Behavioral Health Business October 17, 2025
Family mental health company Manatee has acquired AI-backed mental health coaching company HappyPillar.
HappyPillar offers a digital self-guided, parent-child therapy tool. The platform uses AI and machine learning to help customize and create 5-minute daily therapeutic sessions for children. The tool also has a mood and behavior tracking feature to monitor progress.
Meanwhile, Manatee offers virtual therapy for children and families. The provider’s model works on a 12-week personalized care plan. It also provides parent counseling, which involves a caregiver, therapist and child development specialist.
Manatee plans to use HappyPillar’s AI tool as a way to support families in between sessions with professionals.
“Expanding access means meeting families where they are, sometimes that’s in a session with a therapist, and...
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