Psychological well being firm Two Chairs introduced Tuesday that it’s launching two new options for sufferers: group remedy and care navigation.
San Francisco-based Two Chairs was based in 2017 and provides in-person, digital and hybrid psychotherapy providers to adults in California, Florida and Washington. It makes use of evidence-based practices like acceptance and dedication remedy, cognitive behavioral remedy, dialectical conduct remedy, mindfulness and constructive psychology. It’s in-network with Aetna and Kaiser Permanente, but additionally has an out-of-network possibility at $218 per session.
Via the group remedy providing, sufferers would begin with an identical appointment with a seek the advice of clinician, like they’d for particular person remedy. The seek the advice of clinician takes into consideration sufferers’ targets, preferences, medical historical past, previous remedy and different elements. Then, based mostly on this analysis, the clinician could advocate group remedy, although the affected person may nonetheless go for particular person remedy. If the affected person chooses group remedy, then they are going to be put into a gaggle for about 12 classes, with all members of the group beginning on the similar time.
Group remedy is efficacious because it eases the burden on therapists contemplating the U.S. is battling a significant supplier scarcity, stated Alex Katz, founder and CEO of Two Chairs.
“In a single session, a therapist can work with a number of sufferers concurrently, permitting our therapists to see extra sufferers over time,” Katz stated in an e mail.
There are positives for sufferers as effectively.
“Sufferers can even profit from the sense of group and interactive nature of group remedy,” he added. “They’ll be taught from every others’ experiences. They’ll set up a way of normalization of what they’re going by means of personally. They’ll be taught some primary expertise collectively in a bigger group setting. They really feel much less alone.”
Via the brand new care navigation answer, the corporate’s care navigators can refer sufferers out to different suppliers inside their insurance coverage community. For instance, if a affected person is battling habit, they may very well be referred to an intensive outpatient or inpatient program. If a affected person is battling a power situation like an consuming dysfunction or a musculoskeletal situation, they are often referred to a major care supplier.
The care navigation assist helps sufferers get the care they want whereas additionally decreasing the burden on psychological well being clinicians, Katz stated.
“These streamlined and supportive care referrals assist ship the best care sooner and with much less frustration, stopping sufferers from pausing or abandoning remedy — an important determinant in well being outcomes,” he declared. “Conversely, psychological well being clinicians can even battle with the time pressures of referring sufferers to trusted care suppliers, which provides administrative, course of and analysis work to their every day caseload and cuts into time reserved for affected person classes and remedy.”
Different psychological well being firms embrace Alma and BetterHelp. Nonetheless, Two Chairs differs from Alma as a result of its clinicians are full-time workers of the corporate, whereas Alma connects sufferers with particular person suppliers. BetterHelp, in the meantime, doesn’t settle for insurance coverage like Two Chairs does and solely provides digital choices whereas Two Chairs offers in-person assist along with digital assist. BetterHelp provides group remedy, whereas Alma doesn’t. Neither firm advertises having a care navigation answer, based on the businesses’ web sites.
With the group remedy and care navigation choices, Two Chairs hopes to enhance psychological well being care and serve extra sufferers, Katz stated.
“Each of those options have been launched with the big-picture objective of bettering entry to distinctive psychological well being care and offering higher scientific outcomes for sufferers,” he acknowledged.
Image: Benjavisa, Getty Pictures
