Our goal is to help mental health professionals stay up-to-date on important mental health research.
Working in mental health, therapists often find themselves working two jobs: Actually treating clients and staying up-to-date on relevant research and training. The problem is, working two jobs effectively is impossible. And so, when we have spare time, we search Google Scholar, follow some researchers on Twitter, look through social media, go to conferences and take CEUs, and try our best to absorb the new developments in the field in spurts. We believe, however, that staying abreast of research should be a more frequent and simple process.
What is PsychVox?
We created PsychVox to make it easier for mental health professionals to stay on top of important new research. How do we do this? We find new research articles, choose the most important ones for practicing clinicians, summarize them, and share the information through text and audio summaries and shareable documents.
To accomplish this, we review dozens of research journals every month, find and read through the articles that are most relevant and impactful for practicing mental health professionals, and then create summaries and other resources that help therapists to more easily learn, understand, and apply this information.
Why trust us?
We are licensed mental health clinicians. Before publishing, we reach out to the authors of the research articles to get their thoughts and perspectives on the summary. We adjust our writing if they deem that the information we have presented is erroneous, or if they feel that there is actually something more important that must be considered and shared.
We also stick to a framework that helps us to choose important articles by assessing for factors such as clinical relevance and the strength and reliability behind the research. In the end, however, the usefulness of the article is determined by you. Look through some of our free articles and decide whether this is a good fit for you.
Our use of AI
Our goal is to effectively summarize every article that comes out. Unfortunately, we are a very small team and are currently only able to summarize about 8 to 10 articles per month. We may use AI for certain parts of our work, from the podcasts to the text or audio summaries. Ultimately, we manually review every line and sentence of every summary or podcast we put out.
Schedule
We currently publish new summaries at least twice per week, usually Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday.
Who runs this thing?
My name is Manny Stoilov, and I’m an LCSW in Florida. I’m passionate about building the kind of infrastructure that strengthens mental health and social services across the U.S.
I began my career as a therapist at a community mental health center, then moved to a nonprofit supporting individuals experiencing homelessness. No matter where I worked, one thing became clear: staying on top of research was incredibly hard. I often felt overwhelmed—tasked with helping clients but unsure which treatment approaches were most effective.
That’s why I started PsychVox: to make mental health research more accessible, practical, and useful for the people doing the work.
Supporting Team Members
Farah Mahmoud, Editor, Graduate Research Assistant and Clinical Social Worker
Stephanie Tavarez, Editor, LCW
