Preparation
Partner-led preparation sessions and practical help before a program.
Veteran-led support that continues
Help veterans continue their healing.
Your donation helps Operation Solace support veterans navigating psychedelic-assisted healing by funding preparation, integration, practical assistance, and connection to independent partners.
100% Goes to Veterans. Every dollar helps fund healing.
Support that surrounds the journey.Preparation, integration, practical help, and connection to independent partners.
Impact to date
A gift can help a veteran keep moving forward.
Community donations, fundraising events, and partnerships help fund preparation, integration, and practical support for veterans.
$15,000+raised since founding
30+veterans supported since founding
Where support goes
What your gift helps make possible.
A gift can help a veteran prepare, integrate, stay connected, and manage practical barriers.
Integration
Support for carrying insight and progress into everyday life.
Practical help and community
Meals, program-related needs, peer connection, and community that can reduce barriers.
Partner proof8 preparation sessions66+ meals
A partnership in practice
One partnership in action.
For The AYA Mission's Memorial Day 2026 program, Operation Solace funding helped make 8 group preparation sessions and 66+ meals available to veterans served by The AYA Mission.
Proof from veterans and partners
What this support has meant to veterans and partners.
Thank you for your incredible generosity in making my three-day ayahuasca retreat possible. Because of your kindness, I was given an opportunity that I could not have afforded on my own.
The experience was deeply meaningful and provided me with insight, healing, and a renewed sense of hope. Your gift wasn’t just financial, it was an investment in my well-being and my future. I am truly grateful for your compassion and belief in helping others find a path toward healing.
Thank you for making a lasting difference in my life.
Support like this is the reason small nonprofits like ours are able to thrive. Operation Solace’s generosity doesn’t just fund a program — it directly touches the lives of the veterans we serve, giving them the resources and care they need during a pivotal moment in their healing.
Veteran-led. Built from lived experience.
The support Gabriel needed became Operation Solace.
Depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and invisible wounds from military service left Gabriel Gonzales searching for a way forward.
A healing experience helped him begin. Lasting change came afterward through integration, honest conversation, community, and people who stayed. He founded Operation Solace so other veterans would not have to navigate that work alone.
Help make the next step possible for another veteran.
Your donation helps fund preparation, integration, practical needs, connection, and community through independent partners.
100% Goes to Veterans. Every dollar funds veteran support.
How We Help
Support that continues beyond a single moment.
Operation Solace helps veterans navigate psychedelic-assisted healing by funding preparation, integration, practical assistance, community, and connection to independent partners. The goal is not simply access to an experience, but support around the wider healing journey.
Different moments call for different kinds of support.
Operation Solace focuses on practical, relational, and financial support that can help veterans prepare, integrate what they have experienced, stay connected, and reduce barriers to care.
Preparation
Before a partner-led program, funding may help make preparation available so veterans can enter the experience with more context, support, and intention.
Integration
The work does not end when an experience ends. Integration can help veterans reflect on what happened, carry useful insight into daily life, and continue the longer process of change.
Community and connection
Healing can be isolating. Peer connection, trusted relationships, and community can help veterans feel less alone as they continue moving forward.
Practical support
Meals, program-related costs, and other practical needs can become real barriers. Operation Solace helps reduce those barriers when resources allow.
How it works
Operation Solace funds support. Independent partners deliver specialized services.
Operation Solace helps fund access and surrounding support. Independent partner organizations manage their own programs, participant requirements, safety processes, and any specialized therapeutic or clinical services they provide.
What may be available depends on the veteran's circumstances, the partner, location, timing, and available resources. Operation Solace does not promise placement, funding, treatment, or a particular outcome.
Partner-led by design
Our role is to help make responsible support more reachable. Independent partners provide their own specialized programs and services.
Operation Solace does not directly provide psychedelic medicine, ceremonies, therapy, or clinical treatment.
What your donation makes possible
Turn a donation into practical support for a veteran.
Donations can help fund preparation and integration support, meals and program-related needs, peer and community connection, and access to trusted independent partners and resources.
Operation Solace is 100% donation-based, with no administrative fees. Every dollar goes toward veteran care, resources, and connection.
A one-time gift can help meet an immediate need. Recurring support helps create a more dependable base for future veterans.
DonatePartner proof
The AYA Mission's Memorial Day 2026 program is one example of partner-led support.
8group virtual preparation sessions
66+meals for veterans
A partnership in action · The AYA Mission
Real support, made visible.
For The AYA Mission's Memorial Day 2026 program, Operation Solace funded 8 group virtual preparation sessions and 66+ meals for veterans served by The AYA Mission.
