MHPEA
Mental Health Professionals
Equity Alliance
Protecting Providers. Restoring Ethics. Reclaiming Care.
WE ARE THE VOICE OF MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
From Wall Street boardrooms to insurance back offices, financial forces are quietly, but profoundly, redefining mental health care. Venture capital firms extract profit through exploitative platforms. Vertically integrated insurers manipulate reimbursement, deny care, and algorithmically police therapy itself. Clinical judgment is devalued. Ethical practice is punished. Patients become billing codes. Providers are pushed to the brink.
This is not care. This is commodification.
The Mental Health Professionals Equity Alliance (MHPEA) is a national 501(c)(6) professional association formed by and for licensed mental health professionals across all disciplines, united by one urgent goal: to confront and dismantle the economic structures eroding our profession from within.
We are here to resist.
We are here to organize.
We are here to take it back.
Exposing What’s Driving the Mental Health Crisis
The crisis in mental health care didn’t happen by accident , it was engineered.
Behind the headlines about provider shortages, access gaps, and rising suicidality lies a deeper truth: a handful of powerful financial actors have seized control of the behavioral health system. Private equity firms, vertically integrated insurance giants, and unchecked digital platforms have transformed care into a commodity, one designed not to heal, but to extract profit.
Corporations, their executives, and shareholders are getting rich while patients are denied care and independent providers are pushed out. These are not bureaucratic glitches, they are systemic, sanctioned acts of harm designed to protect profit.
The Mental Health Professionals Equity Alliance exists to name these forces and dismantle them. We advocate for structural reforms that restore clinical integrity, ethical care, fair reimbursement for providers, and public oversight in a system currently governed by greed.
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