Radically expand access to transformative mental health support.
Helping you find the right support, at the right time, with the right person—
someone you genuinely vibe with, who gets you, fits this moment in your life, meets when and how you need them, wants to help, and adapts to what works for you.
Designed for actual, real life, humans. Imagine that…
Not systems that demoralize, codes that dehumanize, schedules that exclude, labels that limit, models that monetize suffering.
Because mental health care should fit you, not the other way around.
Revolutionize provider training, career development, and professional practice.
Creating the mental health careers we wished existed—
where providers’ individualized growth matters as much as their clients’, where being authentically themselves is celebrated, because that’s how they’ll give their best to the world.
Built for humans who help humans.
Not impossible caseloads, endless documentation, meaningless metrics, time-wasting trainings, checkbox CEUs, exploitative gig contracts, systems that profit from burning out passionate providers.
Because providers ARE mental health care—and caring for them means caring for everyone.
No corporate therapy mill.
No assembly-line care.
Just our tight-knit team of professionals—forward-thinking, out-of-the-box, and comprehensively trained—building the kind of support we’d want for the people we love.
That’s literally what we’re here for. Whether this is your first time or your fiftieth, we’ve got you.
Reach out – We’ll answer your questions, get you connected with support that actually fits, and help you get started.
Check out our team – Get to know the humans behind the mission and find someone who resonates.
Here’s what that means: When someone heals, we all benefit. When providers thrive, communities get stronger. When we share knowledge and skills openly, innovation accelerates for everyone. With the right infrastructure, mental health isn’t zero-sum with winners and losers—it’s an ecosystem where everyone’s wellbeing is interconnected and mutually reinforcing.
We’re social entrepreneurs at heart, creating models that solve social problems through collaboration, not extraction. We seek synergistic value for all stakeholders: clients who need care, providers who need sustainable careers, communities that need healing infrastructure.
We understand the stark realities. There are no magic pills. Systems resist change. Coordination is hard. Too many stakeholders are doing their best within broken constraints.
But we also believe mental health is a human right that belongs to everyone. Not eventually. Not theoretically. Now.
So while we work to align incentives and empower all stakeholders, we’re not waiting to get started.
Real change happens together. We’re building with others, not waiting on others. But together doesn’t mean waiting for systems that profit from staying broken.
For insurance companies
to stop weaponizing paperwork, exhausting providers and clients with administrative burdens, fairly cover and reimburse what mental health care is worth, or actually follow federal behavioral health parity laws.
For venture capitalists
to “fix” mental health with the same playbook that broke everything else—growth at any cost, with governance obligated to 10x profits for the few.
For precarious government
programs that take years to approve and seconds to cut—mired in bureaucracy, compromised by political agendas, and organized to prevent the very innovation and impact they claim to support.
For technology developed
in sterile isolation, divorced from the lived realities of suffering and the hard-won wisdom of those who hold space for healing—another SaaS platform built to scale, not heal, or therapy chatbot trained on Reddit threads.
For academic institutions
to align pedagogy with evidence and impact—to prioritize what demonstrably improves clinical outcomes over outdated theoretical frameworks and practices—and credentialing rituals that mistake compliance for competence, leaving emerging providers unprepared for the field they’re actually entering.
We’re building a public benefit alternative: assembling the pieces of a better ecosystem, one step at a time.
Not another app. Not another platform. Not another VC-funded therapy mill.
A practice community and institute:
Where therapy, support services, training, and community aren’t separate silos but one living system.
Where all levels and types of mental health providers—from peer counselors to PhDs—learn and work as equals in our innovative “stepped up” model that keeps effective care accessible. Where clients shape services through feedback and requests, not squeeze into pre-made boxes. Where providers are supported as leaders, not exploited as gig workers. Real people working together, learning together, healing together.
Where every form of expertise matters:
• Lived experience that can’t be taught in classrooms
• Clinical training that brings evidence to practice
• Cultural wisdom that mainstream mental health ignores
• Pragmatic approaches that actually move the needle
• Holistic methods that see the whole person
This means clients get greater access to the right fit—whether that’s clinical therapy, peer support, somatic practices, or approaches that honor their whole lives. The services that will actually make a difference.
Forget learning in academic vacuums or weekend CEU webinars. We’re building training that lives and breathes in the real world.
We aren’t learning detached from context. We’re learning and innovating where care actually happens—discovering what’s most valuable to the communities and clients we serve.
