Ashley Campos is a clinical Western herbalist and holistic health practitioner deeply committed to re-wilding, healing, and forging connections between land and people through the profound wisdom of herbs.
Beyond her clinical practice, Ashley serves as the Executive Director of the Berkeley Herbal Center. Her journey with plant medicine began as a student at BHC, where she discovered the power of herbs and the importance of community-based learning under her mentor Pamela Fisher. This transformative experience ignited a passion for accessible herbal education and community wellness, which she now brings to the forefront in her leadership role. Guiding the center with a deep understanding of its roots and a vision for its future, Ashley is dedicated to empowering individuals with plant-based knowledge and care within the vibrant Berkeley community.
Dana Aronson is a trained clinical herbalist who takes joy in community based, hands-on learning. She focuses her studies on bio-regional plants from the Pacific Northwest and intertwines them into her small practice and teachings. As a clinical herbalist and member of the American Herbalist Guild, she looks for more than just symptomatic patterns when working with clients. She offers support where healing can express itself in all facets – mind, body, spirit. Dana uses curiosity to dig deeper into the body’s mechanisms and usher people to find their practices around overall well-being living. Dana’s interests include mobile first aid clinics, working with folks around addiction, and harm reduction. Dana believes in offering accessible herbal medicine and digestible herb information so that people can feel empowered around their health.
Madeline is the Academic Coordinator and Executive Assistant at Berkeley Herbal Center, where she keeps the wheels turning with a blend of grounded organization and a sprinkle of plant magic. A proud graduate of the Center’s Foundations and Therapeutics program, she also holds an MBA in Sustainable Solutions (yes, spreadsheets and salves!) and brings a background in wellness industry account management and digital marketing. Madeline is wildly passionate about using her strategic brainpower to help herbalism grow in sustainable, heart-led ways. Her life is joyfully entangled with the green world, whether she’s gardening, cooking, brewing potions, or making art. She believes that everything we touch comes from the earth, and that deepening our relationship with plants helps us remember who we really are: joyful, peaceful, and very much alive. In her clinical practice, Madeline is devoted to reviving the slower, softer ways of being. She believes we all carry the ancient memory of plant kinship within us and with a little curiosity and care, that connection can blossom back into our lives
Abby (she/her) is the Retail Manager and Community Events Organizer. Her focus is to uplift local entrepreneurs by inviting healers and makers to share their work to continue to live authentically with their personal magic. She feels grateful for the opportunity to be immersed in the world of plants, spirit, and all of their allies who are working toward collective care.
Claire manages BHC’s apothecary and medicine making team, where she spends her days keeping the center stocked with fresh, potent herbal extracts. She is also a gardener, and can often be found pruning fruit trees or tending a plot of veggies. 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 midwife’s apprentice in Maine. Some of her dearest herbal friends include catnip, peach leaf, tulsi, and motherwort.
Mercy Tyne’s connection to the plant-path grew as a way to heal herself from Lyme and other health struggles, and took her on an informal pilgrimage searching for teachers until she arrived at Berkeley Herbal Center where she graduated from the Apprenticeship and two-year clinical programs. She now works as a medicine maker and teaches short course offerings. She loves the quiet hum of processing the armfuls of fresh plants for the school’s apothecary, creating retail products and client formulas, and exploring the depths and limits of life. To her, herbalism is a bridge connecting the spiritual and physical realms, weaving together medicinal and mystical, tying us back again to the ancient rhymes of nature. She loves working with clients, guided by belief in the healing power of beauty, embodiment, curiosity, and creativity.
Some of her close plant allies are Blue Vervain, medicine of the wild women and the in-between; tulsi the divine; nettles, the tough-love granny with the medicine you need; schisandra, for zing and zest and confidence; and cacao, who holds our grief and enchants our love.
Misha Howard serves as the Creative Content Specialist at the Berkeley Herbal Center, where she brings storytelling to life through photography, videography, and heartfelt email campaigns. A graduate of UC Santa Cruz with a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing, Misha combines her literary background with a natural passion for plant medicine. Her journey led her to BHC in November 2024, following a decade of international travel and deep personal inquiry into consciousness through meditation and natural healing.
