This past year I was applying NLP to improve the quality of mental health care. One thing I found particularly difficult in this domain is the lack of high-quality data. Sure, you can go scrape Reddit and get some interesting therapeutic interactions between individuals, but in the author’s opinion, this is a poor substitute for what an actual interaction between a client and a therapist is like. Don’t get me wrong, there are datasets. They are just, more often than not, proprietary or pay to play.

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