The Berkeley Herbal Clinic
Appointments
The clinic is open for in-person every Monday, and online throughout the week.
Any questions, please email info@berkeleyherbalcenter.org
About:
For over a decade, the Berkeley Herbal Center has been a reliable resource of community wellness, operating a non-profit student clinic that offers low-cost herbal healthcare.
Our commitment extends beyond providing exceptional herbal training to our students. We believe in cultivating a new generation of skilled and compassionate herbalists who can serve their communities. Our student clinic serves as a vital learning ground, offering valuable clinical experience for our students while providing accessible care to the public.
At our clinic, you’ll find a unique blend of expertise and affordability. Our appointments are conducted by carefully selected first and second-year clinicians, closely supervised by our experienced faculty.
Our approach to herbalism is deeply rooted in Western Clinical Herbalism, emphasizing a holistic understanding of your health. We delve into the interconnectedness of your lifestyle, diet, mental-emotional patterns, and daily activities to address underlying imbalances. Herbal medicine is utilized to support your overall well-being – physical, emotional, and spiritual.
We strive to make quality herbal care accessible to all, ensuring that no one is denied care due to financial limitations. However, we kindly encourage those who are able to please make a donation to support the continued operation of this vital community resource.
Explore your options by clicking the tabs below to learn more about scheduling appointments with our first-year, second-year, and faculty clinicians.
About Our First Year Herbal Clinic
Our First Year Clinicians are students that have received both of the herbal certifications from our long term program and have been invited by the Berkeley Herbal Center Faculty to continue their education by working directly with community members under supervision of a senior staff member.
Clinicians work closely with clients for several sessions to attain maximum results in your health and wellbeing.
Hours
Every Monday In-person, 10:30-5:30pm
Herb Pick Up Hours
Monday – Friday 10:00am – 3:00pm
Cost
In-Person & Online:
Initial 1.5 to 2-hour visit: $30.00*
Subsequent 1-hour visit: $15.00
Herbs: Dry herbs $4-$6 per oz, tinctures $15 and oils $7
Clients will be paired with one or two students for each visit. The initial visit is 1.5 to 2 hours. Subsequent visits will take approximately 45 minutes to an hour.
Clients are expected to pay for the appointment and any herbal remedies at the time of their visit. Clients should budget between $45–$100 per month for their herbs.
*Potential clients may speak to management to receive a discount based on special financial circumstances. No person turned away for lack of funds.
About Our Second Year Herbal Clinic
Our second year clinicians are clinical herbalists who have received both extensive training in our certification program and one year of clinical experience at the Berkeley Herbal Center. They operate primarily independently but are still supervised by the Berkeley Herbal Center Faculty.
Hours
By appointment.
Cost
Initial 2-hour consultation: $90.00
Subsequent 1-hour visits: $60.00
Tinctures are $15.00 per ounce, oils are $7.00 per ounce, and dried herb teas are $4.00 – $6.00 per ounce
About Our Faculty Clinic
Our faculty clinic provides expert holistic support in the transformation of disease through the use of plant medicine.
Each of our faculty members are certified Western clinical herbal practitioners and have years of one-on-one clinical experience. Our practitioners are committed to creating collaborative goals of optimal health with each client, and move beyond disease symptoms into optimal vitality.
We believe each person has a unique pattern of stress, physiological response and presentation of disease. Using pulse, tongue, and comprehensive constitutional diagnosis, your practitioner will craft an individualized plant medicine formula tailored to your specific needs.
Hours
Our faculty consultants are available by appointment 7 days a week from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm.
Cost
Initial consultation: $150.00
Subsequent visits: $90.00
Tinctures are $15.00 per ounce, oils are $8.00 per ounce, and dried herb teas are $6.00 per ounce.
About Our First Year Herbal Clinic
Our First Year Clinicians are students that have received both of the herbal certifications from our long term program and have been invited by the Berkeley Herbal Center Faculty to continue their education by working directly with community members under supervision of a senior staff member.
