WeHelp NOLA is a locally owned and operated organization that provides free, large-scale mental health care access to hospitality industry workers throughout New Orleans.

WeHelp partners with local restaurants throughout the city who pay an extremely low cost monthly membership, and through that membership the entirety of their staff has access to our therapy and holistic wellness services free of charge.

In addition to our flagship restaurant membership program, during and after adverse emergency events, we solicit additional grants and donations to fund our crisis response program. This crisis response program provides the same free therapy services mentioned above, regardless of restaurant membership. We launched our first during the COVID pandemic, second during Hurricane Ida, and are currently running a crisis response program for hospitality affected by the New Year’s tragedy on Bourbon St.

WeHelp NOLA is on the forefront of necessary and progressive solutions to systemically improve a community in desperate need of mental health support. To date, WeHelp NOLA has provided over 6,300 free therapy sessions to hospitality industry workers in need.

Restaurant and hospitality industry related jobs are found to be, in the high stress- low control career categories, the most physically and emotionally taxing jobs within the marketplace.  Couple that emotional distress with long hours, poor sleep, a workplace driven by alcohol and drug abuse, little to no provided health care access or support provided by your employer, and you find yourself in the reality of restaurant industry life within New Orleans.

WeHelp NOLA is the only company in New Orleans working to build a partnership between the restaurant employer and the mental health care community in order to actively and vastly reshape our industry support and provide tangible solutions to improving the quality of life for all its constituents. The importance here is to make sure our community, and in turn our city, is thriving. In order to thrive, we must develop innovative partnerships that aid and assist our workforce. The more we allow our workers to crumble under the enormous pressure we place upon them, the more we continue to see our industry crumble.

WeHelp is dedicated to improving the quality of lives for your employees, and in turn, improving the quality of the product your business puts forth. Business owners and leaders have the opportunity to be on the forefront of a system that progressively reshapes and positively enhances the community around them.