The ground in your garden
is soft.
Mina's Garden is a place to tend what opened.
Integration support for the psychedelic aftercare moment
Participant-supported · Practitioner-connected · Built in stewardship
Psychedelic care is no longer
a frontier. It is a scaled field
without an aftercare layer.
The field now produces profound experiences at scale. It has not produced the infrastructure to support what happens after the session ends.
Most people walk out
and navigate the rest 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 largely unaddressed.
No scalable, clinically informed, participant-centered integration tool exists for this field. Mina's Garden is built to be that layer, while staying small enough to stay honest.
Two pieces. Built to hold
each other.
Mina's Garden
A free, anonymous, HIPAA-compliant integration tool. A place to write, reflect, and see what is carrying forward. Built for the days, weeks, and months after the experience, not for the experience itself.
Caring Practitioners Circle
A vetted relational practitioner network. Not a credential platform. Not a directory. A small, trusted circle of clinicians who participants can reach when the work asks for a human, and Mina's Garden helps make that handoff when it is time.
The product is Mina's Garden. The network is CPC. Both live under a single PBC charter that makes ethical stewardship a fiduciary obligation rather than a marketing claim.
A tool, not a companion.
Connective tissue, not a
replacement for people.
Mina's Garden is structured around five movements of integration: Arriving, Feeling, Making Sense, Tending, and What Remains. They are not steps. They are places a person returns to as the experience unfolds over time.
The tool asks one question at a time. It moves at the person's pace. It does not try to be a therapist, and it does not try to be a friend. When the work asks for a human, it says so and offers a handoff to the Caring Practitioners Circle.
- Free. No account. Identity is a generated handle the person can carry across devices with a passphrase.
- Voice is chosen, not assumed. A person selects how Mina speaks to them: gentle, plainspoken, or wry.
- Somatic tagging travels with each entry, so sensation becomes part of the thread over time.
- The Psyche Map surfaces themes as a living landscape, not a dashboard or a score.
- When a moment asks for a human, Mina says so and offers a handoff to the Caring Practitioners Circle.
What has been present for you since your experience?
Where do you notice it in your body?
Not another chat module.
Visualizations of what
is actually moving.
What makes Mina's Garden different from a journaling app, a wellness chatbot, or a general-purpose AI is not the conversation. It is what the conversation becomes: visualizations of a person's integration, built on temporal and thematic knowledge graphs underneath. Entries feed two overlapping views: what keeps appearing, and how it is shifting. Rendered together, they form the Psyche Map.
- Themes surface visibly over time. What kept appearing in week one, what shifted in week six.
- Somatic tags ride along with each entry so the body becomes part of the map, not a footnote.
- The five movements are rendered as a living landscape, not a progress bar. A person can see where they have been spending time and where they have not been.
- Nothing is gamified. Nothing is scored. The map is a mirror, not a metric.
Most integration tools treat the person as a patient, a user, or a reader. Mina's Garden treats them as someone who is already making meaning and needs a way to see it.
Anonymous by design.
Not by policy.
Privacy policies are promises. Architecture is structure. Mina's Garden is built so that the platform does not hold identifiable mental health data it could lose. No honeypot to breach, subpoena, or sell. The stack is live: Next.js App Router, Supabase (Postgres), a Cloudflare Worker acting as a zero-retention proxy, and the Anthropic API under BAA.
HIPAA-compliant AI layer · live
Mina's Garden runs on Anthropic's API under a Business Associate Agreement, routed through a Cloudflare Worker that strips headers, enforces zero retention, and keeps provider access at the minimum the contract requires. The AI provider does not retain the conversation, does not train on it, and is bound to the same privacy floor as a clinical system.
Anonymous authentication · live
No signup screen. The app generates a UUID-based identity on first visit and gives the person a handle, not a name. A passphrase hashed with Argon2id plus rotating recovery codes allows return from other devices. WebAuthn passkeys are planned for the next hardening pass. No email, no phone, no real-world identifier is collected or stored at any layer.
Client-side PII redaction · live
Before a person's words leave their device, identifiers are stripped by a client-side redactor. Names, locations, and similar tokens are replaced before transmission, so the servers never see the original text. If someone writes "my therapist Dr. Chen said," the system stores a redacted version. Redaction happens pre-flight, not post-storage.
Separated data architecture · live
Identity rows and entry content live in separate Supabase tables, joined only by anonymous UUID. Entries carry a movement identifier and a somatic tag, not a timestamp tied to a human clock. Metadata is minimized. In a breach scenario, an attacker would find redacted text fragments with no path back to a person or a moment.
Abuse prevention without identity · in progress
Systems with no login are vulnerable to resource drain. Mina's Garden layers IP rate limiting, per-session token budgets, device fingerprinting, and human verification at identity creation. None of these require or collect real-world identity. An independent security review of the custom auth path is scheduled before wider release, separate from the cloud-level review Burt is running on the infrastructure side.
