Latest / The Mental Health Evolution / Ep 6: Navigating Tech in Private Practice with Uriah Guilford
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- 0:05Welcome to Mental Health Evolution, a podcast about what's changing in mental
- 0:10health and why it matters.
- 0:12I'm your host, Rachel Harrison, inviting you into honest conversations with
- 0:16people from all perspectives in the field, clinicians, tech founders,
- 0:20investors, insurance companies, and all the folks in between.
- 0:24Let's explore what's working, what's not, and what's next.
- 0:31Welcome back, everyone, to the Mental Health Evolution podcast, where we are
- 0:37talking about how the landscape is quickly evolving in the mental health
- 0:41industry.
- 0:42And today we are talking to a colleague who is the owner
- 0:45of The Productive Therapist, a former group practice owner, and someone who
- 0:49is always on the lookout for new things in our industry and
- 0:53in tech.
- 0:53Uriah Guilford is a speaker as well and offers all kinds of
- 0:57business support to therapy practices.
- 1:00As always, I want to give a little background here to set
- 1:03the stage for our conversation so that you have some information about
- 1:07the topics that we're addressing.
- 1:09So here are a couple of things in the news recently from
- 1:12the Truik team that the article title is 27 Top Mental Health
- 1:17Startups to Watch in 2025.
- 1:20Now, this might surprise you that we are actually narrowing down the
- 1:24top 27, and that should tell you something.
- 1:26There are a lot of mental health startups to watch and to
- 1:31be curious about.
- 1:32So these are the top 27.
- 1:33And in this article, I thought it was really interesting how they
- 1:36summarized what was happening.
- 1:38They say mental illness impacts millions of people worldwide, yet mental health
- 1:44care has lagged behind other areas of medicine and health services.
- 1:48With outdated approaches still commonplace, innovative startups are aiming to
- 1:53transform this industry and have emerged as beacons of hope.
- 1:57This article lists 27 tech mental health companies from MSOs to AI
- 2:02chatbots to apps designed to increase happiness.
- 2:06The tech industry has framed themselves as the solution to outdated approaches
- 2:11offered in traditional therapy practices.
- 2:14And then another article from Forbes is titled Why Psychiatry May Be
- 2:19the Last Frontier for AI Disruption.
- 2:22And this article by Amanda Marlar, she says, for health care leaders
- 2:27and innovators, there is a broader lesson here.
- 2:30In the rush to scale AI across every corner of the system,
- 2:33we must also ask which problems require precision and which require presence,
- 2:39which challenges are best met by algorithms and which still demand attunement,
- 2:44context, and human care.
- 2:46This article talks through some of the nuances that are required in
- 2:49psychiatric care and that these nuances cannot be addressed by AI.
- 2:54In addition, the presence of another person as a way to provide
- 2:57connection and healing, they say, cannot be replicated by a chatbot.
- 3:02And then lastly, to set the stage, I want to highlight an
- 3:06article by BeeKey.
- 3:07And this article is called Mental Health Tech in 2025, Consolidation,
- 3:13Personalization and the Uneven Reality of Access.
- 3:17And in this article, they talk about the current status of innovation
- 3:21in mental health care and they state the following trends and observations,
- 3:25which I found interesting.
- 3:26Number one, they say apps are out, integrations are in.
- 3:30Number two, AI works best to augment therapy, not to provide it.
- 3:34Number three, equity needs to be addressed.
- 3:37Number four, regulatory pressure is growing.
- 3:40And number five, validated research outcomes are not robust, so more is
- 3:45needed.
- 3:46And many companies operate in silo, this is number six, without good
- 3:50follow up.
- 3:51This author advocates for the following, transparency, clinical integrity,
- 3:57inclusivity by design, and seamless integration.
- 4:00This article also says that so many things such as the trends,
- 4:05but also some of the limitations and shortcomings of the tech boom
- 4:08in mental health care.
- 4:10It seems to give some balance to the need to have human
- 4:12interaction and oversight, as well as integrating these tech systems.
- 4:17I have to say, with these more recent articles coming out, I'm
- 4:21actually seeing a more even keeled assessment.
- 4:24It seems like the press cycle is less about AI being the
- 4:27greatest, latest, greatest solution and maybe some understanding that there are
- 4:32some limitations and that we have to think through things a little
- 4:34bit, which I think is great for this conversation.
- 4:37So now I want to turn toward our guest, Uriah, for some
- 4:41of his thoughts and perspectives.
- 4:43Uriah is one of those people always looking into the new things
- 4:46and talking to a lot of folks in the therapy world.