Training embedded in practice means:
• Innovation emerges from real sessions, not theory
• What works comes from actual communities served
• Multiple types of knowledge are honored—not just published research
• The rich, contextual wisdom of practice isn’t reduced to worksheets
• Complex skills that actually improve outcomes, not just check boxes
This is where we honor the full spectrum of knowledge—clinical, cultural, experiential, pragmatic—that actually moves the needle in provider performance and client lives.
For the weird stuff. The specific stuff. The “I can’t believe there’s a group for this” stuff.
Not the pathologizing clinical groups that strip away everything that makes connection powerful. We’re creating groups that border on recreational—because healing happens in laughter, creativity, and shared interests, not just shared diagnoses.
Support groups others ignore:
• For subcultures mainstream mental health doesn’t see
• For topics no one else talks about
• For communities told they’re “too much” or “not enough”
• For the messy, complicated, doesn’t-fit-in-a-checkbox reality of being human
Your complexity doesn’t fit their categories? Perfect. You belong here.
We’re working to out-evidence evidence-based care. Out-DSM the DSM.
Not by rejecting empirical research—by actually paying attention to MORE of it. A lot more. The mainstream mental health field’s understanding of its own evidence base is surprisingly short-sighted and limited. We’re diving into the fuller ocean of evidence: neuroscience, anthropology, sociology, peer-reviewed and community-based research, wisdom traditions, and the decades of data showing what actually helps humans heal.
We focus on what transcends diagnoses:
• Universal principles of human connection and change—”psychological change mechanisms”
• Core therapeutic factors that work across all modalities
• Pattern recognition over symptom checklists
• Cultural and contextual factors the DSM pretends don’t exist
• The integration of somatic, social, and systemic approaches
Our training breaks the mold:
• Providers at all levels learn together—peer counselors teaching PhDs, and vice versa
• Real cases, real communities, real-time problem solving
• Curriculum shaped by those delivering AND receiving care
• Mistakes as learning labs, not shameful secrets
• Everything open-sourced because healing shouldn’t be proprietary
No branded methodologies. No weekend certification mills. No pretending that complex human suffering fits in neat manual chapters.
Just rigorous, honest, effective training for the messy reality of helping people heal.
Not technology for technology’s sake. Not AI therapists or wellness apps that pretend meditation cures systemic trauma. Not another platform mining your pain for data points.
We believe technology in mental health should do one thing exceptionally well: strengthen the human connections that make healing possible. That’s it. Not replace them, not gamify them, not optimize them. Strengthen them.
Technology that actually helps:
• Amplifies human connection instead of replacing it
• Makes care more accessible without depersonalizing it
• Supports providers and clients instead of surveilling them
• Developed WITH clinicians and clients, not for them
• Serves humans, not shareholders
This means starting every tech decision with a simple question: Does this bring people closer together or push them further apart? Does it honor the complexity of being human or flatten it? Does it support the therapeutic relationship or substitute for it?
We’re focused on building open-source tools that know their place—in service to connection, not in charge of it. Because the most sophisticated technology we have is still the relationship between two people who show up for each other.
That’s the technology that’s always worked. Everything else just helps it work better.
We’re an emerging organization. Small but mighty. Building on the belief that many hands, many minds make transformative change possible.
This means we’re still developing, learning, growing—building the plane while flying it. Our success is contingent on community participation and dependent on collective wisdom—on all stakeholders wanting this as much as we do. We don’t have all the answers yet. What we have is a clear vision and the determination to build toward it, transparently and together.
Our collaborative approach means:
• Providers, clients, and partners building together
• All voices genuinely shaping our direction
• Every person’s contribution matters profoundly
• Diverse perspectives creating solutions no single group could imagine
• Nimble enough to adapt, committed enough to persist
• Quality over quantity, always
• Building toward critical mass for real impact
• Every insight gained benefits the whole community
We’re transparent about our emerging nature. Some services are launching while others develop. Our capacity grows as our community grows. We’ll make mistakes—but we’re committed to “falling upward,” turning every stumble into a step forward for the entire community. Not everything will be perfect on day one—or even day 100.
But that’s precisely the point. We don’t think real mental health transformation will happen in boardrooms, ivory towers, or through venture funding. It happens when communities come together with shared purpose and roll up their sleeves. We’re moving fast because people need help now. But we’re building thoughtfully because this needs to last. This tension—between urgency and sustainability—is where real innovation lives.
This is how change actually works. Not despite our emerging nature, but because of it.
You deserve support that honors your complexity. Join us in building alternatives to systems that weren’t designed for real humans.
