Services · Mobile app development · Mental wellness apps
Codeeo delivers mental wellness app development in New York for private therapy practices, psychiatry groups, OMH licensed programs, employer benefit teams and digital health startups across the five boroughs. We build the client app, the clinician app and the admin console around HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, the SHIELD Act and New York's new rules for AI companions. A person at risk is always routed to 988, 911 or a licensed clinician, never handled by software alone.
New Yorkers fit care around subway rides, long office hours and small apartments with little privacy. An app that works here lets someone check in quietly on the train, book a lunchtime video session from a Midtown conference room and switch languages without hunting through settings.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
What the app can include
New York layers its own requirements over federal health privacy. Programs licensed by the Office of Mental Health keep clinical records confidential under the Mental Hygiene Law, and substance use services often bring 42 CFR Part 2 into play. The SHIELD Act sets data security and breach notification duties for any business holding New Yorkers' private information. Since November 2025, General Business Law Article 47 requires operators of AI companions to detect expressions of suicidal ideation or self-harm, refer users to crisis services and remind them regularly that they are not talking to a person. Therapists, counselors, social workers and psychologists are licensed through the State Education Department's Office of the Professions. As a mental wellness app development company New York providers can bring in at the planning stage, we turn those rules into the features below.
If your app includes a conversational AI, we build what Article 47 expects: detection of suicidal ideation or self-harm language, an immediate referral screen with 988 and your on-call clinician, and recurring notices that the user is talking to software. Each trigger and referral is logged so your team can review it.
Your AI feature follows New York's safeguard rules from the first release.
Exercises, journals and check-ins that work offline and sync when the signal returns, because reception between stations is unreliable. Audio plays with headphones only by default, and the lock screen never shows anything that would reveal the app's purpose to someone standing nearby.
Clients keep up their routine on the train without being overheard or overseen.
Neutral notifications, an optional alternative app icon and a passcode or Face ID lock for people who share devices or live with roommates and family. Message previews are hidden by default and the client chooses what, if anything, appears on screen.
Using the app does not announce itself to anyone else.
English and Spanish at launch, with Chinese, Russian, Bengali, Haitian Creole or Korean added where your clients need them. Clinician profiles show the languages each one speaks, so a client in Flushing, Brighton Beach or Washington Heights can find someone they can talk to directly.
Clients search for care in the language they think in.
For programs that hold substance use disorder records, separate consent capture, labeling of Part 2 data, restrictions on redisclosure and an audit trail, built to the rule HHS aligned with HIPAA, which reached its compliance date in February 2026. Clients can review and revoke their consents from their settings.
Substance use records move only under the consent that covers them.
Encryption, access reviews, vendor oversight, employee access logs and a written breach response plan that meets New York's notification rules, so your security program is documented rather than assumed. Access reviews run on a schedule your compliance lead sets, and every export of client data is logged.
You can show the reasonable safeguards New York expects.
Short video sessions bookable around office lunch breaks in Midtown, the Financial District or Hudson Yards, plus late evening slots for finance, law and hospitality staff. Clients can join from a phone in a booked meeting room or switch to audio only if privacy is limited.
Care fits the working day rather than competing with it.
Private sign-up for employees and union members, routing to your network of licensed providers and aggregated reporting with minimum group sizes, so a small team on one floor cannot be identified from the figures.
Sponsors see program use while members stay anonymous.
Caseloads, secure messaging, between session assignments, supervision views for associates working toward full licensure and EHR sync, so a group practice in Brooklyn or Manhattan runs supervision and care from one console.
Supervisors see what associates need without chasing files.
Onboarding for students at Columbia, NYU or CUNY campuses through their school's counseling service, with age checks, parental consent for minors in pre-college programs and clear routing back to campus crisis lines alongside 988. Schools see aggregated usage only, never an individual student's activity.
Students reach the right service for their campus without exposing their privacy.
Who this is for
New York's mental health market ranges from solo therapists in Park Slope to large OMH licensed agencies, employer programs in Midtown towers and venture-backed startups in Flatiron. Their regulations, users and budgets differ a great deal, so their first releases should too. These are the four starting points we see most often. The crisis pathway, privacy controls and accessibility come first in every one, and the rest of the scope follows what your clients actually need.
You have licensed clinicians and associates seeing clients by video and in small offices. We begin with booking, intake, telehealth and billing tied to your EHR, plus supervision tools for associates. Location checks at booking make sure clients in New Jersey or Connecticut are only offered clinicians licensed in those states. Waitlists and cancellation alerts help fill the gaps that open up in a busy week.
Supervision tools are often what group practices value most.
Your programs answer to the Office of Mental Health, often serve Medicaid clients and may hold Part 2 records. We design consent, record separation and reporting to match, with large text, simple language and multilingual screens for clients who use older phones or share devices with family. Integration with your existing EHR keeps clinicians from entering the same information twice. Reporting is shaped around what your program already submits.
Banks, law firms, hospitals and unions in the city buy wellbeing programs for staff who work long or irregular hours. We build private enrollment, referral to licensed providers, anonymous reporting and content that respects how little spare time members have. Because many members commute from New Jersey, Long Island or Westchester, the app handles location and licensing correctly across state lines.
Custom mental wellness app development New York founders commission from us starts with a written regulatory position covering HIPAA, the SHIELD Act, Article 47 if you plan any AI companion, and FDA wellness limits on claims. Then we build a focused first release, document it for diligence and keep analytics free of health data so investors find no surprises in your privacy setup. The architecture leaves room for insurance billing later.
A written regulatory position shortens investor diligence.
How we work together
We have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, our team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and we are rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. There is no New York office, so we work remotely with clients in the city and run every workshop, review and demo by video call. Most start with a fixed scope first release, then continue on a monthly retainer, and some add a dedicated team as the product grows. The mental wellness app developers New York clients meet in discovery stay with the product after launch.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We typically build with Flutter or React Native, a Node.js or Laravel backend and US region hosting on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure under a business associate agreement. Offline storage is encrypted on the device. We confirm the stack after reviewing your EHR and security requirements. Everything is documented for a future in-house team.
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Your regulatory position, your crisis protocol and how clients actually use phones here.
Settle whether HIPAA, Part 2, Mental Hygiene Law confidentiality and Article 47 apply before features are fixed. Agree a crisis protocol with a licensed clinical lead. Then design for city realities: patchy subway signal, shared apartments, long working days and many languages. Those choices shape the data model, the onboarding flow and the notification design, and they are much cheaper to get right at the start than to retrofit. We record each decision in a short brief your team, counsel and investors can all read.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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