- 4:49And I thought his take on these things would be really helpful
- 4:52for all of us to hear.
- 4:53So thank you, Uriah, for being here.
- 4:55Absolutely.
- 4:55I'm thrilled to talk about all these things.
- 4:57I'm so excited.
- 4:58It's hard to know where to start.
- 4:59I know, right?
- 5:00Okay, so I want to dig in to maybe a little bit
- 5:04about AI, not the general AI, but as I dig in more
- 5:09and more, and I am a novice, and you know more about
- 5:11this, and I'm actually taking your course very soon, which I am
- 5:14super psyched about, but I think AI requires a different kind of
- 5:20thinking.
- 5:21So I would love to hear from you.
- 5:23Like, the more I learn, the more I'm like, this is just
- 5:26a different conceptualization than how a lot of us are thinking about
- 5:31our businesses and the process of mental health care.
- 5:34So I would just love to hear from you a little bit
- 5:37about how does AI require us to think differently?
- 5:41Yeah, the context matters a lot here in terms of thinking about
- 5:45AI, but I find that there is a mindset shift that happens
- 5:49for the average person, as well as the business owner, in terms
- 5:53of going from, this is an interesting tool, to this is a
- 5:58game-changing technology, whether that's in a clinical space or, like I
- 6:02said, in a business space.
- 6:04And I had that sort of transition, if you will, I'd say
- 6:07about six months ago or so, when I thought that I was
- 6:09using AI and integrating it into my life and my work in
- 6:13sort of, you know, interesting ways.
- 6:15And then I realized that I was barely scratching the surface.
- 6:18So I think, yeah, this is such a new technology.
- 6:21It's only in, you know, most consumers' minds, it's only about three
- 6:24years old, right?
- 6:25It actually goes back a couple of decades.
- 6:27Turns out folks have been working on these things, computer scientists and
- 6:30whatnot have been working on this for decades, but only now has
- 6:33it gotten incredibly powerful and incredibly useful.
- 6:36So I think it is a mindset shift from like, this is
- 6:39kind of a new Google search tool to like, this is something
- 6:42that can level up my health, my mental wellbeing, my business, like
- 6:46on down the line, right?
- 6:48So what was that shift for you?
- 6:50What did you notice or how are you thinking about it differently
- 6:53now?
- 6:54So the shift was really about two things.
- 6:56I would say the power of giving AI tools context about you
- 7:02and whatever it is you wanted to give it.
- 7:05For me, it was in a business context, right?
- 7:07So giving my AI tools all the knowledge and information about me
- 7:10and my business operations and my goals and what I'm trying to
- 7:13accomplish.
- 7:14And then realizing that the output that I'm getting is dramatically better.
- 7:19So that was one.
- 7:20And then the second one was just sort of changing how I
- 7:23interact with AI on a daily basis to being sort of, you
- 7:27know, the first place that I go to, to get questions answered.
- 7:30So like commonly now, like this morning, literally I was driving to
- 7:33my office coming in to talk to you today and I had
- 7:37an issue that I had to deal with.
- 7:39And I turned on voice mode on chat GPT and I had
- 7:42a whole conversation on my drive to work about California law and
- 7:46jury duty and paid time off and sick time and et cetera.
- 7:49And I got my questions answered and I got some guidance.
- 7:52So there was a switch from when I was using it occasionally
- 7:55to where now I'm using it much more often.
- 7:58Wow.
- 7:59And so what do you think about the world of mental health
- 8:02care?
- 8:03Like how do we need to be thinking about AI or do
- 8:07you have any opinions or kind of stances on this?
- 8:11I think it's a whole big question out there.
- 8:13It's fascinating and I think scary too.
- 8:16I think anybody you talk to, everybody has an opinion about AI,
- 8:19you know, whether they're anti or they're all in or they're sort
- 8:23of somewhere in between.
- 8:25I think anybody who's really looking at all the information will be
- 8:28somewhat skeptical and somewhat concerned.
- 8:31And that certainly has a place.
- 8:33I know a lot of therapists are concerned about how AI is
- 8:36being used and what are the safety sort of issues.
- 8:40I would say I'm about 80% optimistic and excited about it.
- 8:44And then about 20%, you know, I listen to some people talk
- 8:48about how it's, you know, it's going to have some incredibly negative
- 8:52impacts on the environment and on humanity and on existence.
- 8:55So I do like to spend a little bit of time learning
- 8:57about and listening to smart people about those things.
