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Built by veterans, for veterans, first responders, and their families. You go through it alongside people who understand, without having to explain.
Service can carry long-term effects for some people and their families. Beond Service is a treatment and support program for veterans, first responders, and their families. It combines medically supervised ibogaine treatment with preparation, group support, coaching, and integration, and is designed to support people living with PTSD, brain-injury symptoms, and depression. Many who’ve been through it describe coming home with more than symptom relief: a renewed sense of purpose, and a team that has their back.
Suicide rates are about 57% higher for male veterans and about double for female veterans than for non-veteran adults, after adjusting for age.
Source: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report (latest edition).
of first responders develop behavioral health conditions such as depression or PTSD, compared with 20% of the general population.
Source: SAMHSA, Supplemental Research Bulletin, May 2018.
traumatic brain injury diagnoses in service members since 2000.
Source: DoD Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence, data through Q3 2025.
higher odds of ever divorcing for veterans than civilians, after adjusting for other factors.
Source: London, Allen & Wilmoth, Journal of Family Issues, 2013.
The program brings together clinical care, structured coaching, group work, and data-informed insights. For those who qualify, ibogaine is given within this broader framework of care, under physician supervision.
Beond Service is developed with organizations across clinical care, performance health, and veteran support, focused on supporting mental health and long-term wellbeing.
A key partner supporting access for the veteran and first responder community to programs like Beond Service, helping expand reach where it’s needed most.
Beond Service is run by Clayton Smith, a former Army Ranger who helped start the program. He leads alongside Lindsay Smith, a military partner of 15 years; Matt Carpenter, a retired Marine Gunner; Lorna Sturchio, a Navy veteran and the program’s lead coach; Mick Connolly, a former Army medic and firefighter and NLP-trained coach; and Keith Vasconcellos, a Navy corpsman and Purple Heart recipient. With facilitators Chris Luttman, Jess Quezada, and Gehrig Tucker, every coach and facilitator has been where you are.
Veterans and first responders work in environments that demand resilience, clarity, and performance, often without systems designed to support long-term mental health. Traditional approaches often focus on managing symptoms. Beond Service is designed to go further: preparation, treatment, and integration, together, with people who understand.
What service leaves behind isn’t only symptoms. For many, it’s a sense of being cut off: from themselves, from the people they love, from the mission that once gave life meaning. Feeling better is part of recovery; finding purpose again is the other half.
That’s where many participants tell us the experience surprised them most. In the reflective hours after treatment, people often describe seeing their lives more clearly, meeting old memories with less fear, and reconnecting with what still matters. Many talk about coming home ready to show up differently for their families, and finding a new kind of mission.
We can’t promise that experience, and it doesn’t happen the same way for everyone. But it’s why Beond Service isn’t a medical procedure alone. Your coaches and your cohort help you understand what came up and carry it into life at home.
A study led by Dr. Nolan Williams and colleagues at Stanford Medicine followed 30 Special Operations veterans with mostly mild brain injury who chose treatment with ibogaine and magnesium at a clinic in Mexico. One month later, average reductions were 88% in PTSD symptoms, 87% in depression, and 81% in anxiety (R11). The study had no control group, and participants were treated at another clinic, not at Beond. A 12-month follow-up preprint reported that most improvements held (R17).
A separate MRI analysis of 22 of the 30 participants reported increased cortical thickness and a lower estimated brain age at one month (R31). The authors say a randomized controlled trial is needed to know whether these changes come from the drug, expectation, the setting, or a combination. The Stanford study and a 2024 review share a lead author, so they aren’t independent sources (R11) (R30).
A 2023 Johns Hopkins study published in Nature found that a single psychedelic dose temporarily reopened a “critical period” for social reward learning in adult mice; ibogaine’s window was the longest measured, about four weeks (R32). Researchers describe this as a learning state that reinforces whatever surrounds it: returning to the same stressors risks reinforcing old patterns, while practicing new ones may help them take hold.
This is mouse data on one kind of learning, and whether anything similar happens in people is unknown. We use the weeks after treatment for integration support because of this hypothesis, not as a promise.