Interns work closely with clients for several sessions to attain maximum results in your health and wellbeing.
Hours
Every Monday In-person, 10:30-5:30pm
Cost
Consultations: In-Person Mondays & Online Through the Week:
Initial 1.5 to 2-hour visit: $30.00* Subsequent 1-hour visit: $15.00
Herbs: Dry herbs $4-$6 per oz, tinctures $15 and oils $7
Clients will be paired with one or two students for each visit. The initial visit is 1.5 to 2 hours. Subsequent visits will take approximately 45 minutes to an hour.
Clients are expected to pay for the appointment and any herbal remedies at the time of their visit. Clients should budget between $45–$100 per month for their herbs.
*Potential clients may speak to management to receive a discount based on special financial circumstances. No person turned away for lack of funds.
Our First Year Clinicians
Anna Bluhdorn
They are here to provide you with a supportive helping hand that can hold you accountable to your goals. Together, you will set realistic expectations and determine sustainable habits that truly fit your life.
Her approach is lovingly rooted in expanding access to resources, celebrating transgender and queer lives, rejecting stigma around sex and sex work, supporting body diversity and actively challenging racism.
They believe in the body as a doorway to deeper understanding, health as a wild landscape to traverse and in joy as a radical form of care.
Lauren Thomas
As a plant ally, Lauren’s feet are rooted in the ancestral world that honors the beautiful traditions of plant medicine, while her grounding in the sciences keeps her deeply appreciative of the growing body of empirical research that continues to echo their wisdom.
With a trauma-informed clinical approach, Lauren is drawn to the places where Western medicine may not offer enough support; persistent symptoms without clear resolution and a longing for care that fully honors our human complexity.
She specializes in supporting those suffering from burnout, anxiety, depression, postpartum mothers rebuilding their energy and sense of self, and clients seeking holistic support for complex and long-term conditions such as Type II diabetes. Her work centers on nourishment, restoration, and helping each client reconnect to the wisdom and resilience already within them
Tessa Arens
Tessa’s interest in herbal medicine began in her early twenties with a general love and awe for plants. However, faced with her own medical problems in which Western medicine could not offer any support, she turned to the plants in a deeper way, for healing. Tessa received her herbalism certification through the apprenticeship program at Berkeley Herbal Center. She is dedicated to supporting people on their health care journeys in whatever capacity she can. Tessa promises to stay open minded, meet her clients where they are at, and move with compassion.
Forrest S
Forrest’s journey with herbal medicine began when undiagnosed chronic illness and
lack of access to allopathic healthcare led them to work with a clinical herbalist who
introduced them to the local plants and ecosystems of the east bay hills. Forrest is
passionate about harm reduction, informed consent, and believes in each person’s
inner wisdom and knowledge of ourselves and our bodies. They are especially excited
about providing herbal care that is gender-affirming, supportive for clients with chronic
illness and disability, and affirming of neuro-divergence. Their approach to herbalism is
informed by ancestral healing of intergenerational trauma. They believe that undoing
systems of oppression are integral to collective wellness and healing. Forrest is an artist
and caregiver, and is trained in wilderness first aid. They have experience providing first
aid as a volunteer during political demonstrations, and they are excited about using
herbal medicine in other mutual aid settings. They want to make herbal medicine
accessible for everyone, to allow for us all to show up for one another as our strongest
selves.
Helena Del Pesco
Helena’s work as an herbalist weaves together her love of nature with her background as a chef specializing in bioregional cooking and fermentation. Snacking on dandelion fritters and sipping sumac tea as a child developed into a lifelong passion for plants and understanding their gifts as food, medicine, and companions. She seeks to walk alongside and support clients as they build relationships with medicinal herbs.
Helena has a special interest in gastro-intestinal and nervous system support (gut-brain connection) and topical remedies. In addition to her studies at the Vermont Center for Clinical Herbalism and Wild Ginger Community Herbal Center, her practice is guided by lived-experience of what our plant kin can teach us about the physiological, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of being human.
