Limina - The Ecosystem for Psychedelic Aftercare
Mina

The ground in your garden
is soft.

Mina is here to help you tend to it.

The ecosystem for psychedelic aftercare

Participant-supported · Practitioner-connected · Governed for the field

The moment we are in

The psychedelic care market
is no longer emerging.

6,000+
ketamine clinics in the US
440+
psychedelic retreat locations identified globally (PLOS One, 2025)
$6.8T
global wellness economy (GWI, 2024)
2 states
with legal psilocybin therapy, a third launching 2026

The field is producing profound experiences at scale. It has not produced the infrastructure to support what happens next.

The gap

Most people navigate
integration alone.

The most common retreat format is three days. Participants arrive, have one of the most significant experiences of their lives, and go home. The integration period, where lasting change is anchored or lost, is almost entirely unaddressed.

Therapist-led
$150-$300/hr. High quality. Inaccessible to most.
Wellness apps
Not designed for this population. No clinical specificity.
Nothing
The most common option.

No scalable, clinically informed, participant-centered integration platform exists for this field.

Introducing Limina

Three integrated functions.
Starting with Mina.

Mina

Free anonymous AI-powered integration companion. Available to anyone, any time. Built on clinical methodology. Governed for participant privacy.

Practitioner matching

When participants need human support, Mina connects them to a vetted network of licensed, trained practitioners. Warm referrals, not cold directories.

Practitioner platform

Professional tier giving network practitioners access to aggregated field data, client tools, and practice development resources.

Meet Mina

She is available at 2am
when nothing else is.

Mina is structured around five territories of integration: Arriving, Feeling, Making Sense, Tending, and What Remains. They are not steps. They are places participants return to as their experience unfolds over days, weeks, and months.

  • Asks one question at a time. Moves at the participant's pace.
  • Free. No login. No identifying data collected.
  • Follows the participant's thread, not a checklist
  • Somatic check-ins track sensation across sessions
  • Knows when to refer to human support rather than trying to be therapy
Mina - Present
Something brought you here. You do not need to have it figured out yet.

What has been present for you since your experience?
I keep having the same image surface. I do not know what it means.
It is not asking to be solved. It seems like it is asking to be seen.

Where do you notice it in your body?
Scripted demo. The full tool will feature adaptive AI conversation, session continuity, and longitudinal somatic tracking.
Technical architecture

Anonymous by design.
Not by policy.

Most platforms promise privacy. Mina's architecture makes identification structurally impossible. There is no database of identifiable mental health data to breach, subpoena, or sell. This is not a feature. It is the engineering.

Custom anonymous authentication

No signup screen. The app silently generates an anonymous identity on first visit. No email, no name, no phone number at any layer. Participants can optionally add a passphrase, recovery code, or biometric passkey to return from other devices. All of these preserve the same anonymous identity. The authentication system is custom-built, not off-the-shelf, because no existing auth library supports genuine anonymity with this level of security. Our co-founder describes it as a rare combination: anonymous and secure.

Client-side PII redaction

Before a participant's words ever leave their device, a Named Entity Recognition model strips names, locations, and other identifiers. The servers never see the original text. The AI never sees it. If someone writes "my therapist Dr. Chen suggested I try this," the system stores "my therapist Dr. Maple suggested I try this." The redaction happens in the browser, not after the fact.

Separated data architecture

Conversation content and decryption context are stored in separate databases connected only by anonymous identifier. Metadata is stripped. Timestamps are fuzzed. Even in a breach scenario, an attacker would find anonymized, redacted text fragments with no way to connect them to a person, a device, or a session time.

Zero-retention AI layer

Mina's conversational intelligence runs through a proxied connection to the AI backend with zero-data-retention enabled. The proxy ensures the API key never touches the browser. The AI processes the conversation and returns a response. It does not store, train on, or retain the exchange.

