Kiku is a UK mental-health practice-management product founded by Dr Rhian Lewis, a counselling psychologist in Newcastle, with three tiers from £6.99 to £16.99 per month covering notes, scheduling and intake forms. My-Therapy-Suite is a complete UK mental-health platform at £19 per clinician per month with AI session notes, pre-built validated outcome measures and a named Supervisor role shipped as standard, VAT and AI included.
Last verified 27-May-2026
Kiku does not ship an AI scribe, transcription or note-drafting feature on any of its tiers, from Safe Notes at £6.99 to The Works at £16.99. My-Therapy-Suite includes session transcription, AI-drafted notes in your preferred format, and an AI template builder that creates new note structures from a single prompt, in the £19 per clinician per month base price. AI included, VAT included, no separate seat to buy.
My-Therapy-Suite ships 20+ validated routine outcome measures with auto-scoring built in, including PHQ-9 and GAD-7. You send them to a client through their portal, the client completes them at home, the scores land on their record automatically. Kiku is a form builder: the mid-tier Therapy Planner caps you at four customisable assessment forms; only The Works lifts the cap. Pre-built clinically validated routine outcome measures are not surfaced as a feature on any Kiku tier.
My-Therapy-Suite supports group practice with a named Supervisor role, per-resource access controls defined per supervisee, and a team-member portal for receptionists and finance staff who do not need full clinical access. Kiku's public documentation describes two main user roles, Administrator and Therapist, with a Clinical Executor concept for sudden-absence delegation. If your practice involves trainees, supervisees or shared caseloads under supervision, that depth matters.
Both Kiku and My-Therapy-Suite are founder-led UK products built by people with clinical credibility. Kiku was founded by Dr Rhian Lewis, a counselling psychologist in Newcastle. My-Therapy-Suite is built by Inés Olivares Carretero, a practising UK therapist, and her husband Brecht Nys, who spent a decade leading digital product development in international banking before building My-Therapy-Suite with her. Inés sees clients every week, every feature passes through her own caseload, and Brecht designs, builds and ships it. The two-person team means clinical judgement and engineering velocity sit at the same kitchen table.
The criteria that matter most when a UK therapist picks the software that runs their practice.
| Criteria | My-Therapy-Suite | Kiku |
|---|---|---|
| Clinical workflows | ||
| Designed only for UK mental-health private practice | Yes | UK mental-health practice-management platform |
| AI-native session notes (transcription, drafting and template generation) included in the base price | Yes, included | Not available on any Kiku tier |
| 20+ pre-built validated routine outcome measures with auto-scoring | Yes, included | Form builder; Therapy Planner caps at 4 customisable assessment forms; pre-built validated ROMs not surfaced |
| Named Supervisor role with per-resource access controls | Yes | Administrator and Therapist roles documented publicly; Clinical Executor concept for sudden-absence delegation; no named Supervisor role |
| UK practice fit | ||
| Client records on UK infrastructure under UK GDPR | Yes, no region to choose | Privacy policy published as a downloadable PDF; specific data-residency details inside that PDF |
| Co-founded by a practising UK therapist | Yes, Inés Olivares Carretero practises in the UK | Founded by Dr Rhian Lewis, a counselling psychologist in Newcastle |
Kiku does not ship an AI scribe, transcription or note-drafting feature today, and none is published on the Kiku feature page or pricing page. A UK therapist on Kiku's top tier today writes session notes the way they always have: by hand or by typing.
My-Therapy-Suite ships AI in the base price. Session transcription that runs on the device during the session, AI-drafted notes in your preferred format afterwards, and an AI template builder that creates new note structures from a single prompt are all part of the £19 per clinician per month subscription. No separate AI seat, no per-feature add-on, no waitlist.
AI is not a tier. It is the platform.
Kiku's features page describes assessment capability as: "create your own contracts, short answer forms and psychometric questionnaires for digital issue, completion and return." The Therapy Planner tier caps you at four customisable assessment forms; The Works lifts the cap to unlimited. Clinically validated routine outcome measures (PHQ-9, GAD-7, CORE-10) with auto-scoring are not surfaced as default templates on any tier.
My-Therapy-Suite ships 20+ validated routine outcome measures with auto-scoring built in, including PHQ-9 and GAD-7. You send them to a client through their portal, the client completes them at home, the scores land on their record automatically and you can see the trajectory across sessions on the client's record without setting up anything.
Validated outcome measures should ship with a mental-health platform, not be something you build from a generic form designer.
Kiku's public documentation describes two main user roles, Administrator and Therapist, with a "Clinical Executor" concept for designating a delegate in case of sudden absence. Supervision-as-a-workflow, where a named Supervisor sees a supervisee's caseload under defined permissions and can comment on records, is not surfaced as a feature on any Kiku tier.
