Rosarito,

The Holistic Sanctuary

A Pacific-coast plant-medicine centre that publishes no prices, disowns its founder's clinical authority in writing, and names one doctor.

Assessed

Rank #60Public score 37Tied

Public evidence, LROAS 1.0.0, edition 2026-10-01

Public evidence · 37

About The Holistic Sanctuary

The Holistic Sanctuary treats three to five clients at a time on a cliffside oceanfront estate at Rosarito, roughly thirty minutes south of the Tijuana border. Its organising idea is the founder's proprietary Pouyan Method: no prescription medication of any kind, no group therapy, no 12-step content, and treatment built on medically supervised ibogaine and ayahuasca work wrapped in cellular detoxification, intravenous nutrition, stem cell therapy, hyperbaric oxygen, an organic kitchen, bodywork, yoga and breathwork. Each client has a private master suite and an individual clinical team, for four to twelve weeks. The homepage describes pricing as transparent and all-inclusive, and the three package pages that would carry a figure returned an error when they were checked. One clinician is named in the whole organisation, and the company states in writing that its founder holds no medical degree, nursing licence or clinical certification. It is the same company as Sanctuary Tulum, which sells the same method at several times the price.

Clinic overview

Founded: The company's own founder page and the Better Business Bureau business start date of 13 July 2011 both give 2011. Bylined Salon reporting of 9 September 2016 gives a 2009 Rosarito opening after earlier operation in Los Angeles. Both sources stand; neither is preferred here.
Capacity: Three to five clients on site at a time, each in a private master suite.
Staff per client: Not published as a headcount. The group states a 25-person medical team against three to five clients, and a 2017 magazine feature reported a claimed 3:1 ratio. No roster is published and neither claim could be corroborated. Unverified
Licence: The clinic states that it is licensed and physician-led, and names no regulator, no licence category and no licence number. The group's sister domain publishes a COFEPRIS federal operating licence number for its other property, which could not be confirmed against any public register. For this site the licence class is not established. Unverified
Accreditations: None. No JCI, CARF or Joint Commission accreditation is claimed or was found. The Better Business Bureau records the business as not accredited and Not Rated, with no complaints on file.
Payment and insurance: Private pay only. No insurance is accepted.
Length of stay: Four to twelve weeks. Silver runs four weeks, Gold four to twelve weeks and Platinum twelve weeks.

Leadership

One clinician is named in the entire organisation. No psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotherapist, addiction physician, nurse, chef or dietitian is named anywhere on the site.

Dr. Jose A. Jimenez, MD

Medical Director and Chair of the Medical Review Board, stated as reviewing every admission

Leadership

Johnny Tabaie

Founder, Chief Executive and Director of Operations, creator of the Pouyan Method. The company states he is not a physician and holds no medical degree or clinical certification

Leadership

No practitioner registration number, specialty, board certification, medical school or institutional affiliation is published for anyone.

Videos

Holistic Sanctuary Healing Center, Saves LivesSource: The Holistic SanctuaryWatch on YouTube

The Holistic Sanctuary Reviews and TestimonialsSource: The Holistic SanctuaryWatch on YouTube

Treatments

4 Week Silver Package

Four weeks

The entry tier. A private master suite with an individual clinical team, medical screening on arrival, and the Pouyan Method core protocol of cellular detoxification, intravenous nutrition, organic diet, bodywork and movement, with plant medicine as clinically indicated.

4 to 12 Week Gold Package

Four to twelve weeks

The extended tier, adding depth of regenerative protocol, hyperbaric oxygen, stem cell therapy and extended intravenous infusion courses across a longer arc with additional ceremony cycles. The clinical differentiation from the entry tier beyond duration is not itemised on the live site.

12 Week Exclusive Platinum Package

Twelve weeks

The full-length tier, positioned for chronic relapse, long-term opioid or benzodiazepine dependence and treatment-resistant presentations, with the widest regenerative stack and the longest integration arc. The clinic states that this tier takes the building down to a single client. No third-party figure for it was located.

Ibogaine treatment

Delivered inside the residential packages

Included in the package fee

Delivered inside the residential packages with no separate price. The clinic publishes a twelve-lead ECG with measured QTc, a cardiac stress test and full bloodwork before dosing, continuous telemetry through dosing and into the following day, a physician present throughout and twenty-four-hour nursing. It states that the same protocol is rarely right for two people.

