Today I will be talking to Onkgopotse Khumalo, the founder of The Pocket Couch and co-founder of Mediwell. She will be sharing her journey on building a mental health care startup, The Pocket Couch. The Pocket Couch enables psychologists to conduct virtual consultations, to help make mental healthcare accessible, yet affordable.

Onkgopotse is a management consultant and financier by training hailing from her alma mater, UCT.  She has a deep passion for social impact at the interception of business. Soon after graduating, she co founded a 100% women owned primary healthcare facility, Mediwell, that seeks to provide quality healthcare to those who would otherwise not afford it. 

She is setting out to democratise access to mental healthcare help and  to challenge the stigma attached to it. She prides herself in her most important role of all, being mom to a beautiful 15 month old baby boy, Mehluli