What Success Looks Like at Beond
An honest account of what ibogaine can do, what Beond does, and what only you can do.
We can't guarantee results. Here is how we define success, what we measure, and what the research shows. Ibogaine is an opportunity, not a cure. What happens next depends heavily on the work after you leave and on the life you return to.
We create the conditions. You create the outcome. Ibogaine creates the opening. Beond creates the container: screening, monitoring, preparation, and integration support. You carry it forward.
The Hope That Brings People Here
People come to Beond carrying one of the most human of hopes: that something can make the pain stop. Permanently. Without the daily work of recovery. That a single experience can interrupt years of suffering — addiction, trauma, depression — and close the door behind it forever.
We understand that hope. We were built by people who lived it.
We also know — from thousands of ibogaine experiences, and from our own — that this is not how healing works. Not with ibogaine. Not with anything.
People arrive to Beond from very different places. Some arrive at a point of acute crisis. Others arrive functioning well by almost any external measure, carrying something privately that no amount of professional success has touched. Some have tried many things and found partial answers; some are approaching ibogaine as a deliberate next step in a longer journey of growth. There is no single story, and no profile you have to fit. What tends to unite the people who come is a genuine desire for change — and a willingness to do real work in pursuit of it.
If that describes you, this page is written for you.
The weight of depression, trauma, dependency, and burnout does not announce itself the way a broken bone does. It accumulates quietly, often for years, in lives that look entirely functional from the outside — and because of the stigma that still surrounds these struggles, many people wait far longer than they should before asking for help.
If you are reading this, you may already be doing something brave. Choosing to look honestly at what isn’t working, and to seek something better, takes more courage than the world tends to give credit for. We do not take that lightly.
This page exists because we think you deserve to know exactly what Beond can offer, what ibogaine can do, and — most importantly — what only you can do.
We want to say something to the people reading this with a quiet, private doubt — not about ibogaine, but about themselves.
Whether you have tried treatment before and it didn’t hold, or you have simply tried to outwork something that hasn’t yielded, you may have started to wonder whether the problem is you.
We have not found that to be true. What we have found is that people who come with honesty about where they are — and genuine willingness to engage with what emerges — tend to find something real here. Not a resolution handed to them. A starting point they can actually build from.
What Ibogaine Does
A profound opening during which something that felt impossible becomes possible.
Ibogaine is a neurologically active compound with documented effects on the brain systems involved in addiction, mood regulation, and trauma. In a clinical setting with appropriate medical oversight, it has been associated with reduced withdrawal symptoms, reduced cravings, and a distinctive introspective experience that many guests describe as confronting — and clarifying — their lives in ways that had not been possible before.
Ibogaine is also a drug with real cardiac risks that require rigorous clinical management. We address those in full on our Safety page.
Ibogaine appears to modulate key receptor systems involved in dependency and emotional regulation, and researchers hypothesize that it may open a window of neuroplasticity during which change becomes more available than it ordinarily is. Researchers at Stanford have reported meaningful improvements in PTSD, depression, and anxiety in veterans with traumatic brain injury, and other studies have reported reduced withdrawal and cravings in people treated for opioid dependence, all under clinical supervision.
What ibogaine is not is a cure. It is, in the best cases, an interruption.
What happens in that opening is determined entirely by the person standing in it.
We think of ibogaine not as a solution but as an accelerant.
For people who are already doing their work — already engaged in a therapeutic process, in self-inquiry, in the slower journey of trying to understand and change what isn’t working — ibogaine appears, in many cases, to compress that process into a single concentrated experience. It does not replace the work. It compounds it.
The research supporting this is promising but still early, and results are not universal. The people who tend to get the most from it are the ones who arrive with the most honest relationship to themselves, and who leave with the most genuine commitment to carrying what they found forward.
We also want to be honest about something that rarely appears in descriptions of ibogaine — and that your preparation coach will discuss with you in depth before you arrive.
Ibogaine can surface what has been lying dormant in the subconscious for years. Material that has been suppressed, avoided, or simply never fully faced. This is part of its power, and it is also part of its weight.
The experience is not always gentle. The integration period that follows — the weeks, months, and sometimes longer during which life reorganizes itself around what the treatment uncovered — can include real instability, emotional difficulty, and the sustained effort of making changes that do not happen overnight.
This is not a complication. It is, in many cases, the process working exactly as it should. But it requires something specific from you: a genuine commitment to staying with it, even when staying with it is hard.
