Clinical Advisory Board

Reviewed by licensed mental health professionals.

Confidants is shaped by a board of licensed clinicians who review the app's conversational design, safety language, and crisis-handling. Their role is design-oriented and non-clinical. They do not provide care to users and they do not endorse Confidants as a substitute for therapy.

Meagan Butler, LPC

Meagan Butler, LPC

Senior Clinical Advisor

Meagan Butler is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Professor Adjunct at the UT Austin Graduate School of Social Work, and PhD researcher studying community healing with Uvalde school survivors. She is the co-founder of Zenyu Games, a mental well-being platform, and is trained in DBT, trauma-informed care, and applied neuroscience. She has spent her 20+ year career building tools and programs that make evidence-based support accessible beyond the therapy room.

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What the Clinical Advisory Board does

  • Reviews Confidants' system prompts, AI personality definitions, and sample conversations.
  • Advises on crisis-handling, safety language, and how the app should respond to high-risk content.
  • Provides non-clinical, design-oriented feedback. Does not provide therapy or care to any user of the app.
  • Meets quarterly to review changes and advise on what to ship next.