The Spooky, Loosely Regulated World of Online Therapy

Of all the information the average internet user shares with the technology companies that dominate their lives, health data—and especially mental health data–is some of the most valuable, and controversial: Though social media conditions a person to share every aspect of their being, at every moment, a company automatically telling Snapchat and Pi... See more

Better Help’s users skew young and female, and it’s been downloaded nearly a half a million times in the last year, according to a mobile analytics and intelligence firm called Appfigures. Essentially, the company operates as a conduit between people looking for therapy and counselors working on a contract basis. It also operates a somewhat bafflin... See more