BetterHelp
Sign in to saveAlso known as Better Help, BetterHelp.com
BetterHelp is a mental health platform that provides direct online counseling and therapy services via web or phone text communication. BetterHelp was founded in 2013 by Alon Matas and Danny Bragonier, and acquired by Teladoc in 2015, maintaining its service and brand name post-acquisition.
~6 min read
Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Background
- Services
- History
- FTC settlement regarding customer data
- Reception
- See also
- References
BetterHelp is a mental health platform that provides direct online counseling and therapy services via web or phone text communication. BetterHelp was founded in 2013 by Alon Matas and Danny Bragonier, and acquired by Teladoc in 2015, maintaining its service and brand name post-acquisition.
In 2023, BetterHelp agreed to pay $7.8 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it shared customers' sensitive mental health data with Facebook, Snapchat, and other companies for advertising purposes despite promising to keep such information private.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “BetterHelp” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.