Prices

No public price found.

Our assessment

Review evidence for this clinic is unusually hard to attribute. The Yelp listing carries 53 reviews at 4.9 stars, but it sits at the group's United States mailing address in Beverly Hills rather than at the Mexican treatment facility, and the company itself acknowledges that further reviews sit in Yelp's filtered section and invites prospective clients to read them. No Google Business Profile for the Rosarito facility was located and there is no Trustpilot profile. On PissedConsumer, two critical reviews posted in December 2014 and August 2015 were removed on 14 February 2018 under that platform's Legitimacy Verification Program, with recorded findings that the statements were more likely than not false and abusive. A response posted under the founder's name in February 2013 alleges an extortion attempt and states that law enforcement was engaged. No documented resolution was found. Authenticity is contested and both positions are on the record. Salon reported in September 2016 that the group's Yelp reviews used suspiciously similar language and that negative reviewers were dismissed by the operator as frauds. The company states that it declines pay-to-play directory listings, does not litigate against reviewers and does not manipulate reviews. On litigation and regulatory action, nothing was found, and that is stated plainly as a finding in the clinic's favour. No lawsuit, court judgment, regulatory enforcement action, licence suspension or documented client death was located in English or Spanish searches, and the Better Business Bureau file records zero complaints. The adverse material on this operator is journalistic and platform-based, not legal. Mexican health-regulator enforcement records are not systematically searchable online, so absence of a public finding is not proof that none exists.

Salon, 9 September 2016, is the only substantial independent investigative treatment and it is critical. The Fix, 20 April 2017, ran a client-survey feature that was largely positive. Everything else located is press-release distribution or sponsored placement. The homepage carries a featured-in strip citing broadcasters and publishers alongside commercial rehab-directory logos; the broadcast items are media appearances, not editorial endorsements.

None claimed and none found.

Facility

A private cliffside oceanfront estate on the Pacific coast at Rosarito. Clients occupy private master suites rather than shared rooms, with the programme delivered one client to one clinical team. The gym, the massage terrace, the yoga deck and the pools all face the water, including an infinity pool above the ocean. The on-site medical and biohacking infrastructure is specified rather than gestured at: a Sechrist hyperbaric chamber, red light panels, an infrared sauna and an intravenous suite, plus an organic kitchen. What cannot be checked: no street address, room count, floor area or floor plan is published, and no third party has documented the property. Rosarito is a working border-tourism town roughly thirty minutes south of Tijuana on a busy coastal corridor. Several images on the facility-tour page carry alt text describing the group's facility in Tulum, which is a different property in a different Mexican state, so the published photography cannot be attributed to this address with confidence.

Food

An organic kitchen prepares fresh meals daily, and the facility-tour photography shows fruit, salad, grilled fish, smoothies and fresh produce laid out on the kitchen counter. The published nutrition model is whole-food organic, described in 2016 reporting as vegan and GMO-free, with juice cleansing, wheatgrass and supplementation integrated into the detoxification protocol. No chef is named. No nutritionist or dietitian is named. No dietary, micronutrient or food-sensitivity testing is described, and no hygiene certification, kitchen registration or culinary credential is published. Nutrition is clinically central to the method, and the published detail is thinner than at the group's sister property.

Privacy

single occupancy per residence

Three to five clients are on the estate at a time, each in a private master suite with an individual clinical team, with no group sessions and no shared clinical spaces. The gym, the massage terrace, the yoga deck and the pools are shared amenities of one estate, and the clinic publishes no separate entrances, no duplicated communal space, no staggered arrivals and no individual transport. A client here can encounter another client, so the level established is single occupancy per residence. The separately priced Platinum tier is stated to take the building down to a single client. No documented leak of a client stay was found: no privacy incident, no named client and no press exposure of an admission. Cutting the other way, and materially: the company publishes sixteen filmed client video testimonials, directs clients to leave named public reviews, and a response posted under the founder's name disputed critical reviews in 2013. No confidentiality policy, staff protocol, device policy or media policy is published anywhere. That is a different privacy posture from a clinic that will not confirm an admission.

