Inside the Minds of Startup Behavioral & Mental Health CEO & Founders

• •ensuring early intervention for mental health symptoms
• •maintaining non-negotiable quality standards despite rapid growthNew
• •facilitating connections and sharing best practices
• •making good and doing good in her professional life
• •educating organizations on the value of long-term sud management

+10 more PRO

• •parents' stigma and skepticism towards virtual care for children
• •self-hatred and shame among individuals with self-injuryNew
• •audience needing to learn from partnerships' successes and failures
• •complicated nature of healthcare operations for end customers
• •mental health crisis causing 'deaths of despair' (depression, alcohol use disorder, overdoses)

+10 more PRO

• •building a 'special' team and company
• •reaching and engaging members who historically were not getting access
• •operating in four states
• •able to keep their jobs and get their lives back
• •less anxiety and depression (downstream effect)

+10 more PRO

• •anchoring in the 'why': begin m&a considerations by defining why growth aligns with mission and vision
• •balancing provider and payer needs - creating value propositions that appeal to both therapists and insurance companies
• •addressing the 'infrastructure problem' - focusing on the root cause of systemic issues rather than surface-level symptoms
• •identity separation - examine if resistance to change is tied to fixed identity or story that can be rewritten
• •community-driven identification: empower patients to understand what they're going through using content

+10 more PRO

• •organizations paying patients to be in treatment centers
• •letting traumatic experiences 'get the best of me'
• •trading quality for market share or margins in insurance-based modelNew
• •organizations that don't allow self-advocacyNew
• •inability to access providers in middle of night or weekendsNew

+10 more PRO