My-Therapy-Suite supports group practice with a named Supervisor role, per-resource access controls defined per supervisee, and a team-member portal for receptionists and finance staff who do not need full clinical access. For a practice with trainees, qualified supervisees, or a shared-caseload model where supervisors review records, that depth is part of the product.
Supervision is a workflow, not a single field. The platform should treat it that way.
Both Kiku and My-Therapy-Suite are founder-led UK products built by people with clinical credibility. Kiku was founded in 2020 by Dr Rhian Lewis, a counselling psychologist in Newcastle. My-Therapy-Suite is built by Inés Olivares Carretero, a practising UK therapist, and her husband Brecht Nys, who spent a decade leading digital product development in international banking before building My-Therapy-Suite with her. Inés sees clients every week, and every feature and flow passes through her own practice before it ships. If it does not survive contact with real clients in a real caseload, it does not go live. Brecht designs, builds and ships it.
The two-person model means clinical judgement and engineering velocity are not separate teams that have to negotiate; they sit at the same kitchen table. That shows up in how quickly AI, validated outcome measures and supervisor workflows landed in the platform, and in what we ship next.
When you email about a missing feature, Inés or Brecht reads it.
Kiku is a credible UK mental-health platform built by a counselling psychologist in Newcastle. Two buyer profiles where Kiku is genuinely the better choice for the practice in question:
Kiku's Safe Notes tier at £6.99 per month and Therapy Planner at £12.99 are meaningfully cheaper than My-Therapy-Suite's £19. If your practice runs on session notes, a calendar and basic intake forms, and you do not use AI dictation, pre-built PHQ-9/GAD-7 scoring, or a named Supervisor role for trainee oversight, Kiku's lighter product covers the basics at a lower cost per month.
If you are winding down a larger practice into a small private caseload and minimising overhead is the priority, Kiku's Safe Notes tier at £6.99 per month covers the essentials at a lower price point. My-Therapy-Suite is a complete platform at £19 per month and aims to be a single home for the whole practice, which is a different value proposition.
Most therapists are taking new bookings on My-Therapy-Suite within an afternoon of starting their trial. Here is how a switch from Kiku usually runs:
It is, and Kiku has UK customers. Kiku is a credible UK mental-health platform built by a counselling psychologist in Newcastle. The trade-off is feature depth: Kiku does not ship AI session notes on any tier, does not surface pre-built validated outcome measures, and documents two main user roles publicly without a named Supervisor role for trainee oversight. If your practice does not need any of those, Kiku's lighter product at a lower price point is a reasonable choice. If any of them are important to your work, My-Therapy-Suite ships them as standard.
My-Therapy-Suite starts at £19 per clinician per month billed annually (£24 monthly), VAT and AI included, with volume discounts as the team grows.
Kiku's individual tiers start at £6.99 per month (Safe Notes), with Therapy Planner at £12.99 and The Works at £16.99. Organisation tiers start at £16.99 with a per-additional-therapist fee. Verified on Kiku's pricing page on 27-May-2026.
My-Therapy-Suite stores all client data on UK infrastructure under UK GDPR, with the ICO as the regulator. There is no region to choose and no migration to plan.
Kiku publishes its privacy policy as a downloadable PDF rather than a public web page; specific data-residency details are inside that PDF. Verified on Kiku's privacy policy link on 24-May-2026.
For the full My-Therapy-Suite picture, sub-processor by sub-processor, see our Security and data page.
My-Therapy-Suite ships 20+ validated routine outcome measures with auto-scoring built in, including PHQ-9 and GAD-7. You send them to a client through their portal, the client completes them at home, the scores land on their record automatically.
Kiku is a form builder where you create your own assessment forms. The Therapy Planner tier caps you at four customisable assessment forms; The Works lifts the cap. Clinically validated routine outcome measures (PHQ-9, GAD-7 and similar) with auto-scoring are not surfaced as default templates on any Kiku tier.
My-Therapy-Suite ships AI session notes today: transcription that runs on the device during the session, AI-drafted notes in your preferred format afterwards, and an AI template builder that creates new note structures from a single prompt. All included in the £19 per clinician per month base price.
Kiku does not currently ship an AI session-notes feature on any of its three tiers and no AI feature page is published on the Kiku site.
My-Therapy-Suite supports group practice with a named Supervisor role, per-resource access controls defined per supervisee, and a team-member portal for receptionists and finance staff who do not need full clinical access.
Kiku's public documentation describes two main user roles, Administrator and Therapist, with a Clinical Executor concept for sudden-absence delegation. A named Supervisor role with per-supervisee permissions is not surfaced as a feature on the Kiku site.
Kiku and the Kiku name and logo are trademarks of their respective owners and are referenced here for comparison purposes only. This page is not endorsed by, affiliated with, or sponsored by Kiku. Information about Kiku is sourced from publicly available materials and verified on 27-May-2026. Pricing and features change; check Kiku's own website for the latest details.
Most therapists are taking new bookings the same afternoon they sign up. Move at your own pace, cancel any time without writing an email.