How I Built 6 Clinical Apps While Running a Full Caseload
— Written by Eric Richers
The Myth of the Side Hustle
I see clients 3 days a week. I still work shifts at the Lane County Jail — work I genuinely love and refuse to give up. And somehow, in the spaces between, I've shipped 6 clinical applications to the App Store and built a suite of free web-based therapy tools.
People assume I don't sleep. The truth is, I sleep fine. The secret isn't grinding harder — it's engineering your workflow so deeply that creation becomes frictionless.
The Apps
Toss It — A Digital Ritual for Letting Go
Born from a CBT exercise I use with clients. Write down a thought, crumple it up, throw it away.
Mutterly — Internal Family Systems Dialogue
IFS therapy involves talking to your "parts." Mutterly gives those parts a voice — literally.
iLovable — Daily Self-Affirmations That Don't Feel Cheesy
iLovable uses a relational psychology framework — affirmations are contextual, progressive, and tied to attachment theory.
The System Behind the Output
Every app started the same way: a clinical need I noticed in session. The entire pipeline from idea to App Store takes about 3-4 weeks.