The problem you are solving

Therapists spend 7.4 hours per week or 20% of their time on administrative tasks like client prospecting, scheduling, documentation, and responding to inquiries. This reduces the time available for direct patient care, forcing therapists to either sacrifice time or hire administrative support at $20-$30 per hour. This inefficiency not only lowers therapists’ earnings but also creates bottlenecks in mental health accessibility.

Study Title (long)

Validating mhapy’s Go-to-Market Strategy for an AI-Powered Virtual Assistant Designed to Support Therapists and Mental Health Consumers.

Intended Use & Areas of Interest

• General Health and Wellness

Brief description of how to use

For Mental Health Consumers (Users): 1. Sign Up & Personalize – Download the app on the App Store or Google play store, create a profile, and set preferences. 2. Chat with AI – Get a mental health assessment, journaling support, and coping strategies. 3. Book Therapy – Get matched with therapists, schedule sessions, and receive reminders. 4. Earn Rewards – Complete wellness activities to unlock free therapy sessions. For Therapists: 1. Register & Subscribe – Sign up on portal.mhapy.com 2. ⁠ Create profile and upload bio 3. ⁠ Create or select homework and intake questions for clients 4. Automate Client Engagement – The AI qualifies leads, books appointments, and sends reminders. 5. Accept Client requests– Pay per booked session and track client analytics.

Seeking

• Evaluators
• Investors

Target Market

Canada, Ontario,

Exclusion Criteria

Participants will be excluded from the study if they: 1. Are under 18 years of age (for the user segment). 2. Do not have access to a smartphone or internet connection. 3. Have previously participated in mhapy’s internal product testing. 4. Are unable to complete onboarding or respond to follow-up surveys.

Evaluation Period

01/06/2025 - 30/09/2025

Evaluator Sex & Age

Male Female , From 18 to 90

Evaluator Compensation

0

Commitment of Evaluators

0

Length of Follow-up (Months)

0

Story Inspiration

mhapy was born from both personal experience and professional heartbreak. While working as a mental health nurse, I cared for people who got into trouble with the law. Not because they were bad, but because their mental health needs were ignored for too long. I saw how untreated struggles can grow quietly until they explode. With early support, their stories could have been very different. I found myself having the same deep conversations with different patients. The conversations were new for them but not for me. That made me realize I could build a chatbot to have these kinds of conversations early and with more people at once. While supporting patients who had already decompensated, I realized something important. Many of them wouldn’t have reached that point if these conversations had happened sooner. I started looking deeper and saw that therapist, the first line of mental health care, were already overwhelmed. Too much administrative work, too many forms, and too little time to focus on their clients. That was the real bottleneck. So, I created mhapy to fix that. It handles the administrative load, helps therapists connect with the right clients, and gives people access to support before things get worse.