“I am a psychoanalyst and a member of the Fédération Freudienne de Psychanalyse, specialising in addiction. I see around forty patients, mainly young adults and adults, in supportive therapy, analytic therapy and psychoanalysis. I attach great importance to following each patient closely, because it is often the bonds built over time that let the therapeutic work move forward.”
QWhy did you choose Bloomsline?
Before Bloomsline I used Google Drive to write my session notes. It was functional, but I felt I was missing a tool genuinely designed for clinical practice. I chose Bloomsline because it answers very concrete needs therapists have: finding a piece of information easily, organising your notes, and also offering resources to patients in a secure space.
QWhat place does Bloomsline have in your practice?
Today Bloomsline is part of my daily routine and I could not do without it. I write my session notes there and I use the tag system a great deal, which lets me find important information quickly without having to reread dozens of write-ups. I also like being able to create articles or resources I can share directly with my patients when it is relevant.
QHave you ever had to look for information from a session several months old? How is that now with Bloomsline?
Very often. With Google Drive I sometimes had to go through several documents to find one precise piece of information. During a session that could cost me several minutes and break my concentration.
Today, thanks to the tags and the way notes are organised in Bloomsline, I find a theme, an event or an issue raised several months earlier far more quickly. It is a real saving of time and it makes following someone much smoother.
QSince using Bloomsline, what have you discovered about your patients that you probably would not have seen otherwise?
Bloomsline mostly helps me take more of a step back on the follow-up. By easily finding certain themes or certain periods, I picture the repetitions, the developments and the changes across the months more clearly.
It lets me make connections I would probably have taken longer to spot with a more traditional note system.
QLooking back, what would you say to a colleague who thinks they do not have time to fit Bloomsline into their practice?
I would tell them that is exactly what I thought at first. In the end the tool fits very naturally into practice. The few minutes spent completing a session are more than repaid by the time saved afterwards.
What I also appreciate is that Bloomsline is a tool in constant evolution. The team listens to what therapists need and develops the platform according to feedback from the field: you feel it is built with practitioners, and not only for them.
Finally, I was pleasantly surprised by how responsive the team is. When I moved from Google Drive to Bloomsline they helped me transfer my patients’ data very quickly, which made the transition simple and reassuring.