Therapyside, a Madrid-based mental health startup, is leveraging NVIDIA's AI technology to improve therapist-client connections and address the global shortage of mental health workers.
In a blog post dated October 10, Nvidia outline Therapyside's online therapy platform offers AI tools that serve as virtual assistants and notetakers. This allows therapists to focus more on building rapport with clients during sessions.
The platform uses speech recognition to transcribe conversations and employs large language models to summarise sessions into clinical notes. A virtual assistant named Maia answers therapists' questions using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technology.
Therapyside, a member of the NVIDIA Inception programme for startups, has facilitated over 500,000 therapy sessions to date. The company works with approximately 1,000 licensed therapists in Europe, offering counseling in English, Italian, and Spanish.
Therapyside aims to expand its AI capabilities, including support for additional languages and an offline version for in-person therapy sessions. With the World Health Organisation reporting that half of the world's population will experience a mental health disorder, solutions like Therapyside's AI-enhanced platform could play a dual role, in improving access to, and quality of mental health care.