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Matthew Sexton, LCSW, NATC. Thirteen years in the rooms. A patent-pending platform born in a dialysis chair.

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The founder
Who is this guy?

Matthew Sexton, LCSW, NATC is the therapist who builds VibeCheck. He spent 13 years in clinical practice — disaster case management, an HIV employment initiative, a forensic ACT team, and the social-work department he pioneered covering 13 dialysis clinics — then taught himself to code. 100,000+ lines later, VibeCheck is the result: the between-session companion he needed in his own caseload and couldn't buy. He still sees clients. His own practice runs on it.

SIDE A where it started

A kid in Queens with a Walkman.

Queens, then Floral Park, the '80s. A kid who didn't fit the script figured out two reliable moves: make the room laugh, and make mixtapes. Side A for the hard days. Side B for the ride home. Pause, breathe, change the track.

The track order was the engineering. Open steady. Put the loud one where the dread usually shows up. End on the song that gets you up the front steps. He was regulating his own nervous system with a double-deck tape recorder, years before any textbook named the skill.

You can't always change the noise. You can arrange it until it carries you. VibeCheck was a mixtape before it was software.
SIDE B the receipts

Thirteen years. Eight tracks.

The career, as a tracklist. Real rooms, real numbers.

  1. 01 Disaster case management After Sandy. Rebuilding houses and recovery plans at the same time.
  2. 02 An HIV employment initiative Getting people the system had written off back into work.
  3. 03 A forensic ACT team Court-ordered caseloads. The hardest rooms there are.
  4. 04 Pioneered the social-work department covering 13 dialysis clinics Built from zero. He wrote the handbook. 13clinics
  5. 05 A Fortune 500 EAP GAD-7 / PHQ-9 completion on his caseload: all of it. 100%completion
  6. 06 A vaccination campaign, during the worst of it His dialysis patients, earned chair by chair, concern by concern. 95%vaccinated
  7. 07 Medicare penalties across his units The most boring number on this page. Also the hardest one to earn. 0penalties
  8. 08 Then: code Self-taught, at night, after sessions. A thousand lines, then ten thousand, then more. 100k+lines of code
The why

Therapy works. The math doesn't.

4 sessions a month
26 days they're on their own

Clients get 4 sessions a month. The other 26 days, they're on their own — with the homework, the hard nights, and the pattern they're working on. He watched that gap from the clinician chair for thirteen years. Nobody in software had sat in that chair, and it showed. So he built the thing he needed.

Why VibeCheck exists
The dogfood

His own practice runs on it.

Matthew Sexton LCSW PLLC is a working therapy practice, and it runs on VibeCheck — the same software the founding cohort gets, with Shaula, the AI-staffed office, included. When a feature gets in the way of a real session week, it gets fixed before it reaches anyone else.

He builds in public, and he measures in public too: R.A.V.E.S. — Recognition, Alignment, Value, Evidence, Sovereignty — is his framework, and it's the measurement layer inside the platform.

"Therapist first. Founder second. Nothing ships that I wouldn't put my license behind."

— Matthew Sexton, LCSW, NATC

See what he built.

VibeCheck is the between-session companion he built from the clinician chair — Shaula, the AI-staffed office, included. Founding clinicians lock $77.77/mo for life.

See VibeCheck Founding clinicians lock $77.77/mo for life

Questions people ask about him

  1. Who is Matthew Sexton?

    Matthew Sexton, LCSW, NATC is a licensed clinical social worker and the founder of Mental Wealth Solutions, Inc. He spent 13 years in clinical practice — disaster case management, an HIV employment initiative, a forensic ACT team, and pioneering the social-work department covering 13 dialysis clinics — then taught himself to code and built VibeCheck. The platform is patent pending — U.S. Provisional 64/059,214.

  2. Why did a therapist build software?

    Because the math of therapy has a hole in it. Clients get 4 sessions a month — the other 26 days, they're on their own. After 13 years of watching that gap from the clinician chair, and with nobody building the tool he needed, he wrote 100,000+ lines of code himself. The full story is at /why-vibecheck.

  3. Does he still see clients?

    Yes. He runs his own practice, Matthew Sexton LCSW PLLC, and the practice runs on VibeCheck. Every feature gets used on his own caseload before any other clinician sees it.

  4. What is R.A.V.E.S.?

    Recognition, Alignment, Value, Evidence, Sovereignty — the five-domain framework Matthew Sexton developed for measuring real therapeutic progress. It's the measurement layer inside VibeCheck. The full definition lives at /raves.