Madison’s DotCom Therapy scores $13M for virtual counseling for kids

09 Sep Madison’s DotCom Therapy scores $13M for virtual counseling for kids

DotCom Therapy, a Madison-based company providing therapy services to children and young adults across the country through video conferencing, announced Thursday it has raised $13 million in Series A venture capital funding. 

The company was founded in 2015 by Rachel Mack Robinson, a speech-language pathologist who wanted to make it easier for children across the country to get the therapy services they need. Though she lived in southwest Missouri, she’d been hired to provide therapy for agencies as far away as Alaska, where many remote villages didn’t have the right professionals nearby. 

But sending therapists on tiny airplanes or long drives just didn’t make sense to her. She estimates that even therapists working for a single school district often spend about 20% of their time driving from one school campus to another. And when there are just a few students with a specific need, such as students who need a provider who speaks Spanish, districts may not be able to hire an employee to meet that need. At other community agencies, clients might have to add their names to a waitlist in hopes of seeing a therapist.

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