Mental Health Is Broken

Right now, therapy is where you go to see someone and talk for an hour a week. Therapy is what happens when the therapist has time to fit the patient in. Therapy is based on the idea that someone who is in distress should be able to do something they can’t do.

In ten years from now, people who need help won’t have to reach out to a therapist. The system will reach out to them.

That system is already being developed. It's called Uprise, and it works like so:

• Uprise goes into large, corporate companies and gives people a mental health checkup just like we get a physical checkup.
• After the checkup is conducted, those experiencing high levels of depression, stress, and/or anxiety are offered online treatment, in the form of the Uprise program.
• Some people need more than an online program, and for those, we pair them up with a clinical phone coach that delivers sessions of psychological intervention every week.
• Uprise can treat millions of people, at scale, using these three methods. But, for those the Uprise program can't reach, we conduct face-to-face therapy.

Uprise is already trusted by employees at Australia's largest companies, like Lend Lease, and the results for patients are life-changing:

“I know we have an EAP but I was too anxious to reach out, for fear of annoying them with ‘insignificant issues’. But, I was totally comfortable speaking to [the Uprise coach] because she reached out to me first, not the other way around.”

Our Values

• Uprise's core values are of acceptance, understanding, and transparency
• As a startup, we provide new employees with the space to learn and grow, just as we do
• We measure our success by the number of lives we positively impact, not by sales/revenue growth
• Being at the forefront of mental health technology, we value speed and ingenuity when tackling new ideas and problems