TheraMatch

BACKGROUND

1 in 5 people experience a mental illness in a given year, and that not being able to find a suitable therapist can be an incredibly draining and damaging process.

After researching the process and interviewing classmates, we found that many students have to recount all of their experiences each time they see a new therapist and are often unsatisfied with the treatment from therapists due to a misalignment of specialization or personality. We identified that the process of finding a mental health provider can be both complicated and costly for the average individual, where finding a suitable professional might take months of research, cold calling, and switching therapists.

We decided to build a web app TheraMatch, a personalized matching platform that can virtually connect patients to therapists who are best suited for treating them. TheraMatch addresses the difficult process of finding therapists by incorporating personal user preferences and feedback to smartly adjust the algorithms and update the matches.

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TIMELINE

24 hours, Winter 2020

ROLE

Product & Web Designer

PROJECT TYPE

HackDuke 2020: Wolfram Award

TEAM

Erik (User researcher)

Haoyang (Back-end developer)

Sanna (Front-end developer)

Wallace (Back-end developer)