Assessed 2026-10-01

Rank #60Public score 37Tied

Public evidence, LROAS 1.0.0, edition 2026-10-01

Public evidence · 37

Headline basis: Public evidenceThe headline number is the public score, not the extended score., LROAS 1.0.0, edition 2026-10-01

Public-evidence total: 37

The sum of the ten criterion scores, from 10 to 100, using evidence anyone can check, including the clinic's own pages as self-declared statements. For the licence element of C2 only, it can also use an authority ruling held in our sealed evidence room. It is the only number used for the rank.

Confidence: medium. Provisional: C10.

C1 Client separation and occupancy · 7

The programme has no group therapy anywhere, every therapy hour is one-to-one, and each client has a private master suite, but the standard offer places several clients in one Rosarito estate sharing a kitchen, gym, pools and terraces, which is band 6. The higher band needs ensuite bedrooms, and the clinic's pages confirm private suites without saying anything about bathrooms. The separately priced Platinum package takes the building down to a single client, a sole-occupancy tier that adds one, giving 7. No contradiction deduction applies, and the non-disclosure agreement signed at enrolment is a client term, not a mechanism that keeps clients apart.

Confidence: medium

Known gaps:

The client count at the Rosarito estate is not published.

Sources (4 cited items):

The Holistic Sanctuary: "The Platinum Package takes the building down to a single client." "On either one, every ceremony and every therapy session is delivered one-on-one.".
The Holistic Sanctuary: "No groups, No 12 Steps"; "Every hour of your program is one-to-one"; "There are no group meetings, no lectures".
The Holistic Sanctuary: Facility described as "one private oceanfront estate"; clients in private master suites; gym, massage terrace, yoga deck and pools on the estate; organic kitchen cooking fresh every day; "the program is delivered one client to one clinical team".
The Holistic Sanctuary: Baja Gold Package: "All Customized 1 On 1 Protocol Therapy Sessions. No groups"; each package "Call for Prices".

C2 Clinical governance and medical cover · 3

A physician holds the stated Medical Director role for this site, and the clinic describes twenty-four-hour nursing, nursing overnight and on-site withdrawal management under a medical professional directing care. No institutional licence for the Rosarito site appears on any public register; the COFEPRIS licence number published on the group's Tulum site belongs to that facility, and an operator's own statement does not prove a licence. With no licence and no psychiatric care by a psychiatrist stated for this site, bands 4 and above are not open, and on-site detox does not change that. The stated cardiologist and neurologist name no site, and the transfer route names no hospital.

Confidence: medium

Known gaps:

The Rosarito residence address is not published, so no register entry can be matched to the site.

Sources (7 cited items):

The Holistic Sanctuary: "Dr. Jimenez oversees medical protocols, ensuring the highest quality of regenerative treatments, integrative therapies, and holistic care for every guest." Title "Medical Director".
The Holistic Sanctuary: Facility page: "Twenty-four-hour nursing, a medical director who reviews every admission, and counselors who live the program with you".
The Holistic Sanctuary: "twenty-five nurses and medical assistants on staff, licensed medical team on rotation, and nursing cover around the clock".
The Holistic Sanctuary: "We are not a hospital. If a guest needs a level of medical intervention we cannot safely provide, they are transferred".
The Holistic Sanctuary: "a defined hospital transfer route", with no hospital named; "Resuscitation equipment in the room" during ibogaine dosing.
The Holistic Sanctuary: Referral out: "Where a presentation needs a level of care we do not provide ... acute psychiatric inpatient care, medically complex hospitalization, or specialist eating disorder refeeding under continuous monitoring ... we say so and refer.".
sanctuarytulum.com: Group domain: "Licensed by COFEPRIS of Mexico, Federal License of Operation for Hospital & Clinic, License No. 17-AM-02-005-0003", published for the Tulum facility.

C3 Diagnostic depth on admission · 5

Every guest is medically screened before arrival, a twelve-lead ECG with measured QTc, cardiac stress testing, telemetry and full bloodwork precede dosing, and the Medical Director reviews every clearance. These three elements give band 5. No psychiatrist is named, no physician medication review or physician examination is stated, and no structured psychiatric or psychometric assessment or written formulation is published, which keeps the clinic below band 6.

