Hello everyone,

Welcome to my guide to the behavioral health space with The Takeoff. Please browse the different pages below, my brief personal intro, and other resources for the full experience. For those looking for a brief summary here are some key takeaways.

  1. Mental health is becoming de-stigmatized which is leading to higher demand. We need executives and celebrities to open up about their own struggles. Read more in the Solutions page.
  2. There is a supply-demand imbalance where demand outruns the supply of therapists. This is especially true in rural areas and can be solved by virtual care, AI, and coaching. Read more here: Challenges.
  3. There are no universal/productive means of outcome measurement in behavioral health. How do payers and providers work together to solve this problem?
  4. Providers are increasingly selling to employers as a go-to-market. Read more here: Therapy/Psychiatry .
  5. The Psychedelic industry is moving fast with lots of funding and promising research. Read more here: Psychedelics.
  6. There are three Ps to having a successful therapeutic recovery from Dr. Tom Insel: people, place, and purpose.
  7. COVID has decreased a lot of the regulations around Telehealth, but will this stay?
  8. As more people become aware of their mental health, more companies surrounding mild/moderate cases of mental illness and prevention will become important.

To sum this up with some of my own thoughts, everyone has mental health. Everyone has the choice to nurture it or ignore it. Every solution we can achieve in life depends on our mental health. Whether it's climate change, equity, or clean water, the solutions to all of these problems come from each individual's ability to satisfy themselves inward in order to help the world around them.

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Background

Companies

Challenges

Solutions

About me/others

I'm Lukas Steinbock, a senior at Washington University in St. Louis, and welcome to my guide to behavioral health. As a co-founder of The Takeoff, I have focused my interests on behavioral health, interviewing guests like Russell Glass, CEO of Ginger, and Samir Malik, Co-Founder of 1DocWay. The more I learned, the more eager I became to learn more, leading me to an internship at BlueSprig, a KKR funded ABA provider, where I am producing a podcast for them called ABA Unfiltered.

Along with the people mentioned in the thank you section below, I want to give a special thank you to Michael Spiro, Payal Parikh, and Sarah Du for being first readers! Also, a special thank you to my amazing mother, Margaret Riegel, for making the beautiful market map below.

All photos by me (see more at @wildinnature on Instagram and @shotsbybock on Twitter).