I watched someone I love almost die because there was nowhere for them to go between a weekly therapy appointment and a locked hospital unit. That gap shouldn't exist.
We don't compete with therapists. We compete with the emergency room. If we do our job, kids don't end up there.
Everyone talks about the mental health crisis. Very few people are building clinical infrastructure to actually treat it at the severity level where people are dying.
Insurance-based care is harder to build than cash-pay. But cash-pay means only rich kids get help, and I wasn't willing to build that company.
Group therapy gets a bad reputation because people picture sitting in a circle sharing feelings. What we do is structured, evidence-based, and clinically intensive. It works because the peer connection is part of the treatment.
I was 22 when I started this. People told me I was too young to build a healthcare company. But the kids we treat are 15, 16, 17. They couldn't wait for me to get older.