Dr-Julian is a startup taking on what the legendary investor Paul Graham would describe as ‘Schlep blindness’, which refers to the tendency to overlook significant yet unglamorous problems (Schleps) because they don’t offer the immediate gratification of simpler, more straightforward challenges.

In mental health, one of these important yet tedious problems is the long waiting lists for people seeking therapy. Dr Julian Nesbitt, the founder of the Dr. Julian online healthcare platform, has taken on this problem when many others have shied away from the complexity, and systems-wide change that is needed to solve it.

Instead of inventing any new way to diagnose or treat mental illness, the Dr-Julian platform simply leverages existing technology to make accessing a therapist more efficient, data-driven, and accessible by making the whole process digital.

However, the most impressive thing about the Dr-Julian platform is the execution. Julian has managed to do what so many find impossible: penetrating and scaling in the NHS.

In this episode, you’ll hear how Julian presented his platform as a ‘no-brainer’ for the NHS to buy into, where the bottlenecks in mental healthcare lie, and his thoughts on naming his platform after himself!

The Dr-Julian Platform also offers a range of clinically-validated self-help tools and resources. Access these for free by creating an account on app.dr-Julian.com or from the App Store.

Visit the ⁠Dr-Julian website to learn more.

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