Culturally responsive care: clinically guided mental health for Asian Americans

Staff Augmentation
Custom software development
AniseHealth mobile app workspace screen showing topic tags, task progress, and recommended wellness modules.
COMPANY PROFILE
Industry
Mental Health. Telehealth. Culturally Specific Health
Size
3M lives reached
Web
anisehealth.co
HQ
New York, NY
93%
efficacy

About the client

Anise Health is a culturally-responsive digital mental health and wellbeing platform dedicated to meeting the unique needs of communities of color, starting with a focus on the Asian American population.

The Challenge

Anise Health needed to expand their engineering capacity to advance the development of their healthcare platform

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The Solution

+3M

lives reached
Integrations
Interoperability
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The Solution

They required developers with the right expertise to integrate into the team, align with established processes, and contribute to new features while ensuring the platform’s long-term stability. That is where our team came in.

The Process

Process and Workflow

The team joined the client’s agile workflow, using sprint planning to set priorities and deliverables. Communication ran through Slack and Jira, keeping everyone aligned and transparent. By adapting to shifting needs and working closely with designers and product managers, they delivered new features while ensuring code quality and platform stability.

Scalable Staff Augmentation

We added experienced engineers who worked as part of the client’s own team, helping them move faster without sacrificing quality. Together, we designed and shipped key features, improved stability, and handled third-party integrations. We also supported infrastructure and architecture decisions, giving the platform a stronger base for growth.

Ensuring personalized care from the very first tap

Besides the possibility to match with a specialized therapist that has been trained in cultural sensibility, the app features a mood tracker and educational resources to complement care, have a more personalized follow-up  and maximise positive results in patients.
Anise Health app My Workspace screen showing a bi-weekly to-do overview with a 50% goal completion ring
Daily Patient Engagement & Gamified Care
Patients receive daily assignments designed to keep them engaged and progressing consistently, with gamification elements that make completing each activity more motivating and bettering adherence to treatment.
Anise Health app My Worksheets screen listing a Coping Strategies Worksheet and a Daily Activity/Mood Record assigned by a coach or therapist
Secure Therapist-Patient Assignments & Progress Tracking
Therapists can assign specific worksheets directly through the app, giving patients secure access to their activities from one place. Once completed, the results are available to the therapist, providing visibility into patient progress.
PsychNow remote patient monitoring screen for blood pressure and heart rate data entry
Mood Tracking & Patient Self-Assessment
Patients can track their mood directly through the app, creating a simple record of how they are feeling over time. This gives patients a way to reflect on their well-being while providing therapists with useful insights into changes and patterns between sessions.
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Patient Resources & Video Library
The app provides patients with a centralized library of resources and video content they can access as part of their care journey. By keeping educational and therapeutic materials available in one place, patients can revisit relevant content whenever they need it.
PsychNow AI-generated clinical summary with patient case overview and medication details
Patient Progress Tracking
Patients can track their progress directly through the app, giving them a clear view of completed activities, ongoing assignments, and their development over time. This visibility helps patients stay engaged with their care journey.
PsychNow AI triage dashboard flagging potential behavioral health risk areas for clinical review
Data Visualization
Patient data is translated into clear visualizations, including graphs that make progress and changes easier to understand over time. By turning activity and well-being data into accessible visual insights, the app helps both patients and therapists see patterns.

Therapist portal for patient management & care coordination

The therapist portal centralizes the tools care teams need to manage patient care from one place. Therapists can access patient records, review past and upcoming consultations, manage notes and assignments, schedule or reschedule sessions, and track progress through data visualizations.
Anise Health provider portal Home screen showing the My Appointments list and My Calendar widget for June 2024
Anise Health provider portal Home screen showing the My Appointments list with an upcoming session for Amy Wang
Everything therapists need, in one view
Therapists can access their patients, clinical notes, and assigned activities from a centralized portal, giving them a single workspace to manage their caseload and stay on top of the tasks and information.
Anise Health provider portal My Calendar widget showing booked sessions for June 2024
Giving therapists control of their calendars
Therapists can schedule and reschedule appointments directly through the app, giving them greater flexibility to manage their calendars and adapt sessions to changing patient needs.
Anise Health provider portal appointment card for Amy Wang's first session with a Join Call button and Assessments link
A continuous view of patient progress
Therapists can view upcoming and past consultations alongside session notes, assignments, and patient progress in one place. This gives care teams a continuous view of each patient's journey.

About working with us

Testimonials

Tech Stack & Integrations

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Why it matters

Anise Health was founded to close a persistent gap in mental healthcare: culturally responsive, evidence-based care for the Asian American community.


Built by clinicians and technologists who understand how culture shapes mental health first hand, Anise combines therapy, coaching, and digital tools tailored to each individual’s identity, values, and lived experience.


More than a teletherapy platform, Anise Health is redefining what accessible, identity-centered mental health care looks like in the modern era, where culture is not a barrier to wellness, but part of the path to it.

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"Light-it acts as a really strong strategy thought partner to us. They're really invested in the success of Anise beyond just being an outsourced engineering firm for as."

Alice Zhang
Co-founder & CEO at Anise Health
Alice Zhang Co-founder & CEO Anise Health
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