13 years of clinical experience. Now building the architecture I needed.
Five months ago I was running a therapy practice and trying not to drown.
The math was simple and brutal. Insurance was paying $80-$100 on a session that took me 50 minutes to deliver. I was spending another five hours a week chasing the claims those payments were attached to. The clinician at the other end of the Aetna line agreed with me on every call. They denied the claim anyway. I was on hold so often my kid started recognizing the music.
I'm an LCSW. I went into this work because I wanted to sit with people in pain and help them carry it. The actual sitting was about 10% of my week.
Before private practice, I'd worked in forensic ACT, dialysis adjacent settings, transplant social work, disaster response. Every setting had its own version of the same pattern: clinicians who cared, drowning in workflows that didn't. I left agency work in 2018 to go solo. I figured being my own boss would let me focus on the actual job. I was wrong. The bureaucracy followed me. It just changed shape.
By late 2025 I was looking at the math of running a small clinic - hiring LMSWs to train them up, dealing with insurance, payroll, workman's comp, billing, supervision. I priced it out. The numbers didn't work. Even at 5 LMSWs, the margin after overhead was thinner than I could have built it on. I was looking at a business that consumed more of my life than the practice it was supposed to replace.
Someone - I forget who - said you need recurring revenue, not more billable hours. I started building software in December.
The first feature was a between-session check-in. I built it because the clients I cared about most were the ones who fell apart in the 166 hours between our sessions, and I had no way to reach them without becoming a 24/7 text line. The check-in let me see what was happening without putting myself on call.
One feature became one app.
One app became six.
By March I had filed for a domain on each of them - VibeCheck, CoachesCheck, HealthcareCheck, TransplantCheck, EAPCheck - and architected the whole portfolio around a single AI companion that could route between services, partition consent per workflow, escalate the right things to crisis pathways, and stay clinician-controlled all the way through.
May 6, 2026, I filed a U.S. provisional patent on that architecture.
May 19, 2026, the first product (VibeCheck) launches publicly on iOS.
Mental Wealth Solutions started as my private practice name. It's not a practice anymore. It's a healthcare software company built by a clinician who got tired of waiting for someone else to build the thing the field actually needed.
If you're a therapist, a coach, a clinical director, an FQHC operator, an EAP buyer, or a transplant patient navigator - and you've also been drowning - I built this for you. Patent pending.
- Matt