Bridging Technology and Mental Health

Almost thirty years ago, right click > View Source Code changed my life.

I was perplexed at how images and text came through a phone line and into my computer. One day, I read you just had to right click anywhere on the page…

Once I figured out how to read the code and then ultimately how to write it, what was supposed to be a career rooted in writing and language branched into something unexpected: developing web technologies.

I was a girl who coded before that was even a thing.

And it was a head-scratching change of direction for this buttoned-up English Lit grad.

But something clicked when I realized I could marry this new skill with my expertise in language.

I didn’t sleep very much for the better part of three years. I was obsessed with learning everything I could, and very impressed at what I could build.

Before too long, people started paying me to do it, which was pretty neat.

I then spent two decades helping Fortune 100 and large corporations communicate their important messages through these technologies.

The Internet had created opportunities that didn’t exist just a couple of years before I peeked behind that web page.

AI is creating the same kind of opportunities, and it’s making the arrival of the Internet look like it showed up in a covered wagon.

Now AI is on mental health’s horizon.

The mental health industry is facing unprecedented challenges that call for thoughtful and innovative solutions.

With my background in communications technology and my experience in mental health, I’m uniquely positioned to do my part to help bridge this gap.

A new branch is growing for me, and I’m a lot more experienced in how to grow it now.

It feels like a return to something very special, and I couldn’t be more excited about that!