Helena is happy to to wear a KN95 mask at the request of clients and prefers clients wear them if they feel they may be ill and contagious.
Helena habla español. Invita y da bienvenides a clientes hispanohablantes
Britta Hanson
Since childhood, Britta has intuitively understood that plants are powerful teachers and healers. She is passionate about facilitating relationships between plants and people and empowering her clients with resources to feel better. She takes a balanced and judgement-free approach to health strategies, encouraging people to find the solutions that work for them. While it can be difficult to sort through trends as the health and wellness industry grows, Britta is motivated to help her clients navigate towards an effective and sustainable approach. She has a special interest in nervous system regulation, tinnitus management, chronic disease and inflammatory conditions, and digestive distress.
First Year Online Clinicians
Elisabeth Rowberry
A wife and mother of eight children, Elisabeth owns and operates a farmstead in Morgan, Utah,
where she cultivates a wide variety of herbs for Eve in Eden Herbs & Wellness. Her work
reflects a lifelong dedication to plants, traditional knowledge, and the role of herbalism in
everyday life. She holds a Master of Science in Herbal Medicine and has completed thousands
of hours of training in herbal therapeutics and safety. Beyond her work, she finds joy exploring
the Rocky Mountains, which serve as both her playground and sanctuary.
Elisabeth is a clinical herbalist with experience across all stages of life. She brings a strong
passion for herbal approaches in men’s health, fertility and pregnancy, pediatric herbal support,
chronic pain care, and herbal support for wounds and non-emergency injuries.
Before pursuing her passion for herbal health, Elisabeth spent several years in allopathic
medicine, working in the operating room as a surgical technician and surgical assistant. She is
passionate about education and enjoys teaching others about herbal properties through
workshops and events in her community.
Pía Giudice
Pía Giudice is an Argentine herbalist, yoga teacher, and mother of two based in Medellín, Colombia. Her path into herbal medicine grew from lived experience through pregnancy, motherhood, and a deep relationship with the plants of Colombia. She is the founder of Aflora Ritual (@afloraritual), a line of medicinal loose-leaf herbal infusions, and is especially interested in liver support, hormonal balance, digestion, chronic inflammation, and nervous system regulation. Pía’s approach centers on self-observation, gentleness, and sustainable care. At this time, she works exclusively with Spanish-speaking clients and values healing as a shared, community-based process.
Silpa Nair
I’m passionate about alternative medicine and fell in love with herbalism once I experienced the beautiful power plants hold in supporting us through life’s transitions. Herbs have been steady allies for me through new beginnings, everyday stress, seasonal colds and illness, and the ongoing pursuit of clarity and balance — both for myself and my family.
As a mom and someone who has spent over two decades in the corporate world, I bring a realistic and approachable perspective to herbal support. I love being a resource for others — helping individuals navigate stress, gut health, and peri-menopause, and guiding families in discovering how herbs can fit naturally into their daily routines.
Elise Arielle Span
Elise is a scientist and clinical herbalism student based in Berkeley, California. Her interests center around chronic stress-related conditions, the gut-brain-immune connection, and hormone health, informed by both personal experience and ongoing clinical training. She holds a PhD in biophysics from UC-Berkeley and began her herbal studies with Tieraona Low Dog, MD. During the week, she leads project teams in the biotech sector, and she brings the same systems oriented thinking, curiosity, and attention to detail to her work with clients.
Elise approaches clinical practice as a collaborative and educational process, supporting those she works with in learning about their bodies and connecting with their own lived experience. She values careful listening and thoughtful assessment, and she strives to create a supportive, grounded space where people feel empowered in their healing process. In addition to botanical medicine, she has an affinity for mind-body and somatic approaches to healing. Outside of her professional and clinical work, she loves dancing to live music
and spending time in nature with her dog and cat.
About Our Second Year Herbal Clinic
Our second year clinicians are clinical herbalists who have received both extensive training in our certification program and one year of clinical experience at the Berkeley Herbal Center. They operate primarily independently but are still supervised by the Berkeley Herbal Center Faculty.
