I've been building something for the past year, and I think I'm finally ready to talk about it.
About ten years ago I almost left this field. It wasn't the clients. The clients are the reason I got into counseling in the first place. It was everything around the work. How alone you can feel in it. The gap between what grad school taught me and what was actually showing up in my office. I was seeing twenty or more clients a week with one hour of supervision, and I was losing sleep over cases I didn't know what to do with.
I made it through, but it was harder than it needed to be. And now that I supervise, I watch newer therapists run into the same thing. They've got a hundred questions and nowhere near enough time to ask them.
So I built Steady.
It's an AI consultation tool, but I want to be careful about what I mean by that. It isn't a note writer and it isn't a shortcut. It isn't a supervisor either, and it isn't there to tell you what to do. It's a place to think through a case when you're stuck and there's no one around to talk it out with. You bring a client you're wrestling with, and it asks what you're seeing, sits in the questions with you, and helps you look at what's happening from a few different theoretical angles. The clinical call is always yours. That's how it should be. The whole point is to help you get clearer on what you already know how to do.
I built it because it's the thing I wish I'd had when I was new and trying to figure this out.
I'll have more to say about it in the coming weeks. For now I just wanted to introduce it.