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Dawn Airhart Witte discusses mental health and community support with Rachel Corbett, CEO of SupportGroups.com.

Welcome back to The Secrets of Being. In this episode, I’m honored to be joined by Rachel Corbett, CEO of SupportGroups.com, for a thoughtful and timely conversation about mental health, technology, grief, and the power of connection. Rachel shares how her personal experiences with loss and her background in behavioral health led her to create a platform designed to make mental health support more accessible, affordable, and less intimidating for people who might otherwise never reach out. We talk about the evolution of SupportGroups.com, which offers free peer-to-peer discussion forums, professional-led support groups, and innovative AI-powered mental health coaching. Rachel explains how the platform’s AI avatar is not meant to replace human care, but to support it. She describes AI as “ancestral intelligence,” a way of compiling collective human experience to help people feel seen, heard, and guided while still encouraging real-world connection and community support. Our conversation also touches on the deep importance of community as an antidote to isolation, addiction, and mental health struggles. Rachel speaks openly about treating the whole family in the healing process and…

People in this episode

Host: Dawn Airhart Witte

Guest: Rachel Corbett

Topics covered

• mental health
• technology
• grief
• community support
• AI in mental health
• peer support

Keywords

• mental health
• support groups
• AI coaching
• community
• grief
• behavioral health
• connection

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SupportGroups.com

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