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Type your session notes or speak for 60 seconds, and get a Behavior, Intervention, Response, Plan note to review and copy. Built for therapists, counselors, social workers and behavioral health teams.

What is a BIRP note?

A BIRP note is a progress note format used in mental health, substance use treatment and social work. It follows the session in four steps:

Behavior: what the client reported and what you observed. Presenting concerns, mood, affect, symptoms, and risk statements such as “denies SI”.
Intervention: what you did. The techniques, skills, topics and exercises you used in session.
Response: how the client responded to those interventions. Engagement, resistance, a rating before and after, a skill they could or could not use.
Plan: homework, goals you set, referrals and the next session.

The separate Intervention and Response sections are the point of BIRP: they show what you did and whether it helped, which supervisors and payers often want to see. Our BIRP notes guide covers the format in more depth.

BIRP note example

A fictional session in rough shorthand, and the BIRP note the generator on this page wrote from it, unedited.

Therapy / counselling · BIRP

Therapy: BIRP note

Rough notes

Session 5. Client reports drinking 2-3 nights this wk, down from 5. Cravings worst after work. Calm, engaged, denies SI. Reviewed triggers, built a coping card for after-work cravings, urge surfing practised in session. Client said urge surfing was hard but rated craving 7/10 to 5/10. HW: use coping card, track drinks. Next session 1 wk.

Behavior: Session 5. Client reports drinking 2-3 nights this wk, down from 5. Cravings worst after work. Calm and engaged. Denies SI.
Intervention: Reviewed triggers. Built a coping card for after-work cravings. Practised urge surfing in session.
Response: Client said urge surfing was hard. Rated craving 7/10 to 5/10.
Plan: HW: use coping card and track drinks. Next session 1 wk.

How to write a good BIRP note

Describe behavior, don't label it. “Fidgeting, avoided eye contact when discussing work” is more useful than “anxious” on its own. Quote the client where their words matter.
Name the intervention. “Practiced paced breathing” or “cognitive restructuring of catastrophic thoughts about deadlines”, not “provided support”.
Record the response you saw. Did the client engage, push back, rate their distress lower, complete the exercise? If you did not note a response, the note should not pretend you did.
Make the plan specific. Homework, the next session date or interval, and any referral.
Document risk every time. Including negatives such as “denies SI/HI”.

How this BIRP note generator works

Paste your notes or press Speak instead, then generate. The generator sorts what you wrote into the four sections and adds nothing: no invented symptoms, techniques or homework. If your notes do not say how the client responded, Response reads “Not documented” rather than a guess. A diagnosis is only included when you named it, and it appears under Behavior in your words. Identifiers are left out even if you include them. Review the draft, edit anything that is off, then copy it into your record.

The same generator also writes DAP notes and SOAP notes, and our progress notes guide compares the formats.

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FAQ

Questions, answered

What does BIRP stand for?

Behavior, Intervention, Response, Plan. Behavior is what the client presented with and what you observed. Intervention is what you did in session. Response is how the client responded to it. Plan is homework, next steps and the next session.

What is the difference between BIRP and DAP notes?

Both are behavioral health progress notes. DAP puts the session facts, including your interventions, under Data and your interpretation under Assessment. BIRP separates the interventions and the client's response to them, which makes it easy to show what each intervention achieved.

What if my notes do not say how the client responded?

Then the Response section reads "Not documented". The generator will not guess a response from the intervention you used or from the client's progress. Add a line about how the client responded and generate again.

Is it really free? Are there limits?

Yes, it is free with no signup. To keep it fast for everyone, each visitor can generate up to 5 notes an hour and 15 a day, and record up to 5 clips an hour of up to 60 seconds each. PatientNotes itself has no such limits.

Is it HIPAA compliant? Can I enter patient information?

Don't enter or say names, dates of birth, record numbers or other identifiers. Your text and audio are sent to our AI providers to do the work, and PatientNotes doesn't store what you enter, the recording or the result. Treat this page as a drafting aid for de-identified notes. For real patient records, use PatientNotes itself, which is built for patient data and signs a Business Associate Agreement (BAA).

How accurate is the AI note?

It is a draft. The generator only uses what you wrote or said and is told not to add findings, vitals, doses or diagnoses you did not mention. Any section your notes do not cover reads "Not documented". Always review the note before it goes into a record; you remain responsible for its content.