🧠 AI Counselling Assistant

An AI-powered mental health support prototype built during a hackathon, designed to provide empathetic, stigma-free counselling and personalized coping strategies.

✨ Features

• 💬 Empathetic AI responses using Google Gemini
• 📊 Mood tracking to monitor emotional wellbeing over time
• 📔 Secure personal journaling
• ☁️ Cloud-backed storage with AWS DynamoDB
• 🤝 Stigma-free, accessible mental health support

🛠️ Tech Stack

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python 3.x
• AWS credentials (DynamoDB access)
• Google Gemini API key

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/Kaemon/AWS-Hackathon.git
cd AWS-Hackathon

# Create and activate virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

Create a .streamlit/secrets.toml file with your credentials:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = "your_aws_access_key"
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = "your_aws_secret_key"
GEMINI_API_KEY = "your_gemini_api_key"

Run

streamlit run app.py

👥 Team

Built by a team of 4 during a hackathon under time pressure.

📚 About

Developed as a hackathon prototype to explore how AI can make mental health support more accessible and stigma-free.