bedrock

You've managed it long enough.

Depth therapy for men — IFS and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, led by a licensed clinician, in Central Oregon.

If you're reading this

You already know something's off.

From the outside, it works. The career. The family. The competence. You handle things. You've always handled things.

But there's a flatness you can't name. A low-grade anger that shows up sideways — at traffic, at your kids, at nothing. A sense that you're running a program someone else wrote, and you can't find the source code.

Maybe you've tried therapy. You talked. It was fine. You understood yourself a little better and nothing moved.

There's a reason talk alone hasn't touched it. The part of you that manages everything is very good at managing therapy too.

What this actually is

The work beneath the talk.

Internal Family Systems


You're not one thing. You're a system of parts — the one that performs, the one that numbs out, the one that keeps score, the one that got buried a long time ago.

IFS is a well-established therapy model built on one premise: underneath all of those parts is a Self that was never damaged. Calm, clear, capable. The work is getting the parts to step back long enough for you to lead from it.

You're not broken. You're defended. There's a difference.

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy


Ketamine is a legal, medically administered medicine used in psychotherapy under clinical supervision. It's not a party and it's not an escape.

What it does, in a controlled therapeutic setting, is quiet the defenses — the vigilance, the management, the armor — long enough for you to actually meet what's underneath them.

The medicine opens the door. The therapy is what walks through it.

Why men, why this format

An expedition, not an appointment.

Most therapy is an open-ended weekly chat. This isn't that. Bedrock is structured like an expedition: a defined arc with a beginning, a descent, and a return. You know where you are in it at all times.

It's small and it's screened. Not everyone is a fit, and that's the point — a serious container for men who'd rather do hard, real work than sit and chat.

Men tend to trust structure, honesty, and mastery over open-ended processing. The work is built accordingly: clear preparation, a guided descent, and a disciplined return that turns what you found into how you live.

How it works

Descend. Return. Rebuild.

  1. 01

    Fit call

    Free, honest, mutual. Twenty minutes to find out whether this is your work and whether we're the right people to do it with. No pitch.

  2. 02

    Screening

    Medical and psychological screening, done properly. Safety first — not everyone is a candidate for ketamine work, and we'll tell you straight if you're not.

  3. 03

    Preparation

    Before any medicine, you learn the terrain: how your system of parts works, what you're going in to meet, and how to navigate once you're there.

  4. 04

    Medicine sessions

    Guided ketamine sessions inside an IFS frame — clinician present, container held. The defenses quiet down; the real work happens.

  5. 05

    Integration

    The descent means nothing if it doesn't change Tuesday morning. Structured integration turns what you met into how you live, lead, and relate.

Who leads it

[Tim Moore, LPC]

[28 years]as a clinician. Trained in Internal Family Systems, somatic and transpersonal work, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Roots in wilderness education and Outward Bound — the expedition frame isn't a metaphor borrowed for marketing; it's how he learned to take people into hard terrain and bring them back.

Decades of men's work: groups, intensives, the long one-on-one road. He's sat with hundreds of men who looked fine on the outside and weren't, and he's been in the terrain himself. A guide, not a chart-reader.

Licensed Professional Counselor · Bend, Central Oregon

Safety & legitimacy

Let's talk about the ketamine part.

Fair question, so here it is straight. Ketamine is an FDA-approved anesthetic that has been used off-label in psychotherapy for years, legally, under medical supervision. In this work it's administered at sub-anesthetic doses, after medical and psychological screening, with a clinician present the entire time.

What it is not: a high, a party, or a shortcut. If you're looking for an altered state for its own sake, this isn't your place. The medicine is a tool inside a therapeutic container — preparation before, guidance during, integration after.

What it also is not: a cure-all. Ketamine work has real contraindications — certain cardiac, psychiatric, and substance-use histories rule it out. That's what the screening is for, and screening out is a real outcome here. If you're not a fit, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.

Licensed clinician. Medical screening. A legal framework. Real preparation and integration. That's the container — it's not negotiable.

From men who've done it

In their words.

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[M., 44, Bend]
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Quotes shared with permission and anonymized. Individual experiences vary; nothing here is a promise of outcome.

Questions men actually ask

Straight answers.

Yes. Ketamine is an FDA-approved medicine that is legally used off-label in psychotherapy under medical supervision. This is not an underground or gray-market practice — it operates within a medical and clinical framework, with licensed professionals and formal screening.

More questions? Read the full FAQ →

Meet what's underneath.

One free call. Honest on both sides. If it's not a fit, you'll know — and you'll leave with a straighter answer than you came with.