Hours
By appointment.
Cost
Initial 2-hour consultation: $120.00
Subsequent 1-hour visits: $60.00
Herbs: Dry herbs $4-$6 per oz, tinctures $15 and oils $7
Our Second Year Clinicians
Emily Prince De La Cruz
An herbalist and mother of two, Emily lives in West Marin. She has a BA in psychology from Stanford and has recently studied herbalism at the Berkeley Herbal Center, the California School of Herbal Studies and the Now & Then Herb School.
She is dedicated to helping others support their healing journeys with herbal medicine: the people’s medicine. She believes plants can provide accessible and empowered care for the mind and body. She practices with the mindset that connection enhances wellness and she collaborates with clients to tailor workable plans for their individual lifestyles.
She specializes in herbal allies for both the nervous system and reproductive system (female assigned at birth), including herbs to support hormonal balance, fertility, and the perinatal period. Bridging these two body systems, she is especially knowledgeable in supporting the emotional health of pregnant and postpartum people. Additionally, she enjoys sharing herbal recommendations for babies and children, and can provide that information to interested parents.
Marjorie Espinoza
Marjorie is a mother, herbalist, and dance instructor.
Her relationship with plants began as a child, watching her grandmother make herbal remedies for the family, inspiring her to become a lifelong student of plants. She is fluent in Spanish and English and supports people in their journey with mental health, pregnancy and postpartum, joint mobility, dental care, and digestion. Her approach focuses on restoring balance through nutrition, nervous system support, and lifestyle practices.
Marjorie earned a BA in Psychology and spent over 10 years working in mental health clinics serving the Latine community. After college, she returned to herbal medicine to support her reproductive health and navigate grief, which led her to complete her studies at the Berkeley Herbal Center. She also completed her apprenticeship with the Botanical Bus, a bilingual mobile herb clinic, and currently practices as an herbalist and dance instructor supporting Latine and Indigenous communities. Outside of her practice, Marjorie is passionate about animals, poetry, and ceramics.
To schedule a session, please email marjorie@berkeleyherbalcenter.
You can also learn about Marjorie’s offerings by following @abuelitasherbals on Instagram
Danielle Adams
Danielle has long felt a quiet calling to herbal medicine and to weaving holistic approaches into everyday life. She is deeply drawn to the alchemy of medicine making, where plants, intention, and care come together in meaningful transformation. Working with plant medicine in a tangible, hands on way became her entry point into truly understanding its power. Her journey began in the kitchen, crafting medicinal body butters and salves to nourish and restore the skin. From there, her practice naturally expanded into creating thoughtfully balanced teas and tinctures. A pivotal moment in Danielle’s path came when her dog was diagnosed with cancer. Through the supportive use of plant medicine, she witnessed its ability to enhance wellbeing, comfort, and quality of life. This experience deepened her commitment to herbal medicine and affirmed her trust in the quiet wisdom of the plants.
Danielle is passionate about empowering individuals and supporting them in meeting their health goals. She understands that bio-individuality is an essential aspect of her work. Danielle’s approach is to meet you where you are at and work together to build connections with plants medicine and discover a path to intentional healing.
Danielle is a Sonoma County native who now lives on the island of Kauaʻi where she is cultivating a humble herbalist practice. And works privately with clients teaching Pilates from her home. Through her personal and professional journey, Danielle has come to deeply value caring for the nervous system through intentional breathwork, slow and purposeful movement, and the supportive balance of herbal medicine, modalities she has found to work in harmony within the body.
About Our Faculty Herbal Clinic
Our faculty clinic provides expert holistic support in the transformation of disease through the use of plant medicine.
Each of our faculty members are certified Western clinical herbal practitioners and have years of one-on-one clinical experience. Our practitioners are committed to creating collaborative goals of optimal health with each client, and move beyond disease symptoms into optimal vitality.
We believe each person has a unique pattern of stress, physiological response and presentation of disease. Using pulse, tongue, and comprehensive constitutional diagnosis, your practitioner will craft an individualized plant medicine formula tailored to your specific needs.