Confidence: medium

Sources (6 cited items):

The Holistic Sanctuary: "Every guest is medically screened before arrival"; medical workup required "before any plant medicine protocol begins".
The Holistic Sanctuary: "our admissions are medical, so some people who want to come are not cleared".
The Holistic Sanctuary: Medical Director responsible for medical clearance review of cardiac workup and bloodwork.
The Holistic Sanctuary: Assessment: "a medical history, a full medication reconciliation, laboratory work, and cardiac screening where the presentation or the medication list calls for it. A psychological assessment that is conducted rather than mailed.".
The Holistic Sanctuary: "12-lead ECG with measured QTc", "cardiac stress test", "continuous telemetry through dosing and well into the following day"; "Full bloodwork including a metabolic panel before dosing"; "cleared by in-house EKG, cardiac stress test and full bloodwork before a dose is administered".
The Holistic Sanctuary: Ibogaine "delivered in a licensed facility after ECG and bloodwork clearance".

C4 Clinical intensity · 5

Twenty-four-hour clinical presence is described, with clinical staff physically present overnight, a dedicated team per client and counsellors who do not rotate. The published hour figures, such as up to 150 hours of private holistic sessions, count holistic treatments such as massage, Reiki and IV infusions rather than sessions with a clinician, so one-to-one clinical contact hours are not established for a higher band. Stays are clinically extendable, so no fixed-package cap applies, and the group share is zero.

Confidence: medium

Sources (6 cited items):

The Holistic Sanctuary: "the program is delivered one client to one clinical team"; "counselors who live the program with you rather than rotate through it"; "twenty-four-hour nursing".
The Holistic Sanctuary: "three to five nurses on every shift and a medical professional directing care"; "Clinical staff are physically present overnight.".
The Holistic Sanctuary: "Three to five nurses per shift, one-to-one only".
The Holistic Sanctuary: "nursing cover around the clock, no guest is ever the only person awake in the building at three in the morning"; "licensed medical team on rotation".
The Holistic Sanctuary: Silver: "up to 3 Hours of individualized 1-1 Treatments each day" (2x weekly NAD+ IV, Reiki, yoga, massage); Gold: "Up To 150 Hours of Private Holistic Sessions", "up to 7-9 Hours of individualized 'holistic treatments' each day"; Platinum: "Over 170 hours of one on one therapy per month".
The Holistic Sanctuary: "Patients experience 6 hours a day of individualized care" (quoted from the clinic page).

C5 Continuity and aftercare · 4

The clinic publishes a written discharge plan with a named person responsible, and ninety days of structured aftercare that it states it runs itself, planned from week one. These three elements give band 4. The delivery channel, provider and fee inclusion of the aftercare are not stated, and no alumni service, outcome tracking or published follow-up schedule is described, which keeps the clinic below band 5.

Confidence: medium

Known gaps:

The count of three elements rests on the clinic running its own aftercare; delivery channel and provider are not stated.
The element reading for this criterion is not published as a list; the band is explained in the reasoning.

Sources (3 cited items):

The Holistic Sanctuary: "We run ninety days of structured aftercare and begin planning it in week one." "Discharge planning is part of the treatment rather than an administrative step at the end of it. It begins in week one, it addresses the specific environment you are returning to, and it runs for ninety days after you leave.".
The Holistic Sanctuary: "At discharge: a written plan, a named person responsible for it, and a schedule that starts before you leave rather than after you relapse.".
The Holistic Sanctuary: "We stay reachable afterward. Guests contact Holistic Sanctuary months and years later, and that line does not close at discharge.".

C6 Admission integrity and commercial conduct · 2

Two violations are found on group-controlled domains. The group's Tulum site publishes a founder-authored list of the ten best luxury rehabs that puts its own property first and second, and its As Featured In strip names outlets where no matching article was found. Two positive signals stand against them: published statements of who the clinic is not the right fit for, on medical grounds and where the person is not arriving by their own decision. No clinic-published price counts, because every package is listed as call for prices and the Silver starting figure is a floor, and no referral-fee position is published. Two violations without a machine-directed instruction give band 2.

