Free for students. Always the goal.
Cost was one of the reasons we started Second Friend, so it was never going to be an afterthought. Students don't pay while we're in early access. Institutions who want to bring it to their campus can ask us what that looks like.
Free
While we're in early access. If that ever changes, we'll tell you before it does — never after.
- Talk to a verified human counselor
- Text, audio or video — switch anytime
- Your college is never notified
- Mutually anonymous, both directions
Bring Second Friend to your campus
Pricing depends on how many students you have and how you want it to run, so we work it out with you rather than publishing a number that would be wrong for most colleges.
- Photo ID, degree certificate, council registration and a reference checked before any session
- Aggregate reporting only — never individual students
- Your own crisis resources published in-app
- Onboarding for your existing counseling team
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. And it compounds: a student who is mentally well is able to look after themselves physically, and a student who is well in both can give their full attention to their studies, their work and the people around them. Those students go on to build the society that everything else depends on.
If a society is going to improve, it starts with whether its students were supported when they needed it.
Ask us about pricing
Tell us a little about your institution and we'll come back to you with what it would cost and how it would work. Usually within two working days.
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