BENNU-HEALING.COM - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Psychotherapist and Plant Medicine Counsellor
Anders is a qualified integrative psychotherapist who founded Ibogaine Counselling Services after overcoming his own 25-year addiction. His groundbreaking pre-and-post-treatment program has become widely adopted as a fundamental component of professional ibogaine treatments, and his guidance and counselling services are now relied upon by most of the top ibogaine providers worldwide.
Andi is a holistic therapist and mentor with several years' experience working in some of the world's leading plant medicine-based rehabilitation centers. Her work is focussed on supporting the human journey through the evolution of consciousness and to unlock the immense and unique potential that exists within our DNA. Her therapy work combines tools such as transformational breathwork, cellular detoxes with Kambo, ceremonies with medicinal-grade Cacao as well as the art of using simple ritual and vocal sound practices to initiate higher states of consciousness. Through her work as a mentor she enables her clients to re-connect to their unique purpose and gifts as a way to bring direction and meaning back to their life.
Ben is an anthropologist who began studying plant medicine based healing techniques in 2007. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Amazon and the Andes, where he studied the use of ayahuasca, San Pedro and other visionary plants by native communities. His later research focused on the use of ibogaine as a treatment for addiction, and he has spent the last several years working as a counsellor at numerous retreats and rehabilitation centers in Europe and North America. In 2018 he joined Ibogaine Counselling Services, teaming up with Anders Beatty to provide preparation and integration for people undergoing ibogaine treatment.
Job Titles:
- Addiction Recovery Expert and Mindfulness Coach
Gary founded SCV Mindfulness in Los Angeles and led up to three weekly groups for over 5 years. He was empowered to lead Buddhist meditation and dharma groups at Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society. He helped, from the ground level, to found Refuge Recovery, a Buddhist based recovery program for all addictions, which has now spread worldwide. After moving to Portland, Gary was asked to join the teaching staff at Portland Insight Meditation Community. Gary travels frequently and teaches Buddhist & recovery daylongs and workshops all around North America.
Job Titles:
- Plant Medicine and Addiction Specialist
Garyth Moxey is a Canadian born entheogen provider and harm reduction activist based in Canada. After overcoming his own addictions to alcohol and opioids using ibogaine and other plant medicines, he went on to co-found both Liberty Root and Inner Realms Center, which are widely regarded to be Canada's leading plant medicine-based addiction recovery facilities. He later completed a psychedelic psychotherapy fundamentals program at the Orenda Institute in British Columbia. Garyth is also a medical cannabis activist and custom produces high-grade cannabis oil for clients dealing with a wide range of medical conditions. Together with his partner Blair and dog Vader, he continues to operate Inner Realms Center in Vacouver while also travelling across the world offering a range of psychedelic therapies.
Hattie Wells is an ethnobotanist and drug policy reform advocate. Her lifelong interest in altered states of consciousness led to twenty years of research into the cultural and therapeutic use of psychedelics, as well as carrying out ethnobotanical fieldwork with the San Bushmen in eastern Namibia - renowned for their use of trance in healing. After studying the use of ayahuasca within certain syncretic religious groups, her work became focused on ibogaine, predominantly as an addiction interrupter. She has published and presented this work, is a board member for the Global Ibogaine Therapeutic Alliance (GITA) and continues to consult on various ibogaine related projects. She is a Director of Breaking Convention, the UK's multidisciplinary conference on psychedelic consciousness, and is the research and development manager for Seedsman CBD.
Since overcoming his own lifelong addictions thanks to medicines such as ibogaine and Bufo Alvarius, Jevon has been working as a recovery coach at Medicine Heart Recovery. He specialises in the use of plant medicines as well as a range of mindfulness and meditation techniques, and also offers breathwork, yoga, reiki and numerous other therapies. On top of this, he offers nutritional guidance and helps clients to remain sober by developing harm reducing routines.
Job Titles:
- Plant Medicine Expert and Medical Professional
Mark is an ACLS-qualified medical expert with over 25 years experience in cardio-pulmonary and emergency room departments. He is also the founder of Medicine Heart Recovery, a leading plant medicine retreat that specialises in the use of ibogaine and bufo alvarius for the treatment of addiction and other psychospiritual conditions.
Job Titles:
- Life Coach
- Nurse, Plant Medicine Expert and Energy Healer
Sandra is a spiritual life coach and a licensed vocational nurse with 18 years of experience in nursing and six years working on end-of-life care as a certified hospice/palliative care provider. A massage therapist since 1994 and Reiki master since 2015, Sandra has also been providing ibogaine treatments for the last 8 years, working at some of the top clinics in Mexico, Argentina, and Costa Rica. She has safely treated over a thousand people with ibogaine and other indigenous technologies, and has extensive experience administering other plant/animal medicine in a holistic way.