Abuse prevention without identity

No-login systems are vulnerable to resource drain. Mina uses layered abuse prevention: IP rate limiting, per-session token budgets, device fingerprinting, and human verification at account creation. None of these require or collect identity.

The result: a participant can use Mina for months, across devices, with session continuity and longitudinal tracking, and the platform genuinely does not know who they are. This is the trust moat competitors cannot replicate by adding a privacy toggle.

Distribution

Retreat centers, clinics, and churches
become the distribution layer.

Organizations that produce psychedelic experiences have nothing to offer participants after departure. Mina fills that gap. Organizations distribute Mina to every participant via link or QR code at checkout. Free for participants. Zero friction.

The value back to organizations: anonymized, aggregated impact data over time. Not per-cohort snapshots that could re-identify individuals in small groups, but longitudinal patterns across all participants who opt in. Themes, engagement duration, referral rates. Never individual content.

For participants
Free integration support. Their data stays private.
For organizations
Aggregate outcome data. Evidence of aftercare commitment.
Structural separation
Organizations see patterns. Participants keep privacy. Neither side accesses the other's.
Practitioner network

When conversation becomes connection

Mina reads depth of conversation and, when the moment is right, surfaces practitioner cards in-chat. Warm referrals drawn from themes, not intake forms.

SK
Sarah K., LCSW
KAP Certified · Licensed in LA, TX
GriefTraumaKetamine Integration
New Orleans, LA · Telehealth available

"I work at the intersection of somatic experience and meaning-making."

Groundwork Certified
DR
Dr. David R., PhD
Clinical Psychologist · MAPS Trained
PTSDExistentialMDMA Integration
Austin, TX · Telehealth available

"Integration is where the real work begins. I help build the bridge."

Groundwork Certified
MT
Maya T., LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor · CIIS Graduate
AnxietyIdentityPsilocybin Integration
Denver, CO · Telehealth only

"Whatever opened, I help you tend it with care and intention."

Certification in progress
Why the Foundation exists

The field's biggest risk is not
regulation. It is trust.

Every high-profile failure in psychedelic medicine has been a trust failure. Trial misconduct. Ethical violations at clinic sites. Companies that promised safety and delivered extraction. The pattern is clear: when commercial pressure governs clinical standards, the standards erode.

Limina's answer is structural, not promissory. The Groundwork Ethics Foundation is a permanently independent nonprofit that owns the ethical standards, governs the data architecture, and sets practitioner criteria. It cannot be acquired by the PBC. Its board excludes anyone financially dependent on Limina's commercial success.

Limina PBC

Builds the product. Runs the network. Generates revenue. Returns value to investors.

Operates within the Foundation's ethical framework as a condition of the license.

Groundwork Ethics Foundation

Permanently independent nonprofit. Owns the ethical standards. Governs the data architecture. Approves every research data licensing agreement. Sets practitioner criteria. Cannot be acquired.

The Foundation is not a constraint on the PBC. It is the reason participants trust the platform, practitioners join the network, clinics license the product, and regulators do not shut it down. For investors, it is the trust moat that compounds over time.

Participant data sovereignty

This is not a privacy policy.
It is an architecture.

Mina holds participant data anonymously, not pseudonymously. The platform does not know who participants are. There is no honeypot of identifiable mental health data waiting to be subpoenaed, hacked, or sold.

For participants
Genuine safety, not a policy
For practitioners
Informed referrals without identity exposure
For regulators
Zero liability profile
For investors
The trust moat competitors cannot replicate

In a field where every competitor stores identifiable mental health data, Limina's architecture means there is nothing to breach. That is not a feature. It is a structural position.

Revenue model

Multiple streams.
All aligned with participant trust.

