Tanea Paterson
After seven years on the methadone program Tanea Paterson successfully undertook ibogaine therapy and ceased reliance on opiates in 2006. The treatment experience moved her to initiate a series of fora across Aotearoa in late 2009, which led ibogaine into the eye of Medsafe, New Zealand’s drug regulatory agency. She subsequently achieved a Certificate in Human Health paper at Otago Polytechnic. In 2012 Tanea graduated as an Applied Addiction Practitioner from Moana House Training Institute.
For the past six years Tanea has concentrated on developing ibogaine therapy into a legitimate part of a client’s existing treatment plan concentrating on risk management, whanau (family) inclusion and harm minimization.