The Psychologist
About Jenna Turner, LP
Licensed psychologist. Military veteran. Certified dive instructor. Jenna brings a clinical depth — and a personal history — that most practitioners cannot offer.
Biography
Jenna Turner is a licensed psychologist, U.S. military veteran, and certified PADI dive instructor practicing at MindScape Retreat on Cozumel Island, Mexico. Her role at MindScape spans psychological preparation and integration for ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT treatment, as well as structured dive therapy sessions conducted in the waters off Cozumel.
What Jenna brings to MindScape is not easily replicated. She served in the U.S. military and lived the psychological demands that service imposes — the hypervigilance, the moral complexity, the dissonance of return. That experience became the foundation of a clinical focus that is rare in the psychedelic therapy world: a specialist who genuinely understands the veteran experience from the inside.
Her path from military service led her to professional dive certification and eventually dive instruction in Cozumel. Working with patients in the ocean, Jenna began observing something consistent: nervous systems that had been locked in trauma responses settled underwater in ways that years of office-based therapy had not achieved. She built a structured methodology around those observations — what is now MindScape's dive therapy program.
Her formal psychology training added clinical rigor to that experiential framework. Trauma-focused CBT, somatic processing, narrative approaches — Jenna brings all of it to her work, with an always-present filter: does this actually help the people who need it most?
“The ocean doesn't care about your rank, your diagnosis, or what happened to you. It just demands your presence. That's often the first real rest a veteran gets.”
— Jenna Turner, LP · Psychologist, MindScape Retreat
Her Path
From Service to Healing
Military Service
U.S. Military Veteran
Jenna served in the U.S. military, gaining firsthand experience with the psychological demands of combat, unit cohesion under stress, and the invisible weight that service members carry long after deployment ends. The transition back to civilian life — and the gap between that world and this one — became the foundation of her clinical focus.
PADI Certification
Certified Dive Instructor · Cozumel
After service, Jenna pursued professional dive certification and eventually became an instructor. Based in Cozumel — home to some of the world's most biodiverse coral reefs — she began observing what happened to trauma survivors underwater: nervous systems settled, verbal defenses dropped, and something previously inaccessible became available. This became the seed of dive-assisted therapy.
Graduate Training
Psychology Training & Licensure
Jenna completed her formal psychology education and obtained licensure as a psychologist. Her graduate focus was on trauma, PTSD, and evidence-based treatment modalities. She trained in trauma-focused CBT, somatic processing, and narrative approaches — always with an eye toward the patients for whom office-based therapy was not enough.
MindScape
Psychologist · MindScape Retreat, Cozumel
Jenna joined MindScape Retreat as the clinic's psychologist and dive therapy specialist. Working within Dr. Arellano's rigorous medical framework, she conducts psychological preparation and integration for ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT treatment. She also leads structured dive therapy sessions in the waters off Cozumel — combining the neurobiological benefits of underwater immersion with evidence-based psychological methodology.
Areas of Focus
What Jenna Treats
Clinical Philosophy
What Jenna Believes About Healing
The Body Keeps the Score — and Needs to Be Part of the Cure
Jenna's training confirms what veterans often sense intuitively: trauma lives in the body, not just the mind. Talk therapy that ignores somatic experience is working with half the data. Dive therapy, breathwork, and the embodied nature of the underwater environment give the nervous system direct access to healing that cognitive approaches alone cannot provide.
The People Who Need This Most Are Often the Last to Ask
Military culture instills a deep resistance to vulnerability. Soldiers ask for help last. Jenna's approach meets that culture with respect — not by forcing emotional disclosure, but by creating environments (like the ocean floor) where defenses naturally lower, and processing happens without needing to be labeled as therapy.
Ibogaine Opens a Window. Integration Builds the House.
The ibogaine experience can produce profound insight, emotional release, and neurological reset. But Jenna has seen enough cases to know that the medicine doesn't do the work alone. Preparation and integration — the psychological work before and after — determine whether those insights take root or fade. She is as rigorous about integration as the most demanding ibogaine specialists are about dosing.
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Every conversation with Jenna starts with an honest assessment of where you are and what path might actually serve you.
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