Overview
Faresa offers psychological guidance, diagnostics, and coaching for both personal and professional growth. The company provides services including individual counseling, group sessions, career guidance, and digital diagnostic and therapeutic tools. They serve both individuals and organizations from offices in Hasselt and Brussels.
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- Yesterday I presented D-Stress at Expeditie Next in Mechelen, as part of the amai! citizen panel, where 7 Flemish AI innovations were put in front of the public for feedback. 🎤 D-Stress is an AI-supported approach to stress prevention and recovery. It’s a joint project with some great partners: IDEWE, FARESA, Cegeka, KU Leuven, VLAIO and Augment, an imec research group at KU Leuven. What I like about the amai! format is that it opens up AI applications to the public, to get their feedback while we are still developing them. Thank
- Proud that FARESA was selected to pitch at yesterday's Demo Day at the Residence of the Belgian Ambassador in London. Our founder & CEO Prof. Dr. Nele Jacobs presented Soulseed, our digital companion app for better mental health at work, to investors and ecosystem partners. Poor mental health drives 30% of sick leave of a month or more, and 40% of a year or more. Each affected employee costs their employer £2,820 a year, yet every £1 invested in mental health returns £4.7, and up to £5.9 for early screening (Deloitte, 2024).
- Faresa is pitching Soulseed at the Embassy Pitch Series: UK x Belgium on Tuesday 6 October, at the Belgian Ambassador's residence in London. Our founder & CEO Prof Dr Nele Jacobs was selected from over 300 applicants, with the help of 40+ venture capital partners, to represent Faresa alongside a group of traction-led founders from the UK and Belgium, from Seed to Series A stage. Soulseed is a guided smartphone companion, built to complement human care in between counselling sessions. It blends active data (check-ins, diary)
- Fijn dat onze aanpak van governance bij FARESA werd opgemerkt. Voor ons is een goed bestuur geen verplichting, maar een basis om te groeien. Dank aan GUBERNA - Instituut voor Bestuurders/Institut des Administrateurs en BAN Flanders - Business Angels Network Flanders voor het platform, en aan onze CEO Prof Dr Nele Jacobs om onze ervaring te delen.
- Last week our Managing Partner Dirk Antonissen spoke at the EAPA-SA Eduweek 2026 in South Africa. He took Toto, the Soulseed mascot, with him, so Toto has now been to Africa too! Dirk presented Soulseed, our hybrid platform with digital support and real-time nudging, for example for behavioural activation. There was a lot of interest, during and after his talk. Thank you to the EAPA-SA Board for the invitation and the warm welcome, and to all the professionals who shared their insights with us. Curious what Soulseed can do for your
- Soulseed at EABCT2026 in Brussels. This week, our colleague Dr. Veerle Ross presented Soulseed at the EABCT 2026 Congress. Her talk, “Beyond Effectiveness: Assessing User Experience and Engagement in a Blended Care Mental Health Intervention (Soulseed)”, focused on an important question in digital mental health: It is not enough for an intervention to work. People also need to understand it, engage with it and want to use it. Soulseed combines psychological support with personalized, context-sensitive digital support,
- From debate to evidence. 🧠 AI and digital technology in mental healthcare rightly raise critical questions about safety, trustworthiness and clinical responsibility. But an equally important question is: how do we build digital and hybrid mental healthcare that is responsible, evidence-based and genuinely useful to people? That is exactly what we at FARESA are working on together with our research and practice partners. On Thursday, 17 September, our CSO Veerle Ross will present findings on Soulseed, our blended-care mental health
- We proberen mensen niet te lang te laten wachten. Ook niet wie enkel 's avonds of in het weekend kan. Dat is net het moeilijkste. Wie voltijds werkt of via de werkgever bij ons komt, kan vaak alleen op momenten waarop de meeste praktijken gesloten zijn. Voor kinderen en jongeren geldt dat nog sterker: die zitten overdag op school. Bij ons kan het wel, en we maken er nu extra ruimte voor. Daarom zoeken we klinisch psychologen en orthopedagogen die op zelfstandige basis een dagdeel of twee willen meedraaien. 's Avonds, op
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