አማርኛ and local languages
Our home base. The deepest therapist network and the strongest local partnerships, with matching in Amharic, Afaan Oromoo, Tigrinya and English.
Helpline 952
Telebirr · CBE · Awash
Here for East Africa
Mental wellness starts before the breakdown.
Build everyday resilience with Lebona. Free tools you can use tonight, and when you want more, a care coordinator personally matches you with a verified psychologist who speaks your language.
Matching is done by people, so it takes 24–48 hours. It is not for emergencies.
If you are in crisis, call Ethiopia's helpline
952 now.
Step 1
Complete the intake form
About 8 minutes. No account, no payment.
Step 2
Care coordinator review
A person reads it within 24–48 hours.
Step 3
Direct outreach & booking
We reach you on WhatsApp, Telegram or by phone.
Why preventive
Care shouldn't start at the emergency room.
Consider a young professional navigating workplace stress. Without daily management tools, that stress gradually turns into severe burnout, isolation and anxiety, and only then does anyone call it a mental health problem.
Lebona is built to step in long before that. Just as we invest in preventive physical health through nutrition and movement, we need accessible, everyday preventive mental health. Regular, proactive self-care builds the emotional immunity to handle life's challenges before they become critical.
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Adults live with a mental health condition worldwide
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To complete the intake form, one question at a time
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Maximum wait before a care coordinator reaches you
Free
Every self-guided tool, worksheet and screening on this site
Where we work
One region, three doors in
Your country decides which pool of licensed psychologists your coordinator draws from, which helpline we show you, and how you pay.
Kiswahili and English
High digital-health adoption and mature mobile money, so paying for a session takes seconds. Strong corporate and workplace wellness programmes.
Helpline 1190
M-Pesa
Kinyarwanda and English
Progressive digital health policy and clear cross-border frameworks, which means a clean, well-regulated environment for online care.
Helpline 116
MTN · Airtel Money
Therapists are verified against the Kenya Counsellors and Psychologists Board, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, and the Rwanda Allied Health Professions Council. See how we vet.
Everything in one place
Start with a tool. Move to a person when you want one.
Most people begin on the free side and never need to be in crisis to get value. Both doors stay open.
Daily check-ins & self-help tools
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Guided breathing, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, mood and habit trackers, CBT thought records and gratitude logs. Low-friction things that keep your emotional balance steady every day, not just on the bad ones.
Open the toolkitHuman-guided professional care
IndividualCouplesTeens
A thoughtful intake process where our care coordination team personally matches you with a verified psychologist in Ethiopia, Kenya or Rwanda, tailored to your language, culture and goals. No algorithm deciding on its own.
See how matching worksSelf-assessment screenings
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Evidence-based questionnaires adapted from PHQ-4, GAD-7 and WHO-5 that give you immediate feedback on where your stress sits, so you can decide for yourself whether it's time to speak to a coordinator.
Take a screeningEducation & skill building
ArticlesMasterclassesPDF kits
Bite-sized guides on burnout, family pressure and exam anxiety; ten-minute video modules from verified local psychologists; and downloadable starter kits like the First-Time Therapy Guide and Panic Attack First Aid.
Browse the libraryCrisis & emergency helplines
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Immediate, localised support numbers for the times when waiting is not an option. Always one tap away, in the bar at the top of every page, and never behind a form.
Crisis support
Getting matched
Three steps, and a real person at the middle of them
We are deliberately not automating this part. A coordinator reading your answers catches things a form never will.
Step one
Complete the intake form
Your country, language, what you'd like support with, a short well-being check, and how you'd like to be contacted. Around eight minutes, one question per screen.
Step two
Care coordinator review
Within 24–48 hours a trained coordinator reviews your answers against the verified therapist pool in your country, and checks whether online care is right for you at all.
Step three
Direct outreach & booking
We reach you on the channel you chose, WhatsApp, Telegram, phone or email, at the time of day you said suits you, introduce your therapist, and arrange payment and the first session.
Because a person does the matching, there is a wait
This service is not for immediate medical emergencies. If you are in crisis, contact your national helpline directly, Ethiopia 952 · Kenya 1190 · Rwanda 116, or go to the nearest health facility. Do not wait for manual matching.
Start the intake form
Free · No account · Stop at any point
From our founder
Beneath every programme, peace building, economic resilience, education, there was a missing foundational layer: the mental well-being of the people involved.
Lebona began not from a personal mental health crisis, but from years of working directly in social and community development, walking into communities day after day and seeing the same pattern. A person's mental state is the engine behind all meaningful progress. We didn't need to wait for a crisis to start caring for our minds.
Read the full storyQuestions people ask first
Within 24 to 48 hours of submitting the intake form. A care coordinator, a trained person, not an automated system, reads your answers, selects a therapist from the verified pool in your country, and reaches you on the channel you chose. If your answers suggest you need help faster than that, we say so immediately and point you at your national helpline rather than letting you wait.
No, and this is the point. Lebona is built around preventive care: therapy and self-help tools are regular self-care practices, like exercise or nutrition, not emergency measures. A large share of our users come for stress management, burnout prevention and personal growth. The intake form asks explicitly whether you're seeking proactive self-growth or clinical support, and routes you accordingly.
Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda, with matching in English, Amharic, Kiswahili and Kinyarwanda, plus Afaan Oromoo and Tigrinya within Ethiopia. Use the country selector in the header to set yours; it decides which therapist pool your coordinator draws from and which crisis helpline we show you.
Through the local channel you already use: Telebirr or a bank transfer (CBE, Awash) in Ethiopia, M-Pesa in Kenya, MTN Mobile Money or Airtel Money in Rwanda. Payment is arranged directly with your coordinator once you've been matched. You send a screenshot or transaction ID, we confirm it, and the session is booked. Full details are on the fees and payment page.
Your intake form is read by one care coordinator and the therapist you're matched with, and by nobody else. Nothing is shared with family, employers or your community. Because matching is manual, we tell you plainly in our privacy notice that a human reviews your answers. That is not hidden in a clause. The only exception is the one every clinician carries: a serious, immediate risk to life.
Every therapist is verified against their national body before joining the roster: the Kenya Counsellors and Psychologists Board, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, or the Rwanda Allied Health Professions Council. We check credentials directly with the issuing institution and require ongoing supervision.
Everything here is built for a weak connection. The self-guided tools work offline once loaded, worksheets download as small PDFs, sessions can run over an ordinary phone call, and coordinator contact happens on WhatsApp, Telegram or by phone, whichever costs you least.
Take the first step
You don't need a crisis to deserve support.
Eight minutes of questions, or one free breathing exercise. Both are a legitimate place to start.