Why I Had to Create elevate.epo
Kendrick said it best: “The feeling of an apocalypse happening, but nothing is awkward…”
That line echoed in my head when I finished compiling the State of Mental Health 2022 report. Behind the percentages and p-values, behind the bar graphs and psychometric weights, was a truth I could no longer ignore:
We are not okay—and no one is coming to save us.
The data was clear. Despite the performative surge in "mental health awareness," actual engagement with services remains low. Over two-thirds of respondents had never used a mental health service in their community. Nearly two-thirds said they had no plans to start. Not because they didn’t need help—but because they couldn’t afford it, couldn’t find anyone they trusted, or didn’t know where to begin.
Even when they did make it into a room with a clinician? Average satisfaction scores were abysmal. A 4.58 out of 10. That’s not just apathy—that’s a collective disillusionment.
And this wasn’t some fringe sample. These were real people from Anaheim, Chicago, Dallas, LA, San Diego, and DC. Diverse, educated, and still—on a composite index I designed to capture actual emotional state, not just perception—the score was a hard 2 out of 4. Bad.
That disconnect between perceived and actual mental health is the silent killer. On the surface: “I’m fine.” Beneath it? Cognitive dissonance, social exhaustion, financial insecurity, and an invisible weight pressing on everyone.
It was a diagnostic moment for me—not just as a clinician-in-training or researcher, but as a man, as a builder. The industry I was supposed to be part of was broken.
So I built something else.
The Birth of elevate.epo©
elevate.epo didn’t come from a business plan. It came from a rupture.
I was watching people suffer silently, ghosted by the very systems that were supposed to help them. Not because they lacked courage, but because the terrain was unwalkable. The barriers were everywhere—price, knowledge, insurance bureaucracy, a shallow therapist pool devoid of cultural precision. And worst of all? A field that keeps reinforcing passive, defanged engagement with people’s deepest psychological pain.
So I created an alternative. A system. A container. A new kind of psychological architecture built for founders, creatives, and high-performers who are done tolerating their own fragmentation.
Where therapy whispers, we speak with clarity.
Where the field pathologizes, we pattern-recognize.
Where clinicians perform neutrality, we offer precision. Attunement. Leadership.
The System Behind the Brand
elevate.epo isn’t just a brand—it’s a systemic answer to a systemic failure. Informed by real psychometric data and decades of psychoanalytic thought, it's designed to bypass the outdated ritual of weekly sessions with an uninspired provider. Instead, it delivers psychological recalibration, emotional precision, and performance integration—on your terms, in your language, and with actual results.
We don’t play insurance games. We don’t wait for you to hit rock bottom. We meet you at your level of potential, not pathology.
And we never forget the context: that your so-called "mental health" isn’t just a private struggle. It’s shaped by rent prices, broken public infrastructure, racist policies, and the subtle violence of not being seen.
We factor in your world. And then we help you master it.
This Was Always Bigger Than Me
I didn't set out to disrupt the mental health industry. But when you stare at the data long enough—when you feel the weight of that 2/4 score not as a statistic, but as a lived frequency in your community—you either numb out, or you build.
I built.
Because there’s no health without mental health. And no mental health without systemic redesign. elevate.epo is my answer to both.