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The Mental Health Evolution
The Mental Health Entrepreneur podcast is back—with a slightly new name and an expanded focus. We're excited to introduce The Mental Health Evolution, where we'll continue the journey of exploring what's changing in the mental health field, and we're so glad to have you with us as a listener. Explore the rapidly changing world of mental health with The Mental Health Evolution, hosted by Rachel Harrison. Each episode brings honest conversations with clinicians, tech founders, investors…
Episodes
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Ep 62: The Race to Regulate AI in Mental Health with Jai Jaisimha
84 new AI laws passed in 27 states in just six months. What do they actually mean for clinicians, practice owners, and the people they serve? Rachel talks with…
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Ep 61: How can we fix TRICARE access wtih Joanne Frederick
Rachel welcomes back Joanne Frederick, founder and CEO of Government Market Strategies (GMS). Joanne first joined the show to talk about CAQH, data spraying…
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Ep 60: Kids Absorb Everything: Immigration Fear in the Therapy Room, with Val Strunk
Rachel talks with Val Strunk, a licensed social worker, child therapist, and co-owner of Wired to Bloom Therapy in the Cincinnati area. Val is an immigrant and…
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Ep 59: High-Potency Cannabis and the Developing Brain with Libby Stuyt
Rachel welcomes back Dr. Libby Stuyt, a guest many listeners may remember from our previous podcast, The Mental Health Entrepreneur. Dr. Stuyt is a…
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Ep 58: Two States, Two Directions: What's Happening to the Future of Our Workforce
This week Rachel goes solo to talk about something she has been watching unfold in real time — two states making completely opposite decisions about who gets…
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Ep 56: Making Psychedelic Therapy Accessible with Myriam Barthes
Rachel speaks with Myriam Barthes, co-founder and CEO of Journey Clinical, the largest network of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy trained therapists in the…
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Ep 57: IV Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy with Will Ratliff
This week we are revisiting a conversation Rachel recorded on the original Mental Health Entrepreneur podcast with Will Ratliff, co-founder of Transcend Health…
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Ep 55: Be the One Who Does It
This week Rachel steps away from the interview format to do something she has been wanting to do for a while — take stock of everything the podcast has…
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Ep 54: Building Collective Power with Nicole Sartini
Rachel speaks with Nicole Sartini, a licensed clinician, group practice owner, and founder of Build Better Health — a nonprofit think tank that is building the…
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Ep 52: Follow the Money, Follow the Power with Joanne Frederick
Rachel speaks with Joanne Frederick, founder and CEO of Government Market Strategies, about something most clinicians never see but feel every single day — the…
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Ep 52: Pessimism Is Not a Strategy with Marcus Schmit
Rachel speaks with Marcus Schmit, Executive Director of NAMI Minnesota, about what is actually happening on the ground as federal Medicaid funding cuts ripple…
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Ep 51: 10 Years of Trauma Specialists - a Live Episode
This week's episode is something a little different. Recorded live at the 10-year anniversary celebration of Trauma Specialists of Maryland, this episode turns…
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Ep 50: When Child Care Can't Wait for Nine to Five with Sara Bradley
Rachel speaks with Sara Bradley, Executive Director of York Day Early Learning in York, Pennsylvania, about a problem most people in the mental health field…
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Ep 49: What Happens When You Replace the Fax Machine with Shana Palmieri
Rachel speaks with Shana Palmieri, Chief Clinical Officer and co-founder of XFERALL (pronounced Transfer-all) , a real-time patient transfer and care…
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Ep 48: Everybody's Talking About Mental Health But Nobody's Funding It with Stephanie Slowly Little
Rachel speaks with Stephanie Slowly Little, Executive Director of NAMI Maryland, about the state of mental health care access in Maryland, the funding…
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EP 47: What the Research Actually Shows About AI Therapy with Dr. Nick Jacobson
Rachel speaks with Dr. Nick Jacobson, associate professor of biomedical data science, psychiatry, and computer science at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine…
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Ep 46: The Crisis Text Line with Dr. Shairi Turner
Rachel speaks with Dr. Shairi Turner, Chief Health Officer at Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit that provides free, 24/7 text-based mental health support and…
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Ep 45: Stop Doing What Worked Ten Years Ago with Dr. Elizabeth Carr
Rachel speaks with Dr. Elizabeth Carr, a clinical psychologist and the founder and CEO of Kentlands Psychotherapy in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Elizabeth leads a…
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Ep 44: They Knew and They Profited Anyway with Matthew Bergman
