When creating your SimplePractice account, you're given the option to choose your specialty. You can choose from the following:
- Behavioral health therapy
- Counseling
- Marriage and family therapy
- Psychology
- Social work
- Dietetics or nutrition counseling
- Chiropractic
- Applied behavior analysis
- Occupational therapy
- Physical therapy
- Speech-language pathology
- Substance use counseling
- Acupuncture
- Lactation consulting
- Massage therapy
- Other
If you need to adjust your specialty after you've created your account, you can do so by going to My Account > Settings > My Profile > Clinical tab and choosing from the Specialty dropdown menu:
Some key differences to note between specialties are:
| Specialty | Default CPT Code | Default Questionnaire | Default Taxonomy Code | Default DSM Codes | Psychotherapy Notes and Mental Status Exams |
| Behavioral health therapy | 90834 | Standard Intake Questionnaire Template | 101YMO800X | F41.9, F43.22 | Yes |
| Counseling | 90834 | Standard Intake Questionnaire Template | 101YMO800X | F41.9, F43.22 | Yes |
| Marriage and family therapy | 90834 | Standard Intake Questionnaire Template | 101YMO800X | F41.9, F43.22 | Yes |
| Psychology | 90834 | Standard Intake Questionnaire Template | 101YMO800X | F41.9, F43.22 | Yes |
| Social work | 90834 | Standard Intake Questionnaire Template | 101YMO800X | F41.9, F43.22 | Yes |
| Dietetics or nutrition counseling | 97802 | Nutrition Intake Form | 133V00000X | F50.82 | No |
| Occupational therapy | 97530 | Occupational Therapy Child Intake Form |
225X00000X | F84.0 | No |
| Physical therapy | 97110 | Physical Therapy Intake Form | 225100000X | M25.511 | No |
| Speech-language pathology | 92524 | Speech Language Child Intake Form | 235Z00000X | F80.0 | No |
| Substance use counseling | 99408 | Substance Abuse Intake Form | 101YA0400X | F10.10 | Yes |
| Applied behavior analysis | 97151 | ABA Child Intake Form | 103K00000X | F84.0 | Yes |
| Chiropractic | 98941 | Chiropractic Intake Form | 111N0000X | M54.5, M99.03, M25.552, S76.012A | No |
| Other | 90834 | 101YM0800X | F06.1, F40.228, F60.9 | Yes |
