Labayh

Riyadh-based mental wellbeing platform offering remote sessions, support groups and corporate programmes with licensed specialists.

Industry: Digital mental health | Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Founded: 2018

About Labayh

Labayh (لبيه) is a Saudi mental health and wellbeing platform that delivers psychological and family counselling remotely through a mobile app and website. Users can book scheduled sessions, request an immediate session within minutes, join support groups, follow treatment programmes and watch recorded talks. The company also offers mental health assessments and a separate offering for employers, Labayh for Business, which bundles wellbeing programmes for staff and workplace-climate indicators.

Per the company's website, more than 1,000 licensed specialists, including physicians, psychologists and family counsellors, deliver sessions on topics such as depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, social phobia, parenting and couples counselling. The site cites 70 million consultation minutes delivered, and the app listing shows a 4.6 rating from more than 806,000 reviews. These are company-reported figures. Labayh also runs an academy and a blog, and invites specialists to join the platform.

Founder Basim Albeladi started the company in 2018 after receiving remote treatment for post-traumatic stress, according to an Arabian Business young achievers list. The company lists offices in Riyadh and Madinah and a support line in Saudi Arabia.

A yespress.io profile reports that Labayh closed a seed round in July 2021 led by 500 Global and signalled Series A plans in September 2021; no amount was found and no Series A closing was confirmed. The same profile says Labayh passed one million users and acquired the UAE meditation app Nafas in 2023. These items come from a promotional profile and have not been confirmed by a second source.

The platform positions privacy as a core feature and offers new users a discount on a first session. It operates in Arabic with an English interface option, serving individuals and organisations across Saudi Arabia and the wider region.

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