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Sunday | November 159 AM — 4 PM
the sanctuary:
A Ketamine-Assisted Group Psychotherapy Experience
Soften, receive, & reconnect within.
What to Expect
Sunday | November 159 AM — 4 PM
Folklore Studio, Laguna Beach
For the women who are accustomed to giving, holding, tending, anticipating, and doing, receiving can sometimes feel surprisingly unfamiliar.
The Sanctuary is an intimate, full-day group psychotherapy experience designed to create space for something different: slowing down enough to listen inward, reconnect with your intuition, and explore what becomes possible when you are not being asked to hold everything together.
Through two ketamine medicine journeys, we’ll move through a thoughtfully paced day of preparation, movement, nourishment, tea, art, rest, reflection, and integration. The experience is held by experienced mental health professionals and supported by an individual medical prescriber, allowing for a personalized and intentional approach to your care.
❋ Intentional StructureWe blend guided moments, open exploration, and space to reflect so the experience feels both focused and fluid.
❋ Collaborative EnergyConnection is a core part of the process. You’ll learn just as much from the group as from the content itself.
❋ Expert FacilitationLed by experienced guides who know how to hold space, encourage participation, and keep things moving with purpose.
❋ A Supportive SpaceOur events prioritize comfort, safety, and respect so you can show up as you are and fully engage in the process.
early bird pricing ends 9/30/26 at 11:59pm PSTThe Sanctuary is limited to six women to preserve the intimacy, spaciousness, and level of care this experience is designed to offer.
You do not need to know exactly where this journey will take you. You only need to be willing to slow down enough to listen.
is the sanctuary for you?
The Sanctuary is open to anyone who feels a pull toward deeper connection with themselves.
You might be someone who is often the one others turn to. Someone who spends much of your life caring, tending, leading, supporting, anticipating, or holding space. You may be deeply connected to the people around you, yet find that your own needs, intuition, or inner world can become quieter in the process.
You may be navigating a season of transition, feeling stretched thin, or simply sensing that there is more of yourself you want to meet.
You may simply be curious about what becomes possible when you step outside of your usual role for a day and allow yourself to be the one who receives.
The common thread isn't a particular role. It's the experience of giving more than you receive, holding more than you share, or feeling disconnected from your own inner knowing beneath the demands of daily life.
The Sanctuary offers a rare opportunity to step out of that pattern for a day, allow others to meet you there, and experience what can ripple outward when you begin relating to yourself from a place of greater softness, clarity, and connection.
Not to become someone new, but to return to yourself.
*No previous experience with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is necessary. Whether you are completely new to KAP or have previous experience, you are welcome at The Sanctuary. Prior to the experience, you will meet individually with a medical prescriber and KAP expert who will assess whether this work is appropriate and safe for you, answer any questions you may have, and develop an individualized dosing approach in preparation for the day.
Community is not optional to healing and wellbeing: it is foundational to healing.
a peak into this offering
DetailsAn individualized medical consultation and intake with an expert Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy prescriber
Two Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy Group journeys, with time for rest and integration between them
90 min Group Prep Call
90 min Integration call following retreat
Gentle somatic movement and body-based care
Tea Ceremony Integration
Art and creative integration and reflection
Healthy nourishment throughout the day
Grounding and integration practices
A carefully curated, intimate group setting
The presence and guidance of Holly and Allie, experienced therapists who are licensed, trained and experienced in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy
Serene gathering space at Folklore Studio in Laguna Beach
Living Altar Ceremony
Why a group?
There is something uniquely powerful about becoming more aware of yourself in the presence of others. Our individual experiences are deeply personal, but we are not meant to move through them entirely alone. Being witnessed, understood, and held within a group can create a different kind of awareness, one that reminds us that what we experience internally is often more human, more shared, and less isolating than we imagine.
The Sanctuary is intentionally small, allowing space for both individual exploration and the collective experience of being together. You will have your own medicine journey, your own process, and your own inner landscape. And you will be surrounded by others who are also practicing slowing down, listening, and receiving.
Held by Holly & Allie
The Sanctuary grew from a shared recognition that this work can be deeply powerful when held in relationship.
Holly and Allie are both therapists who have been in connection with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for years. While we each practice independently, a deeper pull toward collaboration brought us together to create something neither could offer alone.
