Open Mind Modalities

Specialties

Our goal is to expand alternative medicine and modalities across traditional, Western medical institutions and practices. Open Mind Modalities strives to share our knowledge of the physical and emotional benefits we’ve found through integration of Modern Medicine with Traditional Chinese Medicine. Practitioners specialize in pediatrics, chronic pain, oncology pain, cancer treatment induced nausea and vomiting, women’s health disorders, stress/​anxiety, sports/​orthopedic injuries, fertility, allergies, and autoimmune disorders.

History

Established in 2003.

As an early proponent of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ruth McCarty M.S., L.Ac. has spent her career working to integrate these methods into Western medical institutions continuing the healing and comfort process where modern medicine stopped. She is currently on staff, with allied health care privileges at Children’s Hospital of Orange County and CHOC at Mission and provides traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapies in conjunction with the staff physicians, to comfort critically ill patients while in the hospital, as well as treating an active outpatient population in her private practice, Open Mind Modalities located in Aliso Viejo, California.

Lauren Koeller M.S., L.Ac. has officially joined Ruth’s healing team at Open Mind Modalities after mentoring with Ruth for a year. She serves as Ruth’s Associate Acupuncturist and is also a California Board Licensed Acupuncturist passionate about the integration of medicine.

Meet the Business Owner

Ruth M.

Business Owner

Motivated by the recognition that medicine must address not only physical but also emotional and spiritual needs, Ms. McCarty received her Masters Degree of Science at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (PCOM) in San Diego, California. She then went on to complete her internship at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine prior to undergoing a fellowship in pediatrics in China. Ruth is a co-​founder, with Dr. William Loudon, of Orange County’s only hospital-​based and pediatric-​focused complementary and alternative medicine program.