{"podcast":{"title":"Practice Momentum - Private Practice Business Coaching Podcast","slug":"practice-momentum-private-practice-business-coaching-podcast-73618","podcast_index_feed_id":73618,"rss_url":"https://brooklynstorme.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://brooklynstorme.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3603917/Untitled_design_-_2025-12-17T1910250749ghjs.png","author":"Dr Brooklyn Storme","episode_count":573,"summary":"Business growth in private practice often feels harder than it should. Many counsellors, psychologists and social workers follow good advice yet still struggle with income stability, boundaries and knowing what actually moves their practice forward. This podcast blends professional insight with lived experience and introduces two practitioner-developed frameworks; Practice Momentum™ and EthicallyAI™; that address identity integration, sustainable business foundations and ethical digital competence in private practice. Episodes cover areas including but not limited to role identity, boundaries, ethical visibility, decision-making, digital competence and ethical AI use, marketing, revenue consistency and diary management supporting new and established clinicians to build professionally grounded, sustainable practices.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-28T02:19:21.713215+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/practice-momentum-private-practice-business-coaching-podcast-73618"},"episode":{"title":"Google's Gemini Now Offers Mental Health Support: What Every Therapist Needs to Know","slug":"google-s-gemini-now-offers-mental-health-support-what-every-therapist-needs-to-know","published_at":"2026-05-06T02:07:10+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/practice-momentum-private-practice-business-coaching-podcast-73618/google-s-gemini-now-offers-mental-health-support-what-every-therapist-needs-to-know","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/practice-momentum-private-practice-business-coaching-podcast-73618","url":"https://brooklynstorme.podbean.com/e/googles-gemini-now-offers-mental-health-support-what-every-therapist-needs-to-know/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/crv4ic34cj5q6xq6/060526_-_6_5_2026_1203_pm9e0fb.mp3","summary":"Something significant happened in April 2026 that I think a lot of therapists haven't heard about yet, and it has a direct bearing on the people sitting across from you. Google added mental health safety tools to Gemini, and in this episode I'm breaking down exactly what that means for your practice, your clients, and your intake process. This isn't a tech episode for its own sake. It's a practice management conversation, because understanding what your clients are doing before they arrive at your door is part of practising well. --- What We Cover We open with the news itself: in April 2026, Google rolled out a mental health safety layer inside Gemini, their AI assistant. When a conversation signals distress, suicidal ideation, or crisis language, Gemini now surfaces a \"Help is available\" module with one-touch access to crisis support services by phone, text, chat, and web. Google also committed thirty million dollars over three years to supporting global crisis hotlines as part of this move. I explain in plain language what Gemini's mental health tools actually do and, importantly, what they don't do. Gemini is not acting as a therapist. It is detecting signals and signposting to services. That distinction matters enormously for how we talk about it with clients. From there we move into the more confronting conversation: your clients are already using AI for mental health support. Not because anyone recommended it, but because it was available, free, and there at two in the morning. I explore what that looks like in practice and why it's clinically relevant information you probably aren't capturing at intake. We then get practical. 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