About
Hi, my name is Ben.
I provide Ketamine Assisted Therapy and Hakomi in Ventura, CA.
How I work
For me, the medicine is only part of Ketamine Assisted Therapy. Just as important is what happens between us: preparing together, steady attention during the session, and time afterward to make sense of what came up.
I do not offer a map or a plan to fix your life. I offer a partnership in inquiry. We slow down and look at the habitual ways you move through the world, not to judge them, but to understand them.
In the room, I tend to be quiet more than talkative. I might name something I notice, or offer a small experiment if you want one. We notice patterns and habits together.
Background
My Mizrahi and Eastern European Jewish roots gave me an early question about where and how a person belongs. Anthropology at NYU, two years teaching English in a small town in Nara, Japan, and several more traveling through Asia and South and Central America were my way of following it. Most of us move through life on habits and beliefs we rarely examine. In the room, my work is to help you notice them gently, so you might have more choice in how you live.
I went to medical school at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. I trained in family medicine at Ventura County Medical Center, completed an emergency medicine fellowship there, and have worked in emergency departments, intensive care units, and rural hospitals since. In 2024, I completed a Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship at UC Irvine.
From 2022 to 2026, I ran Horizon Healing, a Ketamine Assisted Therapy practice. Now I see clients at Dr. Ellie Windsor's practice in Ventura. I am a teaching assistant in the Hakomi Comprehensive Training and have served on the faculty of Naropa University's Psychedelic Assisted Therapies certificate program.
Outside of work, I hike, backpack, surf, travel, and practice yoga asana and Vipassana meditation.
Training
Hakomi and psychedelic training
- Hakomi Comprehensive Training, Levels 1 and 2, Hakomi Institute; certification track
- Teaching assistant, Hakomi Comprehensive Training
- Certificate, Psychedelic Assisted Therapies, Naropa University
- Adjunct faculty, clinical skills group leader, and central medical team, Naropa University Psychedelic Assisted Therapies program
- MDMA-Assisted Therapy training, MAPS / Lykos Therapeutics
- Ketamine Assisted Therapy, The Ketamine Training Center
Medicine
- Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship, UC Irvine
- Board certified in family medicine, American Board of Family Medicine
- Family medicine residency and emergency medicine fellowship, Ventura County Medical Center
- MD, Jefferson Medical College
- BA, Anthropology, New York University
- Licensed physician, State of California
