This is the question I get most often, and it's a fair one. In my rural mountain community, "herbalist" often conjures images of mason jars and laminated handouts.

While I love a good jar, clinical herbalism is a distinct discipline. It is the practice of assessing the "whole terrain" of your body - your history, patterns, biochemistry, and nervous system - to use plant allies and nutrition as precise therapeutic tools, rather than just wellness supplements.

I utilize a rigorous, evidence-based approach to herbalism and nutrition. However, I reject the ableist framework that views the body as a machine to be optimized for productivity. Instead, we use clinical data to understand your unique physiology and build the sustainable rhythms that allow you to flourish in the body you actually inhabit.

I don’t simply match a symptom to an herb. I build a functional picture of what is driving your physiological patterns and design a protocol specific to your unique biology. The goal is never "fixing" you - it is shifting your system away from chronic reactivity, stabilizing your physiology, and rebuilding your capacity and resilience.
What I bring to that clinical framework is a decade of land-based apprenticeship and a deep relationship with the plants themselves - not just their constituents, but their character. Those two lenses together -—the clinical and the ecological—- are what make this work distinct.

This is complementary care - it sits alongside your existing medical relationships, not in competition with them. I don't diagnose or treat disease. What I do is assess your biological terrain - your patterns and ways of moving through the world - and work to provide the nutritional soil and botanical allies your body needs to find its own equilibrium.
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Many of my clients come to me precisely because they have good medical care and still feel like something is missing: the between appointments, the integration, the understanding of why their body does what it does. Others show up at my door when they feel like their sensitive systems don't quite fit in conventional frameworks. That nexus is where this work lives.
 
Many clients are already working with an OT, acupuncturist, or other provider. Collaborative care is built into how I work - with your consent, I coordinate directly with your existing team.​​

Your current medications and supplements are part of your intake form, and I review them carefully before our first session. Herb-drug interactions are real and they matter, especially in sensitive bodies -—I take this seriously as part of my clinical preparation. Reviewing your full medication and supplement stack for potential interactions is standard practice in how I work, not an afterthought.
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That said, complexity doesn't disqualify you here. Many of my clients have layered, multi-system presentations - MCAS alongside POTS alongside a long medication list. That kind of complexity is something I'm trained to work within carefully, not something that puts you outside my scope. I also live in a disabled and neurodivergent body-mind myself, and I have skills specific to lived experience that you might not find in other practitioners.
 
If I encounter something that gives me pause, I'll tell you directly and we'll work through it together.

No. You need a body that isn't being served by the systems you've tried, and a genuine willingness to approach things differently.
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Some of my clients have extensive diagnostic histories. Others have spent years collecting symptoms with no label attached. Both are welcome here. I understand from lived experience what it's like to not fit diagnostic categories, or to spend years searching for answers! What matters clinically is the pattern of what's happening in your body - not whether anyone has named it yet.​​​​​​

My honest answer is that I'm less concerned about the complexity of your body than I am about your capacity to engage with this work. Herbal and nutritional medicine asks something of you - not perfection, not rigid compliance, but a genuine willingness to pay attention to your body and make some shifts over time. If that readiness isn't there yet, this may not be the right moment, and that's okay.
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From a strictly clinical standpoint, if something arises in our work together that requires diagnostic testing, acute medical intervention, or specialized care outside my scope, I will tell you clearly and help you find the right resource. I will never work outside my lane to keep a client.​​​​​​​​​​​​

Unhurried. That's the word I'd use first.
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Our first session - the Deep Dive - is 1-2 hours dedicated entirely to your story. Not just your symptoms, but the arc of your health history, the things that feel connected even if no one has connected them for you yet, the terrain of your daily life. I ask a lot of questions. I listen more than I talk.
 
About a week later, you'll receive your Root + Resilience Plan - a comprehensive strategy document built specifically around your biology. Then we meet for a Strategy Session to walk through it together, refine it, and answer your questions.
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From there, we meet every two to three weeks throughout our three months, adjusting as your body responds. The protocol isn't fixed - it's a living document that changes as you do.
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I practice from my own body, not despite it. During some sessions I may have my camera off or work from a reclined position. This isn't incidental - it's me modeling what I'm asking of you. We meet our bodies where they are.
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All of them. I mean that.
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If a 90-minute video call would push you into a flare, we can break it into shorter segments, shift to voice memos, work through secure messaging, or design a sensory container that actually works for your nervous system. The format of our work is something we figure out together, not something imposed on you.
 
This is built into how I practice, not an exception I make reluctantly. I know what it's like to drag myself to an appointment, only to spend days or weeks in bed afterwards. I don't want you to dread our work, and I'm willing to be flexible in the spaces we hold together.

