<story><title>Kip (YC W16) is using data to make therapy better for patients and therapists</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/19/kip-therapy-app/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a bit troubled by this phrase in the article: &lt;i&gt;As someone who is seeking to overcome a certain amount of anxiety and depression — and really, what human isn’t dealing with some amount of anxiety or depression?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This makes it sound more like life coaching or therapy for episodic mental health problems than for people who deal with chronic mental illness. It&amp;#x27;s hard to tell how much of this is the article author&amp;#x27;s voice and how much of it stems from the way the service is structured and marketed.&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t necessarily bad - people suffering minor or acute depression need help too and if this improves their outcomes at lower cost then that&amp;#x27;s a wonderful thing. But since it is profit-driven, there&amp;#x27;s a natural economic incentive to orient it around the needs of the easiest customers to deal with, rather than the ones with the most severe problems, for whom outcomes are much harder to optimize: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC4219058&amp;#x2F;#__sec2title&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC4219058&amp;#x2F;#__sec2...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Kip (YC W16) is using data to make therapy better for patients and therapists</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/19/kip-therapy-app/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anandkulkarni</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve referred a few folks to Kip who were looking for a therapist after struggling to find one elsewhere (in one case, I downloaded the app on their phone and just sent the person to the first meeting). So far, they&amp;#x27;re reporting positive things about the app and the experience.&lt;p&gt;One of the interesting things that Kip solves is discovery: it seems like they have a roster of prequalified therapists who follow evidence-based strategies. That&amp;#x27;s pretty interesting – the basic process of finding a qualified therapist who&amp;#x27;s a good fit via the usual methods (Google, asking people) isn&amp;#x27;t easy.</text></comment>