Mindsoother Therapy Center, a mental health practice in Livingston, New Jersey was acquired by ARC Health in January 2024. Financial terms were not disclosed. The transaction was facilitated by Mertz Taggart, a health care-focused merger and acquisition advisory firm.

Established in 2011, Mindsoother provides individual, family, and group therapy services for children, teens, young adults, and families. Its service line includes evidence-based therapies, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to address a diverse range of mental health issues, such as eating disorders, ADHD, family dynamics, anxiety, depression, self-harm . . .

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Mergers & Acquisitions

2020 and 2021 saw record numbers of mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, and partnerships and this raises the strategic question for any executive team of a specialty provider organization, do they have market positioning for a sustainable future and can they address that issue with changes in scale. Almost every executive team is considering collaborations to keep their competitive advantage. It’s imperative to find out if those collaborations were successful in improving competitive advantage, as well as the “tricks of the trade” in making collaboration work.


Outpatient care, specialty services, and cost containment solutions are projected to drive merger and acquisition activity in the health care sector during 2026, according to a recent report by VMG Health. Increased deal volume is projected for physician practices, behavioral health, home-based care, and ambulatory surgery centers. Technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), is being used to strengthen diagnostics, automation, and workflow optimization, is emerging as a differentiator in health care mergers and acquisitions, particularly in… Read