Mina’s Garden
Healing begins with trust.
Psychedelic care is scaling fast.
Aftercare is not.
Aftercare: what happens between sessions, and after them, when the medicine has stopped but the work is still moving.
Most people walk out and navigate the rest alone.
Mina’s Garden is the ecosystem.
A journal, a map, and a warm handoff.
- Interactive.
- Anonymous.
- Connective tissue between a person, their practitioner, and their own memories.
- Visualizations of what's actually moving.
- By theme. By time.
- Body view in v1+.
- To Caring Practitioners Circle, our first formal partner network.
- Smart matching extends to other directories (e.g. States of Mind) as we grow.
Imagine a woman in her mid-30s, back from a mushroom retreat.
Lucy returns from a three-night psilocybin retreat. A lot of feeling, not many words. A friend points her to Mina’s Garden.
An anonymous, reflective way to share your thoughts and feelings in a safe place.
Five movements
- 01Arrival
- 02Landscape
- 03Witness
- 04Return
- 05Tending
Each movement has prompting questions to reflect on.
Anonymous by design.
We do not hold what we do not need.
A chosen handle. Encrypted entries. Aggregate, anonymous usage.
Names, emails, phones. Trackers, ads, third parties.
Only what they choose. Only with whom they choose. A handoff, reviewed before sending.
Visualize your memories by theme and by time.
Your own words, plotted.
What Mina’s Garden will not become.
- Not a companion.
Not a therapist.Connective tissue, not a relationship to hold on to. - Not over-personified.Mina will not attempt to form a deep or unhealthy attachment.
- Not gamified.No streaks. No insights earned. Integration is not a game.
Built for Integration, not Acute Care.
When a small pattern of signals appears, Mina flags it and routes the person toward proper support.
Other routes (signs of psychosis or severe dissociation, active psychedelic experience, immediate medical threat) route to CPC, Fireside, or 911. Full safety matrix available on request.
When the work asks for a person,
the journal steps back.
Three of an inner circle of thirty founding clinicians. CPC is our first practitioner network, and our way into the clinic and retreat market: practitioners trust the network, clinics follow the practitioners. The matching layer extends to States of Mind, Psychedelic Support, and others as participants need broader reach.
Anonymity and psychedelic specificity
rarely live in the same product.
No integration ecosystem holds anonymity, clinical depth, and participant ownership at once. What protects this position: the practitioner network, the consent architecture, and the data participants own and can take with them. Detail comparison available on request.
What's holding the field back is not just regulation. It's trust.
Recent failures (trial misconduct, clinic violations, extractive practices) are trust ruptures. Trust has to be built into the structure.
Mina’s Garden is forming as a PBC. Safety, ethics, and data stewardship are fiduciary obligations in the charter. Not marketing copy.
Small. Clinically-informed.
Already doing the work.
Michael VanderWaal, LCSW
- 8 years as a psychotherapist across 5 states.
- 5 years of KAP and psychedelic integration.
- MSW, University of Michigan.
- Trained through Journey Clinical, CIIS Certificate in Psychedelic Therapies and Research, MAPS A–D MDMA Therapy, and Polaris Insight Center.
- Co‑founding a New Orleans Ketamine Clinic (Summer 2026).
- Founder of Caring Practitioners Circle (2025) and Beyond Retreats (2023).
- 2 years as Director of People at an AI startup.
Ehren Abbott
- 2 years in AI engineering: production LLM, NLP, and RAG systems.
- B.A. Linguistics, Georgetown (Magna Cum Laude). M.A., NYU. M.A. Translation.
- 8 years building and running his own business before pivoting to AI engineering.
- Multi-tenant SaaS architect.
- Primary technical builder of Mina’s Garden.
Clinical depth and technical depth on the same founding team.
Specialists shaping what we build.
Benefit to Practitioners and Organizations.
Two gates into the same ecosystem. Each side pays for what it’s missing.