in the room. Because the note is built only from what was said and observed — never invented interpretation — the record stays clinically defensible while your own formulation of the imagery remains exactly, and only, yours.

Frequently asked questions

Can it describe the artwork and the art-making process?

It documents whatever was said and observable in the session — the materials chosen, what the client said about the piece, your spoken observations. The Arts Therapist's Note template structures this into Subjective, Objective, Interventions, Assessment, Plan, and Evaluation sections. It never interprets an image on its own.

What about psychotherapy notes versus progress notes?

The generated note is a progress note for the clinical record. Your private process notes and reflections stay yours — nothing is added to the note beyond the session content, and you edit and sign before anything is finalized.

Does it work for group and open-studio sessions?

Medical Scribe documents one recorded encounter at a time, so it's strongest for individual sessions and one-on-one check-ins within a group. Many arts therapists record brief individual summaries after group to generate each note quickly.

Is a recorded session appropriate for trauma work?

Recording is always with client consent, and Medical Scribe is HIPAA compliant with encryption in transit and at rest. The recording serves one purpose — drafting your note — and you control what ends up in the record.

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