Meet the Micro-Iboga Therapists
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Paulina Alanis
Integral Transformative Coach and Plant Medicine Practitioner
Paulina is an Integral Transformative Coach, plant medicine practitioner and spiritual guide. She graduated with a Master's Degree in Integral Psychology from the John F. Kennedy University (CA). She has also been trained as an integral coach through Integral Coaching Canada. Her practice includes shadow work, stages of development, the Enneagram model, craniosacral massage, mindfulness and inquiry, and healing ancestral rituals to support the client through transformation. Through a personalized approach focused on the client's needs and unique process she works together with the client to allow transformation to happen within fluid boundaries, in multiple ways, states of consciousness and stages. She works with clients supporting them through the challenges of change to integrate practices for compassionate living and exploring the depth of being.
Since 2013, after a life changing experience with ibogaine, Paulina started working with ibogaine clinics in Mexico for addiction treatment as a therapist and plant medicine practitioner. Some of the ibogaine clinics where she worked at are: Pangea, Iboga Root, Tabula Rasa, IbogaQuest and The Mission Within. She has extensive experience working with special operations veterans and their families for the treatment of trauma, addiction, depression, anxiety, PTSD and TBI.
Eventually expanding her work to offer therapeutic treatments and psycho-spiritual ceremonies with ibogaine, psilocybin, MDMA, San Pedro (Huachuma) and 5-MeO-DMT. Paulina also facilitates integral practice groups, women’s circles, shamanic journeying and rites of passage for young women.
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Arik Metzer
Body-Mind-Spirit
Integrative Psychotherapist
Arik is an integrative psychotherapist. He graduated with a Master's Degree in Body-Mind-Spirit Integrative Psychotherapy from Haifa University in Israel. He studied and practices the Hakomi therapy, Mindfulness Based Psychotherapy and completed the MDMA Assisted Therapy for PTSD training provided by MAPS Israel.
Arik started his professional career as a software engineer, graduate (B.Sc) of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and played various roles in the Hi-Tech industry, working with enterprise clients around the globe. His recent position was Chief Privacy Officer for a startup in the finance industry (https://www.linkedin.com/in/arik-metzer/).
In the late 90’s, while relocated to the United Stated for eight years, Arik traveled frequently to South America, where he was exposed to the shamanic and psychedelics work, and since, he deepened his knowledge and expertise in psychedelics assisted psychotherapy, integration and harm reduction.
As part of his clinical certification process, Arik worked with closed psychiatric ward’s patients, diagnosed with Schizophrenia, Psychosis, PTSD, which provided a familiarity with various mental and consciousness states.
Arik is working in a clinic in Tel Aviv and is actively promoting legalizing Iboga work in Israel, as a psychotherapy tool for combat PTSD recovery and healing.
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Antonio Guerrero
Soul Chemist
Antonio, a chemist by training, dedicated over 20 years of his life to working for a company until life, rather than love, taught him valuable lessons through pain.
Throughout his journey, Antonio immersed himself in various modalities such as Family Constellations, Gestalt Therapy, Bioenergetics, Shamanism, Music Therapy, Grief Counseling, Addiction Recovery, and delved deeply into his own internal conflicts. These experiences led him to cultivate self-love and embark on a path of healing.
As a therapist, Antonio accompanies individuals in their personal journeys from a systemic perspective, integrating the principles of family constellations. He facilitates healing processes and advocates microdosing with plant medicines.
His mission is centered around serving individuals who may struggle to navigate the depths of their soul's darkness. Utilizing techniques rooted in transference and countertransference, he approaches conflicts with love, aiming to heal ancient wounds.
Antonio provides healing services tailored to those in need, guiding them through journeys into the transformative world of plant-based medicine from a sacred space. With profound respect, he supports individuals through processes of grief, addiction, stress, and anxiety.
By conducting workshops on family constellations and facilitating healing work across Latin America and Europe, Antonio brings a unique blend of wisdom, humility, and simplicity to his practice.
In essence, Antonio believes that life is inherently simple; it's our challenge to embrace simplicity amidst life's complexities.
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Camy Lázaro San Andrés
Gestalt therapist psychologist, specializes in life process accompaniment, mindfulness tools, and evolutionary astrology archetypes.
In 2006, I embarked on my learning journey with master plants shortly after graduating as a clinical psychologist and simultaneously deepening my practice as a yoga and meditation teacher. For me, the synergy between these two sources of knowledge is inseparable.
