Is a Therapy App Ever as Good as the Real Thing?

Programs that allow you to text or video chat your therapist are more popular than ever. Here’s how to decide if one of them is right for your mental health needs.

Jess McHugh
Elemental
Published in
6 min readMay 3, 2019

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OfOf the tens of millions of Americans who suffer from a diagnosable mental health problem each year, only half

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Jess McHugh
Elemental

A journalist living between Brooklyn and Paris, she writes about women, history, and culture. @nytimes @wsj @time