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Therapy on the go: Mildly depressed or simply stressed, people are tapping apps for mental health care

  • Written by Lauri Goldkind, Associate Professor of Social Work, Fordham University
imageMore and more people are experimenting with mental health apps and discovering their benefits and limits.d3sign/Moment via Getty Images

It might be surprising to think about browsing for therapists and ordering up mental health care the way you can peruse a menu on Grubhub or summon a car on Lyft.

But over the last decade, digital access to therapy...

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