Rachel speaks with Matthew Bergman, founding attorney of the Social Media Victims Law Center, about the landmark KGM verdict — the first social media addiction…
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Ep 43: When Payers Own the Data: What the CAQH Rebrand Means for Providers
In this solo episode, Rachel Harrison takes a break from her usual guest conversations to address something that has been generating a lot of discussion in the…
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Ep 42: What Clinicians Need to Know About AI Law with Dr. Nick Shumate
Rachel Harrison speaks with Dr. Nick Shumate, a psychiatrist at the Division of Digital Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical…
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Ep 41: The Coverage Gap Is a Policy Problem with Cara Cheevers
Rachel Harrison speaks with Cara Cheevers, Vice President of Coverage Policy at Inseparable, a national mental health advocacy organization working to win…
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Ep 40: When States Step Up for Safety with Delegate Lily Qi
In this episode, Rachel Harrison speaks with Maryland State Delegate Lily Qi, who represents District 15 in Montgomery County and has served in the Maryland…
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Ep 39: Brain Science for Better Leadership with Dr. Lisa Riegel
In this episode, Rachel Harrison speaks with Dr. Lisa Riegel, leadership strategist and creator of the NeuroWell Framework, about why most organizational…
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Ep 38: Advocacy, Autonomy and the Future of Psychotherapy with Linda Michaels of PsiAN
Rachel speaks with Dr. Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA, a psychologist in private practice in Chicago and co-founder of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN)…
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Ep 37: Trusted Tools for Peer Workers with Naveen Raman
In this episode, Rachel Harrison speaks with Naveen Raman, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University whose research focuses on sequential decision making and…
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Ep 36: The Reality of Parity Enforcement
EPISODE SUMMARY In this solo episode, Rachel Harrison explores the reality of mental health parity enforcement through the lens of a recent case involving…
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Ep 35: Ethical Marketing Strategies for Mental Health Practices with Adrienne Wilkerson
EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, Rachel is joined by Adrienne Wilkerson, founder and CEO of Beacon Media and Marketing and author of Digital Marketing for…
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Ep 34: Mental Health Access, Telehealth Policy and the Future of Behavioral Health Care with Andrea Fox
🎧 Show Notes – Episode 34 Mental Health Access, Telehealth Policy & the Future of Behavioral Health Care with Andrea Fox In this episode of Mental Health…
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Ep 33: The 988 Hotline: Three Years In
Episode Summary In this solo episode, Rachel takes an honest look at where the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline stands nearly three years after its July 2022…
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Ep 32: Virtual Worlds, Real Skills with Dr. Kryn McClain
Episode Summary This week, Rachel brings listeners one of her favorite conversations from her previous podcast, The Mental Health Entrepreneur, featuring Dr…
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Ep 31: The Relationship Checkup with Dr. James Cordova and Matt Rubin of Arammu
Episode Summary This episode brings one of our favorite conversations from Rachel's previous podcast, The Mental Health Entrepreneur, to the Mental Health…
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Ep 30: Rethinking Behavioral Health Access with Jason Youngblood
Episode Summary Jason Youngblood is the Senior Director at Cigna U.S. Markets Behavioral Center of Excellence and Sales Operations and a licensed professional…
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Ep 29: Crash-Testing AI for Mental Health with Shirali and Arul Nigam
EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, Rachel sits down with Shirali Nigam and Arul Nigam, sibling co-founders of Circuit Breaker Labs, a company built around a…
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Ep 28: Community Health, Local Solutions with Malcolm Furgol
Got it! Here are the final show notes: Mental Health Evolution Podcast — Show Notes Episode Title: Community Health, Local Solutions with Malcolm Furgol…
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Ep 27: Tiered Care, Technology, and the Future of Mental Health
EPISODE INTRODUCTION: In this solo episode, Rachel steps back from guest conversations to share her own observations and questions about one of the most…
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Ep 26: Who Supports the Crisis Workers with Becky Stoll
Episode Description: In this episode, Rachel sits down with Becky Stoll, Vice President for Crisis and Disaster Management at Centerstone, to explore how…
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Ep 25: Out‑of‑Pocket and Out of Reach
EPISODE SUMMARY This solo episode features Rachel Harrison, host of Mental Health Evolution, exploring how rising out-of-pocket health care costs are reshaping…
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Ep 24: Interstate Licensure Compacts
EPISODE OVERVIEW In this solo episode of the Mental Health Evolution, Rachel explores one of the most promising—and complicated—policy shifts in mental health…