The AYA Mission provided the specialized program and preparation coaching. Operation Solace helped make that support and the associated food costs possible.
The Aya Mission is deeply grateful to Operation Solace for their generous support of our Memorial Day 2026 ceremony. Their partnership enabled us to provide meaningful care to the veterans in our program, covering both psychedelic preparation coaching and all associated food costs for the weekend.
Thanks to Operation Solace’s donation, we were able to offer eight group virtual preparation sessions with our psychedelic coaches, along with over 66 meals throughout the weekend — ensuring our veterans were nourished, supported, and cared for at every step of their journey.
Support like this is the reason small nonprofits like ours are able to thrive. Operation Solace’s generosity doesn’t just fund a program — it directly touches the lives of the veterans we serve, giving them the resources and care they need during a pivotal moment in their healing.
We are truly thankful and appreciative for this partnership, and for everything Operation Solace does for the veteran community.
Choose your next step
Help make the next step possible.
Your gift helps fund real support around the healing journey.
For Veterans
You don't have to figure this out alone.
If you are a veteran exploring support, or you are reaching out for a veteran you care about, Operation Solace can help you understand what may be available and what a useful next step could look like.
You do not need to have the right words or know exactly what kind of support to ask for.
Need immediate help?
Urgent support is available now.
If you are in crisis or need urgent support, call 988 and press 1, text 838255, or use the Veterans Crisis Line chat. Operation Solace is not emergency mental-health care.
Start where you are
Start with what you know right now.
Maybe you are considering psychedelic-assisted healing and want to understand the support around it. Maybe you have already had an experience and are trying to make sense of what comes next. Maybe you are a family member, caregiver, friend, or supporter trying to help a veteran find a path forward.
You do not need to diagnose the problem or choose a program before contacting Operation Solace. Reaching out can simply start a conversation about where you are and what may be useful.
Ways we may be able to help
Support before, after, and along the way.
Preparation
Support before a partner-led program may include funded preparation sessions or practical help that makes participation more manageable.
Integration
After an experience, integration support can help turn insight into something useful in everyday life and keep the work from ending when the program does.
Community and connection
Peer connection and community can help reduce isolation and give veterans people to talk with as they continue their healing.
Practical assistance
When resources allow, Operation Solace may help with practical barriers such as meals and program-related costs.
Specialized therapeutic or clinical services are provided by independent partners, not Operation Solace.
What happens when you reach out
A conversation, not a formal application.
Tell us what is going on, what you are looking for, or what you are worried about. Operation Solace can help clarify which kinds of support or independent partner options may be relevant.
Availability depends on the situation and current partner resources. Reaching out does not guarantee funding, placement, or a particular service.
Information shared through the contact path is treated as private and confidential.
Reach out for veteran supportYou can start without a plan.
Share what feels safe and useful. A first conversation can help clarify what may be relevant.
From veterans who have been there
Support can change what comes next.
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the incredible gift you gave me. Your generosity made it possible for me to experience this ayahuasca journey, and I truly do not have the words to express what it has meant to me.
I came here carrying burdens that had been weighing on me for a long time. I knew I needed something to change, but I was not sure what that looked like. This experience gave me exactly what I needed. It allowed me to heal, reflect, and reconnect with parts of myself that I had lost along the way. I am in a much better place mentally, emotionally, and spiritually than when I arrived.
What you gave me was not simply the opportunity to attend a retreat. You gave me the chance to heal. You gave me hope, perspective, and a renewed sense of purpose. That is a gift that reaches far beyond this moment and will continue to shape my life for years to come.
Experiencing the impact of your generosity has also changed the way I see giving. I now understand, on a deeply personal level, the profound difference one act of kindness can make in another person’s life. My hope is that one day I will be in a position to do for someone else what you have done for me, to pay this gift forward and help another person find the healing and peace they need.
Thank you for believing in me and for investing in someone else’s well being without expecting anything in return. Your kindness has had a lasting impact on my life, and I will never forget it.
I am deeply grateful for you, your generosity, and the heart behind it all. Thank you for helping me find my way back to myself.
When I was struggling, I felt like I was navigating things on my own. I didn't know where to turn, and I wasn't aware resources like Operation Solace existed. They connected me with the support I needed at a critical time, and that support made a real difference in my life.
Choose the next step that fits the moment.
If you are looking for normal support, information, or connection, reach out to Operation Solace.
If you are in crisis or need immediate help, call 988 and press 1, text 838255, or use the Veterans Crisis Line chat.
Our Story
Built from lived experience.
Operation Solace was founded by U.S. military veteran Gabriel Gonzales after his own experience taught him that healing is not a single event. The support surrounding an experience, preparation, integration, honest conversation, accountability, and community, can matter just as much as the moment itself.
