Essays on between-session care, clinician-first AI, and what we're learning as we build Lisner — plus company news, as it happens.
SAMHSA, the MHRA, state legislatures, and The Lancet Psychiatry converged on one answer: keep clinicians in the chair, and put AI in the connective tissue around them.
Read the essay →Almost none of this week's mental-health headlines were about the therapy hour. They were about 2 a.m., intake, triage — the seams where the relationship either holds or breaks.
A federal courtroom, two statehouses, and a congressional letter to the VA all asked the same question in one week: who is accountable for the person on the other end?
Seven states have now drawn a hard line around the therapist's chair. The demand that pushed 8.2 million young people toward chatbots is still sitting outside it.
Psychiatrists, statehouses, and venture capital rarely agree on anything. This month they converged on the same verdict about who should hold the clinical relationship.
77% of psychologists say their patients already use AI for support. The debate isn't a forecast — it's a status report, and the real story is the six days and twenty-three hours between sessions.