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You don't have to look okay to ask for help

Second Friend gives college students in India private access to verified human counselors. No AI. No judgment. Your institution covers the cost, not you.

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Free while we're in early access · Your college is never told who used it

What they carry

Actually…
I’m not fine.

3:14 AM typed it, deleted it,
typed it again never sent
What people see
I’m fine lol same all good, just busy haha nothing

Drag the handle — the mask is the easy part

What "verified" actually means, before anyone takes a session

🪪Govt photo ID checked 🎓Degree verified with the university 📋RCI registration checked live ☎️Reference + interview
How it works

You, a counselor, and nothing in between

Sunny Harbor · counselor
Hey. No pressure to explain everything at once. What's the first thing on your mind?
i don't even know where to start honestly
That's a completely fine place to start. We can go slow.
Aliases only — nobody uses a real name here A person types this reply, not a model Switch to audio or video anytime, same conversation
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However you want to talk

Text, audio or video. Switch mid-conversation, same thread, same counselor.

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A person reads every message

Automated checks only catch spam and abuse before it reaches a counselor.

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Aliases, both directions

Your counselor is an alias to you. You're an alias to them. Always.

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Nothing reaches your college

Not that you signed in, not that you booked, not what you said.

Turns out

You can get real support without your college ever knowing

Every promise below is structural, not a setting you have to trust us to leave on. Tap one to see why.

Not that you signed in, not that you booked, not what you said. Institutions only ever see aggregate counts — how many students used the service in a term — and never who.

Your institution covers the cost, not you. Cost was one of the reasons we started this, so affordability isn't an afterthought.

You're an alias to your counselor and they're an alias to you. Even our own infrastructure only ever sees the alias, in both directions.

What we commit to, before you ever book

What students actually bring here

One of these is going to sound familiar

Struggle almost never announces itself. These are real sentences students say — not case studies, not marketing copy.

For institutions

Student mental health is infrastructure

Supporting students through mental health difficulty is part of a college's duty of care, not an optional service bolted on at the edges. It belongs alongside the library and the labs.

And it compounds — which is what the cycle beside this shows.

Bring Second Friend to your campus
The cycle student support creates A reinforcing loop of four stages: mental wellbeing makes it possible to look after physical health; physical health supports full engagement in study and work; full engagement builds capable graduates; capable graduates build a stronger society, which invests again in student wellbeing. Mentalwellbeing Physicalhealth Fullengagement Strongersociety
Support one student well and it doesn't stop with them.
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Before you sign in

Why we built this

Second Friend didn't start as a business. It started because we lost someone.

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What we collect, what we never see, and what your college is told.

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Who the counselors are, how they're checked, and what happens in a crisis.

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Why we built this

The question we couldn't put down

"What if asking for help had felt easier, more accessible, or simply possible at the right time?"

The question we've carried since we lost a friend to suicide

"They cannot afford support. They are afraid of being judged."

Two of the ordinary reasons people don't ask

"Pretending everything is fine is simply easier than the first sentence."

The barrier this product exists to remove

You don't have to carry this by yourself

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FAQ

Questions students actually ask