Question 1

What is Mindkin?

Accepted Answer

Mindkin is a self-led practice for understanding yourself and moving your life forward. Guided sessions help you look at what’s going on inside you, then turn what you learn into a clear direction and concrete steps.

Question 2

What is productive introspection?

Accepted Answer

It’s where Internal Family Systems (IFS) meets your life’s vision and committed action. You look inward to understand why you react the way you do. Then you use what you find to decide where you want to go and take steps toward it.

Question 3

Who is it for?

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Anyone who wants to understand why they do what they do and turn that into change. Maybe a habit keeps getting in your way, or part of you wants one thing while another part wants something else. Or you simply want to know yourself better.

Question 4

Can I try it before I pay?

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Yes. Your first session needs no account, and the first five sessions are free. A paid subscription then unlocks the full Mindkin experience and unlimited continuous work.

Question 5

Is Mindkin therapy?

Accepted Answer

No. Mindkin is a self-led practice built on Internal Family Systems, a model many therapists use. It doesn’t diagnose you, and it doesn’t replace a therapist.

Question 6

Can I use it alongside therapy?

Accepted Answer

Yes. If you see a therapist, tell them you’re using Mindkin so the two can work together.

Question 7

When should I see a therapist instead?

Accepted Answer

When what you’re facing is more than the ordinary hard parts of life. That includes trauma, feelings that won’t lift, or anything that makes daily life hard to manage. Mindkin also stops short of the deepest IFS work, called exile work, which is best done with a trained IFS therapist.

Question 8

Who is Mindkin not for?

Accepted Answer

Anyone in crisis, or anyone who needs medical or psychiatric care.

Question 9

What should I do if I’m in crisis?

Accepted Answer

Call your local emergency number or contact a crisis helpline now. Mindkin is not crisis support. While it will try to identify intense emotions and try to calm the situation down, it is not built to notice a crisis or to get you the help you need.

Question 10

What happens in my first session?

Accepted Answer

You start with whatever is on your mind. Mindkin asks you to recall a recent moment when you felt it, then helps you focus on one thought or feeling and get to know the part of you behind it. At the end you get a short summary of what you found.

Question 11

What’s in the introduction?

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Five sessions, each building on the last: Your first session, Accessing the Self, Building trust, Going deeper and A future to reach.

Question 12

How long is a session?

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Length can vary depending on what you’re working with. But we recommend you have at least 10–20 minutes of focused time for the first session.

Question 13

How often should I use it?

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As often as it helps you. The five introduction sessions build on each other, so take them in order. Some do them after each other, while others notice they need some time in between. As with all of Mindkin, you’re in charge of the pace and progress.

Question 14

What do I need?

Accepted Answer

A phone or computer, some quiet time and something on your mind. You don’t need to prepare or know anything about IFS.

Question 15

Can I stop halfway?

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Yes. Stop whenever you want. With an account, your progress is saved and you can continue where you left off. Before you sign up, your first session is kept only in this browser, and starting a new one replaces it.

Question 16

What is Internal Family Systems (IFS)?

Accepted Answer

A way of understanding the mind, developed in the 1980s by the family therapist Richard Schwartz. It sees your mind as made up of parts, each trying to help you in its own way.

Question 17

What are parts?

Accepted Answer

The different sides of you, each with its own thoughts, feelings and aims. Your inner critic is a part. So is the part that says yes when you mean no. IFS holds that every part is trying to help, even when it makes life harder. It doesn’t mean you have multiple personalities. Everyone has parts.

Question 18

What is the Self?

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The calm and curious you beneath all your parts. IFS holds that everyone has a Self, and that it can be hidden but never damaged. When your parts step back, the Self can lead.

Question 19

Do I need to know IFS first?

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No. Each session explains what you need as you go.

Question 20

What is vision work?

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Forming a clear picture of the life you want to live. In the last introduction session, you describe where you’d like to be in three to five years. Then you connect that to one manageable next step.

Question 21

What do you mean by deliberate action?

Accepted Answer

Taking concrete steps toward your vision, on purpose. Looking inward is half the work, and the other half is deciding where you want to go and doing something about it. The sessions will also ask you to turn what you’ve learned into things to act on in your life.

Question 22

Am I talking to an AI?

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Yes. Sessions are guided by an AI, following a structure we built around IFS.

Question 23

Does a person ever read my sessions?

Accepted Answer

The tools we use to run Mindkin never show what you write. They show sign-ups and usage counts only. We have a group of testers who share their sessions for quality improvements. All testers approve this before their sessions are analyzed anonymously.

Question 24

Can the AI get things wrong?

Accepted Answer

Yes. It can misunderstand you or say something that doesn’t fit. You’re the one leading, so trust your own sense of what’s true for you and correct it when it’s off.

Question 25

Why an AI and not a person?

Accepted Answer

Because it’s there whenever you need it, at your own pace. It guides you with questions and leaves the answers to you. For the deepest work, a trained therapist is still the right choice.

Question 26

What do you store?

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Your email address, your name, your sessions and basic usage data. That includes the summaries and part names from your sessions. We keep them so Mindkin can run and remember your progress.

Question 27

Who can read my conversations?

Accepted Answer

To write its replies, Mindkin sends your conversation to Google’s Gemini, and Google’s data rules apply to that. If you speak instead of typing, your recording goes to OpenAI to be turned into text.

Question 28

Are my conversations used to train AI?

Accepted Answer

Not by us. We don’t use your conversations to train AI models.

Question 29

Do you sell my data?

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No. We don’t sell your data, and we don’t use it for advertising.

Question 30

Can I delete my data?

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Yes. Go to Settings and choose Delete account. That removes your account and everything you’ve written.

Question 31

Is there a free way to try it?

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Yes. Your first session needs no account, and the first five introduction sessions are free.

Question 32

How much does it cost?

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Full access is €9 a month, or €7 a month when you pay for a year, which is €84. If you sign up at that price, we will never raise your fee and you will never be asked to pay more.

Question 33

How do I cancel?

Accepted Answer

You can cancel at any time, and you have access to Mindkin until your last payment period runs out.

Question 34

Can I get a refund?

Accepted Answer

Yes. If you don’t find value in the tool, we’ll refund your latest payment. Just contact us if that is the case.

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