Background
Educational background and training is an important consideration when choosing a clinical herbalist. My clinical training was at the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, an intensive, three year long program that included deep dives into topics such as plant knowledge, human physiology, herbal therapeutics, practitioner skills, herbal safety, herb drug interactions, nutrition – the list goes on! I graduated from VCIH in 2022.
I have also studied outdoors with herbalists Jade Alicandro (Bioregional Herbal Apprenticeship) and Juliette Carr (Medicine Maker Apprenticeship), as well with as many other talented teachers.
In addition to my private practice, I am a practicing herbalist with The People’s Medicine Project, a free clinic serving clients in the Greenfield MA clinic. https://www.peoplesmedicineproject.org/meet-our-practitioners/
Flora & Fauna
I entered herbalism through my flower gardens.
In the early 2000’s, I began to plant for pollinators- I still do! This gardening practice led me to plant many of the flowering herbs beloved by a myriad of bee species, butterflies and hummingbirds- and, unbeknownst to me at the time, beloved by herbalists too. I began my bioregional herbal education outside in fields and forests in Vermont and Massachusetts in 2016. I loved these herbal studies so much that I continued to become a clinical herbalist, and now I collaborate with other regional herbalists to find new ways of sharing the knowledge and lore that the plants around us hold.
Learning from and respecting plants remains the bedrock of my adventures with herbalism, and it is at the heart of my practice with clients.
