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Just looking to gauge how many of the sub's users have had a chance to learn from and consider some of the educational materials we've put together regarding AI as a self-help tool, the risks with general assistants and poorly designed specialized platforms, strategies for safe and efficient AI use, and dispelling the myths and misconceptions surrounding AI use and this sub's purpose.

If you're interested, you can find the post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/therapyGPT/s/dsQrcpUWXF

Thank you for the input and being here!

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Welcome to our first developer AMA with the platform, MyTemenos. I did some beta testing with the platform a few months ago and personally love the unique AI use-cases included, memory solutions they've implemented to keep it all interconnected, and the beautiful UI and principles/theory it's all based on.

Please remember to check the questions already asked and upvote those you want answered to avoid redundancy, adhere to the sub's rules (including the rule drop-downs), and treat them like you would if we were all face-to-face in the same room trying to make the most out of the conversation in effective good faith.

Here's MyTemenos' team's introduction:

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Hey everyone! I'm Frederik, CEO and co-founder of MyTemenos, the first Jungian depth psychology platform built around making inner work and self-actualization a whole lot more accessible. Our origin story starts where most good ideas do, in obsession. 

My cofounders and I spent last summer as a friend group reading and studying the works of Carl Jung, alchemy, hermeticism, and more modern works on therapy and psychology. We quickly discovered the immense transformative effects of recording and analyzing our dreams, confronting the shadow parts of ourselves we'd rather not look at, and allowing ourselves to express creatively for the first time. 

Much of the self-work we did at the time was mediated by ChatGPT, which proved great for dream analysis and working through difficult personal problems — but its short-term memory, its non-confrontational and even sycophantic attitude, and overall unorganized architecture left a lot to be desired. 

As we were reading Jung we finally stumbled on a concept he discussed at length: a Temenos. Temenos is a Greek word for a fortified sacred space devoted to self-actualization, development, and healing, think of it as the inner sanctum of your soul. And then it all clicked: why not create a digital Temenos and make the individuation process accessible to all? So that's exactly what we did. 

Considering none of us had any coding experience, we started out by purely vibe-coding our vision into existence. The idea was a 5-room architecture: 

- A Dream Chamber where you can upload your dreams and analyze them with our AI guide named Falkor. Falkor also keeps track of the themes, symbols and archetypes which appear in your dreams all neatly stored in your insights panel. Dreams are stored as separate sessions with the option to add AI-generated covers, making scrolling through your dream journal actually enjoyable. 

- A Shadow Dungeon meant to confront that which you'd rather not look at, the rejected, repressed, and disowned parts of yourself. But also just a place to discuss the troublesome and difficult situations life throws at you sometimes. 

- A Mandala Garden devoted to facilitating creative expression. We firmly believe one of the best ways to know yourself on a deeper level is to express yourself creatively. So why not add a place just for that. 

- An Observatory where patterns across your inner work get surfaced and synthesized — a kind of meta-awareness layer. FALKOR HAS PERSISTENT MEMORY ACROSS ALL OF YOUR SESSIONS IN ALL OF THE ROOMS, so meta-patterns detected throughout the app get brought up and explored here. 

- And finally the Threshold. This is Where theory and chit-chat end and you step out into the real world. After scanning all your conversations, Falkor generates real-world quests tailored to your unique situation. Had a conversation about a fight with your mom? Falkor might ask you to take her out for coffee. Struggling with social anxiety? He'll challenge you to give three strangers a compliment this week. 

After building our first demo we pitched it to an investor and got the green light to take it to the next level. We brought a real software engineer on board and turned our vision into reality. We're now a small but serious team: myself (CEO), my partner Olga (COO), Leon (CCO), Kris (CFO), and our lead developer Aryan. 

I'm also a philosophy student with a special interest in Jung, alchemy, and German Idealism, so this isn't just a startup for us, it's a genuine intellectual and personal project. We're building what we wish existed.

Feel free to give us a try at: https://www.mytemenos.ai/

Or Check us out on the google play or app store under MyTemenos 

We also have a reddit page and 2 instagram pages up rn: r/Temenos and "@MyTemenos."

