Headspace Health ’s Leslie Witt on the future of mental health: Meditation, text-based coaching, teletherapy, telepsychiatry, and community

Q&A: How Headspace Health’s acquisitions alter its mental health product (MobiHealthNews): Headspace Health has revealed two acquisitions this year, the latest coming earlier this month when the digital mental health company announced the purchase of mental wellness app Shine. In a crowded field of mental health startups, the company is using acquisitions to augment its product and add new capabilities … Headspace Health also scooped up Sayana, maker of AI-enabled mental health-tracking and sleep apps. And Headspace itself is the result of a merger between meditation app Headspace and virtual mental healthcare company Ginger, which closed nearly a year ago. MobiHealthNews: You’ve been at Headspace for about two years, not too long before the merger with Ginger. How has the experience changed from the product point of view? Leslie Witt, Headspace Health’s chief product and design officer: … I fundamentally believe in the power of mindfulness and meditation tools, but they can’t serve all mental health needs. And particularly when someone’s in a state of acute anxiety, acute depression, they need access to professional, human services. For Headspace, it led to a direct realization that we had no viable and fast paths forward without merging, and Ginger was the perfect partner to pair with. We’ve been working across that landscape of services for the last year to ensure that we truly can open the front door to care for all. That we can learn who you are, what...
Source: SharpBrains - Category: Neuroscience Authors: Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation acute anxiety acute depression digital mental health Ginger Headspace Headspace Health meditation app Sayana Shine Source Type: blogs