About
A clinical psychologist who ended up building data systems
Eunoia Catalyst is led by Kristopher Ian Stevens, PhD — a licensed clinical psychologist who spent his career inside community behavioral health, eventually leading data analytics and innovation for one of California's largest community-based behavioral health organizations.
How this work started
The clinical training came first — years of direct work with people, and a firsthand understanding of what community mental health and social service organizations are actually up against. The data work grew out of frustration: watching organizations doing genuinely important work struggle to prove it, not because the impact wasn't real, but because the infrastructure to demonstrate it wasn't there.
That led to building population health analytics pipelines, program evaluation systems, and AI-assisted infrastructure from the ground up inside a large CBBHO — work spanning everything from community needs assessments to natural language processing of clinical records to competitive and market analysis supporting new program development.
Eunoia Catalyst exists to bring that same capability to organizations that would otherwise never have access to it — smaller nonprofits, community-based organizations, and mission-driven groups across sectors who are long on impact and short on the infrastructure to prove it.
Background
- PhD, Clinical Psychology — licensed clinical psychologist
- Years of experience leading data analytics and innovation inside a large California community-based behavioral health organization
- Deep background in population health methodology, program evaluation, and applied statistics
- Hands-on experience building AI-assisted data infrastructure, from clinical NLP pipelines to organizational analytics tools
- Direct experience with the funding, reporting, and evaluation demands nonprofits face from government and foundation funders
Approach
A few things this work is built on
Right-sized, not one-size-fits-all
A ten-person nonprofit and a hundred-person one need different tools. The goal is always the smallest system that genuinely holds up — not the most impressive one.
Built to be kept
Every engagement is designed so your team can maintain what's built after the work is done. Capability that leaves when the consultant does isn't capability.
Rigor in service of mission
The clinical training isn't incidental — it means treating data about people and communities with the same care and precision a clinician brings to a case.
Let's talk about what your organization is working with.
A first conversation is free, unhurried, and focused on your situation — not a sales pitch.