MentalHappy is where people find and host expert-led support groups online — private, structured spaces built to feel like real care, not another Zoom call.
We exist for one reason: no one should have to carry what they're going through alone, wait on a list, or clear an insurance hurdle to find people who understand.
How it started
We started in 2016 as a single support group on a social media site. It worked — people showed up, opened up, helped each other — but the tools fought us at every turn: no privacy, no structure, no way to keep the space safe.
Our founding community of facilitators, advocates, and people who'd lived through hard things saw the same gap from the inside. So we built somewhere support groups could be run with the privacy, structure, and care the work actually deserves.
What we believe
Guided by someone who knows the terrain, people feel less alone. They learn. They keep showing up. No app or feed can replicate that.
That honesty is the point. We're the part of care that's been missing for too many people: accessible, human, ongoing support between everything else.
Who we're for
Find expert-led groups for grief, anxiety, relationships, parenting, chronic illness, and the things that don't have easy words yet. Free to join, no insurance needed, no waiting list. You can just listen until you're ready.
Find a support group →Therapists, counselors, certified coaches, peer leaders, and advocates use MentalHappy to launch groups, reach the people already searching for them, and run them with privacy and structure built in.
Host a support group →The expertise behind the groups
Some of that community brings formal expertise — clinical degrees, licensure, years of advocacy work. Others bring the hard-won knowledge of having lived through the thing themselves. We vet every group leader, and we hold both kinds of expertise as real.
But the brain trust doesn't stop with leaders. Our members shape MentalHappy too. When someone requests a group we haven't built yet, that's not a feature request — it's the community telling us what's needed, and we go find a qualified leader to build it. The people who guide MentalHappy are the same people who use it.
Support only works when people feel safe enough to be honest. Trust isn't a feature here — it's the foundation.
Part of a U.S. federal health-research network advancing better models of care.
Your conversations are protected by the same federal privacy standards as your doctor's office.
Recognized by leading mental-health and technology press.
A growing community across thousands of active groups.
Every member is verified and every group leader is reviewed before they lead.
Confidentiality agreements are standard, and anonymous participation is built in.
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