Offering individual, couples, and group therapy, ketamine-assisted therapy, medication management…
Offering individual, couples, and group therapy, ketamine-assisted therapy, medication management…
You may know what you want to accomplish, yet still find yourself distracted, mentally overloaded, stuck in overthinking, or struggling to initiate and follow through on important goals.
Sometimes, the challenge isn’t simply attention or motivation. Psychological, emotional, and behavioral patterns can take up mental space and influence how we focus, approach tasks, make decisions, and move toward our goals.
This Ketamine-Assisted Cognitive Health Workshop is designed to help you step outside familiar patterns and see how your mind operates from a different perspective. Through a combination of ketamine-assisted work and neuropsychological guidance, participants will explore what may be getting in the way of their attention and goals and develop greater awareness of how they might approach those challenges differently.
By temporarily altering ordinary consciousness, ketamine may offer an opportunity to step outside the cognitive and emotional patterns that usually shape your experience. The goal isn’t for the medicine to give you the answers. It’s to create a different vantage point from which you may be able to see your own patterns more clearly.
With neuropsychological support, those insights can become a starting point for developing strategies that are personal to how you think, what gets in your way, and what you want to accomplish.
One of the central ideas behind this workshop is metacognition: thinking about how you think. Most of us move through cognitive tasks automatically. We try to concentrate, start a project, make a decision, or accomplish a goal without necessarily recognizing everything happening beneath the surface.
You may know that you procrastinate without understanding what happens internally at the moment you try to begin. Or you may describe yourself as easily distracted without recognizing how much of your attention is occupied by worry, self-monitoring, competing priorities, or emotional responses.
A temporary altered state of consciousness may offer a different perspective on these familiar patterns. With neuropsychological guidance, participants can explore questions such as:
That understanding can become the foundation for exploring individualized strategies for cognitive health.
Cognitive health involves the mental processes we rely on to navigate everyday life. But having cognitive abilities and being able to access and use them effectively are not always the same thing. The goal is not to promise a “better brain.” It is to develop a deeper understanding of your own cognitive style and use that awareness to identify strategies that are meaningful to you.
This workshop explores several interconnected areas:
Better understand the internal noise, competing thoughts, emotions, and patterns that may make it harder to direct and sustain your attention.
Develop greater awareness of how you think—including how you approach tasks, solve problems, respond to obstacles, and decide what to do next.
Explore the cognitive and psychological factors involved in initiating tasks, organizing your efforts, setting priorities, and moving toward goals.
Explore your ability to step outside familiar ways of thinking, consider alternative perspectives, and adjust your approach when something isn’t working.
Look more closely at what you are trying to accomplish, why it matters to you, and what internal or external barriers may have made it difficult to move forward.
Neuropsychology provides a framework for understanding how we think, while ketamine-assisted work may offer an opportunity to experience familiar cognitive and emotional patterns from a different perspective.
Most of us experience our own thinking from inside the patterns we use every day. That can make those patterns difficult to recognize. A temporary altered state of consciousness may provide an opportunity to step outside familiar habits and observe them from a different vantage point.
You might begin to notice:
The purpose is not for ketamine to provide the answers for you. Instead, the altered state may help make certain patterns more visible.
Paired with neuropsychological education, guided reflection, and integration, participants can use those observations to explore their own strategies for supporting cognitive health and goal-directed behavior.
This workshop may be a good fit if you:
You do not need to have a cognitive disorder or diagnosis to be interested in understanding how you think.
This five-hour, in-person workshop is part of a carefully sequenced experience that includes preparation, medical screening, the workshop itself, and optional integration.
Participants complete the following before November 7:
These steps help participants arrive informed, prepared, and medically approved for participation.
Over the course of five hours, participants engage in a structured experience incorporating:
Participants have the option to attend an optional group integration session the following Friday at 12 PM. Integration provides additional space to reflect on the experience and consider how new insights can be applied to goals, tasks, relationships, and everyday life.
This is not a productivity seminar, brain-training program, or collection of “brain hacks.” It is a clinically informed exploration of cognitive health and self-awareness that brings together:
Optional neuropsychological testing is also available for participants interested in gaining additional insight into their individual cognitive functioning.
This workshop is designed to create opportunities for participants to:
Sometimes changing how we approach a challenge begins with seeing more clearly how we have been approaching it all along.
Dr. Sacks-Zimmerman is a Clinical Associate Professor of Neuropsychology in Neurological Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine and a Board-Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist. Her work focuses on helping individuals better understand the relationship between cognitive functioning, emotional health, and everyday life.
Her strength-based, non-pathologizing approach emphasizes metacognition, self-awareness, cognitive flexibility, and individualized strategies for navigating cognitive challenges.
Dr. Zimmerman provides medical supervision for the program and conducts all required ketamine medical evaluations before participation. He specializes in conventional, integrative, and psychedelic medication management. His approach combines medical rigor with depth-oriented psychotherapy to support participants throughout the ketamine-assisted process.
Total Workshop Fee: $500
Participation requires medical and psychiatric screening and approval.
November 7, 2026
Friday following the workshop at 12 PM
Must be completed before participation
No. This workshop is centered on cognitive health, metacognition, and self-understanding, rather than a particular diagnosis, age group, or level of cognitive impairment. It may be relevant to people interested in better understanding how attention, executive functioning, emotional patterns, and goal-directed behavior interact in everyday life.
Metacognition means thinking about your thinking. It involves becoming more aware of how you approach tasks, use attention, solve problems, respond when you get stuck, and adjust your strategies.
Ketamine can produce a temporary altered state of consciousness. Within this workshop, that experience is used as an opportunity to step outside familiar patterns and observe aspects of your cognitive and emotional experience from a different perspective. Those observations are then explored through neuropsychological guidance, reflection, and integration.
The workshop explores attention and concentration from a neuropsychological perspective, including the psychological and emotional factors that may compete for attention. Rather than promising a specific improvement in focus, participants are encouraged to better understand what may be occupying their attention and explore strategies based on those insights.
No specific cognitive outcome is promised. This workshop does not present ketamine as a cognitive enhancer or claim that it will improve intelligence, memory, attention, or productivity. Ketamine is incorporated into a clinically supervised process focused on insight, metacognition, psychological flexibility, and exploration of cognitive and emotional patterns.
The workshop explores attention and concentration, processing, learning and memory, executive functioning, metacognition, and cognitive flexibility, with particular attention to how cognitive processes interact with emotional and behavioral factors.
Quieting the mind does not mean eliminating thoughts. Instead, participants explore the psychological and emotional noise that may compete for cognitive resources and develop greater awareness of what tends to occupy their attention.
No. Neuropsychological testing is optional for participants interested in gaining additional insight into their individual cognitive functioning.
Yes. Participants must complete an individual medical and psychiatric evaluation with Dr. Daniel Zimmerman and receive approval before participating in the ketamine-assisted portion of the workshop.
Sometimes we become so accustomed to the way we think that it becomes difficult to recognize what may be getting in the way. Altering Ordinary Consciousness to Enhance Cognitive Health offers an opportunity to step outside familiar patterns, deepen your understanding of how your mind works, clarify what matters to you, and explore new ways of approaching the barriers between you and your goals.
November 7, 2026 | In Person | New York City
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