Building a mental health app with Courtney Carlsson

Design Feeling

#016 Councillors, therapy, meditation - Courtney Carlsson tried them all but what she needed was a structure to ask herself deliberate questions consistently to learn more about herself. Courtney is a CEO and Founder of the mental health app Paradym which she started after battling with her own mental health challenges. Courtney shares her personal journey of self-awareness and how she build Paradym, working with experts from around the world.

In this episode:

• The importance of asking yourself deliberate questions consistently
• What causes burnout and how to avoid and address it
• How to use feelings to build habits
• Reframing how you see any situation

Shownotes

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Music by Brad Porter

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Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Welcome (00:01:58)

3. Courtney's mentla health journey (00:02:04)

4. How Paradym works (00:05:19)

5. Why Courtney founded Paradym (00:06:59)

6. Who Paradym is for (00:09:49)

7. Most common mental health challenges for professionals (00:12:00)

8. How self-awareness helps mental health (00:15:11)

9. Impact of your physical environment on your mental health (00:17:29)

10. What causes burnout (00:19:29)

11. Courtney's favourite techniques (00:21:30)

12. Conducting research for Paradym (00:26:37)

13. Encouraging honest responses from research participants (00:27:59)

14. The biggest hurdle faced by Courtney in the process (00:30:56)

15. What Courtney would do differently (00:37:05)

16. Courtney's last words for humanity (00:43:13)

17. Recap (00:45:32)

18. Getting in touch with Courtney (00:47:30)

19. Outro (00:48:43)