How Ascendant Tracker Can Help Eliminate Burnout

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Lighten your mental load using Ascendant Tracker. 

therapist-burnout

Have you ever had a day of back to back sessions? Exhausting right? Some sessions are more fulfilling and productive than others. Some sessions have a clear direction, patients are sharing important insights and events that help the session move along.

Other sessions you feel like you are pulling your patient’s teeth out. They can’t remember what events happened since they last saw you, or they are not being open and talking about how they REALLY feel. You are expending so much emotional energy and work into each session that by the last - you just hope that patient has some good things they want to discuss and work on. 


How Ascendant Helps With Burnout

Ascendant Tracker believes in a world where therapists can use technology to lighten their workload by gathering patient progress information in between sessions.

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Decreases the Amount of Psycho-energy Needed for Sessions

Ascendant Tracker allows you to see at-a-glance how patients have been since they last saw you. It is like a “magical crystal ball”. You can know how your patient’s have been before even asking them. You can go into more mentally and emotionally prepared to work with that client and help the session run smoothly. This helps you transition easier from session to session and know what to expect from your patients.

A Clearer Direction for Each Therapy Session

Ascendant Tracker helps sessions run smoother and more productive. Ascendant Tracker helps you have an easy outline and perspective on how the session should go. You can easily begin each session on target, without wasting time getting up to speed with recent events.If you ever get stuck in the session with a patient - you can refer to Ascendant Tracker for important things to discuss.

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Eliminate Door Knob Confessions

All therapists have had it happen to them! In the last 5 minutes of a session, a patient opens up or shares something that is important and needs to be discussed. However, there is only 5 minutes left. Ascendant Tracker helps eliminate door knob confessions by giving patients an easy way to record important events and experiences when they happen. Therefore, you have all the information you need to begin with the most pressing and important topics. Eliminating patient recall biases, and providing you with more accurate information on your patient’s overall wellbeing.

See the Difference You Are Making In Your Patient’s Lives

Ascendant Tracker helps you and your patients visualize progress overtime. You can visualize patient progress on each patient’s dashboard via the provider portal. Oftentimes when individuals are struggling with their mental health, it is difficult for them to recognize their own progress. Ascendant Tracker can help visualize progress and help patients and therapists know where progress is being made.

Let Ascendant Tracker do the Heavy Lifting

Let Ascendant Tracker take a load off your shoulders when it comes to managing your burnout levels in session. We can help lighten your mental load by making it easier to transition from session to session. Ascendant gives you a clearer snapshot of your patients' needs to run sessions more productively and smoothly. We also help eliminate doorknob confession and help you be more mentally and emotionally prepared for patients.

Getting Started with Ascendant Tracker

Ascendant Tracker is a way to help individuals track their own patterns and progress outside of therapy sessions. Ascendant Tracker is made to give therapists more data and information from their patients to run more efficient sessions.


Introducing Ascendant Tracker to Your Patients

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

In this article we will go through some brief tips and tricks to better introduce Ascendant Tracker to your patients. These tips will help increase patient engagement and make it as easy as possible to onboard you patients onto the platform.

There are a number of ways that you can introduce Ascendant to your patients and get to them to start using Ascendant to track their patterns, fill out journal entries, and complete assessments.

1. Use your personalized patient onboarding flyer.

You should have received a patient onboarding flyer upon signing up for the Ascendant Tracker Platform. Use this flyer to introduce the platform and onboard your patients

Here are a few ideas:

  • Send a mass email out to your patients introducing Ascendant Tracker with your personalized flyer attached to the email.

  • Add your flyer to your intake paperwork.

  • Give your patients a physical flyer if you see them in person.

  • Have administrative staff assist with the introduction and onboarding of patients using your flyer.

*if you have not yet received your patient onboarding flyer, please email support@ascendanttracker.com.

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2. Spend the first or last 5 minutes of your appointment onboarding the patient

Steps for Patient:

  1. Download "Ascendant Tracker" on the Google Play or App Store.

  2. Sign-Up + Create an account

  3. Go to "Settings" and select "Connect with my mental health provider".

  4. Input their provider's *unique provider code and click "link".

You will receive a patient request after your patients have followed these steps to link with you. 

*Your unique provider code can be found on your patient onboarding flyer you received, or on Ascendant Tracker Provider Portal by going to the"Patients" tab and selecting "Add New Patient".

3. Explain the purpose for using Ascendant Tracker

What benefits are you hoping to gain from using Ascendant Tracker with your patients? Explain to your patients the benefits that can come from using Ascendant Tracker in your appointments and sessions.

Here are some ideas:

  • Ascendant Tracker will help patients and therapists have a better picture of progress throughout treatment.

  • Ascendant Tracker will help increase patient to provider communication and keep the provider more informed on important events that happen in-between appointments.

  • Ascendant Tracker will help the patient to track their patterns and increase awareness of symptoms.

  • Ascendant Tracker will help decrease the amount of doorknob confessions and help therapy sessions to be more productive for the patient and therapist.

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There you have it! Take these ideas and let us know how we can help you and your patients have a good experience using the Ascendant Tracker platform. It is our goal to make this platform easy to use and implement with your patients. Using Ascendant Tracker will help you have more data and information from your patients to more efficiently guide treatment sessions. Read this article next to know a little more about Ascendant Tracker’s Best Practices in order to see how you can successfully implement Ascendant Tracker with your caseload.

We are excited to have you here and we value the work that you do!

Hailey Krey / Ascendant Tracker Team