Ana Ortiz Bernal BS, PhD

Anny Ortiz is a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Human Ecology in the department of Human Development and Family Studies where she works under the mentorship of Dr. Charles Raison. She holds B.A. in psychology from Arizona State University, where she had the opportunity to volunteer at The Mind-Body Health Lab. Over the past 17 years Anny has worked in a variety of therapeutic programs including a residential treatment center in Mexico.

Anny also worked in wilderness therapy program in the United States and a therapeutic boarding school in Costa Rica where she had the opportunity to work with skillful psychotherapists and gained clinical experience working primarily with adolescents and young adults with anxiety and substance use disorders. From 2013 to 2016 Anny worked and consulted with two different ibogaine treatment centers in Baja, Mexico where she integrated the use of 5-MeO-DMT, along with heart-rate variability training into already existing ibogaine treatment protocols for opioid addiction.