What Beond Does
We create the conditions.
We build the clinical environment in which ibogaine can be administered as safely as possible and experienced as fully as possible.
That means a rigorous pre-admission process — cardiac evaluation, psychiatric history review, medication assessment — so that the people we treat are the people for whom this treatment is clinically appropriate. It means licensed physician oversight throughout the treatment experience, continuous cardiac monitoring, and ACLS-certified nursing staff present around the clock. It means a preparation process that helps guests arrive ready. It means an integration framework designed to help them carry what they discovered into the life they return to.
The people we get to work with come from across a wide spectrum of experience and need. What they share is more important than what distinguishes them: a desire to move forward, a willingness to be honest, and enough trust to let our clinical team help them prepare for something that will ask a great deal of them.
Preparation begins before you arrive. Working with a dedicated preparation coach who understands your specific situation, you have two virtual one-on-one sessions and move through a structured process — your vision for your future, your WHY, your questions, your concerns, and what you are actually hoping to find and create for yourself and those who matter most on the other side of this experience.
For guests with complex medical or psychiatric profiles, preparation involves physician review and careful planning for any adjustments needed before treatment. For guests who arrive already deeply engaged in their own growth work, preparation builds on that foundation rather than starting from scratch.
These conversations are real. Many guests describe preparation as the first time anyone in a clinical context had asked the right questions — and had enough genuine attention to hear and refine the answers.
How much you bring, and how honest you are willing to be, is already part of the work. Preparation is not something that happens to you. It is something you do, with our teams, in advance of arriving.
Integration is the work of applying the experience to daily life. We offer structured support in the weeks and months after treatment: two one-on-one virtual sessions with your coach, with the option to book more, Beond Circle (our free, moderated, private community for alumni), and free weekly group coaching. We also invite you to complete short, voluntary surveys over the following year. Together, these support your efforts to translate what you found into the daily practices and choices that make change durable and even inspiring.
How much of this you use is yours to determine. We provide resources and structure; we cannot do the integration for you.
The guests who engage most consistently — who use their coaching sessions, join weekly group coaching, take part in Beond Circle, and bring their own support network into the process — tend to report the best outcomes. That network includes therapists, coaches, family members, and communities they already trust. Real change rarely happens in isolation, and you don’t have to treat it as one.
We evaluate. We prepare. We monitor. We create the program, the methods, the clinical infrastructure, and the environment. We work to make sure every guest can relax, feel safe, and be fully present for the experience.
What Success Means, and Who Decides
Success is not a number we assign.
Success looks different for every person who comes through our doors. We collect outcome data under physician oversight, tracked with validated clinical instruments. Our data helps us understand and improve what we do. What matters for you is something only you can measure, and we will not try to measure it for you.
How we define success. Completing treatment safely; changes in symptoms on standard scales; improvement in quality of life; and staying engaged in aftercare, whether through Beond or outside support. It does not mean a cure.
How we use your information. Survey responses are used to review and improve our program. We report results only in aggregate, so no individual can be identified, and we do not share individual responses outside Beond without your permission.
For some, it is a meaningful, sustained interruption of something that had been driving behavior for years — a pattern of dependency, of avoidance, of reaching for relief in ways that were slowly costing them more than they could afford. For others, it is the first real access they have had to what was underneath — a clarity about what has been shaping their choices, their relationships, their sense of what is possible for them. For others still, it is the feeling of being, for the first time in a long time, on the right side of their own life — not fixed, but oriented. Moving.
Ibogaine can interrupt. It can open. It can illuminate what has been hidden, reframe what has felt fixed, and make available a clarity that was not accessible before.
It cannot decide what you do with that clarity.
It cannot do your integration practices for you. It cannot repair your relationships, rebuild the structures of your life, or sustain your commitment on the days — and there will be days — when returning to old patterns feels easier than staying with the new ones. It cannot want recovery on your behalf.
Neither can we.
What we do is prepare the ground and create the environment. Our coaches, physicians, nurses, and therapists are partners in this process — not architects of your outcome. We witness. We support. We challenge, when that is what is needed. We stay available.
But the work, the real work, the work that many guests describe as a turning point in their lives, is done by our guests. In the treatment room. In the weeks and months after they go home. In the small, daily choices that no one else sees and that no one else can make.
When a guest leaves Beond and goes on to rebuild their life — to reconnect with their family, return to work, feel like themselves again for the first time in years — that is not Beond’s achievement.
