Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent federal and state policy shifts impacting behavioral health care delivery, the use of telebehavioral health has rapidly increased. This growth appears to be here to stay and research must be conducted on what this means for the field.

This article describes behavioral health provider perspectives on the use of telebehavioral health before and during the pandemic, as well as how policy changes impacted access to and utilization of behavioral health services in Michigan.