The Reset

3-Day In-Person Ketamine Assisted Men’s Retreat In Larkspur, CA 94939

April 11, 18th & 25th
from 11:30 am PT – 6 pm PT

You’re showing up.

Meeting responsibilities.

Handling life.

• Stress never fully turns off
• You feel stuck
• Emotions stay muted or spike without warning
• Control works until it suddenly doesn’t
• Insight alone isn’t changing the pattern

This men-only intensive is designed for that exact place.

• Not crisis care.
• Not peak-performance hype.
• Not talk therapy stretched thin.

This is structured inner work for men who want real nervous system change, deeper meaning, and a way forward that actually holds under pressure.

This is not a retreat where you “let go” and hope for the best.

And it’s not a one-off experience that fades once real life resumes.

This is a precision-guided, three-session intensive designed to:

• Identify how stress and anxiety actually live in your body
• Restore agency when you’re flooded, shut down, or over-controlling
• Loosen a dominant pattern affecting work, relationships, or inner life
• Translate insight into concrete behavioral change

This work is built around preparation, containment, and integration.

Ketamine-assisted work is part of this process and is optional. It is embedded inside a structured therapeutic framework that emphasizes preparation, nervous system regulation, and integration. It is never positioned as a stand-alone experience or a shortcut, and participation is subject to medical screening and clinical oversight.

Before anything experiential happens, participants learn how their own nervous system operates, how stress patterns form, and how to stay present when intensity arises. The goal is not to chase peak experiences, but to build capacity, agency, and discernment.

The emphasis is not on “having an experience,” but on creating changes that hold when life gets demanding again.

The emphasis is on:

• Safety
• Pacing
• Integration
• Long-term change

Most programs fail because they skip structure.

This one doesn’t.

Session 1: Foundation Day

Understanding Your Stress Signature

Morning – Stress Signature Mapping

You’ll map how stress shows up for you specifically:

• Cognitively (thought patterns, overthinking, self-pressure)
• Somatically (tension, shutdown, agitation, fatigue)
• Behaviorally (work, sex, relationships, control strategies)

This becomes your personal baseline for the rest of the work.

Afternoon – Real-Time Nervous System Training

You’ll learn and practice 2–3 regulation tools that work under pressure:

• Rapid downshifting without dissociation
• Staying present during discomfort
• Re-establishing agency when flooded
• Tools that work in real life, not just meditation

You leave with skills you can actually use.

Session 2: Transformation Day

Session 2 may include a ketamine-assisted component. At this stage, participants have already mapped their stress patterns and learned tools to stay present under pressure.

Ketamine is used here as a temporary shift in perspective, allowing rigid or over-learned patterns to loosen. The emphasis is not on catharsis or emotional release, but on working directly with the nervous system in a way that supports insight, agency, and coherence.

The experience is carefully paced, minimally verbal, and supported somatically to avoid overwhelm.

Working With the Pattern, Not Against Yourself

Morning – Intent Calibration

You refine one precise intention focused on loosening a dominant pattern:

• Hyper-control
• Performance panic
• Emotional shutdown
• Shame or self-attack

The framing matters.
This is nervous system work, not trauma excavation.

Afternoon – Guided Ketamine-Assisted Journey

The ketamine experience is supported with:

• Minimal verbal intrusion
• Somatic anchoring cues
• Carefully designed music and pacing
• Emphasis on coherence, not overwhelm

Optional Extended Chill Space (6:00–8:00 pm)

• Quiet decompression
• Light food
• Silence-friendly zones
• Optional one-on-one check-ins

For many men, this is where safety and real connection deepen.

Session 3: Integration and Forward Direction

Where Most Programs Fail — And This One Doesn’t

This session focuses on turning insight into lived change.

Pattern Re-Coding

You’ll identify:

• What loosened
• What remains sticky
• What must change structurally in daily life

You translate the experience into 2–3 concrete behavioral shifts.

Future Self Anchoring

Men often revert when life gets busy.
This work helps prevent that.

You’ll use guided imagery and somatic anchoring to:

• Lock in a felt sense of regulation
• Create a recall cue usable under pressure
• Strengthen self-leadership when stress returns

Jonathan Pofsky, LMFT, CMT

Jonathan Pofsky is a licensed psychotherapist and founder of the Marin Stress & Anxiety Center. He has spent nearly two decades working with men and adolescents navigating anxiety, chronic stress, trauma, and performance pressure.

Jonathan’s work is grounded in practical, mind–body approaches that help clients build real nervous system resilience, not just insight. His clinical style integrates mindfulness, somatic psychology, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), with an emphasis on safety, precision, and helping people regain agency when stress or overwhelm takes over.

For individuals who feel stuck or have not found relief through traditional therapy alone, Jonathan also incorporates ketamine-assisted psychotherapy within a carefully structured and clinically supervised process.

In addition to his private practice, Jonathan leads trainings and workshops throughout the Bay Area for clinicians, schools, and community organizations. He is known for translating complex psychological concepts into clear, usable tools that support lasting change.

Jonathan has been in clinical practice since 2006 and brings over 30 years of experience in body-based and contemplative disciplines. He lives in Marin County and is the proud parent of two boys.

• $2,400 early enrollment (through March 15)
• $2,800 standard enrollment (March 16 – April 1)
• Enrollment closes April 1 to allow for required medical intake and preparation.
• Journey Clinical fee of $360 is paid separately. Some health insurances are accepted. $2,400 early enrollment (through March 15)

Special price for workshop participants

Additional one-on-one sessions at the Marin Stress & Anxiety Center in Corte Madera.

Individual personalized journeys

• 1 Ketamine session (utilizing the second dose that you will receive). 2-3 hour session.
• + 1 integration session within 24 – 48 hours
• $500

Post workshop integration sessions

• Three, 50-minute sessions for $500

This program is intentionally small and carefully screened.

Applications are reviewed to ensure:

• Fit
• Safety
• Readiness
• Group integrity

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