Mina’s Garden

An ecosystem for psychedelic aftercare.

Healing begins with trust.

What we are building

An interactive journal, a mind map, and a warm handoff.

Integration
01

The Journal

  • Interactive & Anonymous
  • Connective tissue between a participant, their memories, and their support network.
Continuity
02

The Mind Map

  • By Theme & Time
  • Body view coming soon.
Support
03

The Handoff

  • Curated suggestions to practitioners.
  • Participants routed to crisis support when needed.
The Journal

An anonymous space to share your experiences.

Mina opens with a question, follows along, and then reflects back.

Five movements

  • 01Arrival
  • 02Landscape
  • 03Witness
  • 04Return
  • 05Tending
Mina’s GardenPresent · listening
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.
You do not have to name it yet. If it helps, notice where your attention goes when it surfaces. Jot down what you see.
throat · tight chest · warm hands · still
Type, or hold the mic to speak…

We can’t reveal what we don’t have.

The security commitment

No identity

No real name. No phone. No email. Account creation is silent and instant.

No record

What gets stored is a randomly generated identifier. Nothing linkable to a real person.

No Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

Account protection is optional: passphrase, passkey, or recovery code.

The Mind Map

Visualize your memories by pattern and progress.

The Mind Map · live surface
Mina’s Garden does not over-interpret. She reflects your thoughts back so you can understand them in new ways.
The Handoff

When the work calls for a person, Mina encourages you to reach out.

Mina suggests practitioners who may fit from the patterns that surfaced. No form needed.

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Sarah Zoghbi
LPC. Fluence trainer.
Nashville
psychodynamic relational repair trauma-informed
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Alon Yizhak
MT-BC. Naropa-trained.
New Orleans
mindfulness-based music-based group work
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Anne Bethune
LCSW. Polaris-trained.
Kansas City
Internal Family Systems (IFS) grief attachment
Founders
Michael VanderWaal

Michael VanderWaal, LCSW

Clinical co-founder

Eight years as a psychotherapist. Five in 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.
  • Founder of Caring Practitioners Circle (2025) and Beyond Retreats (2023).
  • Two years as Director of People at an AI startup.
Ehren Abbott

Ehren Abbott

Technical co-founder

Two years in AI engineering. Production LLM, NLP, and RAG systems.

  • B.A. Linguistics, Georgetown (Magna Cum Laude). M.A., NYU. M.A. Translation.
  • Eight years building and running his own business before pivoting to AI engineering.
  • Multi-tenant SaaS architect.
  • Primary technical builder of Mina’s Garden.