The ground in your garden
is soft.
An ecosystem for psychedelic aftercare. An interactive journal for the weeks and months after, and a vetted circle of practitioners to hold it.
Anonymous by design
Psychedelic care is at scale.
Aftercare is not.
The experiences are at scale. The infrastructure for what happens after is not.
Three catalysts converge
inside eighteen months.
Most people walk out and navigate
the rest alone.
People arrive, open, and go home. The integration period, where change is anchored or lost, is largely unaddressed.
Clinically-informed. Anonymous. Participant-owned. No integration ecosystem for this field holds all three at once.
One ecosystem.
Two layers that hold each other.
Mina's Garden
An interactive journal. Anonymous and free to participants, following HIPAA standards. A place to write, and literacy for finding a practitioner who fits.
Caring Practitioners Circle
A vetted directory of clinicians. A network of practitioners a person can reach when the work asks for a human. CPC anchors the model; more networks follow.
Mina's Garden PBC (in formation) runs the journal. Caring Practitioners Circle runs the circle. A formal partnership binds them. Ethics sits inside the PBC charter as fiduciary obligation, not marketing claim.
A journal, not a companion.
Connective tissue, not a replacement for people.
Five movements, not steps: Arrival, Landscape, Witness, Return, Tending. One question at a time, at the person's pace. When the work asks for a human, the journal says so.
- Free. No account. A handle carried across devices.
- Voice chosen by the person.
- Somatic tagging travels with each entry. The body is part of the thread.
- The Mind Map surfaces themes as a living landscape, not a dashboard.
- Handoff to a CPC practitioner when a moment calls for one.
What has been present for you since your experience?
If it helps, notice where your attention goes when it surfaces. Jot down what you see.
Not another chat module.
Visualizations of what is actually moving.
Entries feed two views of the same material: what keeps appearing, and how it is shifting. Together, they form the Mind Map.
- Themes surface from the person's own entries. No preset framework. No diagnosis.
- Somatic tags ride along. The body is part of the map.
- Nothing gamified. Nothing scored. The map is a mirror, not a metric.
Mina's Garden treats the person as someone already making meaning, and gives them a way to see it.
What Mina's Garden
will not become.
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Not a companion.Connective tissue between a person, their practitioner, and their own memory. Not a relationship.
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Not over-personified.No "Mina thinks." No "Mina noticed." The map is a surface, not an entity with a voice.
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Not gamified.No streaks. No progress rings. No insights earned. Integration is not a game.
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Not extractive.The data belongs to the participant. The practitioner and the organization see only what the participant opts to share.
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Not fast where speed causes harm.The interface moves at the pace of the work. No streaks. No nudges. No snap transitions.
The field's biggest risk
is not regulation. It is trust.
Recent failures in this field have been trust failures. Trial misconduct. Clinic-site violations. Companies that promised safety and delivered extraction.
The answer is structural, not promissory. Mina's Garden PBC is forming to run the app, in formal partnership with Caring Practitioners Circle. Safety, ethics, and data stewardship sit inside the PBC charter as fiduciary obligations, not policies.
A structure that governs itself.
Mina's Garden PBC (in formation) runs the app. Caring Practitioners Circle runs the practitioner circle. Peer partners bound by a formal agreement. An external ethics council sits outside the PBC cap table, to be named on formation.
Anonymous by design.
Private information is filtered out before Mina gives a response. The platform does not hold identifiable data it could lose. No honeypot to breach, subpoena, or sell. Stack: Next.js, Supabase, Cloudflare Worker proxy, Anthropic API with BAA in process.
HIPAA-compliant AI layer Shipped, pre-audit
Anthropic API, BAA in process, routed through a Cloudflare Worker that strips headers and enforces zero retention. The provider does not retain the conversation. Does not train on it.
Anonymous authentication Shipped, pre-audit
No signup. UUID identity on first visit. A handle, not a name. Argon2id-hashed passphrase plus rotating recovery codes across devices. No email, no phone, no real-world identifier anywhere. WebAuthn passkeys scheduled next.
Client-side PII redaction Shipped, pre-audit
Names, locations, and similar tokens are replaced client-side before transmission, not after storage. Defense in depth: the storage layer assumes residual quasi-identifiers remain in first-person text.
Separated data architecture Shipped, pre-audit
Identity and entry content in separate tables, joined only by anonymous UUID. Entries coarsened to a week bucket, not a wall-clock timestamp. In a breach, an attacker finds redacted fragments with no path back to a person.
