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# mental-health9 quotes

MENTAL-HEALTH

Sixty percent of therapists don't accept insurance. Not because they don't want to help — because the paperwork makes them want to quit. We eliminated the paperwork.

mental-healthinsuranceAndrew Adams, Headway CEO, interview 2023

We've facilitated over 10 million therapy sessions. That's 10 million times someone got help they might not have gotten otherwise.

impactmental-healthHeadway milestone announcement, 2024

The mental health crisis isn't a supply problem — there are plenty of therapists. It's an access problem. Insurance is the bottleneck and we're opening it.

mental-healthaccessAndrew Adams, a16z podcast 2023

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.

mental-healthfounding-storyCarter Barnhart, Forbes 30 Under 30 interview, 2023

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.

mental-healthhealthcareCarter Barnhart, General Catalyst Summit, 2023

The mental health crisis isn't a supply problem. There are enough therapists. It's an infrastructure problem. The plumbing between therapists and insurance is broken.

mental-healthinfrastructureJake Cooper, Sequoia Capital podcast, 2022

The average Employee Assistance Program has a 5% utilization rate. That's not a benefit. That's a checkbox on an HR form that no one checks.

mental-healthemployer-benefitsDavid Ebersman, HLTH conference, 2021

The stigma conversation is important but it's a distraction from the access conversation. Even when people want help, they can't find a good therapist who takes their insurance within 30 miles.

accessmental-healthDavid Ebersman, Wall Street Journal Health Forum, 2023

The mental health system treats everyone the same way: try something, wait six weeks, and if it doesn't work, try something else. We use data to skip the guessing.

precision-medicinemental-healthApril Koh, TechCrunch Disrupt, 2021