Meet people in their hardest hour. Where they are. Now.
Most of the day is the "other twenty-three hours" — the time outside an appointment, outside a clinic, outside the moment a clinician is in the room. That gap is where lives are lost. We built HereNOW Help to close it.
Founded out of loss. Built to make help unavoidable.
HereNOW Help started with our founder Bill Gerlach's own decade-long fight with addiction — and with the death of his younger brother Derek to an overdose at twenty-nine. Derek didn't fit the picture: clean-cut, athletic, a newly certified financial advisor, a writer. He hid because he was afraid help would show up on his record. He died trying to figure it out alone.
We are here because that pattern repeats every day in every community we serve. Students, employees, parents, and neighbors hide the same way Derek did — afraid of being seen, afraid of the record, afraid of what asking for help might cost. Our mission is to make help the first reachable thing, not the last.
One platform. Self, peer, and clinical care — together.
Guided meditations, journaling, sleep, and tactical breathing. Track your own progress, privately, on your own time.
Anonymous chat with peers and trained specialists certified through PeerNOW Academy — people who've been there.
On-demand telehealth with licensed clinicians, integrated with VA, VAMC, and community care teams.
Built for the people the system keeps missing.
Adults, parents, caregivers — anyone navigating life on hard mode. Free, confidential, 24/7. No referral, no record, no waitlist.
Spouses, kids, siblings, partners. Mental-health pressure rarely lands on just one person; HereNOW supports the whole household.
Counseling offices and EAPs lean on HereNOW for the after-hours and anonymous support they can't staff alone.
Faith groups, recovery centers, civic organizations, and local government deploy HereNOW so every resident has the same 24/7 access.
Partner with us. Or get help now.
If you run a school, an employer, a health system, a recovery center, a faith community, or a city — we'd like to talk. If you need help yourself, you can reach us the same way.