In 2025, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into mental health care has led to the development of several innovative tools designed to provide accessible and personalized support. Below is an overview of some of the most notable AI-driven mental health tools available this year:
1. Romi: The Emotional Support Robot
Unveiled at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show, Romi is an AI-powered robot developed by Mixi Inc. to combat loneliness and depression. Priced at approximately $570, Romi features a digital face capable of over 150 expressions and engages users in conversations, adapting to their moods and recalling past interactions. Currently, Romi communicates exclusively in Japanese and is primarily available in Japan.
2. Troodi: The Mental Health Chatbot for Children
Integrated into Troomi Wireless’s child-focused smartphones, Troodi is a mental health chatbot powered by GPT-4, developed to offer children a safe space for sharing anxieties and managing stress. It provides emotional support and advice on stress management and conflict resolution, with parental monitoring features to ensure safety. While not a replacement for human therapists, Troodi serves as a supplementary tool to facilitate conversations that children may hesitate to have with their parents.
3. Headspace: Personalized Meditation and Mindfulness
Headspace continues to be a leading meditation and mindfulness platform, offering science-backed tools to help users manage stress, improve sleep, and cultivate healthy habits. With over 70 million members worldwide, the app provides a vast content library, including guided meditations, mindfulness exercises, and sleepcasts. Recent additions include mental health coaching and specific courses addressing issues like financial stress and sleep.
4. E.V.E.: AI Therapist and Helper
Mindvalley is developing an AI tool named E.V.E. designed to act as a therapist and helper, providing guidance in various aspects of life using wearable devices to sense user emotions. E.V.E. offers personalized advice on health, relationships, career, and financial goals, delivering custom content and podcasts tailored to individual users. This AI aims to enhance social connections by introducing users with shared interests and promoting mental health and happiness.
5. Wysa: AI-Powered Mental Health Support
Wysa is an AI-driven mental health support chatbot that uses a combination of cognitive-behavioral techniques and artificial intelligence to offer personalized mental health care. It is designed to support users through various mental health challenges by providing tailored interactions and resources. Wysa has gained significant traction, securing $20 million in funding to expand its services.
6. Woebot: AI Chatbot for Therapy
Developed by a team of Stanford psychologists and AI experts, Woebot is an app that makes therapy sessions available 24/7. It tracks users’ moods through brief daily chat conversations and offers curated videos or word games to assist in managing mental health. Woebot utilizes evidence-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques to provide support.
7. MentalAgora: Personalized AI Mental Health Support
MentalAgora is a novel framework employing large language models enhanced by interaction between multiple agents for tailored mental health support. This framework operates through strategic debating, tailored counselor creation, and response generation, enabling dynamic customization of responses based on individual user preferences and therapeutic needs. Studies have shown that MentalAgora generates expert-aligned and user preference-enhanced responses, setting a new benchmark for digital mental health interventions.
8. CaiTI: Conversational AI Therapist
In collaboration with licensed psychotherapists, CaiTI is a platform that leverages large language models and smart devices to enable better mental health self-care. CaiTI can screen day-to-day functioning using natural and psychotherapeutic conversations, providing personalized conversation flow and psychotherapeutic interventions, including cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and motivational interviewing (MI). Studies demonstrate that CaiTI can converse with users naturally, accurately understand and interpret responses, and provide appropriate and effective psychotherapeutic interventions.
9. Neurable’s MW75 Neuro Smart Headphones
Boston-based Neurable has launched the MW75 Neuro smart headphones, utilizing EEG technology and AI to track and improve focus by reading brain waves. These headphones blend noise-canceling features with 12 EEG sensors, aiming to bring brainwave tracking into everyday settings to enhance productivity and mental wellness. Users can earn focus points through activities recorded by the device, which primarily senses alpha and beta brain waves. While promising for consumer focus enhancement, questions about data accuracy and privacy persist.
10. Thrive AI Health: Personalized AI Health Coach
OpenAI and Thrive Global have introduced Thrive AI Health, a personalized AI health coach app. This app provides real-time recommendations on sleep, nutrition, exercise, stress management, and social connections, based on the best scientific evidence and personal health data. By offering precise, individualized advice, Thrive AI Health aims to assist users in making health-promoting decisions in their daily lives, potentially reducing health disparities and improving overall well-being.
These AI-driven tools represent a significant advancement in mental health care, offering accessible and personalized support to individuals worldwide. While they provide valuable resources, it is essential to recognize that they are designed to complement, not replace, traditional mental health services provided by human professionals.
