Episode 31: The Story of Xenzone and Digital Mental Health 🧘🏽‍♀️

James is joined by Zoe Blake, CEO of Xenzone. Zoe is on a mission to provide improved access to clinically excellent mental health services across England and beyond via digitised counselling - powered by humans and backed by AI and analytics. Her rich background in technology and leadership, and the personal tragedy of losing her mother - a mental health nurse - to suicide are what drive her to use technology for clinical good. She has built XenZone into the largest digital mental health platform in England, available in its 100th NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) area - making its services free for children and young people across more than half of England and making substantial impact to the current NHS landscape. James and Zoe talk about Zoe’s background and her 25 years in tech businesses, her personal experience of mental ill health in her family, why you shouldn’t judge a company by what they raise, how she has scaled Xenzone and how digital could be the answer to the huge demand for mental health services. https://xenzone.com/