We arent going to ask you a ton of questions, says Talkspace co-founder Oren Frank, an assertive, good-natured Israeli who used to be the global chief creative officer at marketing agency MRM Worldwide. We want to get you to talk to the therapist as quickly as possible. Thats why the company doesnt ask potential users to fill out lengthy questionnaires about their mental health history before giving them access to a private therapy room — a Whatsapp-like encrypted platform that only a user and their therapist can enter. Its crazy that some people dont have access to therapy today, says Frank, who founded the company with his wife, Roni Frank, in 2012. Some users suffer from self-harm — cutting — so they can write to our therapist and say, ‘I have an urge to cut myself now, what should I do?, says Roni Frank, a former computer scientist turned therapist.
Textual healing: are apps the future of therapy?
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