A nonprofit in development • Orange County

Heart Stone Center

Integrative Therapy for Veterans and First Responders

Evidence-informed careClinically grounded and legally compliant

Cultural contextIdentity, lineage, and lived experience

Community healingRelationship, ritual, and belonging

Coalition and advocacy

Working across disciplines toward ethical access.

Heart Stone is developing in collaboration with multidisciplinary coalitions and advocates working to expand careful, evidence-informed access to novel and innovative treatments.

Our advocacy is especially concerned with Veterans and first responders living with PTSD, moral injury, and treatment-resistant conditions who have exhausted conventional options.

Community mental health advocates meeting with Congressman Lou Correa

Federal legislation

Freedom to Heal Act of 2025

Introduced by Senators Cory Booker and Rand Paul, with companion legislation led by Representatives Madeleine Dean and Nancy Mace, the bipartisan Freedom to Heal Act (S. 3346 / H.R. 6434) would create a narrow DEA special-registration pathway for qualified physicians to administer eligible Schedule I investigational therapies under the federal Right to Try law.

The proposed pathway would apply only to eligible patients with life-threatening conditions who have exhausted approved treatment options. It includes physician, treatment-site, state-law, manufacturer, and anti-diversion requirements.

The Freedom to Heal Act has been introduced in Congress and is not currently law. It would not broadly legalize or reschedule these medicines.

Read the official legislative overview

Our mission

A place for the whole person.

Heart Stone Center is being created to support people living with trauma, PTSD, depression, moral injury, and conditions that have not responded to conventional treatment.

Our clinical understanding is in conversation with eco-psychology, depth psychology, and longstanding traditions of communal healing. We make room for the body, culture, spirit, and the stories people carry across generations.

Hands holding a natural stone, a symbol of the Heart Stone Center

Our vision

Care that remembers the whole person.

We imagine spaces where people are met as whole human beings, with cultural identity, lived experience, and the wisdom they already carry.

Lasting healing also asks us to look at the environments and systems that cause harm. Our hope is to strengthen individuals, families, and communities while helping create more humane ways of living together.

What is yours to carry, what is yours to let go of and what is yours to give?

“All real living is meeting.”

Martin Buber, I and Thou

Programs in development

Integrative care. Shared learning. Systemic change.

Retreats

Immersive, carefully held experiences for reflection, connection, and renewal.

Breathwork

Evidence-informed practices supporting nervous system regulation and embodied awareness.

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy

Preparation, supported medicine sessions, and integration within a psychotherapy-centered model.

Future Medicines

Education and responsible preparation as research, policy, and legal access evolve.

Outreach

Presentations, workshops, and community conversations throughout Orange County.

Heart Stone Center is in development. Programs will be offered only when legally permitted, clinically appropriate, and supported by qualified professionals.

Community mental health

Service, advocacy, and program development.

Heart Stone grows from years of clinical service alongside Veterans, first responders, and families living with complex trauma and moral injury.

Our work includes community mental health care, family systems programming, psychoeducation, advocacy, and coalition building.

We are committed to developing programs in conversation with the people they are meant to serve. That means listening closely, working across disciplines, strengthening local networks, and building ethical pathways to care where gaps remain.

Learning and connection

Stay close to what is changing.

Research & Legalization

We follow emerging research, policy, and legal access so the community can meet change with discernment rather than hype.

View the U.S. legal map

Community Engagement

We participate in educational events, trainings, and public conversations about trauma healing and responsible psychedelic care.

Read about an upcoming conversation

Resources & Network

We are building relationships with clinicians, clinics, and healing organizations in Orange County and beyond.

Connect with Heart Stone

In development

Heart Stone is still becoming.

If you would like to learn more, collaborate, or stay close to the work, we would be glad to hear from you.

Contact Heart Stone