Yes. A guardian must be present for all sessions with anyone under 18, and written consent is required before we begin. I maintain a relationship with the adolescent directly while keeping the guardian appropriately informed - particularly if anything arises that affects the minor's immediate safety or wellbeing. If you are planning to bring in a minor, please reach out via email before booking so we can ensure their intake process is thoughtfully tailored in an age-appropriate way.
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The pediatric population I most commonly work with is neurodivergent children - autistic kids, 2e kids, children with ADHD - often presenting with GI issues, sensory dysregulation, or behavioral patterns connected to what's happening in their gut and nervous system. If you're a parent navigating this terrain, you're in the right place.
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We focus on templates, not traps.
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The goal is to identify your safe harbors - foods and patterns that lower your inflammatory load - while building your resilience over time so that eventually your system can handle more variety. This is not about perfection or rigidity. It's about finding sustainable rhythms.
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Some clients, particularly those with MCAS or significant histamine burden, do need to make meaningful dietary shifts. I won't minimize that. But we move at the pace your body sets, and we build the flare plan first so you always have a path back to ground.

Yes. Your package includes a seasonal membership to the Feral Hollow Clinical Apothecary, covering all botanical formulas we develop together as well as the cost of shipping them to you.
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Every formula is built collaboratively during our sessions—- you'll know exactly what's in it, why each ingredient is there, and have the opportunity to review and approve it before anything is prepared or shipped. As someone who also lives with MCAS, I deeply understand the necessity of chemically-conscious handling. We maintain rigorous sanitary standards in our space without the use of heavy industrial solvents that trigger mast cell degranulation. For example, we frequently utilize brand-new glass for sensitive compounding rather than washing with VOC-heavy chemical cleaners, passing our once-used jars along to local mutual aid networks. For those of you navigating complex reactivity, this structural safety is built into the process from the ground up, not added as an afterthought.
 
Supplement recommendations through Fullscript are separate, and I pass along my full practitioner 35% discount to help offset those costs.

Conventional insurance is built for acute, compartmentalized care:—15-minute appointments, siloed specialists, and generalized protocols. Complex bodies require the exact opposite. Operating outside of the insurance model allows me to provide what insurance will not cover - unhurried 90-minute deep dives, extensive behind-the-scenes research into your unique functional matrix, and continuous, integrated oversight between our sessions.
 
Anyone who has navigated chronic illness knows the feeling of bracing for hidden fees. To be clear - I do not require thousands of dollars in proprietary functional testing to offer you care. We will look closely at whatever standard blood work you already have, your detailed symptom history, and your multi-system patterns. We use your data to identify the 'upstream' drivers of your flare-ups, moving beyond symptom management to address systemic root causes.
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While I do often recommend botanicals and nutritional supplements, I also know the frustration of walking starry-eyed into a clinic only to leave with a non-negotiable plan demanding you spend more on supplements than rent every month. I will always meet you exactly where you are. We will collaborate to find realistic options that fit the life you actually live and your true financial picture. 

While the clinic doors officially open for booking in Autumn 2026, here is exactly what that process will look like when it is time:

Once you book, you'll receive a welcome email with access to your secure PracticeBetter portal. It’s a secure, simplified space where everything you need - forms, messaging, and protocols - is in one place, so you don't have to hunt through old emails.
 
Before our first session - at least 48 hours prior - I ask you to complete three things:​

• Your intake form, which provides the map we'll use to navigate your health history. Set aside real time for this - it asks you to think carefully about your history, your patterns, and what you're hoping to shift.

• Any recent lab work or health documents you'd like me to review beforehand.

• Your practice policies and privacy documents, reviewed and signed.

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When your intake is submitted, I begin my clinical preparation. Before I open your files, I step outside onto the land at Feral Hollow and make an offering for our work together. That's not a formality. It's how I begin every client relationship.
 
All clinical communication - scheduling, questions, follow-up - lives inside the PracticeBetter portal. I respond to non-urgent messages within 48 business hours, Monday through Friday. I don't maintain digital connectivity on weekends, and I am not a crisis resource.

Physiology doesn't shift overnight. It takes roughly 90 days for nutritional changes to begin re-patterning cellular health, and for botanical protocols to fully take hold. Three months also means you have support through the messy middle - the period when things are shifting but haven't settled yet, which is often the hardest stretch and the one most people navigate alone.
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The three-month container isn't arbitrary. It's the minimum arc of time in which this work can actually do what it's designed to do.

At the end of our initial container, I offer two ongoing care options for clients who want to continue::
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• MONTHLY MAINTENANCE MEMBERSHIP - sliding scale $200-400/month

• QUARTERLY CHECK-IN - sliding scale $400-600/every 3 months

 
I always hope to work myself out of having a job. But I also live in a disabled body and understand that healing often happens over years, not months. Ongoing access to support at a sustainable pace is part of how I think about care for the long term.

Between our formal sessions, you have access to continuous asynchronous support via secure messaging or voice memo directly through PracticeBetter, so you are never left to navigate a flare or a protocol change alone.

Because my practice is based at an off-grid sanctuary, my digital presence follows a seasonal rhythm rooted in my body and the land. I aim to respond to non-urgent messages within 48 business hours, Monday through Friday. I do not maintain digital connectivity on weekends, and I am not a crisis resource. This structure ensures your absolute privacy while allowing me the space to provide deeply intentional, unhurried care.