TMind AI Media Room

Explore TMind AI’s company background, leadership biographies,
and work in AI clinical simulation and healthcare workforce development.

About TMind AI

TMind AI helps healthcare professionals and students practice clinical conversations
through AI-simulated patient interactions and feedback.

Mission

To make realistic clinical conversation practice more accessible, helping healthcare professionals and students learn, reflect, and grow.

Vision

Every Patient Deserves Clinicians at Their Best. We want a future where anyone, anywhere can access quality healthcare delivered by skilled, confident clinicians.

Short description

TMind AI is an AI clinical simulation platform that helps healthcare professionals and students practice patient conversations, receive feedback, and build clinical confidence. Rooted in mental health education, TMind is building toward a broader vision of healthcare workforce development infrastructure, with human clinicians, educators, and clinical judgment at the center.

Standard description

TMind AI develops AI-simulated patient experiences for clinical training. The platform gives healthcare professionals and students opportunities to practice conversations, reflect on their responses, receive feedback, and practice again in a low-stakes learning environment. Rooted in mental health education, TMind brings a “clinical flight simulator” approach to learning: realistic, repeatable practice that helps connect classroom knowledge with patient-facing conversations. Its training tools include customizable simulated clients, text and voice interactions, and post-session feedback. TMind’s broader vision is to build healthcare workforce development infrastructure that supports universities, clinical training programs, and health systems as they prepare people for the conversations involved in care. Its AI simulations are designed to support learning and human expertise. They do not replace clinicians, educators, supervisors, or clinical judgment.

The people building TMind AI

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Cindy Nie

Founder & CEO

Cindy Nie is the Founder and CEO of TMind AI, an AI clinical simulation platform for healthcare training. Her experience teaching clinical social work students and running a mental health agency has shaped her interest in the gap between classroom learning and real-world practice. At TMind, she is advancing a vision of more accessible, repeatable clinical practice that supports the people who provide care. Her approach keeps human clinicians and educators at the center as the company expands its focus from mental health education toward broader healthcare workforce development.

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Leonardo Sousa, Ph.D.

Co-Founder

Leonardo da Silva Sousa, Ph.D., is Co-Founder of TMind AI. His research background includes software engineering, refactoring, software architecture, empirical software analysis, and machine learning in healthcare. At TMind, he combines technical expertise with an interest in human-centered learning to help translate clinical training needs into AI simulation experiences. His work contributes to the company’s approach to repeatable patient conversations, reflection, and practice.

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From the Newsroom

TMind AI’s CSWE 2025 Booth Featured on the CSWE Homepage

A photo taken at TMind AI’s exhibit booth during CSWE’s 71st Annual Conference (October 23–26, 2025, Denver) appears on the homepage of the Council on Social Work Education, the national association for social work education in the United States.

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TMind AI Named a Rising Seattle Startup Transforming Mental Health Workforce Training

GeekWire's Startup Radar spotlighted TMind AI as one of Seattle's rising companies building software to support therapists and the broader mental health workforce. The feature highlights TMind AI's role in mental-health innovation and practitioner skill-building, alongside other breakthrough Pacific Northwest startups.

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How One Community Organizer Is Raising Awareness & Access to Mental Health Resources

Harvard Business School Online profiled Cindy Nie, founder of TMind AI, on her mission to close the mental health access gap. The feature traces her journey from international student to entrepreneur, building platforms that connect people with care faster, and training the next generation of mental health professionals.

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