In a region where one crisis follows another, mental health support is often the first thing people are told they cannot afford. XRAPY was built to argue the opposite. The Zalka-based company treats expert care as something that should reach everyone, and it is using technology to get it there.
Founded in 2023, XRAPY pairs clinical psychology with tools like artificial intelligence and virtual reality. It offers support both online and in person, and it runs three departments under one roof: a clinic, an IT lab, and a training arm.
Why a Clinical Psychologist Started Building Software
The founder, Fouad Monzer, is a licensed clinical psychologist in Lebanon. He started XRAPY after watching the same barriers keep people away from help: stigma, distance, and cost. Vulnerable patients and exhausted frontline workers were among those going without.
His conclusion was that traditional therapy had to change shape. Rather than wait for people to walk into a clinic, XRAPY set out to meet them through technology, while keeping a real clinician at the center of every interaction.
Inside the "doors" Mental Health Center
The clinical side of the business runs through the "doors" Mental Health Center, which provides in-person sessions and secure online care. It connects patients with vetted experts, so the format can change without the quality of the clinician changing with it.
The center also works directly with people under heavy strain. XRAPY recently delivered Psychological First Aid and stress management programs to medical teams at the Barouk Clinical Center, focusing on the frontline workers who rarely get support themselves.
A Training Partnership With Pallium Canada
The training department reached a notable milestone when XRAPY became the official Lebanese partner for Pallium Canada. Through that partnership it launched palliative care training for psychologists in Lebanon, accredited by the Lebanese Order of Psychologists.
The first cohort brought together more than 10 professionals. It is an early step toward building local expertise in an area of care that is often missing from the system.
Building the Tools In-House
XRAPY's IT department develops the technology the company relies on. The team is building AI and VR applications designed for mental health use, and has shown its work at competitions hosted by the American University of Beirut and ESA Business School.
For Monzer, the technology has a clear limit it is not allowed to cross. "Technology should never replace human connection; it should protect and expand it," he says. "At XRAPY, we are building the bridge that makes expert mental health care accessible to everyone."
That balance, between software that scales and clinicians who do the actual work, is the line XRAPY is trying to hold as it grows across all three departments.
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