Behavioral Health Business June 10, 2024
Story by Autism Business News freelance reporter Sam Greszes
Jonathan Wright’s mother spent her life as an adolescent psychiatrist, helping to improve outcomes for young children with severe mental illnesses.
In 2015, Wright took inspiration from his mother’s life’s work to found Opya, an organization based in California that seeks to provide better autism therapy options for young children by using a multidisciplinary and tech-forward approach to improve clinical outcomes.
Opya CEO Alden Romney often thinks back to his company’s backstory, and he takes that mission very seriously.
“Opya was founded in 2015 to address the significant need for services for children diagnosed with autism,” Romney told Autism Business News. “Over the years, we’ve expanded from one location to multiple...