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Tranquility is proud to be featured in this year’s Atlantic Business Magazine Innovation Alphabet List. A carefully curated selection of innovative companies in Atlantic Canada that are pushing the envelope and changing the world.
Startups in Halifax Reach New Customers and Raise Funds
Tranquility Online is proud to be featured in the November article from the Halifax Innovation District discussing companies that are expanding to reach new heights and new customers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Tranquility Online is proud to be one of 5 founders featured in the October 2020 issue of The Halifax Chamber of Commerce’s Business Voice magazine. Read about how our co-founder and CEO Joel Muise handled the expansion of his team during COVID-19 and how it’s fostered a strong sense of community while working remotely.
Tranquility Studies Caregiver Mental Health
Digital mental health startup Tranquility Online has partnered with researchers at Dalhousie University and The Univeristy of New Brunswick and Maritime Governments to study the implantation and evaluation of e-mental health care for parents and caregivers struggling with anxiety and depression arising from the pandemic. This research is the result of researchers being awarded a Canadian Institutes of Health Research grant.
“We believe that there are many solutions, as one size does not fit all, but a major part of the solution has to be an affordable and scalable option, based on evidence, that can act as a base for the largest cohort, which is people with mild-to-moderate anxiety and depression.”
“By giving people access to online treatments as a first step, it decreases the amount of cases that become severe, and free-up more intensive resources for those cases. The next step is getting the healthcare system to actually fund services like Tranquility, which will make getting help far more accessible for all!”
Tranquility Aids Healthcare Workers
Mental health startup Tranquility Online is collaborating with a Halifax charity, Partners For Care, to provide free services to healthcare workers in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We learn more about an online platform that helps individuals overcome anxiety and depression.
Joel Muise is the co-founder and CEO of Tranquility Online, a website where those with anxiety can access one-on-one coaching to help manage their symptoms and track their progress.
It all started with one Facebook post its Halifax co-founder and CEO wrote in 2016 (read blog).
Joel Muise was first diagnosed with general anxiety and depression in his last year of high school. He was working as a stock analyst when he wrote that post in 2016. There he shared his story of living with anxiety. Immediately, he got a response from a friend who saw themselves in Muise’s story.
“I was really surprised by his response,” Muise says. “If that was the response I got from him, I thought I should share the whole story. In 48 hours, 4,000 people had read and shared it.”
After taking his online treatment for anxiety through an initial pilot, Joel Muise is now working with those at the coalface of anxiety—entrepreneurs—before launching TranquilityOnline to the general public in the new year.
TranquilityOnline aims to make getting treatment for anxiety affordable and timely by allowing users to access online support through a coach rather than a therapist. Coaches use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, to show sufferers how to shift negative thought patterns to balanced ones, and how to face challenges rather than avoid them.
Tranquility Online, based out of Halifax, is launching its first online mental health platform for Canadians.
The company’s SaaS solution leverages Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Tranquility Online’s interactive CBT software and can also be accompanied by coaching from real people, who will be trained by the company’s internally developed training protocol.
Over the last several years, the topic of mental health has come to the forefront. What was once as a topic veiled in shame and secrecy is not being discussed openly, and for the better.
Whether it’s in the workplace, educational institutions, or at alone at home, businesses and startups worldwide are introducing products and services to help improve mental wellness, some of those startups are in Atlantic Canada.