VEVerdant Equanim

Chronic stress, counted by county.

Verdant Equanim, LLC is a Nebraska behavioral health technology company based in Lincoln. We build the HeadWater chronic stress survey and the Nebraska Stress Atlas.

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What HeadWater is

HeadWater is a chronic stress survey for adults. It takes about 12 minutes on a phone, a computer, or by text message. It asks about stress, sleep, mood, work and money, food, the place you live, early life, substance use, and the people around you. It is anonymous. Nobody sees a name with an answer.

When a person finishes, they see plain language feedback by area and where to find help nearby. Anyone who reports thoughts of self harm sees the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and local crisis contacts on the next screen.

HeadWater is not a diagnosis and not a medical device. It does not tell anyone they have a condition. It shows a person where their stress load sits and gives them somewhere to start.

What the Stress Atlas is

The Nebraska Stress Atlas combines survey results by county, with no names and with small counties pooled so no one can be identified. It is built to show a county, a hospital, a clinic, or a health department where chronic stress is concentrated, so they can decide where to put their effort.

It is designed to grow into a map of which evidence based practices a county already has against the load it carries, and of the upstream drivers of what is coming.

Where we are

The first version of the survey was tested with 86 adults in Nebraska in early 2026. Reliability was measured for each subscale separately and is reported that way. The survey is live on the web and on Android, with an Apple version in progress. The Atlas shows county results from that first test.

In 2027, with rural partners across Nebraska, we plan to run the survey in rural counties, report results to each partner and to the state, and measure whether the subscales hold in a rural sample before anything more is built on top of them.

86adults in the first test, March 2026
93counties on the Atlas, drawn from the same map
19+age to take part, under Nebraska law

How we handle data

We never sell a person's answers. Person level data is released to no one. Combined, de-identified county results may be licensed to partners the data governance board approves, for uses it approves, under contracts that forbid re-identification and resale. The board reviews what leaves the platform before any results are published.

Who we are

Verdant Equanim was founded by Jeromie Luginbill, founder and CEO of Integrated Behavioral Health Services, a CARF accredited behavioral health provider in Lincoln since 2017. Verdant Equanim is a subsidiary of IBHS and operates as its own company.