For solo practice owners
You became a therapist. Not a business owner. Let's fix the gap.
Couchside is a free weekly newsletter and a one-time asset bundle that handles the business tasks you've been quietly avoiding — intake workflows, referral letters, finances, social content. Built by a therapist. Tested in his practice before it ships to yours.
No spam. No upsells. Just one task a week, done for you.
How it works
Start with the newsletter. Upgrade when you're ready.
Free
The Couchside Newsletter
Every Monday, one finished task in your inbox. A plain-English explanation, a copy-paste AI prompt, and a real example from practice. Takes about three minutes to read. Works without any prior AI experience.
Subscribe free. Keep it as long as it's useful.
~$249 · One-time
The Practice OS
When you want the full system, not just individual tasks, the Practice OS is a one-time asset bundle — not a course, not a membership. You pay once and own it.
Pre-built infrastructure for your practice. You don't watch videos. You plug in your information and start using it.
Sound familiar?
The referral letter sitting in your drafts.
You know it takes 20 minutes. You keep doing other things first.
Your intake process is a series of workarounds.
PDFs emailed back and forth, a consent form from three years ago, and a follow-up you're supposed to send manually.
Your finances feel vaguely okay until they don't.
You invoice when you remember. Tax season is a small annual crisis.
Social content is either inconsistent or doesn't exist.
You know it matters for referrals. You don't have a system. So you don't post.
None of this is a character flaw.
It's a structural problem. Couchside gives you the structure.
What you get
Everything in the Practice OS
A one-time asset bundle — not a course, not a subscription. You pay once and own it outright.
Notion Hub
A complete practice dashboard: client roster, financials, content calendar, task tracker, and document library. Pre-built so you're not starting from a blank page.
Prompt Library
Sixty-plus ready-to-use AI prompts organized by task — referral letters, intake messages, billing responses, session notes, social captions. Copy, paste, done.
Cowork Projects
Guided one-time projects that walk you through the parts of your practice that have been half-finished for too long. Step-by-step, no guesswork.
Voice File
A one-page document that captures your clinical voice, specialties, and communication style. It's what you give to AI before you ask it to write anything for you.
Setup Walkthrough
A short orientation that gets everything connected and working on your timeline. Functional in a session or two, not after a weekend workshop.
Six Months of Email Support
Direct access to ask questions, get unstuck, and make sure the system actually works for your specific practice setup.
One-time purchase. No subscription. No recurring fees. Own it outright.
How this was built
Built by a therapist. Tested in his practice before it ships to yours.
This isn't a tool built by a tech team that interviewed a few therapists. It's a system that already runs a real practice — and then got packaged so it can run yours.
Built in a real practice
Every prompt, template, and project in Couchside started as something Alex needed in his own practice. The Notion Hub runs his admin. The voice file was built so AI would stop writing things that sounded like it was written by AI.
Tested before it ships
Nothing goes into the Practice OS until it's been used in an actual practice context. The proof of concept isn't a case study. It's Alex's own calendar.
AI as capable assistant, not replacement
AI is treated here the same way it should be used in responsible clinical practice: as a capable assistant that needs clear instructions, human judgment, and appropriate limits.
No client data, ever
Every prompt in Couchside is designed around de-identified, hypothetical, or purely administrative content. You always know where the line is and how to stay behind it.
Who built this
A therapist who built this for himself first.
Alex Littleton is a licensed therapist and the owner of a solo private practice. He isn't an AI consultant who used to do therapy. He's a clinician who got tired of spending evenings on admin — and figured out how to change that.
Couchside is the system he built for himself and then packaged so other therapists could use it. Every template and prompt was tested in his own practice before it went anywhere else. The boundaries around what not to do are just as real as the tools.
The proof of concept isn't a case study. It's his own calendar.
“The therapist in the room is still you. AI handles the stack of paperwork on the desk after.”
— Alex Littleton, LPC · Founder, Couchside
Early access
Get the newsletter free. Lock in launch pricing when it ships.
Early access subscribers get the Practice OS at a reduced rate when it launches — plus the newsletter starts immediately. One task a week, ready to use on Monday.
- Newsletter starts immediately — free
- Reduced pricing on Practice OS at launch
- First access when doors open