Hours
Our faculty consultants are available by appointment 7 days a week from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm.
Cost
Initial consultation: $150.00
Subsequent visits: $90.00
Tinctures are $15.00 per ounce, oils are $8.00 per ounce, and dried herb teas are $6.00 per ounce.
Berkeley Herbal Center's Faculty Clinicians
Ashley Campos RH (AHG)
“I fell in love with the vibrancy and greenery of the Bay Area when I moved from Southern California to pursue my studies in rhetoric and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. I began sprouting interest for plants at a very young age, gardening and camping with my father when he proclaimed that I “had a green thumb.” In my late adolescent and early adult years, faced with the intense stress of college and poor dietary and health choices, I found myself very far away from the simple and joyful days of gardening with my father.
Faced with a personal healing crisis, and many family members failing health, I desperately sought answers and solutions. In a magical twist of fate my roommate had been attending the student clinic at the Berkeley Herbal Center and recommended I get an appointment. Amazed at how effective my treatment was, a spark of passion ignited in my heart, and thus began my journey in the pursuit of becoming a clinical herbalistThe rest of the journey has been a beautiful whirlwind of education, connecting with myself, and deep soul level transformation. I am humbled to have been shown this path and to get to meet, exchange, and heal with so many amazing plants and people.”
Ashley Campos is a certified clinical western herbalist and holistic health practitioner re-wilding, healing, and connecting herself with land and people through the magnificent lens of herbs. Pulling from her most difficult and triumphant life experiences, Ashley provides holistic, gentle, and comprehensive care for her clients. Ashley works with both acute and chronic conditions focusing on diet & lifestyle as well as spiritual & emotional wellness. Some of her specific interests include blood sugar regulation, PCOS, GI balance, and anxiety & depression. She also teaches classes on Western herbalism, medicine, making, and the magic & folklore of plants.
You can contact Ashley directly at ashley@berkeleyherbalcenter.org.
Claire Crocker
Claire is an herbalist and gardener who loves to dance. She spends her days keeping BHC’s apothecary stocked with fresh, potent medicine, and tending fruit trees and veggie beds. She regards the age-old relationship between plants and people with reverence, and understands our coevolution to make for an irreplaceable nurturing. Before completing BHC’s apprenticeship program and clinical practicum, Claire spent time as a birth assistant in Maine where she fostered her long term interests in womb and hormonal health, including menstrual imbalances, fertility support, and menopause. She has also honed special interests in nervous system regulation, mood, and skin. Claire’s collaborative approach looks to herbs as guides back to the natural world all around us, and to the healing our bodies are so readily poised for, given an herbal nudge. She meets people of all identities and backgrounds with sincerity, curiosity, and warmth.
To schedule a session, please email claire.c@berkeleyherbalcenter.org
Kate Falcone
Kate is a clinical & community herbalist, artist, and reiki practitioner.
Her love for plants blossomed as a child in her mother’s garden, where she was first introduced to some of her early flower friends like bleeding hearts and lambs ears. Many years later, during a period of grief, she was slowly and gently pulled back towards the plants for support and protection. Nettle tea and rosemary baths were some of the first plant rituals she used to heal her emotional body. Moved by their magical generosity and powerful ability to heal, she spent the subsequent years exploring using herbs for acute ailments and deepening her knowledge on natural health before enrolling in Berkeley Herbal Center’s Herbal Apprenticeship program and two year clinic program. She has since become a core member of BHC’s faculty, spending time in the Medicine Room, co-leading trips, teaching medicine making classes, and providing administrative support for the center.
Kate’s work with herbs is rooted in the belief that our bodies are inseparable from the Earth. The Earth is beautiful, and when we work with herbal medicine, we also work with the medicine of beauty, pleasure, and aliveness. She sees these elements as inherent aspects of true healing and looks to educate and empower her clients to foster a deeper sense of knowing within their bodies, and with the plants they will become intimately acquainted with. Kate welcomes all beings with compassion and warmth and looks forward to sharing herbal medicine from a place of collaboration and reciprocity. Some specific areas of interest include digestive health, hormones & fertility, recurrent infections, and mood support.
