A Book That Helps People Before They Reach Your Office
Most of the people who need what you know will never sit on your couch. A book reaches them, in your voice, without ever putting a client’s story at risk.
Dictate is a book-writing service for licensed therapists, counselors and social workers. You talk with an AI interviewer by phone for up to 15 hours; we write a full nonfiction book from your own words, in your voice. Case material stays disguised or composite, you review every chapter, and you own 100% of the book and its royalties. Our goal is a finished manuscript in 4 to 8 weeks, at your pace.
Why therapists write books
Your caseload has a ceiling. There are only so many hours, and the waitlist keeps growing. A book is how your approach reaches people who can’t get an appointment, can’t afford one yet, or aren’t ready to call.
It also changes how your profession sees you. Clinicians who have written the book on a topic get asked to train other clinicians, speak at conferences and consult. That work pays differently from session fees, and it doesn’t depend on your calendar.
What a book does for a therapy practice
A therapist’s book usually does several jobs at once.
- Self-help readers get a practical way in, and some of them become clients.
- Referral sources understand your specialty, so the right clients get sent to you.
- Workshops, trainings and continuing-education sessions grow out of the chapters.
- Clients get homework they can actually use between sessions.
- Podcasts and media look for a credentialed author on relationships, trauma, grief or anxiety.
Confidentiality comes first
Your ethics code and your license require it, and the book is built around it. In the interviews you describe clinical situations the way you would in a published case study: names changed, identifying details altered, and often several clients combined into one composite. A note in the book can say that cases are disguised or composite.
Nothing is final until you approve it, line by line. If a story is close enough that a client could recognize themselves, it comes out or you get written consent first. Dictate does not ask for or store clinical records. If you ask, your interviews and drafts are also excluded from any AI training.
One more line to hold: a book is education, not treatment. It should say so plainly, note that it doesn’t replace care from a licensed professional, and point to crisis resources where the topic calls for them. You set that wording when you review.
Why the interview format fits clinicians
You spend your days listening and explaining. Writing a book alone, after a full day of sessions, is where most therapists stall. In phone interviews you explain your approach the way you would to a colleague, and the chapters are written from your transcripts, in your voice, with your clinical judgment intact.
How the interview process works
Your part is talking and reviewing. Everything else is done for you, remotely.
A strategy call
We talk about who the book is for, what it needs to do for you, and what you already have: talks, notes, articles, recordings. We confirm the scope of your book on the call.
Research before you talk
Before your first interview, Dictate researches you and your field, so the questions start where your expertise starts instead of at the basics.
Phone interviews with Silas
You talk with Silas, our AI interviewer, by phone at times you choose, usually once or twice a week. Up to 15 hours of conversation in total. No writing and no homework.
Chapters from your own words
Chapters are written from your interview transcripts as you go, in your voice. Nothing is invented: every story and claim comes from you or your uploaded material.
You review and approve
You read every chapter in your author portal, leave notes and approve it. A sentence only you can confirm, like a date or a number, is flagged for you to check.
Ready to publish
You get print-ready and ebook files, a custom cover, Amazon copy and an Author’s Toolkit, set up to publish in your own accounts.
A realistic timeline
Our goal is your finished manuscript in 4 to 8 weeks. Your interview and review pace sets the timeline, so a busy month moves it and a free week speeds it up.
- Week 1Strategy call, research on you and your field, and your first interview.
- Weeks 2 to 5One or two interviews a week. Chapters arrive in your portal as you go.
- Weeks 5 to 8You review, ask for changes and approve each chapter. Then the files are prepared.
- After approvalYou publish in your own accounts, on your own launch date.
Books for Therapists: Questions
Can I buy copies in bulk for my group practice or workshops?
Yes. You publish in your own account, so you order author copies at the printer’s cost, in whatever quantity you need, with no markup from us.
Can I make a family edition, separate from the public book?
Yes. You own the print-ready files, so you can print a private family edition through a print-on-demand printer without listing it for sale, alongside or instead of a public edition.
Can the book be distributed through IngramSpark to bookstores and libraries?
Yes. Your files are prepared for Amazon KDP and for IngramSpark. IngramSpark lists your book in the Ingram catalog that bookstores and libraries order from. Both accounts are in your name, so royalties come straight to you.
Who owns the rights to my book?
You do. You own 100% of the copyright and keep 100% of the royalties. Dictate claims no ownership of your book and takes no royalties, and your publishing accounts are in your name.
What does the speaking help include? I want to train other clinicians.
Every book comes with an Author’s Toolkit: bios, Amazon copy and quote graphics. Optional marketing packages add a speaker one-sheet with talk topics, and the largest adds a keynote outline and speaking pitches. We help you get ready to be booked; nobody can honestly promise the bookings.
I’m a therapist, not a writer. Can I still do this?
You don’t need to be. You talk on the phone with Silas, our AI interviewer, and the chapters are written from your own words, in your voice. Your job is to talk and to review. If you can explain your approach to a new client, you can do this.
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