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Ep 23: Building a Mental Health System That Works with Sue Abderholden
EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode of Mental Health Evolution, host Rachel Harrison welcomes Sue Abderholden, a national leader with over 40 years of experience…
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Ep 22: Scaling Mental Health Organizations with Ryan Dewey Smith
In Episode 22 of Mental Health Evolution, host Rachel Harrison is joined by Ryan Dewey Smith, Founder and President of Inperium, to explore what it takes to…
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Ep 21: Technology, Therapy, and the Future of Care
Episode Description In this solo episode, host Rachel Harrison explores one of the most pressing and complex issues shaping mental health care today: the…
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Ep 20: Inside Behavioral Health Systems with Cathy Gilbert
Episode Description In this episode, Rachel speaks with Cathy Gilbert — Founder and Principal Consultant at CEG Health — about what's happening inside today's…
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Ep 19: Big Mental Health Stories & Trends to Watch in 2026
Episode Description In this solo episode, Rachel reviews the major mental health stories and trends she anticipates will shape 2026. Covering topics from the…
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Ep 18: A Few of Rachel's Favorite 2025 Podcast Moments
Episode Description In this special end-of-year episode of the Mental Health Evolution Podcast, Rachel looks back on some of her favorite moments from the…
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Ep 17: The Future of SMI Treatment with Dr. Scott Feers
Episode Description: In this episode, Rachel sits down with Dr. Scott Feers, Chief Medical Officer at Amae Health and a leading psychiatrist and…
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Ep 16: Why Value-Based Care Can Feel So Hard with Josephine Wilton, Pt. 2
Episode Description: In this second part of her conversation with Josephine Wilton, Chief Strategy Officer at Hullanta Consulting, Rachel dives deeper into the…
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Ep 15: Making Value-Based Care Work with Josephine Wilton Pt. 1
Episode Description: In this episode, Rachel sits down with Josephine Wilton, Principal Consultant at Hullanta Consulting, to dive deep into the operational…
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Ep 14: Policy Shifts in School Mental Health with Matthew Stone
In this episode, Matthew Stone, assistant managing editor at Education Week, joins the Mental Health Evolution Podcast to discuss recent shifts in school…
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Ep 13: AI and Measurement-Based Care with Dr. Dylan Ross
Episode Summary For this week's episode, I was excited to welcome Dr. Dylan Ross, PhD, LMFT, LPCC, Head of Clinical at Blueprint AI and a nationally recognized…
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Ep 12: Private Equity in Mental Health Care with Dr. Jane Zhu
Episode Summary In this episode, Rachel talks to Dr. Jane Zhu, an internal medicine physician, health services researcher, and Associate Professor of Medicine…
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Ep 11: Building Mental Health Practices Without Burnout with Dan King
What does it take to grow a mental health practice sustainably—without burning out the people who make it work? In this episode, host Rachel Harrison talks…
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Ep 10: Thriving in Local Therapy Marketing with Becky DeGrossa
Episode Recap In this episode, Rachel speaks with Becky DeGrossa, founder of CounselingWise, about the evolving landscape of mental health marketing. Becky…
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Ep 9: Understanding Mental Health Parity with Deborah Steinberg
In this episode, Rachel talks with Deborah Steinberg, Senior Health Policy Attorney at the Legal Action Center, about the current state of mental health parity…
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Ep 8: Viewing Mental Health Care Through a Family Systems Lens
Episode Summary This week, we have a solo episode in which Rachel explores the mental health system through a family systems lens. She examines how different…
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Ep 7: Policy Shifts Reshaping Mental Health Care with Cathy Gilbert
In this episode of Mental Health Evolution, host Rachel Harrison sits down with Cathy Gilbert, a seasoned consultant and former insurance executive, to unpack…
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Ep 6: Navigating Tech in Private Practice with Uriah Guilford
In this episode, Rachel sits down with Uriah Guilford, licensed therapist, group practice owner, author of The Productive Practice, and founder of Productive…
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Ep 5: Preparing for the AI Shift in Therapy with Dr. Jordan Harris
In this episode of The Mental Health Evolution Podcast, Rachel sits down with Dr. Jordan Harris to explore the rapidly evolving role of AI in therapy and…
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Ep 4: When AI Meets Therapy: Risks, Ethics, and Advocacy with Dr. Ajita Robinson
In this episode of The Mental Health Evolution Podcast, Rachel sits down with Dr. Ajita Robinson to explore the rapidly evolving role of AI in mental health…
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Ep 3: Strategy, Not Panic with Jeremy Zug
In this episode, we explore the changing landscape of mental health, focusing on insurance trends, private practice growth, and the impact of tech and venture…