Catarsis started as a tool its founder built for himself.
Like many people, he believed everyone deserves therapy — that working on yourself shouldn't be a luxury. But therapy isn't always there at 3am, when you can't sleep, when the anxiety hits and there's no one to call. One night, experimenting with AI, he built a small assistant to help him do one thing: let it all out. Process what he was feeling. Find a way through.
It worked. And the realization was immediate — this shouldn't belong to one person. It doesn't replace therapy. It doesn't replace people. But no one should ever feel alone with what they're feeling. Sometimes we just want to be heard — and that alone changes everything.
The name came naturally. Catarsis — kept in Spanish, intentionally — is the concept the whole idea grew from: emotional release. What began as a simple chatbot evolved into an ecosystem for mental health, built on one belief:
Technology should never replace human connection. It should carry you to it.