The ground in your garden
is soft.
Mina is here to help you tend to it.
Psychedelic care is scaling fast.
Aftercare is not.
Three converging waves.
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 safe place to share, and literacy for finding a practitioner who fits.
Caring Practitioners Circle
A vetted directory of clinicians. A network a person can reach when the work asks for a human, using intelligent matching. CPC anchors the model. More networks will follow.
Mina's Garden PBC (in formation) runs the journal. Caring Practitioners Circle runs the circle. They are bound by a formal partnership agreement, with ethics written into the PBC charter.
The connective tissue between a person, their practitioner, and their own memory.
Five movements: Arrival, Landscape, Witness, Return, Tending. One question at a time, at the person's pace. When the work asks for a human, the journal encourages them to reach out.
- No account. A handle carried across devices.
- Voice chosen by the person.
- Somatic tagging travels with each entry. Body awareness 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 shows themes, not progress.
Mina's Garden does not interpret. It reflects your thoughts back so you can work with them.
What Mina's Garden
will not become.
- Not a companion.Connective tissue between a person, their practitioner, and their own memory and intentions. Not a relationship and not an attachment to hold on to.
- Not over-personified.No "Mina thinks" or "Mina noticed." The map is an interactive surface, not an entity with a voice.
- Not gamified.No streaks. No progress rings. No insights earned. Integration is not a game.
- Not extractive.The data belongs to the participant. The practitioner and the organization see only what the participant opts to share.
- 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.
Many 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. Mina's Garden PBC is forming to run the app, in formal partnership with Caring Practitioners Circle, with safety, ethics, and data stewardship written into the PBC charter as fiduciary obligations.
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 ethics advisory group sits outside the cap table, to be convened 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. Nothing for an attacker to breach, a court to subpoena, or a buyer to acquire. 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 or train on the conversation.
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. The storage layer assumes residual quasi-identifiers remain in first-person text and is designed for that.
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.
- 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 stops engaging and surfaces the routing layer plainly.
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.
The journal does not validate psychotic content or act as a confidant in crisis. It points toward people who can help.
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. 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, on the same founding team.
The product is being built by a psychedelically-informed therapist.
- A practicing clinician.LCSW, eight years clinical, five in KAP, holding sessions today. The product follows the work.
- Five-state licensure, Louisiana included.Cleared to practice inside the state-sanctioned pilot launching August 2026.
- An anchor clinic, co-founded.Opening in New Orleans, summer 2026, with Kennedi Barker, NP and Dr. Josh Potocko. First deployment is real, not hypothetical.
- A practitioner network already forming.CPC exists. The handoff target is real, vetted relationship by relationship.
- Three years inside an AI company.Director of People at NOLA AI. Working knowledge of what AI can and cannot do, what to refuse, what to build with care.
- A structure that restrains itself.PBC charter binding ethics, safety, and stewardship as fiduciary obligations. A legal commitment, not a marketing one.
After v1.
The eighteen months past launch.
$150,000.
Six months of focused build,
with Pink Elephant alongside.
Close the engineering gap. Get 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.
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 clinical hours elsewhere.
PBC formation
Delaware entity setup for Mina's Garden PBC. Charter with ethics in-clause. Three to five ethics advisors convened. 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.