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A reviewer shares their experience using Headspace's new therapy service, highlighting its personalized approach, integration with mindfulness tools, and suitability for those seeking gentle, mindfulness-based therapy, while noting some limitations like lack of messaging and tracking features.
Marble, a startup founded by former Headway co-founders and backed by Khosla Ventures, offers affordable online group therapy for teens to address the rising mental health crisis. The company partners with school counselors and works with insurance, including Medicaid, to provide accessible mental health care. Marble aims to solve logistical challenges of group therapy and plans to expand its services beyond New York.
The booming business of American anxiety is evident in the wide range of products and services available to help alleviate stress. From supplements and vibrating devices to online talk therapy apps, individuals are seeking various methods to find relief and manage their anxiety.
Online therapy apps, including BetterHelp, Talkspace, and Cerebral, have been caught engaging in creepy and harmful data-sharing practices that treat people in need of help as prospective sources of profit instead of as patients. The mushrooming tech-based mental-health industry has a dark side, with reports revealing a dangerous cocktail of tech solutionism, abuse of consumer trust, and regulatory failure that puts highly vulnerable people at risk. Despite being touted as the fix for the broken healthcare system, the industry's "move fast and break things" mindset is pushing them to chase growth and replicate the worst excesses of their Silicon Valley predecessors.