Ask a therapist where they keep their client handouts and you'll get a tour of their workarounds.
Google Drive folders organized over years. PDFs downloaded from five different websites. Worksheets saved from trainings they took in 2019. A little bit from here, a little bit from there—whatever they could find and save along the way.
One therapist described it perfectly: "I think as therapists, for better or worse, we've gotten used to cobbling together our own resources over time. A little bit from here, a little bit from there. Collecting them in our own folders. It doesn't feel like the most streamlined process."
Here's what that looks like in practice. Another clinician told us she manually uploads worksheets into each client's chart individually—then sends them one by one. "I'm doing that for every single person that I see for the most part. And that can be anywhere from like 18 to 24 people. So it gets a little difficult timing wise."
That's not a workflow. That's a workaround.
Therapists have become incredibly resourceful. They've built their own systems because the tools they pay for don't do it for them. One described her setup: "I've created my own little database. I use Google Drive and I have handouts, worksheets, meditation... I'm a pretty type-A person."
She's not bragging. She's surviving.
None of this should require type-A energy.
The system should remember what you share with clients. It should let you build a library once and use it forever. It should save you the 15 minutes of uploading the same PDF to 20 different charts.
That's why Harbor includes built-in resource sharing. A single library. One upload. Send to any client with a click. Because your job is therapy, not file management.