470+ Patient Reviews

Military sexual trauma is the thing nobody wants to talk about. The VA wasn't equipped to help me. The MindScape team was. The ibogaine session was 20 hours of confronting not just the assault but the institutional failure. My PCL-5 went from 56 to 26. I finally feel like the assault doesn't define me.

My son convinced me to try MindScape after I overdosed for the second time. I'd been on opioids since a car accident in 2018. I was terrified of the experience but Dr. Arellano's team made me feel safe. The cardiac monitoring was constant. The ibogaine session was like watching a movie of my life from the outside — I could see exactly when and why the drugs became more important than everything else. I left after 10 days and I have not used since. That was 30 months ago.

The 5-MeO-DMT session was scheduled for day 6. About 17 minutes of peak intensity. Complete loss of self, body, and time. Something shifted at such a fundamental level I couldn't articulate it for days. My PTSD symptoms decreased by 35 percent.

I was on Suboxone for 7 years and the ibogaine reduced but did not eliminate the withdrawal. The team was transparent that long-acting opioid cases are more complex. The protracted withdrawal — weeks of insomnia, low mood, and physical discomfort — was harder than most reviews suggest. I'm clean at 25 months, but the recovery was longer and harder.

Depression after my divorce became year-round. The MindScape program included a 5-MeO-DMT booster session on day 4. That booster was where the real breakthrough happened — a 20-minute ego dissolution that permanently shifted my relationship with my own suffering. PHQ-9 from 23 to 8.

The ibogaine lifted my depression temporarily. For about six weeks after treatment, I felt genuinely better — my PHQ-9 dropped from 18 to 10. Then it started creeping back. By three months, I was at about 14. Not as bad as before, but not the sustained remission I was hoping for. The team recommended a follow-up session, which is additional cost.

I found the 5-MeO-DMT booster overwhelming in a way that was not productive. The complete loss of self was terrifying rather than liberating. I panicked, hyperventilated, and the medical team had to talk me through what felt like a psychiatric emergency. The ibogaine earlier in the week had been difficult but manageable. The 5-MeO-DMT pushed me past my psychological threshold.

I'd been depressed for so long that I'd forgotten what normal felt like. The ibogaine session cracked my performance of wellness wide open. For 25 hours I couldn't maintain any pretense. I felt everything I'd been suppressing — grief, anger, loneliness, and eventually, hope. My PHQ-9 before treatment was 22. At my 90-day follow-up it was 7. My wife said it's like living with a different person.

I was drinking a fifth of whiskey a day. My liver enzymes were through the roof and my marriage was ending. I'd been through 5 residential treatment programs. The ibogaine session removed the obsessive thinking about alcohol. 17 months sober and my liver enzymes are back to normal.

I came on fentanyl and the stabilization process alone took 4 days. The ibogaine session was physically overwhelming. When it passed, I felt better but not well. The withdrawal lasted in a diminished form for about ten days. I relapsed once, three weeks after, and am now 8 months clean after starting intensive outpatient therapy. The ibogaine helped break the acute physical dependency but my recovery required much more.

I was skeptical about the 5-MeO-DMT. The team explained the rationale — ibogaine for processing specific content, 5-MeO-DMT for releasing attachment to self. The session was the most profound experience of my life. When I returned, the anxiety and depression felt like a story I no longer needed to tell. 28 months later, the shift persists.

My doctor said I'd need antidepressants for life. After 9 years, I decided to challenge that. Every taper attempt failed because of unbearable discontinuation symptoms. The ibogaine seemed to reset whatever was preventing me from stopping. 29 months medication-free.

Chronic back pain led to opioids which led to addiction which made pain worse through opioid-induced hyperalgesia. The ibogaine broke the cycle. 18 months later, pain is manageable with physical therapy and non-opioid medication.

I know ibogaine for Parkinson's is not FDA approved. I also know that my UPDRS score went from 30 to 17, that my L-DOPA dose has been reduced by 75 percent, and that my wife can understand my speech again. The treatment included ibogaine microdosing for two weeks before the flood dose.

I'm alive, which is more than I expected six months ago. But the ibogaine session was the most frightening experience of my life. The visions were not healing or insightful — they were terrifying. I spent 37 hours convinced I was being punished. The withdrawal relief was partial — maybe 40 percent reduction. I'm clean at 8 months but I still have nightmares about the session itself.

I'm a functional alcoholic — or I was. I maintained a high-level career while drinking a handle of vodka every three days. The ibogaine showed me exactly how much energy I was spending hiding my addiction. 7 months sober and my work has never been better.

Fentanyl is a special case and I don't think the ibogaine community is fully transparent about this. Because fentanyl stores in fat tissue, the ibogaine couldn't fully address the extended withdrawal. I had a 30-hour session that was intense, but for the following two weeks I experienced waves of withdrawal that the team called 'fentanyl rebound.' I'm 6 months clean now, so it ultimately worked, but the post-treatment period was much harder than expected.

The SSRI helped me through a crisis period. But after 15 years, the side effects — sexual dysfunction, emotional blunting, weight gain — were hard to justify. The MindScape team understood the neurochemistry and addressed serotonergic dysregulation directly. 29 months med-free.

I sustained a TBI in a car accident 6 years ago. Persistent post-concussion symptoms hadn't resolved despite extensive rehabilitation. The ibogaine protocol focused on neuroplasticity and BDNF upregulation. Cognitive testing improved by 70 percent. Headache frequency decreased from daily to 3 per week.

My experience was mixed. The brain zaps resolved quickly, which was wonderful. But the emotional instability that followed was intense — days of unexplained crying, irritability, and anxiety. It took about six weeks for things to truly stabilize. I'm 28 months medication-free, but the transition period was significantly rougher than expected.

I was in a car accident that killed my passenger, my best friend. For 6 years I relived that moment. The ibogaine at MindScape addressed the guilt, the survivor's shame. All of it, in one 26-hour session. My PCL-5 dropped 38 points. I can drive again. I can be a passenger again.

I started on Percocet after a back surgery in 2010 and within eighteen months I was buying pills off the street. By the time I arrived at MindScape I was spending $400 a day and had lost my job, my apartment, and most of my relationships. The cardiac screening was thorough — Dr. Arellano personally reviewed my EKG and blood work before clearing me. The ibogaine session itself was intense, lasting about 22 hours. I saw things I cannot easily put into words, but when I came out the other side, the physical craving was simply not there. I've been clean for 4 months. I still do the integration coaching calls every two weeks and they've been essential for staying on track.

I found the 5-MeO-DMT booster overwhelming in a way that was not productive. The complete loss of self was terrifying rather than liberating. I panicked, hyperventilated, and the medical team had to talk me through what felt like a psychiatric emergency. The ibogaine earlier in the week had been difficult but manageable. The 5-MeO-DMT pushed me past my psychological threshold.

My fentanyl habit was costing me $300 a day. I'd sold everything I owned. When my mother found the MindScape program and offered to pay, I said yes because I had no other options. The medical evaluation was more thorough than any hospital admission I'd had. The ibogaine experience was 21 hours that felt like a lifetime. I revisited every moment that led me to this point. 10 months clean and I have my own apartment again.