The behavioral health industry is rightly shifting toward measurement-informed care as a standard. We started measuring clinical outcomes at Thriveworks not because the industry expected it of us, but because we believe clinicians can make better decisions when they can track patient progress by the hard numbers, rather than solely relying on clinical intuition.

At Thriveworks, this belief is built into how we operate, not bolted on as an afterthought: PHQ-9 and GAD-7 assessments are automated before every session, surfaced in real time to guide clinicians, and required across our entire national practice of more than 340 office locations and more than 2,600 W-2 providers.

While there’s still work ahead for both the industry and Thriveworks to fully carry measurement-informed behavioral health care into the future, we’re taking steps in the right direction.

The release of the 2026 Thriveworks Clinical Outcomes Report is one such step, highlighting how our measurement-informed approach to care works. This report is our way of transparently sharing how we measure and define improvement and what that means for our patients.

In the report, you’ll find how long it takes our patients to feel real relief (about two sessions), how many go on to recover (well over half), and, because a credible outcomes report can’t only show the good news, how many patients get worse and what that tells us about when to escalate. We also lay out exactly how we define and measure improvement, because in a field with no shared standard for what these terms mean, the definitions matter as much as the results.

View or download the full 2026 Clinical Outcomes Report here.

This report is just phase one of our measurement-based care approach. We recognize the importance of understanding and accounting for the bigger picture of our patients’ health, so in the future, we’ll expand to include functional status and physical health outcomes, enabling our clinicians and any collaborating primary or specialist care providers to see a holistic view of their patients’ health and, ultimately, improve overall health outcomes.

This is the standard we think behavioral health deserves, and we intend to lead the charge in setting it.

See the full 2026 Clinical Outcomes Report

How fast patients feel relief, how many get better, and how we measure it