I've released a set of tools I've been building for my own practice—and I'm making them freely available to anyone doing life coaching, therapy, or psilocybin facilitation.

You can access them here: toolkit.mindstreamwellness.net

No login. No account creation. No data collection. Everything stays local in the client's browser.

Why I Built This

My work sits at the intersection of life coaching, psilocybin facilitation, death doula work, and contemplative practice. Over time, I found myself drawing consistently from the same wells: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Existential Psychotherapy, Nonviolent Communication, and mindfulness. Each addresses something essential that arises when people are navigating significant transitions or doing deep psychological work.

ACT offers tools for changing our relationship to thoughts—particularly the repetitive, self-referential thinking generated by the Default Mode Network (the brain regions active when we're thinking about ourselves, ruminating, or mentally time-traveling to past and future). ACT provides practices for noticing these thought patterns without being controlled by them. Its focus on values clarification and committed action meets clients where lasting change actually happens: translating insight into concrete steps while motivation is high.

Existential Psychotherapy addresses the concerns that frequently surface during times of transition and upheaval. Clients often arrive with presenting issues—relationship struggles, career uncertainty, the empty nest, retirement, a frightening diagnosis—but the deeper work takes them somewhere more fundamental: questions about mortality, groundlessness, isolation, and meaning. Having frameworks for working with these concerns directly, rather than routing around them, changes the quality of the work.

Nonviolent Communication contributes a simple but powerful move: identifying the needs beneath the feelings and thoughts. This leads to greater acceptance of difficult internal experiences (you're not broken; you have unmet needs) and often clarifies what committed action might actually look like.

Mindfulness underlies all of it—supporting presence and the capacity to observe thoughts without fusion, two of the core processes that make ACT work.

I wanted tools that made these frameworks accessible to clients in the moment—on their phone, without friction, without requiring them to remember what we discussed in session.

What's Included

The toolkit includes:

• Feelings Check-In: A quick tool for naming the current feeling and identifying the underlying need, using NVC's feelings and needs inventories. Clients can enter through three paths: naming the feeling directly, describing somatic sensations, or describing the triggering situation.

• Rumination Tracker: A tool for capturing recurring thoughts and connecting them to feelings and needs. The goal isn't to stop rumination through force of will—it's to extract the useful information the rumination contains, so it can complete its job.

• Mindfulness Practice: Includes training (the way I teach it), guided meditations that can be read to clients or played with AI-generated voices, and a practice timer.

• Integration Journal: A tool for processing any significant life experience—a psychedelic journey, the loss of a loved one, a life-threatening or life-altering diagnosis, surviving cancer, an empty nest, retirement. Integration is something we do with all of life's major transitions, not just psychedelic experiences. The journal tracks entries over a six-month period with categories and prompts designed to help clients explore areas that might not immediately surface.

• ACT and Existential tools and validated assessments: Including values clarification exercises, psychological flexibility assessments, and more.

Privacy by Design

All data stays local in the client's browser. Nothing is ever transmitted across the internet. There's no account to create, nothing to log into, no server storing their reflections.

If clients want to save their data, they can click the "Set Up Sync" button to save the data to a local file. If they want to use the tool on their cell phone in addition to their desktop computer, they can save the file to a cloud drive—Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, whatever they use. But that's their choice, under their control.

Who This Is For

I built this primarily for fellow coaches, therapists, and facilitators who might find it useful with their own clients. But clients can also use it independently—the tools are designed to be self-explanatory.

It's free. Use it however serves the work.

toolkit.mindstreamwellness.net

Michael Kelly is a licensed psilocybin facilitator in Oregon and founder of Mindstream Wellness. He works within a psychological flexibility framework and maintains a longtime Zen practice with deepening interest in the Thai Forest tradition.