The Clinician-Built Advantage: Why the Tools That Help Therapists Most Are Built by People Who Have Carried a Caseload
Roughly 74% of mental-health AI funding in 2025-26 went to clinician-integrated tools, not chatbots. Therapists are using AI more and trusting it less. The thing that predicts whether a tool is safe isn't the model. It's who built it.
Jun 25, 2026 Matthew Sexton, LCSW