- 9:00But about 80% of my time and my mindset is like,
- 9:03this is revolutionary and it's going to be incredibly helpful.
- 9:07So yes, and I do have a, I have a couple of
- 9:09predictions of my own.
- 9:10Oh, I'd love to hear.
- 9:12Yeah.
- 9:12As I listen to smart people though, including like Jeffrey Hinton, one
- 9:15of the godfathers of AI or, you know, Sam Altman, the founder
- 9:19of OpenAI.
- 9:20Basically when they get down to it and people are really grilling
- 9:24them about what's going to happen and how this is going to
- 9:26unfold, their most honest answer is this, nobody knows.
- 9:31That's the truth, right?
- 9:33Even the smartest people, even the people who have built these tools
- 9:36and these systems, they don't know.
- 9:38Yeah.
- 9:39So what are your predictions though?
- 9:41Well, if we're talking about mental health, I think that a large
- 9:46part of the population is going to use it for mental health
- 9:49purposes.
- 9:50And guess what?
- 9:51They already are.
- 9:52A lot of therapists don't realize that their clients are already using
- 9:55AI for, you know, in between sessions.
- 9:58And so I think that accessibility to mental health support is going
- 10:03to broaden dramatically.
- 10:05And that's mostly good, is my thought.
- 10:08That's mostly a good thing because we have a shortage of providers,
- 10:11both in healthcare and in behavioral health.
- 10:14And then I also think that most therapists at some point are
- 10:17going to have their own AI avatar that will be available to
- 10:21clients and that will assist them in their clinical work.
- 10:23So there's the business, the AI assistants that are going to be
- 10:26helping therapists with their private practice.
- 10:28And then there's the clinical avatars that they're going to have, that
- 10:31they're going to make available to clients.
- 10:33So when you come to see, I don't see clients anymore, I'm
- 10:35retired, but if someone was to come to see Uriah as the
- 10:38therapist, you would also get access to Uriah AI, right?
- 10:41So that would be an AI avatar that has absolutely everything that
- 10:45I've ever said or written or produced or put out there available.
- 10:50And so I'll just give you an example, like in a context
- 10:52of like, I, most of my career was working with adolescents and
- 10:56families.
- 10:56So family therapy, you know, sort of parent coaching and those kinds
- 10:59of things.
- 11:00So if I was working with parents who are having a hard
- 11:03time with their teenager, they would have sessions with me.
- 11:06And then in between sessions, they would have questions because things come
- 11:09up every single day.
- 11:10And then they would be able to chat with, by voice and
- 11:13by text, Uriah AI to get my feedback and my guidance 24
- 11:19-7.
- 11:20So that's not a crazy prediction, but I think that's very likely
- 11:23going to happen.
- 11:24So not going to replace therapists, but going to augment the work
- 11:28that we do.
- 11:28Yeah, yeah, I like that.
- 11:31I'm also wondering about this idea.
- 11:33I've heard, I've read a lot about the current status quo of
- 11:37therapy.
- 11:38And then one of the articles today highlighted this being sort of
- 11:40a cottage industry, like kind of outdated, all of those things.
- 11:44And the tech companies are definitely positioning themselves to come in and
- 11:48save the day.
- 11:49I'm just curious your thought about the pros and the cons of
- 11:52this kind of tech wildfire that we're experiencing right now.
- 11:56Yeah, so interesting.
- 11:57Did you see this coming?
- 11:59I certainly didn't.
- 12:00Not at all.
- 12:02Yeah.
- 12:02I mean, yeah.
- 12:03I know you have been around a long time.
- 12:05So have I.
- 12:06This is by far, I mean, part of what motivated me to
- 12:09start this podcast was that, number one, these changes are happening so
- 12:14fast and every, almost every single practitioner or even business person that
- 12:18I'm talking to doesn't have a clue that it's happening or is
- 12:22not really tuned in to how much this is going to impact
- 12:25us.
- 12:26And then the second part, which you already said, nobody knows where
- 12:29this is going to go.
- 12:30So the combination of those two things made me say, I want
- 12:34to just elevate this conversation.
- 12:35Let's just start talking about it at least so we can be
- 12:39informed.
- 12:41Yeah, it's fascinating to see how much has changed in my 25
- 12:44year career, you know, but and there's pros and cons to this
- 12:49quote unquote disruption, right?
- 12:51This innovation, if you will.
- 12:53Accessibility is one of them.
- 12:54One of the positive things, whatever your opinion is of, some people
- 12:58call it big therapy, right?
