Little Otter’s Outcomes Show That When You Care for the Whole Family, Everyone Gets Better

At Little Otter, we know that when one member of the family is struggling, it impacts everyone in their orbit. The old school way of child therapy tends to focus on just the kid without considering the entire world they live in, but that isn’t how families work.This is why supporting the entire family unit is at the heart of everything we do. We offer child and adolescent therapy, but we also offer couples counseling, psychiatry, mental health check-ups, maintenance, and more to ensure that everyone in the family gets better.

Using data from the proprietary Little Otter Child & Family Mental Health Check-up created by our Co-Founder and Chief Medical & Scientific Officer Dr. Helen Egger, Little Otter presents a first-of-its-kind report that shows that when children's mental health improves, so does the mental health of their parents and the health of family relationships.

  • 71% of kids in remission - With an average of 12 sessions over 3 months, 71.3% of kids who had diagnostic levels of mental health symptoms at the start of treatment are at typical levels of mental health symptoms – their mental health challenges are in remission.

  • 56% improvement in parent anxiety - On the GAD-2, 47% of parents were in the clinical range for anxiety when they joined Little Otter. 56.1% were no longer in the clinical range after a mean of 12 child therapy sessions.² After 12 sessions of child therapy at Little Otter, overall, parents experienced a 38% reduction in their anxiety symptoms.

  • 78% improvement in parent depression - On the PHQ-2, 28% were in the clinical range for depression when they joined Little Otter. 79.2% were no longer in the clinical range after a mean of 12 child therapy sessions.³ After 12 sessions of child therapy at Little Otter, parents overall experienced a 52.5% reduction in their symptoms of depression.

  • 39% reduction in co-parenting conflict - 42% of parents reported high conflict and misalignment with their co-parent. After a mean of 12 sessions of child therapy, 39% were no longer experiencing problems in their co-parenting relationship.⁴

These findings highlight that the only way we are going to address the child mental health crisis is by recognizing that it is really a family mental health crisis. When you’re ready to start your journey with Little Otter, you can do so here.


Source data: 1. Remission rate measured as the difference in Clinical Global Impressions Scale-Severity (CGI-S) data. 2. A score of 3 or more on the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-2 (GAD-2) indicates clinically-significant anxiety.. 3. A score of 3 or more on the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 indicates clinically-significant depression. 4. Adapted from the Tuko Pamoja Family Scale.

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