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Peer-reviewed study: Telehealth is key to improving access to mental health care, but still missing certain patients

Across 28.8 million visits from 2023 to 2025, patients in rural areas, young children, and people in some of the states with the fewest clinicians used telehealth the least.

Dr. Nicole Benson · Oct 16, 2026

Access is improving. The harder question is whether care is working.

Mental health spent a decade solving for access to care. The next chapter has to be about whether the care people get actually helps them, and about proving it.

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Jennifer Christian-Herman · Sep 17, 2026

Nearly 1 in 5 people seeking mental health care report thoughts of suicide

Across 189,225 intake appointments in all 50 states, 18.6% of patients, and nearly one-third of adolescents, reported suicidal thoughts before treatment began. Headway’s new peer-reviewed study in JMIR Mental Health is the clearest national picture to-date.

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Dr. Nicole Benson · Aug 20, 2026

A year of building the EHR mental health clinicians actually wanted

When we expanded our EHR last September, we made a promise: keep building until the everyday work of running a practice gets easier so clinicians can spend less time on admin and more time with their patients.

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Dr. Nicole Benson · Aug 12, 2026

Headway expands its free, insurance-native EHR

Today, Headway is announcing the expansion of our Electronic Health Record (EHR) system: a now AI-assisted platform built specifically to empower mental health providers who accept insurance.

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Headway · Sep 9, 2025

The patient perspective: insights into the future of care

Mental health care is changing lives for the better — with 86% of American patients currently in therapy confirming that it has improved their quality of life.

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Headway · Dec 10, 2024

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