According to WHO, in 2019, 1 in every 8 people, or 970 million people around the world were living with a mental disorder (anxiety and depressive disorders being the most common).

In 2020, the number of people living with anxiety and depressive disorders rose significantly because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Initial estimates show a 26% and 28% increase respectively for anxiety and major depressive disorders in just one year.

Although the conversation around anxiety and depression has started, it is still not enough. Mental health goes beyond anxiety and depression. Stigmatizing bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, eating disorders, disruptive behaviour and dissocial disorders, burnout and neurodevelopmental disorders, prevent those in need to seek support and help.

We gathered some of the most inspiring founders and leaders innovating in this space for our FemTech Untapped event “Mental Health - Beyond Anxiety and Depression”, but we recognize that there are so many more out there whom we couldn’t include in the event so we compiled a list of 20 companies innovating in this space. Check out the list below!

1. Prosoma

Prosoma is an interdisciplinary team of entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, and psychologists. They develop applications that provide cancer patients with comprehensive solutions fully tailored to their specific needs. They use the latest developments in AI and new opportunities offered by mobile technologies. Their first application, Living Well, was developed to help support the mental health of female cancer patients. It is here to see them through the difficult time post-diagnosis and fill the gap in the often failing system of mental health care. Prosoma aims to help patients manage their emotions, create healthy habits, and improve their overall recovery process.

2. Sesh

Sesh is a mental health platform for online support groups led by licensed therapists. They’re here to revolutionize and destigmatize mental health support by empowering connection and healing through community—virtually.

3. Clementine

Clementine is a mindset company. With a mission to help women overcome mental wellbeing struggles like stress, anxiety and poor sleep, and build up their self-belief by shifting mindsets from ‘I can’t’ to ‘I can’.

Clementine supports women by offering digital access to cognitive hypnotherapy; a type of therapy that can transform thoughts, feelings and behaviours by teaching the brain more positive thought patterns. Clementine makes cognitive hypnotherapy more accessible; with on-demand sessions available in the award-winning Clementine app, more affordable; with subscriptions at a fraction of the cost of a therapist appointment; and more relevant to women, by creating sessions that meet their needs. With anxiety at an all-time high, Clementine is a moment of calm in a women’s day. Their award-winning app, which was selected as one of the best apps in ‘Google's Best of 2021 Awards’ tackles, selected as App of the Day by Apple not once but twice - is the go-to app for busy women who are struggling with the demands of life-supporting areas like anxiety, stress, self-doubt, boundary setting and getting some much-needed sleep. The app offers a mix of proven science, wellness, and sweary reality and very much designs the therapy to fit into folks’ busy schedules vs having to find more time to fit in therapy.

4. Calm

Calm is a mental wellness brand with the #1 App for Sleep, Meditation and Relaxation™, designed to help you manage stress, sleep better and live a happier, healthier life. With hundreds of hours of original audio content available in seven languages, Calm supports users in more than 190 countries. As a corporate solution, the much-loved consumer app offers a 360-approach to mental fitness and resilience as an employee benefit, with Calm for Business.

5. Headspace

Headspace was created with one mission in mind: to improve the health and happiness of the world. Reaching more than 65 million users in 190 countries, Headspace was one of the first meditation apps in the world and remains a leader in mindfulness and mental training. Headspace is part of Headspace Health, the world’s most accessible, comprehensive provider of mental health and well-being care. Headspace Health also consists of Headspace for Work and Ginger, who partner with over 2,500 companies and health plans to provide access to meditation, mindfulness, coaching, therapy, and psychiatry to their members and employees. Headspace is committed to advancing the field of mindfulness through clinically-validated research, with one of the largest research pipelines of any digital health and wellness company.

6. Sanvello

Sanvello Health, Inc. is a leading digital mental health care provider and the company’s digital platform holds the #1 search position for stress and anxiety in app stores. Through partnerships with major insurance payers, employers, and higher education institutions, Sanvello offers covered management and treatment of stress, anxiety, and depression for over 37 million people. By innovating the mental health care experience and bringing together patients, providers, and payers, the Sanvello platform helps millions of people around the world find relief when they need it and feel happier over time.

7. Flow Neuroscience

Flow Neuroscience develops a new kind of depression treatment which combines an easy-to-use brain stimulation headset with an engaging, personalized mobile app to target both the physical and behavioural elements of major depressive disorder (MDD).