- 13:00These venture backed companies that are providing big therapy, big pharma.
- 13:03Yeah, yeah, I got that.
- 13:05I mean, guess what?
- 13:06It's got a lot of downsides, but a lot more people are
- 13:08getting therapy because of the marketing dollars, the ad spend and the
- 13:13visibility and the brand awareness and all of these things.
- 13:16So is that good overall?
- 13:19I think so.
- 13:20I think so.
- 13:20But it's definitely changing the game for solo private practice owners and
- 13:25for group practice owners and for other people who are in the
- 13:28mental health space.
- 13:29I remember not that long ago, maybe it was like a year
- 13:32ago, I was talking to a good friend of mine and he
- 13:34has a group practice in the San Francisco Bay Area as well.
- 13:37And I said to him, I said, do you feel like you
- 13:40own a small bookstore?
- 13:41And it's like Amazon is just really, really ramping up.
- 13:45And he said, actually, yes, I do feel like that way.
- 13:48So that's interesting, right?
- 13:50I have likened it to like Walmart coming in and moving out
- 13:53the Main Street store, right?
- 13:54It's kind of same idea.
- 13:56Sure.
- 13:57I think there's a lot to be said for what therapists can
- 13:59do to, you know, create a unique brand and to kind of
- 14:02protect themselves and protect their offerings and to pivot what they're doing
- 14:06so that like it's not something that can be easily replicated by
- 14:11like a corporation.
- 14:12So I think like, you know, for one thing, family therapy is
- 14:16hard to do.
- 14:16It's hard to do virtually and it's and it's harder to do.
- 14:20It's just better in person, I think.
- 14:22I know that makes me sound very old school, but I'm right
- 14:25there with you.
- 14:26Yeah.
- 14:27So I can think of other examples, too.
- 14:28But there's, I think, a lot more, well, competition, honestly.
- 14:32Yeah, I agree.
- 14:34I agree.
- 14:34And I think in some ways we haven't had to face that,
- 14:37at least not at this level.
- 14:39And same as you starting, what, like 27, 28 years ago doing
- 14:44this work?
- 14:44Like we, there hasn't been this level of, we've been this, like,
- 14:48we really have been a little kind of protected industry where when
- 14:52COVID hit, that was like one of the biggest changes moving everything
- 14:55to telehealth and all of that.
- 14:57And that was, I think the start of this, honestly, kind of
- 15:00where the light shone in our industry and everybody said, huh, we
- 15:04could take a piece of that.
- 15:06COVID and then telehealth and then AI.
- 15:08It's like, it's just been this sort of onslaught of changes.
- 15:12Yeah.
- 15:12I wonder what it was like to be like therapist or a
- 15:15psychiatrist in like the 70s or 80s, you know, like where people
- 15:19came to see their therapist multiple times a week.
- 15:22There was no managed care.
- 15:23There was no insurance coverage.
- 15:25It was all out of pocket.
- 15:26And you just had to put an ad in the yellow pages
- 15:28and then, you know, network a little bit, have a business card.
- 15:32I had a listing in the yellow pages when I first started.
- 15:35Okay.
- 15:36So yeah, that's crazy.
- 15:39And yeah, things have changed so dramatically.
- 15:43And on that note, so I'm wondering your thoughts on this.
- 15:45If therapists or practices or businesses are open to utilizing technology, what
- 15:52are some of the systems and programs that you would recommend people
- 15:56considering?
- 15:57I mean, most of us have EHRs already at this point.
- 16:01Right.
- 16:01But what else would be good pieces for either the business side
- 16:06or the clinical side?
- 16:08Yeah.
- 16:08I mean, really, you can just try to think of a problem
- 16:12or a pain point and then you can find an AI tool
- 16:15or an application.
- 16:16So we could just go down the list, but certainly almost every
- 16:20modern electronic health record or electronic medical record system has an AI
- 16:25scribe feature.
- 16:26Right.
- 16:27So that is pretty much built in to almost all of them
- 16:30now.
- 16:31So that's an option.
- 16:32It's funny.
- 16:32I was thinking about it the other day.
- 16:33I had one client many, many years ago who recorded every session
- 16:36and it was fine with me.
- 16:37I didn't mind because they wanted to listen to it and kind
- 16:39of like process it afterwards.
- 16:41Right.
- 16:42I can tell you, I don't know.
- 16:43I would be curious to know your answer, Rachel, but like if
- 16:46I was going to see clients again, I would 100% want
- 16:49to use the AI scribe feature because it would make my life
- 16:51so much easier.
