Press Release
Deciding to seek ibogaine treatment is a big step. Working out where to go shouldn’t add to the stress. We now welcome guests at two locations: seven private residences on the Baja California coast and a villa overlooking the Mediterranean in Malta. Together, they put our care within a short flight of most of the world.
Both clinics offer identical levels of care, from the same team, to the highest standards. Your choice comes down to where you’re travelling from, which program you need and which setting feels right to you.
In both Mexico and Malta, you stay in a private, secure residential clinic for the full length of your treatment, so you never have to deal with the outside world when you’re feeling most open. These are not sterile clinical environments – they’re warm, inviting homes with the amenities of a boutique hotel, but retrofitted to deliver clinical care. Physicians and a medical team are on site day and night, and your vitals are monitored throughout treatment. That means you can engage in your own inner work fully, knowing that professionals are always taking care of your health.
Meals are cooked for you three times a day with local ingredients, the house is looked after, and each day includes a variety of holistic treatments and guided sessions, including massage, breathwork, meditation and mindful movement, so all your energy can go into healing. There’s time to rest, write and sit quietly with whatever the treatment brings up. Blackout masks, white noise machines and staff who know when to give you space help with that.
Our care is shaped by more than 4,000 guests who have come through our doors since 2021, guided by a team with over 50 years of combined ibogaine experience. Every guest receives the benefit of that experience, at either geographic location.
Our seven Mexico residences sit along the Baja California coast, in a region with nearly three decades of ibogaine practice. Some houses have ocean views, others have private gardens, and several have pools, spas, and fire pits. Traditional Mexican design runs throughout, and meals are cooked by chefs from award-winning Mexico City restaurants. Guests often talk about the food long after they leave – especially the aguas frescas and the tacos. In our Foundational and Detoxification Programs, there’s also a visit to a traditional temazcal sweat lodge, a link to a culture that has long treated healing as both a physical and a spiritual practice.
Our Malta clinic is a modern villa overlooking Mellieha Bay. Malta is a small island with a long history. It has some of the oldest freestanding structures on Earth, and the sea is warm enough to swim in for most of the year. The villa has a pool, a sauna, a cold plunge and a wide patio facing the water. It is also the only physician-led ibogaine clinic in Europe.
Ambio Mexico offers all three of our programs. The five-day Foundational Program is for trauma, grief, TBI, burnout, and mood imbalance. The Detoxification Program runs 7 to 30 days and is for people ready to stop using problematic substances. The four-day Neuroregenerative Program is for people living with Parkinson’s, MS or essential tremor who want to explore ibogaine. Ambio Malta currently offers the Foundational Program.
If you’re seeking detox or neuroregenerative care, Mexico is where that care is available today. If the Foundational Program is right for you, you can choose either location, Mexico or Malta, and the decision usually comes down to where you’re travelling from.
If you live in the western or Central U.S. or Canada, or in Central or South America, Ambio Mexico is often the easiest choice. Fly into San Diego, and our drivers will meet you and take you to the clinic in about 30 to 40 minutes. You can also fly directly into Tijuana. For your privacy and safety, clinic addresses are never published, and no one drives themselves there.
If you’re travelling from the eastern U.S. or Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa or Asia-Pacific, Ambio Malta may suit you better. Direct flights from JFK, London, Frankfurt and other major hubs mean shorter travel days and no need to pass through the United States. English is an official language in Malta, and the island is widely considered a very safe destination. Our drivers meet you at the airport for a 45-minute drive along the coast. We recommend arriving the night before your first day.
Whichever clinic you choose, you won’t need to arrange onward travel yourself. Our team collects you at the airport or a designated hotel and looks after you until you return.
As our longest-operating clinics, demand at Ambio Mexico can often mean a waitlist. Wait times in Malta are usually shorter, so if you’ve applied for the Foundational Program in Mexico, you can ask our intake team about transferring your application. A different treatment rate applies, and each request is reviewed individually.
Your treatment will be the same wherever you go. What changes is whether you wake up to the Pacific or the Mediterranean. If you’re not sure which is right for you, our intake team can help you decide.