You deserve to practice without burning out. Join us in building sustainable careers that honor both your expertise and your humanity.
We need partners and collaborators who believe mental health can be different—who measure success in lives transformed. Join us in building public benefit models others can learn from and adapt.
This is how transformation happens—when those frustrated by the current system come together to create something better.
We’re pioneering a collaborative model where providers at every level—from peer counselors to clinical supervisors—work together as a community of practice. By integrating therapeutic coaches, peer counselors, and lived experience educators alongside licensed clinicians, we expand the expertise, life experience, and healing relationships our clients can benefit from. No more isolated practitioners or checked-out hierarchies.
Forget sterile, one-size-fits-all groups. We create vibrant online community spaces designed with and for communities who’ve been overlooked—where connection feels genuine and support feels actually supportive, rather than clinical or pathologizing.
Online therapy is not a reluctant alternative to in-person work. Online therapy is primary with benefits and affordances of its own. We’re not just putting therapy on Zoom. We’re harnessing everything digital connection makes possible—from increased accessibility to innovative formats that simply weren’t possible in traditional settings.
Our collaborative curriculum model focuses on what actually improves provider performance and client outcomes—not just checking CEU boxes. We co-create training with providers at all levels, breaking down hierarchies and centering practices proven to increase clinician effectiveness. We’re open-sourcing mental health expertise for the common good.
We intentionally create services for communities and cultures that lack representation elsewhere. Our care is inclusive, transparent, judgment-free, and well-suited for folks and populations that tend to be misunderstood or fall between the cracks. If existing mental health spaces weren’t made for you, we see you. Let’s go!
We’re examining mental health’s sacred cows—those assumptions everyone accepts but nobody questions. Then we’re building something better based on a much larger and deeper look at the interdisciplinary empirical evidence, beyond the short-sighted models behind “evidence-based” psychotherapies.
Real change requires collective action. We’re partnering with aligned organizations, educational institutions, and stakeholders who share our vision of mental health as a public good. And fostering various pathways and levels of engagement
Real change requires collective action. We support, pave the way for, and collaborate with like-minded providers, teams, and initiatives. We foster various pathways and levels of engagement because transformation happens together.
We prioritize therapeutic fit as the cornerstone of effective care. Our sophisticated matching considers lived experience, cultural understanding, and clinical approach—because we know the relationship IS the intervention.
We offer mental health care that is innovative, expansive, pragmatic, holistic, and anti-reductionistic. By integrating rigorous research with whole-person care and real-world application, we focus on what actually works, not just what’s traditionally practiced.
A living repository of mental health wisdom that actually matters. Book reviews that cut through academic jargon. Essential knowledge curated by practitioners. Raw, powerful lived experience narratives. Deep dives into the corners of mental health nobody else explores. Not here to sell you anything—just to share what needs sharing. Have a burning question? Ask us.
A donation-based continuing education platform that breaks down the paywall between providers and quality training. Because professional development shouldn’t require choosing between rent and learning something new.
Thoughtful integration across training, administration, and practice. We’re building AI that enhances the human elements of therapy—better matching, smarter scheduling, insightful progress tracking—while keeping humans firmly at the center. Technology as a tool, not a replacement.
Real conversations with mental health researchers and changemakers who are questioning everything and building better. No softball questions, no corporate speak—just honest dialogue about what’s broken and who’s fixing it.
Interactive resources designed by clinicians who actually understand what support looks like. Not another meditation app or mood tracker, but practical tools that meet people in their real, messy, complicated lives.
Virtual and in-person gatherings, book clubs, where we stop talking about change and start creating it. Learn from the best, connect with your people, and help shape what mental health care becomes next.
Formal pathways for those with lived experience to share their expertise and support others. Because sometimes the most powerful healing comes from someone who’s walked the path before you.
Surveys and studies with providers, clients, and partners to uncover what really happens behind closed doors. Let’s challenge assumptions, expose industry secrets, and build solutions based on truth, not tradition.
Resources and organizing tools for systemic change. Because individual healing is important, but systems change is revolutionary. Time to move from treating symptoms to addressing causes.
More ways to connect, contribute, and co-create. Research collaborations, specialized support networks, innovation labs—we’re building the infrastructure for transformation that lasts.
The mental health establishment won’t fix itself. Good thing we’ve got co-conspirators.
Get fresh updates on support options, opportunities, and other good stuff from Seshio.
Whether you’re seeking care or providing it, we’ve got you.