It is theirs. Completely and entirely theirs.
We are honored to have been part of the conditions that made it possible.
What We Can Honestly Tell You
We will not publish a success rate without publishing the methodology behind it. We will not describe an outcome we cannot measure. We will not tell you ibogaine will work for you — because we do not know that yet, and neither do you. That is what the clinical evaluation process is for.
What we can tell you is this: the clinical infrastructure we have built (the screening, the monitoring, the physician oversight, the preparation, the integration framework) is designed to give every clinically appropriate candidate a carefully screened, closely monitored, and well-supported treatment.
We track outcomes using validated clinical instruments, sent as surveys at 30, 60, 90, and 180 days and one year after treatment. But we can only measure what we can track, and we can only track what guests choose to share with us. Completing the surveys is voluntary, and not every guest does. Guests who are struggling may be less likely to respond than those who are doing well, and that asymmetry matters when interpreting any data we collect. We tell you about it here because you deserve to know it.
We share outcomes data when it meets a standard of honesty we are comfortable standing behind. We are working with independent US researchers so our results can be checked by people outside Beond, and they will publish what they find.
What the research shows. Small studies report reduced withdrawal and craving in people treated for opioid dependence, and a 2024 study led by the late Dr. Nolan Williams and colleagues at Stanford Medicine reported improvements in PTSD, depression, and anxiety one month after treatment in veterans with traumatic brain injury.
No large randomized trial has confirmed long-term results. See our FAQ for more.
A Note From Our Founders
Beond was built on the understanding that a single experience — however profound — is not the end of anything. It is a beginning. Everything we have built here is oriented around that belief: that ibogaine is most valuable for people who are willing to do something with what it opens, and that our job is to create the conditions in which that opening is as safe, as supported, and as honest as possible.
The people we most want to serve take their own growth seriously. They will bring real preparation to this experience, engage honestly in the process, and use what they find here as fuel for the work that follows. We are dedicated partners in that work. We are not the source of it.
If that is the kind of person you are, or the kind of person you are trying to become, we hope to hear from you and help.
— Tom Feegel,
Talia Eisenberg, and
The Beond Team
What Happens Next
It begins with a conversation — a consultation with a member of our team who will ask you real questions about where you are and what you are looking for. There are no wrong answers. There are some clinical profiles that require more careful evaluation, and we will tell you that honestly rather than rushing toward an admission date.
If that conversation suggests you may be an appropriate candidate, you will complete a detailed health history through our secure medical records platform. A licensed Beond physician reviews that history before speaking with you directly on a video call — to evaluate your clinical eligibility, answer your questions, and determine whether any pre-admission steps are needed. Those steps, if they exist, are there to protect you.
Only after that evaluation is an admission date confirmed. We move at the pace of your readiness and your clinical situation. If you are not ready, we will tell you honestly. If you are, we will be ready too.
Direct Answers to Hard Questions
Can you guarantee results?
No. Any program that does is not being honest with you. What we can tell you is that our clinical rigor — the screening, the monitoring, the preparation, the integration support — is designed to give every appropriate candidate the best possible foundation. What you build on that foundation is yours to determine.
What if it doesn’t work for me?
Ibogaine does not produce the same outcomes for every person, and we do not pretend otherwise. If you complete our program and do not experience the change you were hoping for, that is not a verdict on your character or your capacity to heal. It may mean the timing was not right. It may mean integration requires more sustained support than you anticipated. It may mean ibogaine was not the right tool for where you are in your journey right now. Our clinical and integration teams will work with you honestly throughout — before, during, and after treatment — and our support does not end at discharge.
What does “it worked” actually mean?
That is a question we ask our guests, not one we answer for them. We look at the full picture — substance use, mood, functioning, quality of life — not a satisfaction score at departure. When guests tell us something worked, we want to know what that means for them specifically. That specificity is what we are building our evidence base around.
Why are you being so honest about this?
Because the people who come to Beond have usually been failed by programs that overpromised. They have heard the guarantees. They have signed up for the silver bullet. And when it did not deliver everything it claimed, many of them blamed themselves.
We think that is wrong. We think the field has done a disservice to people in genuine suffering by offering certainty it could not back up. We are not interested in repeating that.
What we are interested in is being the program that tells you the truth — about what ibogaine can do, about what we can do, about what the evidence says — and then delivers the most rigorous clinical experience available. If that is what you are looking for, we should talk.