An award-winning platform for mental well-being.

Founded in 2021 at Abu Dhabi's Hub71 - Takalam is shaping the future of mental health care in the Middle East - combining empathy, innovation, and impact.

Takalam, Your safe space to thrive.
Personalized, culturally connected wellbeing, anytime you need it.

Takalam Started with a Search for Help

When Khawla Hammad, Takalam CEO and cofounder, became a mother, she found herself navigating postpartum depression far from home, away from her culture, her language, and the support system that knew her world. She searched for help. What she found didn't feel like it was built for her. Therapy existed, but culturally rooted, truly accessible support that understood her family dynamics, her social context, and her language? That was something else entirely.

Khawla came home with a conviction: no one in our region should have to search for help alone.

What We Do Today

Takalam has grown into an innovative mental wellbeing platform that meets people and organisations where they are; whether that's an individual looking for support, a company investing in its people, or a community that deserves better access to care.

For Individuals
The Takalam app is your partner in everyday mental fitness. Connect with licensed, carefully vetted therapists matched to your needs, cultural context, and language. Chat with Aila, your 24/7 AI wellbeing buddy, for everyday support between sessions. Explore guided meditations curated for our region's culture and daily realities. And do it all in a private, encrypted space where your conversations are always under your control.
For Businesses & Healthcare Providers
We partner with organizations that want to go beyond checkbox wellness. From corporate employee wellbeing programmers that reduce burnout and improve retention, to white-labelled digital solutions and clinical integrations for hospitals and healthcare facilities, Takalam brings culturally relevant, measurable mental health support into the heart of your organization.
For Communities, CSR & Impact Programmes
Mental health support shouldn't be a privilege. Through sponsored impact projects and CSR partnerships, we bring Takalam's services to communities that need them most, scaling access to culturally rooted care at a level no individual solution can reach alone. If you're an organization looking to create a real, lasting impact on community wellbeing, we'd love to build something meaningful together.

What Drives Us

We were built from lived experience, from knowing what it feels like to need help and not find it, to feel like the world wasn't designed with you in mind.

That's why privacy isn't an add-on for our users; it's foundational.
That's why cultural relevance isn't a feature; it's who we are.
That's why we keep building, not to be the biggest, but to be genuinely useful to the people we serve.

Khawla and Inas didn't set out to build a tech company; they set out to make sure no one has to walk their healing journey alone.

That's still what drives everything we do.