Dear fellow clinician,
I built EssorCare out of my own exhaustion.
As an art and drama therapist, I know what it's like to watch unwritten notes pile up until the paperwork feels heavier than the work itself. I know the billing systems so clunky that my own workplace gave up and tracked claims in spreadsheets we filled out by hand after every session. More work, never less. And I know the friction of doing creative work through software never built for it: juggling separate tools, toggling between frames mid-session just to offer a single art or drama prompt, when I should have been fully present with my client.
Before this work, I spent five years in the Marine Corps and eleven years as a recruiter, where I worked inside dozens of software systems. The ones that streamlined the work, and the ones that made it manual, joyless, and slow. I learned exactly what good software does for people, and what bad software takes from them. EssorCare is that lesson, brought home to our field.
So I started building the thing I wished existed. A shared canvas and creative tools that flow both ways, so making art together feels natural. A real, responsible home for clients' digital artwork, and a portal where they can track their mood or log dreams between sessions. Notes and billing that lighten the load rather than add to it. And tools affordable enough that a newer clinician, or one who has felt too intimidated by the business side to go out on their own, can finally build a practice that is truly theirs.
The creative work is the whole reason our clients come to us. It deserves software that treats it that way.
Warmly,
Jacqueline Wade
Art & drama therapist · Founder of EssorCare
ACMHC, ATR-P, P-RDT · MSW (working toward LCSW)