She is currently meeting with her California clients online only as she is now located in the Hudson Valley & Catskills region. To book an appointment with Kate, please email her at: kate@berkeleyherbalcenter.org or kate@stcatherineslace.org
Mercy Tyne
Hello! I’m Mercy, a clinical herbalist dedicated to empowering clients in their
healing journeys through herbalism.
Health is an opportunity for us to live a more connected, energized, expansive
life, full of wonder, passion, and creativity. My aim is to empower clients to learn
how to support their own mental, physical, and emotional wellness, so they can
experience life without the limits of disease. Herbalism is the synergy between
people and nature, the art of connecting people back to nature, and back to self.
It is a holistic practice, meaning it understands the interconnectedness between
mental, physical, and emotional balance, holding within it the medicine of the
tangible and the magical.
I started on the herbal path in high school while exploring ways to heal from
cycles of frustrating health conditions. Herbalism empowered me to understand
my body on a deep level, to approach my health with curiosity, and get to know
plants and practices that brought me into balance so I could like an active,
engaged life.
Every client is treated as an individual, and my holistic approach includes
individualized care plans that incorporate personalized, constitution-balancing
meal plans, specially formulated tinctures, teas, infused honeys, customized
workout plans, daily ritual practices, and more.
I have experience working with hormone balance, gut health, sleep, immune
support, arthritis, anxiety, energy, athletic performance, and fatigue, with an
emphasis on the importance of creativity, beauty, and ritual in creating a lifestyle
of expansive, holistic, health. I’m especially interested in working with the
creative nature of sensuality, and how plants and ritual can assist that process. I
work with a combination of Western Herbalism, Ayurvedic principles,
movement, nutrition, ritual, and mindfulness practices to support your health
goals.
Erika Larsen
She has studied herbalism and worked in free clinics and as a community and clinical herbalist in various forms for over 20 years.
A queer weirdo in their mid 40’s, Erika comes to herbalism from an animist perspective and believes in access to client centered healthcare for all.
Their current sliding scale for one-on-one consultations is $30 to $120. For more information, please visit: Erika-Larsen-Clinical-
Erika currently lives on Wiyot land in Eureka, CA and loves the fog and a dawn walk with some coffee.
Karadi
Karadi’s devotion to plant medicine began while farming in the Sierra foothills at Mountain Bounty Farm in 2008. Over the arc of the season, the beauty of the vegetables, native plants and weeds garnered her devotion.
She continued farming in Richmond, CA supporting her fellow farmer to grow vegetables for Bay Area Rescue Mission. Concerned by the prevalence of poverty, she was moved to serve as a Community Health Worker at Berkeley Free Clinic starting in 2016. In this role she has trained dozens of volunteers on basic medical techniques. She has instructed on the function of the immune system, Lab test interpretation, and various basic acute medical assessments and treatments. She has staffed conventional medicine clinics as a Medical Assistant. These experiences reinforces her confidence in holistic medicine to better address root causes. In this time she has advised numerous clients regarding both acute and chronic concerns.
She assisted Botanist Diana Benner of Watershed Nursery in collection of native plant seeds for revegetation projects across the Bay Area. She continues to grow native medicinals. She prepares extracts from organic material and wild gathering in a conscientious manner. She supports the work of the Cultural Conservancy based in SF which protects indigenous cultural practices and tribal land stewardship.
To schedule a session, please email karadi@berkeleyherbalcenter.org or shakewell@fastmail.com
Jules Benefico
Jules Benefico (she/her) is a Clinical Western Herbalist with a passion to help others uncover the mysteries of their soul and heal naturally. Jules focuses on shadow work, pleasure, and solidarity as tools to aid her herbal work. She believes that herbalism is an important form of activism and an accessible earth based healthcare system that digs deep to get to the root of ailments and not cover up symptoms. She states “Herbalism is like a mycelial network that brings people in communion with nature and can be a tool to rise up in action consciously and productively.”