- 16:52Right.
- 16:53Like it would make note writing so much faster.
- 16:55But when I think about me going to see a therapist and
- 16:58if they asked me as a client, if I want, if I'm
- 17:01okay with them turning on AI to listen to our session, I
- 17:04think my answer would be no.
- 17:05My doctor?
- 17:06Fine.
- 17:06I'm talking about my elbow hurts, you know, or I've got a
- 17:09flu or something like that.
- 17:10But I don't think I would want my therapy, you know, listened
- 17:13in on and recorded by AI.
- 17:15What do you think?
- 17:16I agree.
- 17:17I have two different areas of concern.
- 17:20The one is that it's recorded.
- 17:22And I know I've talked to a lot of different AI people
- 17:25who do offer these services and they will all say, you know,
- 17:29some of them will say it's not saved.
- 17:32A lot of it is data mined though.
- 17:34So they are definitely taking the data.
- 17:37But there's that question that no one can answer is where does
- 17:41that exist?
- 17:42And even if an organization starts out as highly ethical, good intentions,
- 17:47we're destroying everything.
- 17:49At what point is the offer so good that we're going to
- 17:54switch our policy and nobody's necessarily really that where that gets lost
- 17:59in the fine print.
- 18:00Right.
- 18:01I think that's a risk.
- 18:02I think when you think about like attorneys wanting to get a
- 18:06hold of client records, like if if a verbal recording exists, like,
- 18:10yikes.
- 18:11Right.
- 18:11There's and I think therapy works because we can guarantee that confidentiality
- 18:17with exceptions of safety issues for the most part.
- 18:20Right.
- 18:21And that is what makes people able to open up.
- 18:23So I think we lose potentially a piece of our highest offering.
- 18:28But the even bigger piece, I think, for me, is the idea
- 18:32of critical thinking.
- 18:34So when you look at what a therapist does, like putting that
- 18:38note is like it's a reflection.
- 18:41It's a synthesis.
- 18:42It's a plan for that client.
- 18:45And I honestly feel like we're not providing as good of care
- 18:49as we could if we're not putting that critical thinking work into
- 18:53our clients.
- 18:54Because if AI just records it and summarizes it, hopefully therapists are
- 18:59at least reviewing that to make sure there's no inaccurate information, which
- 19:02is a whole other potential issue there.
- 19:05But even if all that is happening, I think you're likely not
- 19:09spending the time to do the critical thinking about your client in
- 19:13the way that would provide optimal care if you're doing that.
- 19:17So I guess I'm kind of.
- 19:18That's an interesting perspective.
- 19:19Against it for those reasons or definitely not jumping on that bandwagon.
- 19:25Now, AI for back-end processes.
- 19:28Sign me up.
- 19:29It's a totally different story, right?
- 19:31I mean, I think some therapists will differentiate themselves by the fact
- 19:35that they don't use AI.
- 19:37So if almost everybody is using AI, but some percentage of people
- 19:41are looking for a therapist who's going to do it the old
- 19:43school way, that's going to be a thing too.
- 19:45So that'll be interesting.
- 19:46And like, as far as digital security and privacy goes, nothing is
- 19:49actually secure.
- 19:51Everything is, every system is hackable.
- 19:53I give the FBI and the DOJ and every, every other company
- 19:56can be hacked.
- 19:57So, so can we.
- 19:59So it's nothing is truly safe unless it's you and me in
- 20:03a room that's protected and nobody's listening.
- 20:06Right.
- 20:06Like that is confidentiality between a provider and a, and a patient,
- 20:10right?
- 20:10Yeah.
- 20:11I definitely hear that.
- 20:13But the other applications in terms of business operations and even
- 20:17administrative support are really, really key.
- 20:20So one of the things that I've been teaching therapists how to
- 20:22do is how to build their AI advisory team.
- 20:25So how to use certain tools to create an HR department and
- 20:28a marketing department and a business coach and, you know, you name
- 20:33it.
- 20:33And that has been really a game changer for myself and for
- 20:37the folks that I'm working with.
- 20:38So that's exciting.
- 20:39And then also the other thing we can get into if you
- 20:42want to, but is I have been building AI receptionists for therapists
- 20:46so that the phone can be answered 24, 7, 365.
- 20:49But the beautiful thing is, and this is one of my beliefs
- 20:52is that humans still matter and it's, it's still the relationship that
- 20:55heals and all those things.
- 20:56So it's about AI helping on the front end and then doing
- 21:00a handoff to the human.
