Community Resources
Finding Mental Health and Community Resources
Where to start when you need support with mental health, food, housing, or healthcare, and how to take that first step.
Therapy Tips
The Difference Between a Few Bad Days and When It's Time to Seek Help
Everyone has bad days. Here's how to tell a normal rough patch from a pattern that's worth addressing, before it wears you down.
Therapy Tips
Getting the Most Out of Therapy
Fifty minutes a week isn't enough on its own. A therapist breaks down the small habits, in and out of session, that actually make therapy work.
Therapy Tips
Signs Therapy Is Working (and Signs It's Not)
Wondering if it's actually doing anything? Here's how to tell the difference between therapy that's working and therapy that needs to change.
Industry Insights
The gap in California's mental health care market
California trains some of the best therapists in the country and still has one of the widest gaps between who needs care and who can get it. Here's why, and what actually needs to change.
Industry Insights
What the therapy industry gets wrong about quality care
It's not license level that predicts good care — it's supervision. What a year of conversations with clinical directors and supervisors revealed.
Clinical Supervision
What actually makes clinical supervision effective
Real insights from dozens of supervisors and practice owners about the tools, systems, and support they actually need — what we learned surprised us.
Therapist Training
Do masters programs actually prepare you to be a therapist?
A newly graduated social worker on the gap between what MSW programs promise and what new therapists actually need to build a sustainable career.
Industry Insights
The hidden factors that predict therapist success
The conventional wisdom about what makes a great therapist is missing the most important predictors of success — and what that reveals about a broken system.
Therapist Training
What a new therapist’s internship is really like
An honest conversation with a new mental health counselor about unpaid internship hours, thin supervision, and the fear of burning out before her career even starts.
Industry Insights
What it really takes to scale quality mental health care
A candid conversation with a 30-year clinical veteran about the tension between clinical quality and business metrics, and how the best companies resolve it.
Clinical Supervision
The warning signs that predict a supervisee is struggling
What supervisors wish they could track better: the early indicators that predict a supervisee is struggling, and where technology could actually help.
Clinical Supervision
The hidden cost of supervision gone wrong
Through conversations with 100+ mental health professionals, a clear pattern emerged: failed supervision creates costs most practice owners never calculate.