Digital teletherapy firm Talkspace is teaming up with on-line digital security platform Bark Applied sciences to supply Talkspace’s psychological well being providing freed from cost to Bark telephone and Bark app customers.
Bark’s content material monitoring platform goals to assist households acknowledge potential risks in youngsters’s on-line actions. It offers psychological well being assist by connecting youngsters with therapists through dwell periods or messaging. It additionally offers assets and instruments to youngsters 13 and older to assist them navigate emotional challenges.
Finish customers can register with their electronic mail handle and use Talkspace Go, a library of teen-appropriate self-guided workouts, content material and movies designed by licensed therapists.
Some insurance policy cowl the dwell video periods and require parental consent in some states.
Bark merchandise embody Bark Watch, which screens texts, tracks location and manages contacts on a smartwatch; the Bark Telephone, a customizable “child’s telephone” with textual content and social media monitoring built-in; the Bark app, which scans a baby’s on-line actions and sends well timed alerts and tracks location and blocks web sites; and Bark House, an web filter that manages display time and filters web sites on all internet-connected gadgets.
Brian Bason, Bark’s CEO, stated that his firm understands the complicated ecosystem teenagers dwell in at present and that Talkspace therapists have direct insights into the day-to-day challenges teenagers face.
“By partnering with Talkspace we now have a trusted useful resource for teenagers and their dad and mom or guardians ought to they need skilled assist and it may possibly all happen proper on their Bark system,” Bason stated in a press release.
THE LARGER TREND
In 2024, Talkspace entered right into a strategic partnership with Wisdo Well being, a social well being and peer-support platform centered on combating loneliness.
The collaboration aimed to extend entry to psychological well being assets for folks 65 and older whereas reducing healthcare prices, boosting member engagement and addressing the escalating psychological well being disaster that’s pervasive amongst older adults.
That very same yr, Talkspace partnered with Amazon Well being Companies to assist the tech large’s prospects verify their eligibility for and enroll in Talkspace’s psychological well being providers.
When Amazon prospects seek for phrases equivalent to “household remedy,” “sleep assist” or “stress aid” on Amazon.com, they’re given details about remedy and psychiatric providers that may help with some of these points and verify their employer or well being plan advantages to find out if they’ve entry to those providers.
Talkspace additionally partnered with the Skilled Tennis Gamers Affiliation (PTPA) because the participant advocates group’s unique psychological well being expertise companion to offer gamers, their households and assist groups free, 24/7 entry to Talkspace’s self-guided remedy app, Talkspace Go and its digital remedy providing at a reduction.
Different firms concerned within the psychological well being area for teenagers embody The Little one Thoughts Institute, a youngsters’s psychological well being useful resource that partnered with the California Division of Healthcare Companies earlier this month to launch Mirror, an intuitive psychological well being journaling app for teenagers.
The Mirror app permits customers to self-express and perceive patterns of their psychological well being by way of each day temper monitoring, guided prompts and voice, picture, textual content or video entries.
Final week, Woebot Well being, maker of an AI-powered teen-focused psychological well being chatbot, emailed customers to tell them that it was retiring its app as of June 30.
Woebot’s nonprescription digital psychological well being device contains content material particular to teenagers, together with media literacy, bullying at school settings, and physique picture and psychoeducation.
In 2022, Woebot raised $9.5 million from Leaps by Bayer. The strategic funding got here nearly eight months after the corporate introduced it raised $90 million in Sequence C funding.
In 2021, Woebot acquired FDA Breakthrough System Designation for its digital therapeutic treating postpartum despair.
