Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business
Welcome to Brave and Well! On this podcast, host Vanessa Newton LCSW-S teaches mental health professionals how to build sustainable, profitable and values-aligned businesses. You’ll hear about decolonizing the business side of private practice and supporting the entrepreneur in the therapist. We’ll also invite fellow therapists and healers to share their stories. New episodes release on Tuesdays. Produced by Softer Sounds.
Brave and Well: Conversations helping mental health professionals build a sustainable, profitable & values-aligned business
How I Use AI as a CEO (Never as a Therapist)
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There are biases baked into AI — the same biases we as therapists are trying to undo. So the topic of today's episode might land a little different coming from a therapist: AI. Vanessa is still a little skeptical, so she’s drawing a hard line between how she uses AI as a CEO and where she refuses to let it anywhere near client care. What she wants you to take from this episode is that AI is a tool, not a team member.
Tune in to hear about:
- Why Vanessa is still a little skeptical of AI
- The hard boundary: no AI in clinical work, treatment planning, or client data
- Fears around replacing human connection, confidentiality, bias baked into these tools, and the slippery slope into clinical judgment
- Using Claude as a CEO for cash flow clarity, payroll, and a full picture of where her practice stands
- Drafting emails, building hiring systems, and reading contracts in plain English instead of losing hours to admin
- Connecting Claude with her other tools (Asana, Slack, Notion, and Google Drive) to keep her business organized
- Why he never outsources her own discernment — and why she still runs everything through her team, her CFO, and her husband
- Why this is about getting back the margin to be present with her family and herself
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