Our work is grounded in clinical experience, intentionality, and a shared belief in the power of being held well. We have each done our own work with the medicine and believe deeply in the importance of experiencing this process personally, not as a substitute for clinical training, but as part of understanding the depth, vulnerability, and nuance of the work we ask others to enter.
As women who occupy caregiving roles ourselves, we understand how often women are expected to give, tend, anticipate, support, and hold space for others, sometimes while having very little space to be cared for themselves.
The Sanctuary is an extension of that connection and of the belief that community is integral to healing: two practitioners bringing their distinct strengths, presence, and perspectives into one carefully held space.
Meet Your Facilitators
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Allie Runkel
LPCC, LICENSED PSYCHOTHERAPIST, PSYCHEDELIC-ASSISTED THERAPIST
I bring a clinically grounded psychotherapeutic perspective as a licensed therapist, and I weave it together with years of training and apprenticing in sacred, contemplative, and ceremonial healing traditions.
While I work from a place of hope and inspiration, I am not afraid to be with your pain.
We cannot lead anyone further than we have gone ourselves and therefore I am a committed client to therapy myself and a lifelong seeker of knowledge and depth.
I am always finding spaces and trainings to widen and strengthen my capacity to support my clients. I am gifted at providing a warm space for the wide range of feelings to be felt and processed, compassionately meeting you right where you are.
My training through the CIIS CPTR program culminated in a capstone focused on the essential role of integration in sustained therapeutic change.
Over time, I’ve come to see this as the most juicy, transformative layer of the journey — the place where insights ripen, patterns shift, and new ways of being take root.
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Holly Forman
LMFT, KETAMINE-ASSISTED THERAPY + EMDR & IFS PARTS WORK SPECIALTIES
I like to say I’m human first, therapist second. So much of therapy is about the personal connection, and I believe in showing up authentically.Growing up in the OC bubble, I often felt like I didn’t quite fit in. I learned early how to mask, achieve, and look like I had it all together, while privately feeling disconnected and craving to be truly seen and understood.
My own healing has been a process of unlearning those patterns, trusting my intuition, and becoming more honest about who I am. Along the way, I became the therapist I wish I’d had.
I hope to help my clients unmute the parts of themselves they’ve learned to hide and create more space for authenticity, self-trust, and connection.
I’m also a proud mom of two little ones. Motherhood has been one of the hardest and most expansive experiences of my life, continually teaching me about myself, growth, and what it means to be human.
I believe we’re all here to learn, love, grow, and heal and I’m right here on this journey with you.
Archetypal patterns arise in group work: initiations, thresholds, descent and return, grief and renewal. When these are recognized (even implicitly), suffering becomes less personal and less isolating. What might feel pathological in isolation can be understood as part of a larger human pattern when held by community.
Community-based healing also challenges the modern assumption that growth happens alone. Meaning is not manufactured internally, it emerges relationally. In a culture that fragments, measures, and optimizes, groups offer something quietly radical: continuity, ritual, and belonging. Healing happens not because something is fixed, but because something is remembered: our inherent embeddedness in relationship.
join us
Early bird pricing is available until September 30th, 2026.
Before september 30th
$745
After september 30th
$875
Note: prices shown above do not include the $350 assessment fee and follow up with your personalized medical prescriber or the cost of your ketamine prescription ($100) for CA residents
Deposit: $400 taken upon signing up to secure your spot
Final payment taken November 1st
what you may leave with
There is no prescribed outcome for this experience. Each person will have their own response to the medicine and their own process of making meaning from it.
You may leave with greater clarity, a deeper understanding of yourself, increased awareness of patterns or needs that have been difficult to access, or a renewed sense of connection to what matters to you.
For some, the experience may bring insight or perspective. For others, it may create space to process something that has felt difficult to approach in everyday life. And sometimes, the significance of an experience becomes clearer over time rather than in the moment.
The work does not end when the day does. Integration is an important part of the process; taking time to reflect on what you experienced and consider how it may inform the way you move forward is integral and why we include an integration call post-gathering.
The intention is not necessarily to leave with all the answers, though answers may come through for you, but to create enough space to listen, reflect, and reconnect with yourself in a way that can continue beyond the Sanctuary.