Who we are
About SessionSound
SessionSound is a small technology desk writing about one narrow thing: the sound of confidential conversations. Not therapy. Not compliance. Not wellbeing, burnout, practice growth, or any of the other subjects that crowd a clinician's inbox. The audio path of a session, the sound-privacy customs practices have built around their doors, and what the tools involved actually publish about themselves.
We write for therapists, counselors, telehealth providers, and coaches whose calls contain other people's lives — people who need audio advice that understands why a clipped syllable after a long silence is not a cosmetic problem.
The discipline, stated plainly
This site has one rule that outranks every other consideration, including our own commercial interest: we give technology guidance and nothing else.
That means we will never tell you how to conduct a session, what a silence means, how to handle a client's distress over a degraded connection, or anything else that belongs to clinical judgment. We are not clinicians and the line is not blurry to us.
It also means we will never certify a tool as HIPAA-compliant. We cannot, nobody can in the sense the phrase implies, and a technology desk announcing compliance conclusions would be doing real harm to people who might act on it. What we do instead is read vendors' own published documentation, quote it exactly, print the date we read it, and hand you a record worth taking to your compliance counsel. When a vendor's pages contradict each other — as one does, at length, on our BAA record page — we say so, including when it is the vendor we earn money from.
And it means we frame practice customs as customs. The white-noise machine outside the therapy-room door is a widespread and sensible practice-management habit. It is not a clinical standard and not a regulatory requirement we know of, and our masking guide says so in its opening box rather than burying it.
The standing disclaimer, in full. Nothing on SessionSound is medical, clinical, legal, or compliance advice. Vendor compliance claims are reported as the vendor publishes them, with the date read. Your obligations depend on your jurisdiction, your professional body, your agreements, and facts we cannot see — verify with your own compliance counsel before relying on anything here.
Who writes this
SessionSound is written and edited by the SessionSound desk — a small editorial team working on this site and a handful of others about audio software. We publish under the desk name rather than inventing bylines, because the alternative that this corner of the web usually chooses is a stock photograph and a fabricated name, and we would rather be plainly a desk than falsely a person.
We are not clinicians, and we do not claim clinical review of our pages. If we ever add clinical or legal review, it will be named and dated on the page it applies to, not asserted vaguely in a footer.
How we verify
- Prices, plan limits, and compliance claims are read on the vendor's own site and stamped with the date. Every such page on this site carries that date visibly, because an undated price is a guess.
- We quote rather than paraphrase where the exact wording carries weight — which, in compliance language, is nearly always.
- We do not run benchmarks we have not run. There are no invented test results on this site, no fabricated measurements, and no claims about what "clinicians report" that we cannot point at. Where we reason rather than measure, we say we are reasoning.
- We state limits. Every tool page here includes the cases where the tool is the wrong answer, before the button.
- We correct in public. Corrections are dated and left visible rather than quietly patched.
How we make money, and what it does not buy
A few of our links are referral links, labelled wherever they appear. If you start a paid plan through one, the vendor may pay us a fee, and your price does not change. Our primary affiliate relationship is with Krisp.
What that relationship does not buy: a softened assessment. Our Krisp page lists where the tool is the wrong answer before it lists the trial link, and our BAA record flags a discrepancy in Krisp's own published plan names. It also does not buy exclusivity — we recommend things that pay us nothing on almost every page, and we do it first: your platform's built-in noise suppression, your operating system's voice processing, Doxy.me's free tier with its free BAA, earbuds you already own, and a microphone moved thirty centimetres closer, which remains the highest-value change on the entire site and costs nothing at all.
If we ever cannot recommend something honestly, we will not recommend it, and we will take the lost commission. That sentence is cheap to write, so judge it against the pages.
What we deliberately do not cover
Hardware. We write about software, settings, and practice customs; microphone and headphone recommendations are a different job and we are not doing it badly on the side. Physical acoustic treatment, for the same reason — we will tell you when a problem is a door problem, and then stop. Clinical practice, law, and compliance determinations, per the discipline above. And general-purpose meeting-app tutorials, which are thoroughly covered elsewhere and are not what this audience needs from us; our interest in a platform is what it does to session audio and what it publishes about where that audio goes.
Getting in touch
Corrections are the correspondence we most want. If we have printed a stale price, misread a vendor's documentation, or drifted across the line into territory that is not ours, tell us and we will fix it with a dated note. Contact details and the rest of the formalities live in the small print.