Ibogaine carries medical risk, mainly to the heart, and that risk can be greatly reduced with careful screening, continuous cardiac monitoring, repeat ECGs, lab work, and magnesium and other electrolytes given through an IV. A nurse stays at your side during every session, and physicians are on site. Over more than 6,000 treatments, we’ve learned a great deal and keep improving our protocols. No protocol can remove risk entirely. See exactly how we screen, monitor, and respond on our Safety page.
Participants build habits around sleep, movement, and health tracking.
For many, the process includes a shift in perspective and a closer look at their values, purpose, and how they choose to live.
Beond Service is a team-based program: structured preparation, on-site work, and long-term integration in one process. No one moves through it alone. Each cohort is built as a close-knit team, working side by side, supported by clinical staff, coaches, and peers.
The program is for people who are ready to engage, not just during the on-site experience but across preparation, treatment, and integration.
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Texas is funding a state-run, two-year ibogaine research program of up to $100 million for conditions including addiction and brain injury (R12), and an April 2026 federal executive order directed additional support for psychedelic research, including ibogaine (R13). Ibogaine remains a Schedule I controlled substance and is not approved by the FDA for any indication.
Admissions for 2026 are full; 2027 admissions are planned to reopen.
9 weeks total
No cost to participants
Not everyone qualifies
Complete a short application to see whether the program fits.
Join a small group session to learn about the program and ask questions.
Work with our clinical team to confirm treatment is medically appropriate for you.
Join your team.
Thank you for your interest in Beond Service. We’re grateful you found us.
Admissions for our 2026 cohorts are full, and we plan to reopen admissions for 2027 later this year. Leave your contact information below and we’ll let you know as soon as they open.
If you’d like to seek treatment sooner, our standard programs have rolling admissions; click here to learn more.
Questions? Email beondservice@beond.us.
Personal experience; results vary.
Non-Clinical General Manager
Clayton helped start Beond Service and oversees it today. A former U.S. Army Ranger, he served as a Reconnaissance Platoon Leader and Executive Officer and received the Purple Heart during his 2012 deployment to Afghanistan. After leaving the military, Clayton faced many of the same challenges veterans and first responders face, including the long-term effects of stress, trauma, and loss of structure. His experience with ibogaine became a turning point, bringing clarity, direction, and personal accountability. As a Beond alum and core team member since its early days, he brings a structured, outcomes-focused approach, helping participants stay engaged, take ownership, and turn the experience into meaningful change.
Lindsay brings 15 years of experience as a military partner, navigating deployment, undiagnosed PTSD, her own caregiver fatigue, and the long search for effective care within the VA system. Her path eventually led to her own experience with ibogaine, which shifted what felt possible for both her and her veteran husband, and showed her the need for healing across the whole family. As a Beond alum and part of the team that built Beond Service, Lindsay makes sure partners and families are fully included. She brings a steady, direct, grounded presence, meeting people where they are and helping them reconnect with themselves beyond the roles they’ve carried.
Matt is a retired U.S. Marine Chief Warrant Officer–4 (Marine Gunner) with over 25 years of service, including multiple combat deployments and leadership roles across infantry units and training commands. In 2024, despite a career defined by discipline and resilience, Matt reached a personal low point he hadn’t been able to resolve through traditional paths. That led him to Beond Service, where his experience became a turning point in how he understood himself and what real change requires. Today, Matt works directly with participants, bringing a steady, disciplined presence and a deep belief that change is built through structure, accountability, and sustained effort.
Lorna is a former Naval Coastal Warfare veteran, trauma coach, and Lead Coach for the Beond Service program. She is passionate about creating grounded, holistic spaces where healing and connection can unfold. Drawing on lived experience and extensive work in psychedelic preparation and integration, Lorna brings a heart-centered, trauma-informed approach that is compassionate, direct, and deeply human. Her work focuses on nervous system regulation, resilience, self-awareness, and personal growth, helping people through some of life’s hardest transitions and reconnecting them with who they are beneath survival, pain, and conditioning.
Mick served as a U.S. Army medic, then as a firefighter, coming to the aid of fellow soldiers, victims, and patients until multiple injuries, including those sustained in a rescue, ended his firefighting career. Today he is a coach trained in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and a Beond Service facilitator, helping veterans and first responders work through the effects of cumulative stress and trauma.
U.S. Navy SARC and Purple Heart recipient, with three deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, medically retired after surviving a major blast-related brain injury. Advocate for research into ibogaine for traumatic brain injury. Beond Service facilitator.
