Why We Exist

Art-based therapeutic interventions have demonstrated strong clinical value across a wide range of mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression, trauma, and Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS). Research consistently shows that art therapy can significantly reduce recovery time and improve patient engagement compared to many traditional therapeutic approaches.

Yet despite this evidence, access to art therapy remains limited.

Personalizing art-based interventions is highly manual and time-intensive. Therapists face increasing administrative burden, fragmented tools, and limited capacity to scale their practice beyond local and institutional boundaries. As a result, effective art therapy remains unavailable to many individuals who could benefit from it, particularly in underserved, remote, or overstretched healthcare settings.

At the same time, digital and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are rapidly entering mental healthcare, often without sufficient clinical grounding or understanding of therapeutic processes. When applied without care, these tools risk oversimplifying complex human experiences or displacing professional judgment.

ArtAICare exists to address this gap.

By combining validated research, clinical expertise, and carefully applied artificial intelligence, ArtAICare enables licensed professionals to personalize art-based interventions more efficiently, extend their reach beyond geographic limitations, and track therapeutic progress with greater clarity. This approach reduces planning overhead, strengthens reflective practice, and allows therapists to focus on what matters most: the human relationship at the heart of therapy.

Our purpose is not to automate therapy, but to amplify its impact, accessibility, and integrity in a digital world.

Our mission

Our mission is to equip licensed mental health professionals with research-based digital tools that strengthen precision, accessibility, and scale in art-based therapy, while preserving clinical autonomy and human care.

Our vision

We envision a future where art therapy is globally accessible, evidence-driven, and fully integrated into modern mental healthcare without losing its human core.

ArtAICare is building the foundational digital infrastructure for art-based mental health interventions worldwide. A platform where licensed professionals can practice across borders, where therapeutic impact is measured and continuously improved through research-backed analytics, and where innovation strengthens clinical integrity rather than competing with it.

In this future, technology does not replace therapists. It reinforces their expertise, extends their reach, and enables a more inclusive, personalized, and accountable form of care for the communities that need it most.

Our Foundations: Research, Clinical Expertise, and Technology

ArtAICare is built on a foundation of clinical practice, scientific research, and applied artificial intelligence.

The platform is developed by a multidisciplinary team with doctoral-level expertise in artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, brain-computer interfaces, art therapy and art-based mental health interventions, supported by more than 15 years of combined academic and clinical experience. This background informs how technology is designed, validated, and responsibly integrated into therapeutic workflows.

All services available through ArtAICare are grounded in research and clinical evidence. Therapeutic methodologies, recommendation systems, and analytical tools are developed in alignment with peer-reviewed studies and are validated through clinical trials. Outcomes are measured systematically to ensure therapeutic relevance, safety, and continuous improvement.

Artificial intelligence is applied selectively and with intent. Rather than automating care or replacing clinical judgment, AI supports personalization, structured intervention design, and therapeutic reflection. Its role is defined by a deep understanding of both its capabilities and limitations, ensuring that clinical autonomy, ethical responsibility, and human connection remain central.

ArtAICare, developed in close collaboration with the University of Luxembourg and the professional art therapy community, maintains active working relationships with leading professional associations, including the European Federation of Art Therapy (EFAT), hospitals, Post-ICU care clinics and independent mental health professionals. Support from these communities, including direct involvement from EFAT’s research leadership, ensures that the platform evolves in close dialogue with the field it serves.

Together, these foundations allow ArtAICare to advance digital art therapy in a way that is rigorous, ethical, and aligned with the realities of clinical practice.

Our team

Our strength lies in our individuality. Set up by Dr. Yilma, the team strives to bring in the best talent in various fields, from Computer science, Human-computer Interaction, Psychology,  Art therapy and Brain-Computer Interfaces to design a personalised healing experience.

Bereket YILMA

Founder & CEO

Luis LEIVA

CO-founder & Scientific advisor

Silvana CASTELLUCCHIO

ART THERAPIST & CONSULTANT

Tudor PRISTAV

VR/AR Developer

Angelica RINGS

VR/AR Developer

Raghav VADAVADAGI

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Past Members

Alexandre TINOUERT

Software Developer

Research Contributors

Saravanakumar DURAISAMY

Researcher

Brain Computer Interface, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Biosignal Processing

Parvin EMAMI

Researcher

Brain Computer Interface, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Biosignal Processing

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