8. BetterHelp

BetterHelp is the world’s largest therapy service, facilitating over 5,000,000 video sessions, voice calls, chats, and messages every month. Since 2013, over 30,000 licensed, accredited, and board-certified therapists from BetterHelp’s network have helped more than 2,000,000 people face life’s challenges and improve their mental health.

9. Happify

Happify Health develops clinical-grade personalized digital therapeutics and care solutions for the modern healthcare cloud. They are pioneering a new era of care through Intelligent Healing that makes healthcare more precise, connected, and responsive for pharma, health plans, enterprises, and individuals everywhere.

10. eMoods

eMoods is a user-friendly app for patients to track symptom data relating to Bipolar I and II disorders, Depression, PTSD, and Anxiety Disorders. The app lets you easily chart your daily highs and lows, sleep, medications, and other symptoms related to Bipolar and other common mood disorders.

11. Shine

Shine is the mental wellness app on a mission to make caring for your mental and emotional health easier, more representative, and more inclusive.

12. Talk space

Talkspace is a digital behavioral technology healthcare company. Its signature psychotherapy product connects individual clients with a network of thousands of licensed therapists through an easy-to-use and HIPAA-compliant web and mobile platform. With Talkspace, clients can send their dedicated therapists text, video, and voice messages anytime, from anywhere, and engage in live video sessions. Talkspace also provides psychiatry services, including prescription fulfillment, adolescent therapy and couples counseling.

13. Recovery Record

Recovery Record is technology-enabled best practice for eating disorder treatment. The Recovery Record system has attracted over 10,000 eating disorder treatment professionals and one million people living with eating disorders.

14. NOCD

NOCD is the #1 telehealth provider for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD is one of the most severe, prevalent, and misunderstood mental health conditions. NOCD creates access to online therapy for people with OCD through our innovative telehealth platform. In the NOCD app, members can quickly access and schedule live, face-to-face video therapy sessions with our national network of licensed therapists that specialize in Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy (ERP) - considered the "gold standard" in OCD treatment. In between sessions, patients have access to 24/7 support through NOCD’s self-help tools and peer communities.

15. Thrive

Thrive is the leading mental healthcare service for organisations. Their Mental Wellbeing is an app designed to help employers and employees prevent and manage stress, anxiety, and related conditions. Developed in the UK by specialists with many years of clinical experience, the app uses easy-to-learn clinically proven techniques to help you live a happier, more relaxed, stress-free life. Their in-depth tools include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, deep muscle relaxation, and much more.

16. Wysa

Wysa is an AI-enabled Life Coach for mental and emotional wellness. Launched in 2017, the service provides early intervention to high-risk groups through 3 methods: an AI chatbot, a library of evidence-based self-help tools, and messaging-based support from human therapists. Anonymous, empathetic and available 24x7, Wysa covers 10 million lives, and has helped 3 million people in 60+ countries have 100+ million conversations.

17. Worry Tree

WorryTree’s mission is to help make a positive difference in people’s daily lives, providing a supportive, useful platform for people to manage their worries in a better way, transforming their thought habits for the benefit of their mental wellbeing.

18. Nourish

Nourish is a mental wellbeing toolkit and support team for busy mums. Nourish app is full of practical, bite-sized, multidisciplinary self-care tools all created by a team of wellbeing professionals who are also mothers.

19. Cove

With Cove you can capture your mood or express how you feel by making music and storing it in a personal journal. Cove has been designed as a tool for young people who have experienced bereavement or loss, but adults may find it equally useful to express and capture a mood or emotion. They’re using an evidence-based, human-centred design approach to build an app which encourages self-expression during difficult periods of life, which they believe can improve emotional and mental health over time.

20. Self Space

In a world which can sometimes be challenging, frightening, overwhelming, complex and seriously hard to navigate, it’s not surprising that sometimes we don't feel ok. Everyday mental maintenance is an essential part of surviving. Self Space offers an opportunity for a good conversation with a qualified person, the probability is you’ll leave feeling better than when you came in. They aren't just crisis management (although they do that too), they believe in talking about where you're at, where you’re going and where you’ve come from, so that you can reach your potential. They offer a range of session options including 1-1 therapy, couples therapy, student sessions, supervision, executive coaching and team dynamics sessions. For work with young people and families please visit www.carisscreative.co.uk.

Join us on 14 July to discuss mental health beyond anxiety and depression, and meet some of the most innovative companies in the space. Book your free ticket via the button below!

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Many thanks to our program partners FemTec Health and Goodwin, as well as webinar partner Prosoma for supporting this event and our femtech program! ❤️ Find out more about FemTech Untapped here.

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