Grow Therapy

One week, two milestones that say a lot about where Grow Therapy is headed. On Monday, we launched our first brand campaign called Key Change, built around the small, everyday moments when something from therapy clicks and change begins to show up. And today, Grow was named #11 on Fortune's list of the 100 Best Medium Workplaces for 2026. This is a recognition of the people and culture behind the Grow brand, and so much incredible work happening across the company. https://lnkd.in/gUCBcchN To me, these moments are deeply connected. Both reflect the ambition, rigor, and empathy this team brings to our mission of getting everyone access to mental health care that works. My time at Grow has been among the most meaningful of my career. For people who want to do exceptional work in service of something that truly matters, Grow is a remarkable place to do both. Join us. My team and others are growing: https://lnkd.in/gYtQ6vzf

The hardest part of choosing your architecture isn’t finding the right pattern: it’s knowing where to draw the lines.  When we built Coach, our AI tool for mental health, we knew that it would need to do many jobs with different requirements around reliability, timing, and control. So instead of retrofitting one architecture to handle everything, we matched each job to the component it actually needed. Read our latest engineering blog post to learn more about what we built, what we got wrong, and what we'd do again. https://lnkd.in/g7_2J4Bk

The hardest part of choosing your architecture isn’t finding the right pattern: it’s knowing where to draw the lines.  When we built coach, our AI tool for mental health, we knew that it would need to do many jobs with different requirements around reliability, timing, and control. So instead of retrofitting one architecture to handle everything, we matched each job to the component it actually needed. Read our latest engineering blog post to learn more about what we built, what we got wrong, and what we'd do again. https://lnkd.in/g7_2J4Bk

Brock Kirby and I had the chance to talk with Tim Nudd at Ad Age about Key Change, the first brand campaign from Grow Therapy. The campaign is built around “glimmers,” the small, everyday moments when something from therapy clicks and personal growth appears. We’re used to seeing progress in mental health portrayed as big breakthroughs during times of crisis. More often, it happens through hundreds of subtle shifts that build on each other over time. Each film brings one of those moments to life through an inner monologue set to an original song, all centered on one simple recollection: “I just remembered what my therapist said.” I’ve been fortunate to work with exceptionally talented people throughout my career. The team behind Key Change is among the very best. Katie Fahrenthold O'Keefe, Theo Soares, Bill Antonucci, Kendra Prasad, Mark Longacre, Danielle Pak, Carol Chan, Brock Kirby, Jeff Dryer, Mollie B. Partesotti, Scott Sullivan, Amy Berriochoa, John Hillcoat, Tracy Broaddus, and so many others. Thank you for bringing extraordinary care, craft, and ambition to this work. And of course, thank you to Jake Cooper, Alan Ni, and Manoj Kanagaraj, MD for building a company that continues to make such a meaningful impact. Tim’s article: https://lnkd.in/gFbhkcUc YouTube links to all the films are in the comments.

📍91% of parents think their teenager’s mental health is good or excellent. Only 54% of teens agree. That’s not a small gap. It’s two different realities under the same roof. Grow Therapy surveyed 500 parents and 525 teens this summer. 59% of young people said they keep it to themselves when something is wrong. Only 24% of parents thought they did. And the teens struggling most were the least likely to say they’d turn to a parent. All of this is happening at a moment when adolescence itself is changing fast. AI, social media and technology are reshaping how young people spend their time, form relationships, understand themselves and move through the world. There is no way for a parent to fully know that world. What matters is how you show up in the unknown. That’s part of why I helped develop Compass Parenting with Grow Therapy. The practice has a GPS: 🧭 G: Get curious. Ask before assuming. 🧭 P: Partner, don’t police. Build boundaries together. 🧭 S: Seek to understand. Listen for what’s underneath. https://lnkd.in/gqDAtYkV #CompassParenting #MentalHealth #YouthMentalHealth #MentalHealthIsHealth

As a healthcare platform, we have access to a lot of sensitive data. Keeping it secure requires continuous, proactive coverage, and with AI, this process becomes a lot more scalable. Introducing our AI threat hunter, an internal tool that runs a suite of automated threat hunts every day across our key systems (from CrowdStrike to Slack)-- for just $500 a month. Over time, it's proven to be a critical tool in our security toolkit. In our latest engineering post, we dive into how we built it and lessons for other teams. Read the full breakdown: https://lnkd.in/enCerHCz

The fastest-growing reasons people seek therapy are changing, and that has real implications for how you position your practice. Download our Top of Mind report to see what's driving demand right now and where the biggest opportunities are. https://lnkd.in/gBxY6dKe

Proud of this one. Grow Therapy was named by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Startup Workplaces 2026, and I couldn’t be more grateful to be on this journey with this team. Every day I get to work alongside people who care deeply, push each other, and never lose sight of who we’re building for. That combination of ambition and care is pretty special, and it’s what makes Grow the place it is. This recognition belongs to all of you. There's a lot left to build. Join us and take a crack at it — we're hiring. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gs7xww3c

15 million hours of therapy sessions can teach you a lot. Today, we're proud to launch Top of Mind, Grow Therapy's first annual Mental Health Intelligence Report. Built from insights across more than 15 million hours of therapy sessions on the Grow platform and a nationally representative survey of more than 1,000 people, the report explores how Americans are experiencing mental health today—from what's bringing them to therapy to the ways care is evolving. Explore the report: https://lnkd.in/gxmDzpDa

Expanding access to therapy is a mission shared across all of Grow Therapy. The work shows up across the organization- from partnering with the right providers to ensuring that our products are usable by people of all backgrounds and abilities. Our Frontend Foundations team leads the platform-level work by building accessibility into our component library, used across all our products. In our latest engineering blog post, the team shares their experience and philosophy around building accessible products, and where we're headed next: https://lnkd.in/gh25rewh