Veteran-ledBuilt from Gabriel's lived experience.
Partner-supportedServices are delivered by independent partners.
Focused on what followsPreparation, integration, community, and practical help.
The point where something had to change
For years, Gabriel carried more than people could see.
Depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and the visible and invisible wounds of military service accumulated over time. Life kept moving, but internally the weight became harder to carry.
Those years eventually led to a failed suicide attempt.
Gabriel survived, but survival was not the same as healing.
One experience opened a door. The work continued afterward.
The experience mattered. So did everything that followed.
Later, Gabriel participated in a carefully supported psychedelic healing experience. It was meaningful, but it did not erase his trauma or magically fix his life.
What changed most was what happened afterward. Through integration, honest conversation, accountability, reflection, community, and continued support, Gabriel began turning the experience into lasting changes in how he lived and responded to difficult emotions.
He came to understand healing as a continuing practice rather than a finish line.
Building what he wished had existed
Operation Solace grew from a simple question: what happens after the experience?
Gabriel saw how difficult it could be for veterans to afford responsible support, navigate independent programs, stay connected afterward, and find people who understood the longer process of healing.
He created Operation Solace to help reduce those barriers.
The organization helps fund preparation, integration, practical assistance, community, and connection to independent partners. It does not directly provide psychedelic medicine, ceremonies, therapy, or clinical treatment.
See How We Help →What we believe
Healing is a practice, not a single moment.
Healing is more than one moment.
A powerful experience can open a door. Continuing change takes reflection, integration, support, and time.
Veterans deserve dignity, not pity.
The website, the organization, and the community around it should treat veterans as whole people with agency, strength, and different needs.
Connection matters.
Healing is harder in isolation. Trusted relationships, peer connection, and community can make the path more sustainable.
Support should continue beyond access.
Helping someone reach a program is not enough if they are left alone with what comes next.
Carry the mission forward
Help another veteran keep moving forward.
Operation Solace exists because Gabriel experienced both the power of a healing opportunity and the importance of what came after it.
Events & Community
Showing up in the community matters.
Events give Operation Solace opportunities to connect with veterans, supporters, partners, and the wider San Antonio community. This page includes upcoming opportunities as well as past appearances that show the organization at work in the real world.
Upcoming & community calendar
What is coming up.
In Honor — San Antonio
Operation Solace is a confirmed sponsor of In Honor — San Antonio, an event centered on grief, remembrance, and community conversation.
View event details ↗Muertos Fest
Muertos Fest is a major local Día de los Muertos community event. It is included here as a community event reference; Operation Solace should not be presented as the organizer.
View event details ↗Past events & community presence
Where we have been.
Want to connect around an event or partnership?
Operation Solace welcomes relevant conversations with donors, partners, event organizers, and community groups.
Contact
Start with the reason you're reaching out.
Choose the path that best fits. You do not need to have every detail figured out before contacting Operation Solace.
Choose a path.
Veteran / supporting a veteran
Start a conversation about support.
You can reach out for yourself or for a veteran you care about. Tell us what is going on and what you are hoping to understand or find.
- Reaching out is not a formal application.
- You do not need to know exactly what you need.
- Share only what feels safe and useful.
Donor / partner / event organizer
Connect with Operation Solace.
Use this path for donation questions, partnership conversations, event or community opportunities, or other ways you may want to support the mission.
- Donation questions.
- Organizational or partner inquiries.
- Event and community opportunities.
A simple contact path.
Prefer email? Reach us at info@operationsolace.org.
Veteran / supporting a veteran
Reach out for veteran support
You do not need to know exactly what you need before reaching out. Information shared through this contact path is treated as private and confidential.
Donor / partner / event organizer
Contact Operation Solace
Use this path for donation questions, partnership conversations, event or community opportunities, or other ways to support the mission.
Need immediate help?
Operation Solace is not emergency mental-health care.
If you are in crisis or need urgent support, call 988 and press 1, text 838255, or use the Veterans Crisis Line chat.
Resources
Resources for veterans, supporters, and the people walking beside them.
We are building a practical set of trustworthy resources around veteran support, crisis help, preparation and integration, education, and independent organizations that may be useful to veterans and their supporters.
Until the library is complete
Use the routes below for the most important next steps.
Need immediate help?
If you are in crisis or need urgent support, call 988 and press 1, text 838255, or use the Veterans Crisis Line chat.
Looking for support from Operation Solace?
You do not need to know exactly what you need before reaching out.
More resources coming
Additional resources will be added only after they are reviewed for accuracy, relevance, and fit with Operation Solace's role.
Start with a conversation.