470+ Patient Reviews

I'm a therapist who treats depression. The irony of having treatment-resistant depression myself was not lost on me. Dr. Arellano walked me through the neuroscience — ibogaine's interaction with serotonin, dopamine, BDNF upregulation. The session was 24 hours of processing attachment wounds. My PHQ-9 dropped from 26 to 9. I now refer treatment-resistant clients to ibogaine therapy.

Everyone told me ibogaine was dangerous quackery. I'd also been through five rehab programs, spent $180,000 on treatment, and was still using within weeks of each discharge. The MindScape medical protocol was more rigorous than any rehab I'd attended. 19 hours into the session, I relived the moment my father died — the event I'd been numbing for 15 years. The emotional release was indescribable. When the ibogaine cleared my system, the cravings had cleared with it. I'm 27 months clean.

I started kratom to get off opioids and ended up with a 39-gram-a-day habit that was harder to quit. The ibogaine addressed this as effectively as traditional opioid addiction. Physical withdrawal was reduced to maybe 53 percent of previous quit attempts.

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. 9 months later, the shift persists.

I was sexually assaulted in college and spent the next 15 years in a dissociative fog. The session at MindScape was simultaneously the most terrifying and liberating experience of my life. I confronted what happened from a perspective that felt safe for the first time. My PCL-5 score went from 55 to 13 at my three-month follow-up. I can be touched without flinching now.

I started on Percocet after a back surgery in 2013 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 23 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 9 months. I still do the integration coaching calls every two weeks and they've been essential for staying on track.

Stimulant use started as performance enhancement in finance. Occasional Adderall became daily, then cocaine on weekends. MindScape treated the underlying performance anxiety. The 5-MeO-DMT booster dissolved the ego structure demanding constant achievement. 6 months clean.

The ibogaine session reopened trauma that I was not prepared to process despite the preparation work. The experience was 25 hours of reliving the worst moments of my life with no psychological buffer. My PCL-5 actually increased in the first two weeks before it began to drop. I'm now at 16, down from 66, but the path included a period of destabilization that was genuinely dangerous for my mental health. I needed emergency sessions with a trauma therapist back home.

My GAD-7 was 17 — severe anxiety. I'd been on benzodiazepines, SSRIs, buspirone, hydroxyzine — none provided lasting relief. The ibogaine session was 25 hours of tracing anxiety back to its origins. I found the root event. My baseline dropped from constant to manageable. GAD-7 at follow-up was 3.

Complex PTSD from a decade of domestic violence. I'd left my abuser 6 years ago but my nervous system hadn't gotten the memo. The ibogaine session was unlike any therapy I'd experienced. I processed events I'd dissociated from completely. PCL-5 dropped from 51 to 26.

Methamphetamine had rewired my brain so nothing natural produced pleasure. The ibogaine seemed to accelerate dopamine system recovery. Within two weeks I was experiencing natural pleasure again. 25 months clean.

Binge drinking pattern. I wouldn't drink for days, then I'd consume an entire bottle in a night. The session was 22 hours of understanding the anxiety that drove my binges. 28 months without a single binge.

The session was harder than expected for a substance most people haven't heard of. My kratom use was 45 grams daily and the withdrawal had always been severe. The ibogaine helped with the physical aspects but the 26 hours of intense visions were more than I bargained for. I'm clean at 27 months but it was grueling, not the gentle reset some portray.

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 4 residential treatment programs. The ibogaine session removed the obsessive thinking about alcohol. 15 months sober and my liver enzymes are back to normal.

I was doing fentanyl pills daily — the pressed kind. My tolerance was insane. The stabilization took 2 days with careful monitoring before they administered the ibogaine. The session was overwhelming — waves of nausea, visual distortions that lasted hours, and then profound clarity where I could see my entire life laid out. The withdrawal after was subdued. Like having a bad flu instead of feeling like I was dying. I'm at 19 months.

I witnessed a workplace shooting where 4 of my colleagues were killed. Therapy helped me understand why but didn't change the reflexive responses. The ibogaine session was the first time my nervous system actually updated its threat assessment. My PCL-5 dropped 30 points and I can function in public spaces again.

Started kratom for chronic pain and ended up dependent within six months. 34 grams daily for 15 years. The team's approach included pain management planning for post-ibogaine. 9 months kratom-free.

I was using pressed fentanyl pills, sometimes laced with xylazine. My veins were collapsing. I had been Narcan'd 4 times in the past year alone. The medical team at MindScape spent four days stabilizing me before the session. The ibogaine session lasted 23 hours and was deeply uncomfortable physically but profoundly healing psychologically. I processed the abuse that started my using. The withdrawal was maybe 40 percent of what I'd experienced before. 19 months clean.

Health anxiety had me convinced I was dying of a different disease every week. The ibogaine helped me understand it was death anxiety rooted in early loss. Processing that loss reduced the hypervigilance. GAD-7 dropped from 16 to 8.

Methadone maintenance saved my life but after 5 years I was trapped. The preparation took 6 days. The treatment worked. I'm 24 months free of methadone and I feel emotions I forgot existed.

Postpartum depression that never resolved. My youngest is 13 and I've been on antidepressants since his birth. I felt nothing toward my children — I cared for them mechanically. The ibogaine reconnected me to the emotional bandwidth I'd lost. My PHQ-9 went from 19 to 7. I cried when my son hugged me and I actually felt it.

I was sexually assaulted in college and spent the next 4 years in a dissociative fog. The session at MindScape was simultaneously the most terrifying and liberating experience of my life. I confronted what happened from a perspective that felt safe for the first time. My PCL-5 score went from 51 to 23 at my three-month follow-up. I can be touched without flinching now.

The ibogaine addressed my kratom withdrawal effectively. But the psychological cravings persisted for weeks because kratom was my way of managing anxiety, and the ibogaine only partially addressed the underlying anxiety. I relapsed once about a month after but caught myself quickly. I'm 22 months kratom-free now with a therapist working on the anxiety. Valuable but not a complete solution.

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 37 hours of confronting not just the assault but the institutional failure. My PCL-5 went from 51 to 15. I finally feel like the assault doesn't define me.