Short Summary
- Hi, I am Solon, a Web developer from Cyprus, who comes with a vision.
- Seeing how much people need a helping hand to empower their lives and improve their mental health and need to do that conveniently and economically, I came up with the idea to build a small business that offers coaching, counseling, and therapy online and at good prices and developing tools that help towards those goals.
- The monetary assistance of the contributors will assist in financing a virtual business, that will be called Best Pal, found at https://bestpal.com that will offer useful teletherapy sessions to people and build online therapy tools that both professionals and laymen can use to convey relief from mental disorders and improve relationships, work performance and more. When it comes to the tools, this funding will aid in advancing the already functional, but with few features, Quick CBT web tool, found at https://cognitivebehavioraltherapy.eu. That tool in turn and the clientele of the teletherapy that will be developed will assist the company in raising funds on its own and allow the business to survive, thrive, and keep offering teletherapy sessions and build more tools after the monetary assistance from the funding is depleted.
What We Need & What You Get
Breaking it down in more detail:
- I need 25000 Euros per month that can eventually go up to 50000 Euros as the company grows. From this funding, a large sum will go towards the payment of six mental health professionals, one software developer (myself), and a secretary. The rest will go towards advertisement, covering online video course subscriptions, online electronic and audiobook libraries and books to study and do research, and home gym equipment, so that the employees can keep fit, better suited to withstand work-related stress, and maintain better health in general, internet connections and technological equipment, such as computers, which they need to do their work and psychology, psychiatry and other relevant apps for their smartphones and tablets. 30% of that sum will go towards taxation.
- For each 20 Euros donation, you will get a Session that cos anything between 25 and 40 Euros with one of our mental health professionals.
- For 20 Euros of donation, you will get a Lifetime Subscription of Quick CBT, which will have lots more features by 2025 and will normally cost 150 Euros.
The Impact
The difference your contribution will make:
- People need and deserve better mental health and resilience, better relationships, and more productivity in their lives so that they can enjoy their lives more and make the most out of them.
- Our teletherapy sessions will help hundreds of people at an affordable price and from the comfort of their own homes. Also, Quick CBT is already a completed project, albeit small at the moment. With your help, this project will thrive and help a ton of people. More tools will come on the way.
- This funding will also assist the well-being of the employees, as most of them will become owners of the company and have an equal say in decision-making and also share revenue.
Risks & Challenges
There are various risks such as difficulties in finding and retaining clients for the teletherapy sessions and the apps. There are also technological risks, such as human error that can cause for instance the web app to go offline or malfunction.
- To minimize these risks, I plan to hire understanding, capable people with character, track reco,rd and good motives, advertise a lot, and keep the employees' skills top-notch and up-to-date to get and retain clients. With good enough skills, I also plan to minimize human error that can cause technological issues. As a bonus, I, as a software developer, have an excellent track record of writing almost nearly bug-free software for critical sectors (applications that ran on live TV shows on a major TV channel in my home country of Cyprus for six continuous years).
- Disaster safety measurements against technological issues go to great lengths to minimize their impact.
Other Ways You Can Help
If you can't contribute:
- Spread the word out and make some noise about my campaign. Post it on social media!
And that's all there is to it.