Anders Beatty

Anders Beatty is an ibogaine preparation and integration specialist, transpersonal guide, and addiction recovery practitioner originally based in the UK and now working from Poland. He founded Ibogaine Counselling Services (ICS), where he supports people navigating addiction, trauma, and psycho-spiritual transformation through structured preparation and integration work built around the full arc of the ibogaine experience, not just the dosing day itself.

He has worked in the ibogaine space for more than a decade, alongside a longer personal and professional history inside addiction recovery more broadly, and brings together lived experience with formal training in integrative psychotherapy and transpersonal approaches to healing. His style is trauma-informed and philosophically grounded in a simple premise: lasting change isn't delivered by a substance, it's built through relationship, responsibility, and the integration work that follows.

Beatty treats ibogaine as a catalyst rather than a cure, a threshold experience that surfaces potential without resolving it on its own. Around that idea he has built structured pre-treatment and integration frameworks intended to turn insight into durable behavioral and psychological change, including his own Good Life Index, a transpersonal, trauma-informed self-inquiry model that frames recovery as reclaiming authorship over one's life rather than simply managing symptoms.

Outside his direct client work, he has collaborated with and supported ibogaine providers internationally, including Inner Realms Center in Mexico, IbogaQuest in Mexico, Anzelmo in Mexico, The Living Lodge in California, Magalies Wellness Centre in South Africa, and Ambio in Malta, plus other centers across Europe and North America. Across that work his emphasis has stayed consistent: stronger preparation, deeper integration pathways, and smaller, more relational models of care over high-throughput treatment.

More recently his focus has widened from individual clients to the systems around ibogaine treatment itself. He has taken part in government-level consultations in the Bahamas and St Vincent and the Grenadines on the ethical implementation, clinical viability, and responsible regulation of ibogaine-assisted treatment, including contributing to ethics-board discussions and approval processes shaping ibogaine treatment standards in the Bahamas.

That systems-level view feeds into an ongoing project of his: a blueprint for an ethical, end-to-end treatment model that holds the whole journey rather than one isolated piece of it: deep preparation, medically safe and reverent treatment, structured integration, reintegration into community, and, where it genuinely serves the person, a considered path back to re-treatment. In this model re-treatment isn't framed as failure but as one part of a longer healing process, particularly for people carrying complex trauma, addiction, or neurological injury, where change often takes more than a single intervention to hold.

A significant part of his current work is with military veterans and first responders, many of whom arrive at ibogaine carrying complex trauma, moral injury, and survival adaptations built up over years of service, not just addiction on its own. He reframes that presentation not as pathology but as a misdirected initiation, something that, properly held and integrated, can be redirected toward meaning, connection, and post-traumatic growth rather than left to run in the background.

He also speaks regularly at plant medicine and ibogaine conferences and appears as a guest on podcasts across the psychedelic, recovery, and mental health spaces, generally making the same case: depth-oriented, trauma-informed, ethically grounded treatment over anything faster or more transactional.

His own summary of the work holds up well on its own: the medicine may open the door, but it's the individual who has to choose to walk through it, and then learn how to actually live on the other side.