A person can use Mina's Garden for months, across devices, with session continuity and longitudinal tracking, and the platform genuinely does not know who they are.
Retreat centers, clinics, and
ceremony leaders become the
distribution layer.
Organizations that produce psychedelic experiences often have nothing to offer participants after departure. Mina's Garden can fill that gap. Distributed via link or QR code at checkout. Free for the participant. Zero friction for the organization.
The value that flows back to the organization is anonymized, aggregate signal over time. Not per-cohort snapshots (which can re-identify people in small groups), but patterns across all participants who opt in: themes, engagement duration, which movements people spend time in. Never individual content.
When the work asks for a person,
the tool steps back.
CPC is a vetted relational practitioner network. It is not a credentialing body and it is not a marketplace. It is a small circle of clinicians who do this work with care, who have been known to the community, and who can be reached when a moment calls for a human rather than another exchange with a tool.
Mina's Garden reads depth of conversation and, when the moment is right, surfaces practitioner cards in-chat. Warm connection, drawn from themes rather than intake forms.
"I work at the intersection of somatic experience and meaning-making."
"Integration is where the real work begins. I help build the bridge."
"Whatever opened, I help you tend it with care and intention."
These are illustrative cards. CPC is deliberately small and growing slowly. The value of the circle comes from who is in it, not from how many.
The field's biggest risk is
not regulation. It is trust.
Most high-profile failures in psychedelic medicine have been trust failures. Trial misconduct. Ethical violations at clinic sites. Companies that promised safety and delivered extraction. When commercial pressure governs clinical standards, the standards tend to erode.
The answer here is structural rather than promissory. The Caring Practitioners Circle began as a Louisiana LLC and is forming as a public benefit corporation. Safety, ethical standards, and data stewardship sit inside the PBC charter as fiduciary obligations, not as policies that can be rewritten under pressure. One entity, held to a binding purpose.
Caring Practitioners Circle
The operating entity. Stewards Mina's Garden, the practitioner circle, and the research layer. PBC charter binds the corporation to its stated public benefit, with an ethics and safety review seated inside the governance structure rather than outsourced to a separate body.
The PBC charter makes ethical stewardship a condition of what the corporation is. An advisory ethics and safety panel, drawn from clinicians, ethicists, and people with lived experience, reviews data practices, practitioner criteria, and product decisions on an ongoing basis.
This is not a privacy policy.
It is an architecture.
Mina's Garden holds participant data anonymously, not pseudonymously. The platform does not know who participants are. There is no stored identity that can be subpoenaed, hacked, or sold because it does not exist.
In a field where most platforms store identifiable mental health data, the design choice here is simple: do not. The architecture does the work a policy cannot.
Modest revenue. Aligned
with participant trust.
Mina's Garden is free for participants and always will be. Sustainability comes from the institutional side: organizations that distribute the tool, practitioners who are in CPC, and selectively licensed research use of anonymized, charter-governed data.
| Stream | Description | Indicative range |
|---|---|---|
| Participant tier | Free forever. The foundation of trust. | Always free |
| CPC membership | Modest dues to be part of the vetted circle | $50 to $150 / mo |
| Institutional distribution | Retreat centers and clinics offer the tool at checkout | Per agreement |
| Research licensing | Anonymized, charter-approved dataset for academic use | Per agreement |
Deliberately not monetizing participants is a design decision, not a phase. If the only way to sustain the tool were to monetize the people using it, the tool would not deserve to exist.
Other tools do one piece.
Mina's Garden holds the combination.
| Platform | Psych-specific | Anonymous | Visualizations | Practitioner handoff | Independent ethics | HIPAA / BAA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fireside Project Crisis / peer | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mindleap Marketplace | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Nue Life At-home KAP | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Journey Clinical KAP platform | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| General AI tools ChatGPT et al | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mina's Garden Integration layer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (PBC charter) | ✓ |
A trusted integration layer
cannot be built quickly later.
Settings are already here
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 them.
The trust deficit is real
MDMA was rejected by the FDA in part over integrity concerns. Several prominent psychedelic companies have collapsed or caused harm. Trust in this field is not abstract. It is the scarce resource.
The slow work compounds
Participant trust is not built by marketing. It accrues over time, through care, through restraint, through architecture that holds when pressure arrives. That work starts now or not at all.
Michael VanderWaal,
LCSW
Clinical Architect
Ehren Abbott
Technical Architect
Clinical depth and technical depth in the same founding team. The clinician sets the standard. The engineer builds the system that holds it.
The psychedelic field will keep producing experiences. What people do with them, alone or supported, shapes what happens next.
Right now, most people are doing it alone.
Mina's Garden holds what opened. CPC holds the people who can help tend it. The PBC charter holds the standards that keep both honest.