Expanding Access to Therapy: Headway’s Andrew Adams

2025-10-01

Today, we speak with Andrew Adams, Founder and CEO of Headway, a platform building a new mental healthcare system by making it simple for therapists to accept insurance and for patients to find affordable care. Andrew comes to the problem first as a patient and then as a builder, grounding the company’s mission in lived experience and a focus on practical fixes to cost and access. Founded in 2019, Headway now powers 600,000+ appointments per month, has raised over $325 million from leading i...

Andrew comes to the problem first as a patient and then as a builder, grounding the company’s mission in lived experience and a focus on practical fixes to cost and access.

Founded in 2019, Headway now powers 600,000+ appointments per month, has raised over $325 million from leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, Accel, GV, and more. Headway partners with major health plans across all 50 states to operate one of the country’s largest insurance-accepting therapist networks.

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