Can Therapy Apps Live up to the Hype?
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🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 1:00.5 | From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Ariana Prail. |
| 1:05.5 | Therapists have been in high demand during the pandemic, but with no licensed psychologists in 33% of counties nationwide, the demands can be bigger than the supply. |
| 1:12.0 | That has set the stage for growing interest in services offering mental health care on a smartphone. Startups offering |
| 1:17.2 | digital behavioral health care were able to raise $1.8 billion in funding in 2020, compared |
| 1:22.9 | to $609 million the year before. We'll learn more about the landscape of therapy apps in 2021 and |
| 1:29.1 | whether they can live up to the hype. That's next on Forum right after this news. |
| 1:51.8 | Welcome to Forum. I'm Ariana Prail. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, nearly one in five adults in the U.S. live with a mental illness. That's 51.5 million people |
| 1:57.4 | based on data in 2019. Today, the Therapy App Talk Space puts that number at over |
| 2:02.2 | 70 million. Since the pandemic began, people experiencing depression and anxiety has surged. It's |
| 2:08.8 | still hard to find a therapist for those who want one. And, like most things, in today's digital |
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