Behavioral tracking, configured for the work.
A configurable Diary Card that captures the day-to-day between sessions — emotions, urges, behaviors, sleep, medication, skill use. DBT supplied the bone structure; every section toggles on or off for the modality you actually practice.
Not a DBT-only tool
The diary card started in DBT, but daily self-monitoring isn't a DBT idea — it's a measurement idea. Theracharts has one configurable Diary Card framework, and it's the home for all daily and weekly behavioral tracking, whatever modality you practice.
It sits alongside the 100+ validated assessments as a first-class surface. Assessments capture symptom severity at a point in time. The Diary Card captures what happens between those points — the behavior, the urges, the skill use, the sleep. Both feed the same clinical picture.
What a Diary Card tracks
The Diary Card is built on a fixed section scaffold with therapist-editable content. Emotions, urges, behaviors, sleep, medication, exercise, self-care, substance use, trauma, a custom section, and a free-text narrative — eleven sections that cover the behavioral signal most treatment plans care about. You decide which appear; the client sees only what you turn on.
Sections
Every section toggles
A depression client doesn't need a substance-use section. A DBT client does. The Diary Card is configured per assignment, so the same framework produces a three-section check-in for one client and a full ten-section card for another. Turn sections on or off, set the items inside them, and assign — the client only ever sees the card you built for them.
How it's configured
Modality-agnostic by design
DBT gave behavioral tracking its most recognizable form, so DBT supplied the bone structure here. But the underlying idea — watch behavior between sessions, bring the data into the room — belongs to no single modality. Configure the card for a DBT skills focus, a CBT activity-and-mood log, an ACT values-and-action tracker, or a structure entirely your own.
Works for
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Built for the client's phone
Clients complete the card in a guided, step-by-step wizard on the Theracharts client portal — a Progressive Web App that installs to the home screen, no app store required. Push and email reminders run the cadence you set, so the card gets filled in close to the moment, not reconstructed from memory at the next session.
Client experience
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Feeds the clinical picture
Diary Card entries don't sit in a silo. They surface on the client's detail page next to assessment trends, contribute to the patterns Theracharts visualizes across modalities, and roll into the data-grounded Clinical Update you paste into your EHR's note. Skill use, urge intensity, sleep — the day-to-day signal becomes part of the measured story.
Where the data goes
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Assessments, Diary Cards, custom forms
A validated assessment like the PHQ-9 measures symptom severity at a point in time, scored against published norms. A Diary Card captures behavior day to day, between those measurement points. A custom form is for structured one-off paperwork — intakes, supervision logs, consent packets. Keep the split clean and each tool stays simple.
Reach for
Track what happens between sessions.
Configurable Diary Cards are free on every plan, alongside the 100+ validated assessment library. No credit card, no expiring trial.
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