Expensive Little Otter Household,
Thanks for being a part of the Little Otter neighborhood. Your belief in us to care to your little ones and your loved ones means every thing. On World Psychological Well being Day, a day that brings consideration to the psychological well being challenges folks face worldwide, I need to speak about one thing that’s near my coronary heart and central to our mission: Little Otter’s complete household strategy to psychological well being care.
As a physician, mom, and entrepreneur, I’ve spent my life working to know the psychological well being wants of younger youngsters and their households. We all know that far too many youngsters and households are struggling with out the help they want. 50% of teenagers and solely 10% of youthful youngsters get the psychological well being care that they want. Even fewer get top quality care. At Little Otter, we all know that the kid psychological well being disaster shouldn’t be solely about youngsters but additionally concerning the households they dwell in.
Because the little one psychological well being disaster has worsened, the grownup psychological well being disaster has worsened. Father or mother psychological well being impacts youngsters’s psychological well being, simply as little one psychological well being impacts dad or mum psychological well being. Unmet psychological well being wants of each youngsters and oldsters result in stress, battle, and strained relationships inside the household. Focusing solely on assembly the psychological well being wants of a kid is not sufficient. For youngsters to thrive, we should deal with the psychological well being wants of fogeys and help wholesome relationships inside the household.
This appears actually fairly intuitive, doesn’t it? To care for teenagers, we’d like to verify their caregivers are okay. To care for teenagers, we have to put money into bettering the setting they’re rising up in–their household ecosystem. That is why we constructed Little Otter—to create a psychological well being platform that thinks holistically about youngsters and households so that each little one and each household has the possibility to thrive with the proper care.
Little Otter displays our household’s personal psychological well being journey. I based Little Otter with my daughter Rebecca Egger who’s CEO of Little Otter. We are saying: Little Otter is made for households, by a household. I’m the mom of 4 youngsters (together with twins). As a mom I’ve navigated getting every of my youngsters the psychological well being care that they’ve wanted. At the same time as a baby psychiatrist, I’ve had issue navigating the medical system to get them the proper care.
I’m additionally the mom of a kid with a uncommon mind sickness referred to as autoimmune encephalitis–a inflammatory mind sickness that presents with psychiatric signs. I’ve been capable of get my son the care he wants for the final decade as a result of I’m a physician. Nevertheless, I’ve additionally skilled firsthand how dad and mom are sometimes dismissed or blamed by suppliers, notably when there are not any simple solutions or therapies. Rebecca, as an older sister, skilled along with her two little brothers how the entire household is impacted when a baby within the household has critical psychological well being or bodily sicknesses.
Little Otter is the expertise we want existed for our household and for all households. Grounded in science and finest scientific follow, Little Otter offers psychological well being care for kids and the adults who take care of them. This implies treating the kid, but additionally addressing the psychological well being of fogeys and the dynamics of assorted household relationships, together with parent-partner, parent-child, co-parent, and sibling relationships. By offering digital psychological well being providers, we carry the most effective clinicians into your private home, making care accessible and handy for households in every single place.
Inherent in our whole-family mannequin is the understanding that folks and households are advanced. At Little Otter we perceive this complexity and embrace it. Our objective is to help your loved ones in navigating not solely psychological well being crises but additionally the on a regular basis emotional ups and downs of childhood and parenting. With our group of specialists, we’re right here to information and empower you each step of the way in which. We’re your companions in care.
On this World Psychological Well being Day, let’s do not forget that psychological well being doesn’t wait. On daily basis is a chance to test in, attain out, and search help for ourselves and our family members. The sooner we act, the extra we will make a distinction. Little Otter is right here for you and your loved ones—each second, each problem, each triumph.
Thanks for becoming a member of us on this essential work and for serving to us pave a brand new means ahead for kids’s psychological well being.
Warmly,
Dr. Helen Egger, Co-Founder
Little Otter
