Amber Hoffman is co-founder of Syncd Health, a Berlin startup building structured pre-therapy care for the 142 days people in Germany wait, on average, between a first consultation and the start of psychotherapy. She holds a double major in psychology and organisational psychology from the University of Cape Town. Before Syncd she ran staff wellness for a 200-person summer camp in Pennsylvania, did case work at a nonprofit in Hanoi, and managed arts and culture programmes in schools across Germany. She and her co-founder both went looking for psychotherapy in Germany themselves. Syncd Health came out of how hard that was