Confidence: low

Sources (10 cited items):

sanctuarytulum.com: sanctuarytulum.com blog "10 Best Luxury Rehabs in the World | Sanctuary Tulum", author the group founder, lists Sanctuary Tulum at positions 1 and 2, followed by other named clinics.
The Holistic Sanctuary: Group link: locations "Tulum Beach Quintana Roo · Mexico" and "Rosarito Baja California · Mexico" ; medical disclaimer names "Holistic Sanctuary, Sanctuary Tulum". Further source: https://holisticsanctuary.com/medical-disclaimer/.
The Holistic Sanctuary: Baja Silver, Gold and Platinum packages each "- Call for Prices -".
The Holistic Sanctuary: P3: "We are not the right fit where a presentation needs a hospital rather than a residential setting: acute medical instability, an active psychiatric emergency, or a withdrawal risk profile that belongs under inpatient monitoring.".
The Holistic Sanctuary: P4: "We are not the right fit where someone is being sent by a family rather than arriving by their own decision, because a residential program cannot manufacture consent and the outcomes when it tries are poor.".
The Holistic Sanctuary: "Best Rehabs in the US: How to Actually Compare" (26 August 2026) names only this clinic, with the disclosure "we run a treatment facility, so we are not neutral"; not a ranking of several clinics.
The Holistic Sanctuary: Homepage "featured in" strip: MTV, Huffington Post, Health & Fitness, RehabReviews.com, The Fix, AlterNet, MTV The Real World, Fox News, Travel Channel, Recovery.com, Rehab.com.
sanctuarytulum.com: sanctuarytulum.com "As Featured In: New York Times, Rolling Stone, GQ, Vogue, Men's Health, Newsweek". Recorded searches found no matching New York Times, Rolling Stone, GQ or HuffPost article.
The Holistic Sanctuary: "we do not participate in" pay-to-play directory models; "we do not litigate reviewers, and we do not astroturf praise".
clinic and group domains, web search: Search of clinic and group domains, web search. Scope: domains checked holisticsanctuary.com (homepage, page-sitemap.xml, /best-rehabs-in-the-us/, /treatment-centers/ibogaine/ibogaine-clinics/, /reviews/, /about-us/patient-reviews-and-complaints/, /johnny-the-healer-complaints-and-reviews/, /robots.txt, /llms.txt returned HTTP 404) and.... Result: sweep recorded; outcome per the C6 V elements.

C7 Transparency toward the client · 2

Two elements are met: an all-inclusive price statement covering accommodation, therapy, medical oversight, meals and airport transfer, with package exclusions listed, and published limits stating the clinic is not a hospital and naming presentations it refers out. Refund terms exist but payment and deposit terms do not, early-departure credit is stated without extension terms, and no licence number, registered legal entity, ownership record, complaints route, inspection results or record-handling terms are published; the clinic's own page carries an unfilled note to publish the entity name and licence number. Two elements give band 3, and one point is deducted for a founding-date contradiction: the clinic gives a 2011 opening, while bylined reporting from 2016 gives 2009.

Confidence: high

Known gaps:

A clinic page claims a 90% no-relapse rate while another states that no success rate is claimed; the deduction list does not cover outcome claims, so no deduction applied.

Sources (9 cited items):

The Holistic Sanctuary: "One price covers accommodation, every therapy, all medical oversight, chef-prepared organic meals and airport transfer. There are no per-session add-ons".
The Holistic Sanctuary: Baja Silver package lists what it covers (2x weekly NAD+ IV, Reiki, yoga, massage) and excludes hyperbaric oxygen sessions; Gold excludes stem cell therapy.
The Holistic Sanctuary: "All Sales Are Final. There Are No Refunds, Only Credit If you Leave Early And Not Credit If Terminated From The Program"; governing law of the State of California; entity named "Holistic Sanctuary"; privacy statement referenced without controller or retention detail.
The Holistic Sanctuary: Own unfilled editorial note: "[NEEDS VERIFICATION, publish the registered entity name and license number here so a reader can check it without contacting us.]" (punctuation normalised).
The Holistic Sanctuary: "We are not a hospital. If a guest needs a level of medical intervention we cannot safely provide, they are transferred".
The Holistic Sanctuary: "None of the psychedelic modalities is approved by the FDA for the treatment of addiction, depression or PTSD"; "We do not claim that any of these therapies cures addiction, depression, PTSD or any other condition. We do not claim a success rate.".
The Holistic Sanctuary: Founding chronology: "2011: Licensed facility opens in Mexico"; "Continuous operation since 2011".
salon.com: Salon, byline Alex French, 9 September 2016: the Rosarito property opened in 2009, after the operator first worked in Los Angeles.
bbb.org: Statement withheld: it named a person not published on the clinic's own site.

