therapium ai

Therapium.ai : compassionate AI-powered mental health companion - a mobile-first app with voice and avatar-based therapy sessions, available 24/7. Users choose their therapist avatar & voice to engage

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Inspiration

Mental health care is a universal need, yet professional help remains limited, expensive, or inaccessible to many. I was inspired to design Therapium.ai to bridge this gap by creating a unified, AI-enhanced platform that empowers both users and mental health professionals. With the rise of AI technologies, we now have the opportunity to extend compassionate, evidence-based support at scale -anywhere, anytime.

What it does

Therapium.ai is a mobile-first, cross-platform mental health app that provides users with access to empathetic, AI-powered therapy sessions through both voice and video. It enables continuous wellness support, emotional tracking, and therapist-level conversation via virtual AI personas—starting with “Lucy,” our primary therapist avatar.

🌟 Key Features: ✅ AI Therapy Sessions — Real-time conversational support via chat or voice with Lucy AI therapist.

🎥 Video Therapy — TAVUS-powered avatar sessions for immersive, human-like interaction.

📊 Wellness Tracking — Daily mood, sleep, stress, and energy check-ins.

🔍 Progress Dashboard — Visualized user insights with emotional patterns.

🔒 Secure & Private — HIPAA-ready architecture, end-to-end encryption, and granular user data control.

How we built it

Built Using Hackathon Partner Tools :

Bolt.new – Design, development of React Native App for multimodal implementation of Web, ios, android

TAVUS.io – Avatar-based video therapy (Replica ID: r4317e64d25a, Persona ID: pd47eb0fd740)

ElevenLabs– Audio interaction with AI

RevenueCat – Freemium monetization logic, no-code integration

Supabase – Auth + DB infrastructure

Entri – Domain: www.therapium.ai

Challenges we ran into

Multimodal Complexity: Integrating voice, video avatars, and real-time chat required careful orchestration of tools (Tavus, STT/TTS, LLMs) while preserving session continuity.

Therapy Guardrails: Designing AI personas that provide supportive responses without overstepping clinical boundaries took significant prompt engineering and ethical testing.

Cross-Platform Constraints: Ensuring the app performed consistently across iOS, Android, and web using a single React Native codebase pushed the limits of Expo SDK 53.

Avatar Personalization Limits: Tavus’ current customization constraints limited avatar interactivity. We implemented workarounds for continuity in voice-video flow.

Data Privacy + Security: Building HIPAA-aligned features, encrypted storage, and secure authentication via Supabase took detailed planning.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

✅ Launched a production-ready MVP in under 30 days with voice, video, AI chat, and analytics.

🔁 Built a seamless therapy experience across text, voice, and video powered by Bolt AI, Mistral, and Tavus.

🧠 Engineered a deeply empathetic AI therapist persona (“Lucy”) using structured prompts, multi-persona support, and emotional safety rules.

🧩 Developed a clean, branded experience from UI/UX to infrastructure - live at therapium.ai

🔐 Achieved end-to-end secure architecture using Supabase (Auth + RLS) + platform-specific encryption standards.

What I learned

🔍 Prompt engineering is everything: Designing the App's look and feel, therapeutic tone, empathy layering, and escalation boundaries in AI is a craft of its own.

🌍 AI is powerful—but needs responsibility: Even the best models need supervision, context, and fallback protocols (especially in health).

🤝 Partner APIs matter: Bolt.new, TAVUS, elevenlabs, revenuecate and Supabase’s robust tooling accelerated development beyond what was possible solo.

🧱 Architecture upfront pays off: Modular, scalable planning made it easier to pivot features, swap APIs, and build cross-platform support.

What's next for therapium ai

Multi-language support – Bringing therapy to underserved regions using localized avatars and translation APIs.

🧍‍♀️ Expanded Personas – Add new AI therapist archetypes (e.g. “Coach Kai,” “Dr. Mira”) with customized voices and specialties.

🔁 Therapist Collaboration Mode – Allow real therapists to join sessions, co-review AI transcripts, or hand off care.

📱 Public Launch & Pilot Trials – Soft launch with real users, stress-test therapy models, and gather live feedback.

💼 B2B Partner Integration – Offer Therapium for employee wellness platforms, universities, or healthcare providers.

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