Take new client enquiries without ever interrupting a session.
Dialerportal is a Cloud PBX built for solo therapists and small group practices: a practice number that isn't your personal cell, voicemail-to-email that reaches only you, session reminders by text, and an out-of-hours greeting that tells callers in distress exactly where to go.
A phone setup that respects the therapy hour
Everything a private practice needs between sessions: quiet routing while your door is closed, discreet messages waiting when it opens, and enquiries from prospective clients that never go unanswered.
A practice line that isn't your cell
Separate new enquiries from current clients
Discreet voicemail-to-email
Hours that match your calendar
Clear crisis and out-of-hours messaging
Session reminders by text
Works from the office, home or telehealth day
From personal cell to practice line in an afternoon
Keep the number on your directory listings and your business card. Port it in, record your greetings, and set the hours your phone is allowed to ring.
Port the number clients already have
Bring across the number printed on your therapist directory profile, insurance panel listing and referral letters, or pick a new local DID if you are opening a practice from scratch.
Record your greetings
Write and record three: the daytime greeting, the in-session message, and the out-of-hours message that names where a caller in crisis should turn. These are the words most callers will actually hear.
Set your hours and routing
Map your session blocks, admin time and evenings onto the schedule, then point new client enquiries at whoever handles intake and current clients at their clinician.
Turn on reminders and review
Switch on SMS session reminders, then check the call analytics after a month to see how many enquiries came in and which ones never got a call back.
The calls that come in while the door is closed
A prospective client rarely calls twice. The AI voice agent answers the enquiries you cannot take mid-session, at 9pm and on a Sunday, explains how your practice works, and gets a human on the line the moment the call stops being an enquiry.
Answers the intake call you are 20 minutes into a session for
Someone who has finally worked up to calling a therapist gets a calm voice instead of a mailbox. The agent takes the enquiry, notes what they are looking for and whether they want in-person or telehealth, and tells them when you will call back. Your session is never interrupted and the enquiry does not go to the next name on the directory.
Never counsels, and escalates a crisis immediately
The agent gives no clinical opinion, no interpretation of symptoms and no advice about medication, diagnosis or whether therapy is right for someone. If a caller says anything suggesting risk of harm, it stops the intake script, states plainly that it cannot help with that, and transfers to your on-call clinician or directs the caller to 988 and emergency services. That escalation path is set by you before the agent takes a single call.
Answers the fee and insurance questions before you do
Most first calls are the same four questions: what do you charge per session, do you take my insurance, do you have a sliding scale, and how long is the wait. The agent answers from what you tell it, including that you are private pay or out of network and can provide a superbill. Callers who cannot afford your fee find that out on the first call rather than after an intake appointment.
Books the consult or holds the waitlist spot
It offers your free 15 minute consultation slots, books one, or adds the caller to your waitlist with their availability and preferred clinician when your caseload is full. Current clients can move a session without playing voicemail tag over a cancellation. Each call is written to the CRM with its outcome, so you can see how many enquiries came in overnight and which ones are still waiting on you.
The tools behind your psychologists phone system
Psychologists run on the same Dialerportal platform that powers cloud PBX, VoIP and call centers for businesses worldwide.
Phone systems for other industries
Questions from private practice
What therapists and practice managers ask before moving the practice line to the cloud.
It is a cloud phone system for private therapy practices, from a solo clinician to a small group. You get a practice number separate from your personal cell, an auto-attendant that splits new client enquiries from existing clients, voicemail delivered privately to your email, business-hours routing so the phone stays quiet during sessions, and SMS appointment reminders. It runs from a browser or mobile app, starts at $19 per seat per month, and has no contract.
Business-hours routing sends calls to voicemail during your session blocks instead of ringing through, so nothing interrupts the room. The greeting a prospective client hears can set expectations, for example that you return intake calls between 12 and 1. Voicemails land in your inbox as audio, so you can listen in the gap between clients and call back the same day rather than losing the enquiry to the next therapist on the directory.
The setup helps: voicemail goes to one named inbox rather than a speaker in a shared space, call recording is optional and can be left switched off entirely, and each clinician in a group practice has their own extension and mailbox. Your personal mobile number is never shown when you return a call through the app. If your practice has specific regulatory requirements, call 1-888-488-8138 and our US-based team will walk through exactly how the account is configured.
Most practices state that the office is closed, give the hours calls are returned, make clear that voicemail is not monitored overnight or at weekends, and direct anyone in crisis to emergency services or a crisis line. You record that greeting once and schedule it to play automatically outside your working hours, so no caller is left guessing at 11pm whether someone is listening.
Yes. Two-way SMS on registered A2P 10DLC messaging sends a reminder ahead of each session and lets the client text back to confirm, reschedule or cancel. Keep the wording neutral and non-identifying, since a text may be seen by someone else in the household. Replies come into the same platform as your calls, so a cancellation is not sitting unread on a personal phone.
One seat is a normal way to start. A single clinician typically uses a practice number, an out-of-hours greeting, voicemail-to-email and session reminders, and skips the queues and ring groups entirely. Setup takes hours rather than weeks, billing is month to month with no contract, and if you later add an associate or an intake coordinator you add a seat instead of replacing the phone system.
Yes. The AI voice agent answers the enquiry calls that arrive while your door is closed, after hours and at weekends. It explains your fees, sliding scale policy, whether you are in network, your telehealth options and your current waitlist, then books an intake consult or takes a message. It never offers counseling, opinions on symptoms or clinical guidance, and anyone who mentions being in crisis is transferred to a human or directed to emergency services and a crisis line straight away. Every call is logged with its outcome.
Give your practice a line that behaves like a receptionist
See how a therapy practice runs on Dialerportal from $19 per seat per month, month to month, or talk to a person at 1-888-488-8138.