C8 Track record and regulator standing · 5

No court judgment, regulator decision or inquiry determination against the operator within ten years was found in English or Spanish searches, and the Better Business Bureau file records zero complaints in three years. No statutory inspection record, no first-hand bylined report within five years and only one retrievable independent review platform are available, so no positive safety element lifts the band. The 2016 bylined reporting and removed consumer reviews remain allegations and score nothing, and the clinic's own statement of zero serious incidents is self-reported.

Confidence: low

Sources (12 cited items):

bbb.org: BBB: zero complaints in the last three years, zero customer reviews, not rated, file opened 17 January 2019.
the-holistic-sanctuary.pissedconsumer.com: PissedConsumer: 3.7 from 3 registered reviews; two one-star reviews removed under the Legitimacy Verification Program; company responses visible.
salon.com: Salon, byline Alex French, 9 September 2016: reported identity-records search and the operator's refusal to discuss 2012 and funding; no court or regulator finding reported.
The Holistic Sanctuary: Clinic states "Zero serious incidents across that period, per the facility's record" (self-reported, unaudited).
The Holistic Sanctuary: Clinic invites readers to Yelp's filtered "not recommended" reviews and lists sixteen filmed testimonials (owned media).
CourtListener opinions and RECAP API (v4 search): Search of CourtListener opinions and RECAP API (v4 search). Scope: "Holistic Sanctuary" (type r, 1 docket, non-party). Result: no record found.
CourtListener opinions and RECAP API (v4 search): Search of CourtListener opinions and RECAP API (v4 search). Scope: "Holistic Sanctuary" (type o). Result: no record found.
general web search: Search of a general web search engine. Scope: "Holistic Sanctuary" lawsuit OR court OR Cofepris. Result: no record found.
general web search: Search of a general web search engine. Scope: "Holistic Sanctuary" Rosarito wrongful death OR sued OR verdict OR settlement. Result: no record found.
general web search: Search of a general web search engine. Scope: "The Holistic Sanctuary" Baja clinic investigation OR complaint OR death OR closed. Result: no record found.
press and news search: Search of press and news search. Scope: first-hand bylined reporting from inside the facility, last 5 years. Result: no record found.
statutory regulator records: Search of statutory regulator records. Scope: inspection history and grades of this site. Result: no record found.

C9 Environment, safety and nutrition · 3

The environment and safety score is band 4: the estate carries a hyperbaric chamber, sauna, IV suite, gym, pools and yoga deck, with twenty-four-hour nursing and planned visits. Emergency access within 30 minutes is not credited because the residence address is unpublished, so the route from town level cannot be tied to the residence, and no value exists for the brand's Tulum site. Resuscitation equipment is mentioned without a defibrillator or life-support training, and the medication policy does not cover alcohol-free status or storage. The nutrition score is band 2: meals are organic and chef-prepared, but no nutrition professional, assessment or clinical protocol is published, and juice cleansing protocols do not count. The mean of 4 and 2 is 3.

Confidence: low

Known gaps:

Hospital General de Playas de Rosarito has a 24-hour emergency service near the town centre, but without a residence address it cannot count.

Sources (4 cited items):

The Holistic Sanctuary: "a Sechrist hyperbaric chamber, red light panels, an infrared sauna, and an IV suite where nutritional support and the Brain Repair protocol are delivered under nursing"; gym, massage terrace, yoga deck and pools; "The kitchen is organic and cooks fresh every day".
The Holistic Sanctuary: "Resuscitation equipment in the room"; "a defined hospital transfer route" with no hospital named.
The Holistic Sanctuary: "Visits are possible and are planned into the stay rather than improvised." "The nutritional program is built around what your body specifically needs to rebuild during detoxification and restoration".
The Holistic Sanctuary: Fee includes "chef-prepared organic meals".

C10 Clinical seniority and academic standing · 1

One clinician is named with a role at this site, the Medical Director, whose stated surgery and critical care credentials are unconfirmed; the Mexican professional licence and specialist certificate lookups have not been completed. The facility licence is not proven, because the establishment licence dataset returned an error and COFEPRIS offers no public lookup. Other named people are content reviewers or non-clinical, and nurses and rotating doctors are unnamed, so no verified clinical seniority counts and the index is band 1.

Provisional: Clinician register lookups for this criterion were still open at the edition cut-off (see known_gaps). The points count as assessed on the evidence available; the band may change when the lookups are completed, which is resolved in a later edition.