- 21:02So in this case, an intake coordinator who can then schedule, you
- 21:06know, provide some real human connection, empathy, and then schedule with a
- 21:10real human therapist.
- 21:11But the AI receptionist answering the phone 24, 7, I've already got
- 21:14it turned on for both of my businesses and it's actually so
- 21:17good.
- 21:19I read your newsletter about that last week and I was sending
- 21:23it to my intake team, my practice manager.
- 21:25I was like, these are some of the things we've kind of
- 21:29been talking about as well.
- 21:30So I love that.
- 21:31Yeah.
- 21:31And my, my perspective on that too is does, does anybody really
- 21:35want to have a long extended chat with an AI voice, you
- 21:39know, agent?
- 21:40Not really.
- 21:41Although there's this whole sub niche of, you know, AI companions, that's
- 21:45the whole thing, right?
- 21:46But most people don't really want to just chat with AI most
- 21:50of the time.
- 21:51However, if that AI agent or tool or bot or whatever you
- 21:54want to call it actually helps them solve their problem and get
- 21:57them one step closer to getting their water heater fixed, getting a
- 22:01therapist for their daughter, you know, fill in the blank.
- 22:03I don't think any of us are going to mind.
- 22:04And if that's faster and easier, we're going to be like, okay,
- 22:07sure.
- 22:08Yeah.
- 22:08It's kind of like those automated phone systems, right?
- 22:11If you're calling your pharmacy or whatnot, I think people are somewhat
- 22:14used to that.
- 22:15Definitely.
- 22:15Definitely.
- 22:16Yeah.
- 22:17So yeah, I'm optimistic about those things and I'm finding that it's
- 22:20a huge benefit to me.
- 22:22And at the end of the day, I'm actually able to create
- 22:25more content that's helpful.
- 22:26I'm able to help more people in various different ways that I
- 22:29do that.
- 22:30I'm able to just kind of like broaden and expand my, you
- 22:34know, my offerings, I guess.
- 22:36Yeah.
- 22:36And that feels awesome to me because it's not like I'm not
- 22:39replacing Uriah.
- 22:40I'm just expanding Uriah.
- 22:43We always say like if we could clone ourselves, right?
- 22:46And then we could get more done.
- 22:48Maybe this is a sort of version of that.
- 22:50It is, for better or for worse.
- 22:51For better or for worse, I know.
- 22:53All right.
- 22:55Well, we are running up on the end of this podcast.
- 22:58But what is one thing that you think both consumers of mental
- 23:03health care and practitioners need to know about the current state of
- 23:08what's going on?
- 23:09What would be your one nugget for people to take away?
- 23:13That is a hard question to answer.
- 23:14I know.
- 23:15I mean, you know, it's interesting when I talk to my two
- 23:18daughters, 17 and 19, funny enough, one of them is using AI
- 23:24all the time to learn about colleges, to do college applications.
- 23:29You name it.
- 23:30She's using it every day.
- 23:31And then my older daughter is quite anti-artificial intelligence.
- 23:37And so she more or less refuses to use it and wants
- 23:40to like, you know, feels like that's like a soul, like a,
- 23:43like a meaningful choice for her to not use it.
- 23:46And to be honest with you, I respect both of them.
- 23:48Even though I have like tried to convince my older daughter that
- 23:52she should use it to help her with her college work.
- 23:56But I guess the thing that comes to mind, if I'm talking
- 24:00to anybody, whether they're, you know, a therapist, a business owner or
- 24:03my own family, I'm excited about the specific use cases for individual
- 24:09people where it really makes a difference.
- 24:12And so if someone's listening to this, I would say AI is
- 24:15powerful.
- 24:16If you use it thoughtfully and use it wisely, it can really
- 24:19help you accomplish your goals.
- 24:21So consider that.
- 24:22And then of course, if you are someone like me, who's, you
- 24:25know, early adopter, tech enthusiast, just be mindful of how you're using
- 24:29it and what you're putting into it too, because we don't know
- 24:32how this is going to shake out.
- 24:33Absolutely.
- 24:34Well, on that note, I just want to thank you for being
- 24:37here and sharing all of your perspective on these trends.
- 24:40Uriah's contact information will be in the show notes so you can
- 24:44reach out to him, find out more about what he does and
- 24:47what his offerings are.
- 24:48But I hope you will join us next time as we take
- 24:51a look from another view at the changes in the mental health
- 24:54industry.
- 24:55Bye for now.
- 24:57Thanks for listening to the Mental Health Evolution podcast.
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