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Krystian Fikert
Founder and Chief Executive Officer

About Krystian Fikert

About Krystian Fikert

About Krystian Fikert

About Krystian Fikert

Krystian Fikert is Founder and CEO of MyMind. Krystian set up MyMind in 2006 in response to Ireland’s complicated mental health system. Krystian Fikert is trained as a clinical psychologist. Krystian’s role is to continue promoting the MyMind model of mental health services and its huge potential to lead changes in relation to improving community well-being in Ireland.

Krystian is passionate about MyMind, and has received several social entrepreneur awards that illustrate his commitment including the Social Entrepreneur Ireland Level 2 award 2009; 2010 Captain Cathal Ryan Scholarship; SEI Elevator Programme in 2011; Ashoka Fellow elected in 2011; and Change Nation - ChangeMaker 2012.



Country:  Ireland
Region:  Europe

Mission:   The mission of MyMind is to build a network of community-based mental health services that are accessible and affordable for every person around us and we plan on making our business model of offering affordable and accessible mental health care in as many countries as possible in the foreseeable future.
Sector:  Health
Year Founded:  2006
Website:  www.MyMind.org

Description:   MyMind was founded in 2006, initially as a response to a non-existing mental health support for the general population in public services. MyMind is a self-referral provider of psychological and psychotherapy services to people who are seeking mental health support.

As a non-profit social enterprise, MyMind is committed to our clients first, with ambitions to scale and help more people annually. Profits made from our fee-paying clients are used to subsidize our clients who cannot afford full fees. This highly scalable business model allows rapid growth; MyMind is one of a few Irish charities with potential to grow a social enterprise model in a sustainable manner, so as not to depend on grants and donations in the future, if we can achieve a critical mass of annual clients using our services.


Social Impact:   Since 2006, MyMind has supported over 4,000 clients directly on a face-to-face therapy setting and another 4,000 online. MyMind has been growing significantly every year, by up to 25 to 30%.

We have promoted a huge impact not only for the individuals served but also for their families, partners, work colleagues and communities, with estimation of at least 50,000 since the beginning of our organization.

In 2011 MyMind served over 1,100 adults and children and additionally over 1,000 clients who have used MyMind services online.

Our team grew from 1 in 2006 to 50 in 2012. We are now able to offer mental health support in 12 different languages.

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