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The rest of the team & MyTemenos.ai screenshots:

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Hey all!

My name is Alex Gopoian, the main active mod for this subreddit.

Reddit AMA post submission form said it was a good idea to put a selfie holding a sign, but I'm no celebrity. This'll do.

Short Bio:
I've experimented with ChatGPT since 3.5 was first released (jumping at the chance for something that could help me with my life's work when joining Mensa was a bust), got heavily into jailbreaking experimentally for a bit to learn how the "robopsychology" works, have my own pre-AI psych work that I started implementing into AI once custom GPTs became available years ago, I've been the main active mod for the sub since around mid July 2025 when the sub's founder, u/rastaguy, reached out to me shortly after I joined the sub, and ever since the Stanford Innapropriate Response & Bias paper came out way back when, I became big on AI safety, both by design and in user education.

I'm big on effective good faith, maintaining the idea marketplace so that it can thrive rather than get sabotaged by those using it in ways that sabotage it for others, and I'm all about a good debate (even if 99.9% of them are doomed before they start).

I've also written a few articles on Medium, so far only one on the red flags of an unproductive argument/debate, one on the importance of being open to being proven wrong (no matter how painful/uncomfortable it can be), one on the deeper issues at the heart of the "teen mental health crisis" and how the same is being seen with AI, and finally one on the intrinsic worth and always deserved self-esteem everyone has accessible to them, and a way in which to tap into it.

Was in the US Air Force, originally as a Korean Crypto-Linguist, but unfortunately having a bit of dyslexia and undiagnosed/untreated ADHD doesn't really work well with learning a language and a secret version at the same time at "firehose" speed. Have a tech, IT, e-commerce, social media marketing, design and color management background, and I used to make video game commentary videos for Machinima Respawn back in the days of YouTube only allowing the biggest names and companies monetize their channels.

All my socials and links to some of the things I've worked on can be found here.

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The main reason I'm doing this AMA is to get my head around it at least one time prior to our running AMAs in the future. We already have two developers on deck for the next two Thursdays (4/23 & 4/30).

If you're a developer who's adhered to our sub's rules, are someone who has some expertise in therapuetic self-help, AI, or have a name for yourself when it comes to your coverage of AI in this space (the good and bad), or anything like that... feel free to send us a Mod Mail message with some information about you and your work and we'll get in contact with you.

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So, have at it... ask. me. anything. I dare ya.

Look through the questions others have asked first to see if someone has already asked it and give it an upvote. I'll be tackling questions in an order based on up/down votes.

I'll be providing immediate responses from 7-9pm EST, but I'll keep responding after that as I get the chance!

Thanks for being here and helping this place be what it is for so many <3

Hey all!

We're going to start opening the floor for developers and interesting people in the space to run sub-approved Ask Me Anything events.

We have our first developer lined up for sometime next week, a platform with many unique aspects to it you're not going to see in any others that have been posted here, including some fun surprises.

To get better prepared for that, I'm going to host one Thursday night 7pm EST, where you can ask me, a mod, any questions you may have. As long as you're adhering to the sub's rules, it can be absolutely anything!

We should have the date for the next AMA by tomorrow night as well, which I'll include in the AMA post toward the bottom.

If you're worried about where the line is drawn in terms of the sub rules, the rule drop-downs further explain them, and you can get a better understanding of this sub and what we don't put up with (while trying to maximize points of view), in the sub's "Start Here - 'What is AI Therapy?'" pinned post.

As long as it's not a toxic, selfish, blatant rule violation, I try to give everyone multiple chances to notice what they're doing before taking action. Sometimes people take the point they're trying to make too far and can't see how they did. They're also used to lower standards and less care by the mods, which makes it seem like business as usual for them isn't a problem. They're usually the one's who send me personal DMs full of insults or continue to break the rules even further within mod mail before muting them. People can dish it out criticism, but often can't take it themselves. I digress!

I'm not expecting it to be big or anything, but I'm an open book and don't have anything to hide, so hit me with your best shot! 😎