Secure AI is a clinical responsibility
Secure AI is not a feature badge. In behavioral health it is how you protect trust when tools touch notes, intakes, and the hard things people only say in session.
Garry Gilbert
Presence over throughput
The practices that thrive won't be the ones that adopted the most tools. They'll be the ones that chose technology that gets out of the way.
The Bot in the Room: Why 2026 Is Forcing a Different Conversation About AI and Therapy
The Unburdening. Issue 004 EMILE-E.tech | June 2026 | Audience: Independent Therapists & Small Practices Protecting the Human Core of Therapy For the last two years, the mental health technology conversation has sounded almost too clean. AI will expand access. AI will reduce waitlists. AI will help overwhelmed therapists. AI
The 167-Hour Problem: What Happens Between Sessions
The Unburdening | Issue 003EMILE-E.tech | June 2026 | Audience: Independent Therapists & Small PracticesThe Practice Perspective EditThere are 168 hours in a week.Your client spends one of them with you.The other 167 are where their life actually happens, the Tuesday night panic, the difficult conversation they finally had,
Secure AI Is Not a Feature. It Is a Clinical Responsibility.
The Unburdening | Issue 002 Secure AI Is Not a Feature AI is moving into behavioral health whether practices are ready or not. Some tools are arriving through official vendor channels. Others are slipping in quietly through browser tabs, copied notes, intake summaries, staff experiments, and “just this once” shortcuts that
The 2026 Shift: From Efficiency to Presence
The Unburdening | Issue 001The Cost of “Efficiency” in TherapyThere is a quiet crisis happening in mental health practices across the country.Therapists who got into this work because they wanted to help people are now spending their evenings and weekends documenting. Filling out fields. Clicking through portals designed for billing