Name: Tallie Hopkins
Company: Pear (Pair with Pear Ltd)
Position: Co-Founder
Website: https://www.ilovepear.com/
About Tallie Hopkins
When you’re already feeling vulnerable, overwhelmed and anxious, finding a therapist shouldn’t feel like another problem to solve, so that’s where we come in. We find you your ideal therapist based on your unique needs, preferences and personality using a mix of real human empathy and tech.
I came up with the idea for Pear from my own lived experience of struggling to find a therapist. In 2022, I was shutting down my 50 year old family business and it was heavy. Having to tell your 90 year old grandfather who started said business that you were going to close it was one of the most difficult conversations I’ve ever had and I needed someone outside of my family eco-system to support me. I wanted a psychotherapist who could support me emotionally but also understood the practicalities of shutting a business down. Where did I find that person? I had no idea, I trawled online therapy directories but their jargon filled entries and medicalised tick boxes made me more confused.
So the idea for Pear was born and we launched in May 2025. Pear is a platform that pairs therapy-seekers with their best fit therapists. No tick boxes, no jargon, no diagnoses, you just tell us a bit about how you’re feeling and how you like to work and we do the rest. We lead with humanness and supercharge with tech. We use tech to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of customer journey but we firmly believe in the power of human-to-human connection, especially when our clients are feeling vulnerable and overwhelmed.
We have a wonderful community of therapists and, as well as bringing them their best-fit clients, we also give them a community of like-minded professionals to connect, learn and grow alongside. Since moving to working online during Covid, many therapists struggle with loneliness and a space to connect with colleagues. We are now developing this space and therapists are so grateful for it.
We are contributing to reducing the stigma associated with mental health support and we are building a brand that feels approachable, authentic, engaging and sometimes playful! We want to move away from the medicalisation of mental health and make it more about self-awareness and mental maintenance. We want taking care of your mental health to feel proactive and empowering. We avoid any jargon or clinical language and instead opt for simple, relatable terms that are easy for everyone to understand.
We are currently bootstrapping and we have seen fantastic early organic traction and feedback. We are just about to launch our pre-seed funding round so are really excited to see how far Pear can go when we can put some money behind the brand and the tech.
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