Find Support & Expertise
Here, you can find support within digital mental health and connect with people who offer advice, expertise, or opportunities to collaborate on ideas and projects.
Find out more below.
Here, you’ll find people you can contact for the support you’re looking for:
Dr. Carlos Castañeda
Roles: Licensed Professional Counselor and professor at St. Edward’s University.
Founder: ThinkAITA and The Missing Peace Clinic.
Expertise: Safety reviews for mental health chatbots, developing multilingual conversational AI, translating and scaling trainings and CEUs, creating simulation tools for professional practice, and supporting licensing, EHR, and other clinical digital systems. He also develops mental health websites and gamified learning apps, and works with vision-based AI for behavioral and prevention-focused applications.
Idan Spund
Roles: CEO, partnership leader and lived-experience advocate with lived experience of Bipolar I since 2009.
Founder: In The Zone, which supports people living with Bipolar disorder.
Expertise: Building digital mental health solutions for bipolar disorder that focus on early warning, prevention, and support-circle communication. He specializes in translating lived experience into practical tools that help individuals, families, and caregivers recognize early signs, communicate safely, and activate support between clinical appointments. His work centers on ethical, human-centered digital design and collaboration with mental health organizations and communities.