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, not just wellness supplements.

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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. What I bring to that clinical framework is also 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 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.​​

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.

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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. The botanical formulas we develop together are included at no additional cost for the duration of our three months.

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Supplement recommendations through Fullscript are separate, and I pass along my full practitioner discount to help offset those costs.​​​​​

Once you book, you'll receive a welcome email with access to your secure PracticeBetter portal. Before our first session - at least 48 hours prior = I ask you to complete three things -

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• 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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Once 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

 

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.