Mentallys
Mentallys is a platform for accessing care and managing mental health treatment pathways, consisting of a mobile app for users and a web portal for professionals. It is a digital self-care and care access solution that supports the recovery of people struggling with mental health issues and facilitates remote monitoring and communication between users and healthcare professionals.
Responsible researcher Stéphane Vial
⚠️ This video presents the possibilities offered by the Mentallys mobile app. The features provided to end users may vary depending on the terms and conditions chosen by the Mentallys provider offering access to the app.
Designing together
Mentallys, the result of inclusive co-design
The Mentallys platform was co-created using an intensive and innovative co-design process. Co-design is a collective creative approach applied to the entire product design process, involving both design experts and people with no design training. In the case of Mentallys, the people with no design training are patient partners, peer supporters, and healthcare professionals, while the design experts are design researchers, designers, and design students.
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18,4 %
of Quebecers report poor to fair mental health
21 068
people in Quebec waiting to receive public mental health care (in 2022-2023)
Mentallys'mission
Facilitating mental health care pathways by providing digital solutions based on empathy and creativity
A comprehensive platform
Mobile app and web portal
Mentallys is a comprehensive digital platform consisting of a mobile app for users and a web portal for healthcare professionals. The platform offers a range of integrated features that are synchronized between mobile and web. The Mentallys app is currently only available on Android, as a private invitation-only version. Contact us to try it out.
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Acknowledgement
Finalist for the OCTAS and ADRIQ Social Innovation Awards
In 2025, the Mentallys platform was completed and, on behalf of the UQAM Diament Chair, it was named a finalist in the OCTAS Competition, an event that highlights and celebrates IT excellence and innovation across Quebec, as well as in the ADRIQ Social Innovation Award, the Association for the Development of Research and Innovation in Quebec. In 2022, Mentallys also won the UQAM Partnership Award for the potential of its partnership approach based on co-design.
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Stéphane Vial
Founder and coordinatorStéphane Vial is a full professor at the School of Design at the University of Quebec in Montreal, a regular researcher at the IUSMM Research Center, and holder of the UQAM Diament Chair in Design for Mental Cybersealth (2020-2025). He was co-director of the Axel Center from January 2024 to June 2025.
Stéphane had the idea of creating a digital platform for mental health in 2011. Over time, the idea grew and in 2019 became the Mentallys project within the Diament Chair in Design for Mental Cyberhealth, created before the pandemic at the Université du Québec à Montréal, in collaboration with the Research Center of the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal. The emergence phase of Mentallys took place between 2020 and 2024, culminating in 2025 with a fully operational first version of the platform, which is currently being implemented.
Stéphane previously worked as a clinical psychologist in Paris, first as a volunteer in a public psychiatric service (Asm13), then as a psychologist in an intensive care and kidney transplant unit at Tenon Hospital. He was also a mental health caregiver for several years, which led him to personally experience many healthcare services in Quebec and France.
Born in France, Stéphane holds a PhD in philosophy (Paris Descartes University). He has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in clinical psychology (Paris 7 Denis Diderot University), as well as a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in philosophy from Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University.