Jules has been studying herbal medicine for 9 years and offers consultations, workshops, medicine, and supports herbal clinics in times of crises like California wildfires. She runs a business called Boss Witch Botanicals where she shares courses and mentorship programs to support herbalists and healers blossom their businesses & focus on their personal healing journey. Jules studies alchemy, astrology, and herbalism and integrates these magickal practices into her life, consultations, and workshops.
In her private practice Jules works with an array of people to support their vibrant wellness. Her specialties include hormonal regulation, chronic GI issues, vulva wellness, skin complaints, and mental health. A session with Jules includes a trauma informed approach to getting to the root of health physically as well as mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. She holds space gently and without judgment to support her clients healing path.
To book with Jules you can email her at julie@berkeleyherbalcenter.org or reach out through her website. To follow Jules’ current offerings follow her on instagram @bosswitchbotanicals and check out her podcast The Herbal Astrology Podcast.
Veronica Ricksen RH(AHG)
Veronica is a clinical Western herbalist and educator, graduating from Berkeley Herbal Center’s 4-year clinical herbalism program.
Her special interests lie in helping others resolve skin issues and female reproductive concerns and to share about methods of hormone-free birth control. She is passionate about body literacy, bodily sovereignty, and informed consent.
Through her work as an herbalist, she aims to dismantle the cultural taboos surrounding the menstrual cycle and fertility and loves to support women in understanding and trusting their bodies.
Veronica is currently enrolled in a 2-year program to become a certified Fertility Awareness and Sexual Health Educator. She’s working to combine clinical herbalism and fertility awareness practices to support women from menstruation to menopause.
Veronica lives in the East Bay of CA with her husband, son, and two kitties. She loves hiking around the local hills and creating herbal skin care concoctions in her kitchen. Her favorite herb is Chamomile and her favorite food is soup! Any and all kinds of soup.
Veronica’s catalyst to becoming an herbalist was serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay. It began with her host mom teaching about the medicinal plants in the yard, and piqued when Veronica befriended a 90+ year old man who taught her how he stayed so healthy– boiled toad bones (like bone broth) and herbs!
You can learn more about Veronica and her offerings at www.kapu.community or contact her directly at veronica@berkeleyherbalcenter.org
Rose-Ellyn Birdsong Stuart
Rose’s journey into herbalism began the same way a lot of those that are called to the healing arts do: through personal experience. Her own struggles with injury and illness took her on a deeply transformative path of healing, supported by plant spirit work and herbal medicine. She knows first-hand the profound shifts that can take hold when we trust the wisdom of nature and hold sacred the magic and mystery of our plant kin. She draws from all chapters of her life to inform her work as a healer, whether it be her childhood in the rainy forests of Pacific Northwest or as a singer and chef in Barcelona where she often ventured solo out of the city to be closer to nature. She works from a holistic approach, focusing on diet and lifestyle as well as spiritual and emotional well being. She collaborates with her clients to create the container where deep and restorative shifts can take place. Some of her specific interests include female reproductive health, anxiety and depression, and grief.
In addition to graduating from Berkeley Herbal Center’s Apprenticeship and 1st year Clinical Internship programs, she has also studied herbalism at East West School of Planetary Herbology and tongue and pulse diagnosis with Will Morris, PhD, DAOM, and LAc. In 2021, she completed the Plant Spirit Talk mentorship with Francisca Santibanez. She has worked closely for several years with the Sonoma County Herb Exchange, which supports her connection to an ever-expanding community of healers and deepens her knowledge of tending, cultivating and harvesting medicinal plants.
You can contact Rose directly at rose@berkeleyherbalcenter.org
Questions about our Herbal Clinic? Send us an email at clinic@berkeleyherbalcenter.org
Though we don’t turn anyone away for lack of funds, the clinic is expensive to run. The center is not funded by governmental grants so we depend on the generosity of our community to keep the clinic in existence.
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