How can AI ease the burden of clinical note-taking and even help you get paid faster? What are the risks of using chatbots in therapy? Why does AI in mental health need regulation?

In this podcast episode, Joe Sanok discusses how AI is changing behavioral healthcare with Nate Peereboom. 

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Meet Nate Peereboom







Nathan “Nate” Peereboom is the CEO and Co-Founder of JotPsych, a healthtech company creating AI-powered tools that automate administrative tasks for behavioral health professionals. Under his leadership, JotPsych has streamlined documentation for clinicians worldwide, allowing them to focus more on patient care. Inspired by his healthcare-rooted upbringing and co-founder expertise in psycholinguistics, Nate is passionate about leveraging technology to reclaim time and enhance creativity in clinical practice.

Visit JotPsych and connect on LinkedIn.

In This Podcast



* Which problems AI can solve in the mental health space

* Concerns around AI chatbots in therapy Regulating AI 

* Final tips 

* Nate’s advice to private practitioners 



Which problems AI can solve in the mental health space 

The first thing that comes to mind is obviously note-taking. We started Jotpsych because we believed that that was the best place to apply artificial intelligence within the behavioral health space. (Nate Peereboom)

A significant amount of time is spent on note-taking. If you are one of the thousands of therapists who dislike note-taking and want to place your time and attention on other things, there are ways for you to use AI to help you ethically. 

One of the big switches that can be made with AI is to go from generation to editing, and documentation is a great example of this. It can be generated for you, and you are the one who moulds it to suit the standard.  Rather than generating it, you can focus on editing it to perfection. 

It’s a machine-written note. But you still need, as a clinician, to have the skill of knowing what you want to include, knowing how it impacts the patient, and understanding the whole ecosystem of your practice. So, great clinicians are generating with AI but are participating with it in a more thoughtful way. (Nate Peereboom) 

Concerns around AI chatbots in therapy

You can walk someone through a set of problem-solving steps, and doing this with an AI chatbot is a way to save time and money.  However, to make a change,