Brightline

Brightline brings virtual behavioral and mental health care to families, when and where you need it.

Brightline offers virtual behavioral health coaching and therapy for families with kids ages 18 months to 17 years old. Brightline’s expert team of coaches, therapists, and prescribers, offer live sessions for your child with no long waitlists. Coaching programs are also available for parents & caregivers.

Our digital platform, Brightline Connect, our Coaching programs, and clinical Care services – including behavior therapy and evaluation and medication support – are available nationwide, including in Alaska and Hawaii.

Brightline services are all delivered virtually, by video visit and through Brightline Connect. This allows us to bring care right to families, wherever and whenever they need it. We also know that telehealth is effective and even preferred by many families. In fact, in one recent survey, 85% of parents who used tele-behavioral health services during the COVID-19 pandemic said their child benefitted from that care. Learn more about the effectiveness of telehealth here: Review of key telepsychiatry outcomes (World Journal of Psychiatry), IPSOS poll on tele-behavioral health services for children.

Brightline launches new program focused on autism spectrum disorder
Now more than ever, parents and caregivers need support. The pandemic has stretched thin our already sparse behavioral health resources, and kids have been forced to navigate unprecedented challenges at school and at home. It’s no surprise that, with nearly half of parents reporting increased stress, many are leaving or planning to leave their jobs in order to care for their kids.

For parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), those challenges can be even greater. Limited screening, provider shortages, pricey services, and unclear referral pathways all conspire to prevent more than half of kids with severe ASD from receiving any behavioral health interventions at all. We at Brightline believe that’s unacceptable.

That’s why we’re excited to announce Brightline will begin offering new content and coaching programs specifically focused on autism spectrum disorder starting early 2022.

Brightline’s new programs come at an especially urgent time. In a recent survey of parents of children with ASD, as many as 64% said pandemic-related disruptions have severely or moderately impacted their children’s symptoms and behaviors. Another study found 59% of children with ASD are experiencing increased psychiatric problems as a result of the pandemic.

We’ve partnered with California to bring families no-cost care.

Everything BrightLife Kids offers* is fully paid for by the State of California. Together, we are working to ensure all California families can find the behavioral health support they need, when they need it. If you have a California zip code and a child ages 0–12, you’re qualified.