Revenue streamDescriptionEst. pricing
Mina, participant tierFree forever. Trust foundation. Data engine.Always free
Practitioner listingMonthly subscription to join the network$50-$150/mo
Practitioner premiumAggregate data, client tools, practice insights$200-$400/mo
Training pathwayCurriculum for practitioners who do not yet qualify$500-$2,000
Limina ClinicLicensed integration infrastructure for clinical settings$500-$2,000/mo
Research licensingAnonymized dataset for academic and pharma usePer agreement
Competitive landscape

Every competitor does one thing.
Mina does what none of them do.

PlatformPsych-specificAnonymousAI conversationPractitioner matchingData ownershipIndependent governance
Fireside Project Crisis / peer
Mindleap Marketplace
Nue Life At-home KAP
Journey Clinical KAP platform
ChatGPT General AI
Mina (Limina) Integration AI
Why now

The window to build the trusted
integration platform is open.

Settings proliferating

Ketamine clinics in every major city. Psilocybin legal in two states with a third launching this year. Retreat centers opening faster than anyone can evaluate.

Trust deficit is the opportunity

MDMA rejected by the FDA over integrity concerns. Field Trip collapsed. Every failure in this field has been a trust failure. The organization that solves trust wins.

First mover in trust infrastructure

Participant trust cannot be bought or fast-followed. The platform they rely on for their most vulnerable processing becomes structurally embedded. Network effects apply. The data compounds.

The founding team

Michael VanderWaal,
LCSW

Founder, Clinical Architecture

8 years clinical experience, 5 years KAP specialization
Multi-state licensure: MO, MI, KS, LA, FL
Trained through Journey Clinical, CIIS, Polaris Insight Center
Co-founding a boutique ketamine clinic in New Orleans (opening 2026)
Founder, Caring Practitioners Circle
Director of People, Nola AI

Ehren Abbott

Co-founder, AI Systems Architecture

AI engineer with deep experience in foundational model infrastructure
Designed and built Mina's custom anonymous authentication system
Architected the Privacy-First technical stack from the ground up
Background in AI safety and responsible deployment

Clinical depth and technical depth in the same founding team. The clinician sets the standard. The engineer builds the system that holds it.

The ecosystem

Limina does not replace what exists.
It connects what's missing.

The psychedelic field has crisis support, media, research, and advocacy. What it lacks is integration infrastructure that ties them together. Limina is designed to be the connective layer.

Crisis handoff

Fireside Project

Free psychedelic peer support line. 35,000+ calls served. Fireside handles crisis. Mina handles what comes after. The referral is already architected into the product in both directions.

Zendo Project

MAPS' harm reduction arm at festivals and events. Event-based care with no follow-up infrastructure. Mina provides the integration layer after participants leave.

Distribution infrastructure

Retreat Guru

Booking platform serving 400+ retreat centers and 500K+ participants. A single integration gives Mina access to hundreds of organizations at the point of departure.

Retreat centers, clinics, churches

Organizations that produce psychedelic experiences have nothing to offer at checkout. Mina fills the gap via link or QR code. Free for participants. Aggregate outcome data flows back.

Media & education

Psychedelics Today

Leading media and education platform. Practitioner audience. Training programs. Content partnership and practitioner pipeline alignment.

DoubleBlind

Psychedelic media reaching the participant population directly. Integration education is core to their mission. Mina as a recommended resource in courses and content.

Research & data

MAPS

Now focused on stewarding research infrastructure and therapist training. Limina's anonymized longitudinal dataset fills a gap no clinical trial can: what happens when people go home.

Academic research centers

Johns Hopkins, NYU, UC Berkeley, Imperial College. Cross-substance, cross-setting, participant-reported integration data governed by an independent foundation. The dataset they need but cannot build through trials.

These are not speculative partnerships. They are structural relationships designed into the product architecture. Each organization serves a specific function in the participant journey. Limina is the layer that connects them.

The psychedelic care field will produce tens of millions of people who need integration support.

Right now, most of them are navigating alone.

Mina tends the garden. The Foundation keeps it honest. The network makes it human.

LIMINA

vanderlcsw@gmail.com · vanderlcsw.com