On the Thinking Machines podcast, clinical psychologist Dr. Derrick Hull — founding Clinical Lead at Ash — discusses why therapy is so hard to access (roughly one therapist for every 10,000 people who need one) and how AI built for mental health could help close that gap.
• Access is the core problem: roughly one therapist for every 10,000 would-be clients, and the gap keeps widening.
• Hull helped popularize text-based therapy at Talkspace — and explains what it taught him about forming a real therapeutic connection through a screen.
• Why a model purpose-built for psychology behaves differently from general-purpose AI, and how Ash is designed to support meaningful change.
