Behavioral Health Tech

📰 This week in behavioral health: the policy shifts reshaping digital care, the overlooked role of nutrition in psychiatry, the biggest insights from BHT2025, and the headlines everyone is talking about. After being featured in Forbes as the fastest-growing event in mental health, we’re keeping the momentum going! If you work at the intersection of innovation and care delivery, you won’t want to miss this edition. 👉 Read the full newsletter

At EVG, we love seeing founders who turn passion into purpose through events. Solome Tibebu You’re a model for what this industry can be. 👏✨ #liveevents #EVG #eventventures #community #BHT

The week that moved the industry: 11,355 connections made, 1 future of behavioral health shaped. Only at the Behavioral Health Tech Conference does the entire industry meet to build what comes next. Thank you for showing up with purpose. We’re still in awe, and we can’t wait to see how this ripple shapes the year ahead! #BHT2025 #BehavioralHealthTech

At #BHT2025, the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute made one thing clear: the future belongs to innovators who treat policy as strategy, not compliance. Understanding where the landscape is heading is now core to impact, reimbursement, and scalability. 👉 Read more: https://hubs.li/Q03VgLmx0

⏰ We’re live in 2 hours. If compliance, payment integrity, or 1099 risk touches your world, this is your last call. Leaders are about to share how they’re navigating evolving regulations and protecting their networks from six-figure mistakes. Don’t miss this one. https://hubs.li/Q03TBk0g0

💙 So many new faces joined the Behavioral Health Tech community this month, and we couldn’t be happier to have you here!!! Want the inside scoop on what’s happening across the behavioral health ecosystem? Our weekly newsletter with 20k+ subscribers is the best place to start. Subscribe today for free: https://hubs.li/Q03V7c-H0

Did you register yet? We’re 24 hours away from one of the most important compliance conversations happening in behavioral health this year. In tomorrow’s session, experts break down the 1099 risks, fraud patterns, and regulatory shifts that are costing organizations millions, and what leaders are doing right now to get ahead of them. If you want practical, real-world guidance (not theory), this is your session. Save your seat before it fills: https://hubs.li/Q03TBmsh0

She started with a newsletter in 2020. In July, she sold the largest behavioral health innovation conference in America, Behavioral Health Tech. Meet Solome Tibebu. Her story proves that solving real problems at scale creates unstoppable momentum. Here's what you probably missed: 1/ She built from lived experience ↳ Struggled with severe anxiety disorder as a teenager ↳ Founded Anxiety In Teens at 16 when resources didn't exist ↳ Her mission was personal before it was professional 2/ She saw the gap no one else filled ↳ Behavioral health innovation was completely fragmented ↳ Payers, providers, and founders operated in silos ↳ Great ideas died without sustainable models 3/ She scaled with impossible speed ↳ Year 1: Virtual COVID-era gathering ↳ Year 4: 2,000+ attendees in person ↳ Year 5: Acquired by Hyve Group ↳ 25% growth projected for 2025 4/ She earned trust from everyone who matters ↳ Microsoft, Salesforce, McDonald's as sponsors ↳ BetterHelp, Headspace, Blue Cross as participants ↳ Amazon and Microsoft health leaders as speakers Hyve CEO Mark Shashoua said it best: "What's exciting is the founder energy...that hunger, vision, and drive you only get from something built from the ground up." Solome didn't just create a conference. She created the marketplace where Medicaid MCOs meet digital health founders, where Blue Cross discovers scalable solutions, where innovation finally connects. Her rule for success? "Do what you said you would do and take initiative." From a teenager with anxiety and no resources to the founder who solved behavioral health's biggest problem: getting the right people in the same room. Thanks, Solome, for inviting me to speak at the Conference last week. Sorry I didn't get to say hi in person. I was overjoyed to see many people turn out to the rural mental health session. =========================== ⁉️ What gap in your industry is waiting for connection? ♻️ Share to celebrate founders who scale with purpose. 👉 Follow me (Eric Arzubi, MD) for more like this.

Jodie Sweetin brought the room to a standstill at #BHT2025. She opened up about growing up on Full House, the “chosen family” that shaped her early life, and the loneliness that followed once the cameras stopped rolling. Her honesty about recovery, the setbacks, the rebuilding, the tools that work for your journey and not anyone else’s, was a reminder that healing isn’t linear. It’s personal. It’s brave. And it’s never too late to rewrite your story. We’re still feeling the impact of her words. Grateful doesn’t even begin to cover it.

Antidepressants, TMS, ketamine... we’ve innovated fast. But we’ve also missed something simple: the biology beneath the symptoms. This new piece unpacks why nutritional deficiencies remain psychiatry’s blind spot, how they mimic DSM-5 diagnoses, and why “treatment resistance” may sometimes be a metabolic problem long before it’s a psychiatric one. A must-read for anyone thinking seriously about precision mental healthcare! ⤵ https://hubs.li/Q03TQ2L20