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City Visions: Mental healthcare that's a click away

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As affordable mental health care becomes harder to access, more people are downloading self-help and therapy apps to address problems as wide ranging as phobias, depression, procrastination, and anxiety. But do these apps actually work? In the brave new world of digitally delivered mental health care, will your next therapist be an algorithm? 

Guests:

Elissa Chakoff, Clinical Implementation Manager, Recovery Record

Christy Choy, Marriage and Family Therapist and Talkspace Provider

Craig Barr Taylor, Professor of Pyschiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emeritus, Stanford University