Abuse prevention without identity In progress
IP rate limiting, per-session token budgets, device fingerprinting, human verification at identity creation. None collect real-world identity. Independent security review scheduled before wider release.
A person can use Mina's Garden for months, across devices, with continuity. The platform genuinely does not know who they are.
Some moments need a person,
not a screen.
Built for integration, not acute care. When a small set of signals appears, the journal steps back and routes the person toward someone who can help. Classifier-triggered, modality-diverse, acuity-routed. The pattern major AI providers have converged on.
- Active suicidality
- Prodromal psychosis
- Active mania
- Severe dissociation
- Spiritual emergency
- Active psychedelic experience (the journal is built for after, not during)
When these surface, the journal does not engage or attempt to soothe. It surfaces the routing layer plainly and stays out of the way.
CPC · clinician handoff
Non-acute distress that calls for a human. Drawn from themes, not intake forms.
Fireside Project · peer support
62-FIRESIDE (623-473-7433), call or text, 11am to 11pm Pacific. During or after a psychedelic experience.
988 · Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Call, text, or chat. 24/7. 240+ languages. Clinical crisis.
911 · medical emergency
Immediate medical or safety threat.
Does not validate psychotic content. Does not act as a confidant in crisis. A pointer toward people who can help, not a replacement for them.
When the work asks for a person,
the journal steps back.
CPC is a vetted directory of clinicians who do this work with care. A curated network a person can reach when the work asks for a human, drawn from themes rather than intake forms.
An inner circle of thirty founding clinicians anchors the network today. New members are invited or accepted in by application, with vetting kept tight as the directory grows.
"Therapy as a space to slow down, breathe, and reconnect."
"Sound and silence as portals back into the body."
"I invite clients to set a flexible and meaningful intention."
Three of the inner circle. The directory grows by application, vetting held tight. Value is who is in it, not how many.
Other tools do one piece.
Mina's Garden holds the combination.
| Platform | Psych-specific | Anonymous | Visualizations | Practitioner handoff | Ethics in charter | HIPAA / BAA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fireside ProjectCrisis / peer | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| MindleapMarketplace | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Nue LifeAt-home KAP | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Journey ClinicalKAP platform | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| General AI toolsChatGPT, etc. | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Mina's GardenIntegration ecosystem | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | In build (CPC) | On formation (PBC) | In audit |
Small. Clinically-informed.
Already in the work.
Michael VanderWaal, LCSW
Ehren Abbott
Clinical depth and technical depth, same founding team. The clinician sets the standard. The engineer builds the system that holds it.
The product is being built by the person it is for.
Most teams have one or two of these. This one has them in the same room.
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A practicing clinician.LCSW, eight years clinical, five in KAP, holding sessions today. The product follows the work.
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Five-state licensure, Louisiana included.Cleared to practice inside the state-sanctioned pilot launching August 2026.
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An anchor clinic, co-founded.Opening in New Orleans, summer 2026, with Kennedi Barker, NP and Dr. Josh. First deployment is not hypothetical.
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A practitioner network already forming.CPC exists. The handoff target is real, vetted relationship by relationship.
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Three years inside an AI company.Director of People at NOLA AI. Knows what AI can and cannot do, what to refuse, what to build with care.
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A structure that restrains itself.PBC charter binding ethics, safety, and stewardship as fiduciary obligations. Not a marketing claim. A legal one.
$150,000.
Six months of focused build,
with Pink Elephant alongside.
Close the engineering gap. Harden the platform to a clinically-informed standard. Formalize the PBC. Ship the first real install. Pink Elephant's operational support runs the same six months on distribution and scale.
Engineering, formalized
Ehren Abbott's co-founder time under equity, vesting, and IP assignment. The most urgent gap.
Product to production-grade
Infrastructure, authentication, storage separation. The multi-tenant foundation the anchor install runs on.
HIPAA compliance
Third-party audit, BAA legal work, independent security review before the first install.
Founder time, protected
Clinical oversight, product direction, network stewardship, held away from the pressure to bill hours elsewhere.
PBC formation
Delaware entity setup for Mina's Garden PBC. Charter with ethics in-clause. Ethics council structure. Partnership agreement with Caring Practitioners Circle.
Anchor clinic install
Integration with the New Orleans site's intake and session workflow. First real deployment.
The field will keep producing experiences.
What people do with them shapes what happens next.
Right now, most are doing it alone.
A place to write, a circle to reach, a charter that keeps both honest.