
111. AI Is Changing Mental Health Care: Therapists, We Need Your Voice
About this episode
AI Is Changing Mental Health Care faster than most therapists realize, and right now the loudest voices shaping that change are tech founders, VCs, and insurance companies, not the clinicians actually in the room with clients. In this episode of Run Your Private Practice with AI, I get into why that's been bugging me for months and what I think we need to do about it.
I walk through what's actually happening behind the scenes right now, states passing AI legislation, insurance companies quietly testing AI triage chatbots, and ethics boards writing position statements, almost all of it without real clinician data behind it. Then I share what Berries is doing about that gap and how eight minutes of your time can help make sure the future of AI in mental health gets shaped by therapists instead of everyone else.
AI Tips You Don’t Want to Miss:
- The free quiz that matches you to the right AI tool, from Claude to Manus to Berries.
- Manus's 300 free daily credits, and why they're enough to start creating AI-generated graphics and video.
- The real energy cost of AI notes, and why it's smaller than most therapists think.
- A full practice website built in two hours for under $40 using AI tools alone.
- The eight-minute survey that could decide whose data shapes the future of AI in mental health care.
Mentioned in this episode:
Survey | The State of AI in Mental Health Practice 2026: https://tally.so/r/MeM8jM
The Therapist's AI Cheat Sheet: https://kymtolson.kartra.com/page/AICheatSheet
The AI Website Blueprint for Therapists: https://kymtolson.kartra.com/page/AIwebsite
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Connect with me:
- Instagram: @thetravelingtherapist_kym
- Website: AIfortherapists.com
- Clinical AI Club and Thera AI Hub are merging into one larger program. Join the waitlist to be the first to hear about it: www.theraaihub.netlify.app
Sponsored by Alma: www.helloalma.com/kym
Sponsored by Berries: Use code 50FromKym for $50 off your first month www.heyberries.com/therapists
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