What is Waverider
Waverider is a care management and support tool that provides tracking, education, and support for those living with serious mental illness to help take back control and prevent undesirable outcomes. Unlike relying on just your mental health provider alone, our product takes a holistic approach to symptom management and recovery support that involves all the people/situations in the patient’s life.
Our first feature is a customizable, symptom tracker rooted in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) principles. It’s designed to support the mental health provider and their clients in therapy. We visualize progress over time to help providers motivate their clients and reduce frustration on both sides.
Where it all started
Carla and I started Waverider because we have real-life experience with how difficult it is to navigate serious mental illnesses like bipolar disorder. Carla knows firsthand what it's like to live with the stigma and struggles of having even her closest friends and family not understand what she is going through. Our insight and knowledge come from years of highs and lows, learning how to cope with the extremes together. We know this problem well.
I have experience in strategic design and management and completed a graduate program at Parsons where I learned how to apply design thinking to problem-solving. I believe that the SMI community needs a human-centered approach that uses technology to improve and support recovery but is ultimately centered around human touch and interaction.
We created this demo video to explain how Waverider works.
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