Born in Mexico and raised in Europe, I've had the privilege to learn and work from diverse cultures and perspectives. I've explored the systemic aspects related to family and lineage systems, delved into cognitive-behavioral approaches that examine the power of affirmations, beliefs, and habits in shaping personal reality, explored the psycho-corporal realm, which unlocks the unconscious, memories, and the heart, embraced the importance of authentic bonds that emphasize respecting and listening to the wisdom of one's own process, and immersed myself in evolutionary archetypes that enable us to center ourselves in our creative world.
After accompanying healing processes through mother Iboga in the Iboga Quest project for several years, the medicine facilitated my connection with my own root, confronted my soul, and compelled me to align with my authentic will, manifesting the creative adjustments necessary to build a world in which I am truly inspired to live. Currently, I offer private psychotherapy sessions, facilitate psychedelic-assisted therapy processes, provide guidance and coaching with psilocybin and iboga microdosing, and fulfill the role of a head-heart mother within my family.
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Erez Bartal
Clinical Psychologist, Transpersonal Therapist
I am a devoted servant to Spirit and have dedicated my life to helping others. The forms that it takes shape is through the sharing of medicines, the sacred sacraments of various kinds, and medicines and health practices that come from the fields of anti-aging and longevity. Through a variety of pathways to health and wellness one feels the benefits of holistic care for mind, body, and Spirit. Sound and music is another powerful and important aspect of my being and work, and it is infused to enhance the individual and collective process.
Another aspect that is informing my work is my past in academia and work as a Doctor of Clinical Psychology. I worked with many populations and age groups, and focused on deep trauma, depression, anxiety, and death and dying, which is partially what has brought me to work deeply with the sacred medicines.
I am aligned with those that are ready to say yes to a deep level of health and heart awareness, fallible, and in service of others so that we can walk alongside to a reality and a world that is Spirit and heart-centered.
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Tatiana Irvine
Tatiana Irvine is a certified addiction recovery and psychedelic integration coach, yoga and qi gong teacher and Kambo practitioner.
Having traversed the depths of addiction and disabling illness as two massive initiations within a greater complex of trauma, Tatiana emerged into wellness inspired to support others struggling with intense challenges – internal and external – who feel overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness to heal. She also loves working with people who feel fundamentally well, but are seeking support to awaken more vitality and resilience, come into a deeper alignment with their purpose, and evolve their connection to themselves, their community and the natural world.
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Richie Ogulnick
I have decades of experience with Iboga and Ibogaine and my mission now is to offer highly personalized sessions so that individuals can fully experience the insights and healing this plant can offer.
The Healing Journey, by the Chilean therapist Claudio Naranjo, provided a first reference point for me to begin my work with Iboga over 30 years ago. Lower dose interactive and directive ibogaine sessions documented in this chapter enabled me to explore the utilization of ibogaine as a therapeutic and psychospiritual tool and an introduction to the essence energy of the plant.
Over the course of fifteen and a half years, I conducted about 750 sessions. I spent the next several years referring close to 1,000 more people to other ibogaine providers. During that time, I also trained doctors and ex-addicts who opened ibogaine centers throughout the world.The work begins before we meet for the session. Your intentions are clarified during our conversation and we discuss life situations which reflect what you want to explore and work through.
It is now, during this new phase of the iboga journey for me, that I see the usefulness in working with lower doses to explore specific intentions. It allows the person to identify with the witness of all that is being explored. And, as all the scriptures in the world allude to, the power to heal is in the impartiality of the witness within.
As I move into a new phase in my life, I feel a pull to focus again on the more therapeutic and psycho-spiritual treatments where I’m able to offer my expertise in ibogaine treatment along with my knowledge of reintegration with individuals who are looking to deepen and enrich their life experience.
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Harrison Schoenfarber
Harrison is a seasoned clinician specializing in addiction and mental health, with a unique blend of traditional clinical experience and shamanic training. With a deep understanding of plant medicines, Harrison has guided countless individuals through their journey towards healing and self-discovery. He combines his extensive experience in working with powerful entheogens like ibogaine, ayahuasca, san pedro, and psilocybin, with his expertise in sound healing and music.
As an iboga microdose practitioner, Harrison takes a holistic approach, focusing on the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of healing. By building authentic relationships with clients, he creates a safe and supportive space for transformation. Harrison believes in empowering individuals to take charge of their healing journey, guiding them toward a deeper connection with themselves, their community, and the natural world.
With a compassionate and personalized approach, Harrison is dedicated to helping individuals overcome addiction, trauma, depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other mental health challenges. Whether working one-on-one or in group settings, he is committed to supporting clients through every step of their healing journey, offering guidance, wisdom, and unwavering support.