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Jess Levine is a licensed clinical social worker at a large community mental health organization. She has worked there for more than eight years, and the agency serves hundreds of young people every year. Her days include supervising interns, seeing individual clients at the agency, in schools, and over telehealth, and running groups.

Her team uses the K-CAT^® to help with some of the hardest parts of that work: long waitlists, complex histories, and planning treatment that fits each young person.

Dr. Scott Kollins is a clinical psychologist and chief medical officer at Aura. He is also an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the Duke University School of Medicine. Much of his work focuses on digital wellness and positive mental health for kids. 

For more than 30 years, he has been part of clinical research, and he often tells colleagues that the K-CAT^® is "the greatest set of tools they've probably never heard of." 

The client seemed straightforward. Good grades. Holding it together. A typical intake.

Then the assessment results came back, and Steve Monte, founder and Clinical Director of Rock Life Counseling in Indianapolis, saw something completely different: bipolar disorder with manic features. Substance use in the past month. A pattern of risky choices that could've spiraled for months or years without intervention.

"Something that could've easily taken three to six months to fully uncover," Steve said. "We were able to get to it within the first three or four visits."

That's not luck. That's what happens when you have the right tools and the right approach.