Confidence: medium

Known gaps:

Both register lookups for the Medical Director remain undone.

Sources (11 cited items):

The Holistic Sanctuary: Dr. Jose A. Jimenez, MD, "Medical Director", "Chair of Medical Review Board", "30+ years experience"; stated credentials: Board Certified Surgeon, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Critical Care Specialist, American British Cowdray Hospital; Certified for Musculoskeletal Ultrasound at Point-of-Care, Harvard Medical; Board-Elected Member, American Academy of Regenerative Medicine; no registration number.
The Holistic Sanctuary: "Medical clearance sits with our Medical Director", who reviews each guest's cardiac workup and bloodwork.
sanctuarytulum.com: Sister property under the same owner names the same person, "Dr. Jose A. Jimenez, MD", as "Medical Director".
The Holistic Sanctuary: Common control: founder's title "Founder & CEO, Holistic Sanctuary and Sanctuary Tulum", with Rosarito and Tulum as the two sites.
The Holistic Sanctuary: "Dr. Anique Ali serves as a contributing medical reviewer for Holistic Sanctuary" and "reviews general medical and wellness content on our site for clarity and factual accuracy".
The Holistic Sanctuary: "Medical credentials: None. He is not a medical professional and does not practice medicine." Three rotating ER doctors and at least four nurses per 24 hours described, unnamed.
The Holistic Sanctuary: "twenty-five nurses and medical assistants on staff, licensed medical team on rotation" (unnamed headcount, scores nothing).
cedulaprofesional.sep.gob.mx: Register lookup, row 1: SEP cédula profesional search; 2026-09-15; browser lookup needed (status: U, lookup: public page).
conacem.org.mx: Register lookup, row 1: CONACEM specialist certificate search; 2026-09-15; browser lookup needed (status: U, lookup: public page).
datos.gob.mx: Facility licence: datos.gob.mx establishment licence dataset returned HTTP 403; not proven.
gob.mx: Facility licence: COFEPRIS licensing page offers no lookup of licensed establishments; not proven.

Frequently asked questions

What does treatment at The Holistic Sanctuary cost?

The clinic names three tiers, a four-week Silver package, a four to twelve week Gold package and a twelve-week Platinum package. No price is published for any of them: the package pages carry a call-for-prices line, and the pricing pages checked in September 2026 returned an error while the homepage advertises transparent, all-inclusive pricing with no hidden extras. No independent figure is published that a reader can trace to a named source, so treat any number quoted elsewhere as unverified. Private pay only. Ask for the current rate card in writing before proceeding.

Where is the clinic and what is the setting?

A private cliffside oceanfront estate on the Pacific coast at Rosarito, Baja California, roughly thirty minutes south of the Tijuana border crossing and a little over an hour from San Diego. The grounds include pools, an infinity pool, a gym, a yoga deck and a massage terrace facing the ocean, with a hyperbaric chamber, infrared sauna and intravenous suite on site. No street address is published. Rosarito is a working tourist and border town rather than a secluded retreat.

Who is it designed for?

People with long opioid, alcohol, benzodiazepine or stimulant dependence, chronic relapse histories, or treatment-resistant depression, PTSD and trauma, who specifically want a programme that uses no prescription medication of any kind and no group therapy. Three to five clients are on site at once in private master suites for four to twelve weeks. It is not suitable for anyone needing psychiatric medication management, structured psychotherapy such as CBT, DBT or EMDR, or family therapy, none of which are part of the published model.

What is the admission process?

The founder states he is personally involved in every admission while making no clinical decisions, and the medical director reviews every admission. Screening includes a twelve-lead ECG with measured QTc and full bloodwork before any ibogaine administration, and the company states that some people who want to come are not cleared. Anyone on benzodiazepines or opioids undergoes a supervised transition. No waiting time is published. Contact is by phone, messaging or email, with an online application form.

What happens afterwards?

The residential programme runs four to twelve weeks with integration built into the stay. The clinic states that discharge planning begins in week one and that ninety days of structured aftercare follow, with a written plan and a named person responsible for it. Beyond that, no defined follow-up schedule, alumni service or outcome-tracking methodology is published. The company's own success-rate claims are self-reported and unaudited, and its site carries an explicit disclaimer that no outcome is guaranteed.

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