Health Tech
2025
Cohort
Residency

Psyche Care

Psyche is a post-ER/inpatient single-point-of-access mental health care navigation for families with children with severe emotional complexities. We're reducing family stress by providing informed clinical/non-clinical care guidance.

Psyche Care is a digital mental health company focused on empowering caregivers with the skills to independently manage their child’s mental wellness at home. We offer family peer support via telehealth, telephone, and text to parents and legal guardians of youth ages 6 to 17 who face high-acuity mental health challenges to foster stronger relational health. Since 2024, we have raised our pre-seed round, completed paid pilots, and secured research partnerships/funding at Massachusetts General Hospital and UCSF.

Product Specs

1) Family peer training program 2) Telehealth platform for caregivers to be matched with a parent peer expert 3) Back-end automation to reduce administrative burden on parent peers — we’ve achieved a 9.7/10 for perceived usefulness, and in a pilot program, we achieved 0 returns to the emergency department for families across the cohort.

Website
https://www.psychecare.org
Location
Massachusetts
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Meet The Founder

Mallika Reddy Pajjuri

Mallika Pajjuri is the CEO and Co-Founder of Psyche Care, bridging lived experience and a cross-disciplinary background to bring family-centered solutions to life. Prior to Psyche Care, she was a student at MIT focused on equitable healthcare design and delivery, having worked at a variety of academic labs and spinout startups. She is passionate about family mental health due to the struggles her friends and family faced in navigating the American mental healthcare system.

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