Lisa Fox is a clinical herbalist and licensed midwife residing in Chonchenyo Ohlone land, aka Oakland, CA. Her practice has a foundation in western herbalism from teachers such as Michael Moore, Adam Seller and Karen Saunders. Her training, long ago, as a medic at the Berkeley Free Clinic formed the basis of her clinical skills including acute care and gynecology. She has offered care in a wide variety of settings including remote villages of southern Mexico, a borderland birth center, an integrated clinic alongside doctors and nurses and in the streets and houseless encampments of West Oakland. She is the founding member of the Curbside Care Clinic, since 2018. Lisa is passionate about health education with an emphasis on prevention strategies, and is excited to share about the potent medicine of plants to promote community health and resilience.
Veronica is a Clinical Herbalist and certified Fertility Awareness Educator. She loves teaching women how to chart their menstrual cycles for natural pregnancy prevention, achievement or to use as a way to gauge their own reproductive and general health each month / cycle.
Veronica is a teacher and faculty clinician and also runs her practice, named Kapu, LLC which is dedicated to helping women live in tune with nature and their bodies. As an herbalist, her approach is to leave each session with the client feeling excited and hopeful about their health and wellness journey.
She is a mom and wife, living and loving in the East Bay Area.
Shereel Washington graduated from the California School of Herbal Studies, Forestville, CA in the Community Herbalist Program as a Clinical Herbalist, as well as certificates in Body Systems, and Herbal Crafting. She has completed over 1200 hours of herbal craft making training.
As an educator, Shereel teaches Black North American Herbalism and Medicine Making in various herbal certification programs in schools across Northern California, primarily, San Francisco Bay Area. As a herbal health, healing and nutrition practitioner and consultant, Shereel serves diverse ethnic communities in promoting natural health care and wellness through plant medicine. As an advocate of global cultural herbal traditions, Shereel is passionate about preserving the history, knowledge and expansion of the current practice of Black North American Herbalism.
A tenderized New Yorkin Californian, Carissa is an untamed dancing flame of curiosity. She loves finding her true reflection amongst the golden California poppies and listening to the whispers of fairies in the understory of wise oaks. Find her in her original birthday suit tending the land, growing medicinal herbs and scrumptious vegetables, whistle painting beauty into the landscape with wildflowers in her footsteps.
In the realm of diploma-acy, Carissa is a Clinical Herbalist with a deep focus on female reproductive wellness, and currently she is working towards her larger vision of becoming a revolutionary midwife.
Devalina is a clinical herbalist, whole-food chef, animist, beekeeper & educator. Originally from the West Coast of British Columbia, she has spent the last decade diving deep into herbalism, Traditional Chinese Medicine, functional nutrition and the natural world. Deva has been teaching herbalism classes at various schools in the Pacific Northwest and held herb camps throughout Northern California. She has a strong background in ethical harvesting, medicine making & herbal first aid. She is passionate about reconnecting people to land and getting people excited about plants. She is currently seeing clients through her private practice: www.wellrootedherbs.com and teaching a 6 month intensive course through Santa Cruz Permaculture. In her spare time she enjoys bee-centric bee keeping, exploring wild places and basket weaving.
Lia Leibman (she/they) is a clinical herbalist, medicine maker, botanist, and avid plant-human match-maker. She graduated from the California School of Herbal Studies, from both the Roots and Community Herbalist programs, and holds a B.A. in biology from Whitman College. Lia is a devoted apprentice to their ancestral traditions and is overjoyed to teach Jewish ancestral herbalism, as well as many botany and human physiology courses. She is passionate about helping connect people to the plants, traditions, and healing practices that can help them thrive.
Hi. I’m Deia Pauline, a clinical herbalist, health educator, and herbal clinic coordinator. I help people include herbal medicines, nutrition, and holistic wellness strategies to enjoy a centered, purposeful, and vibrant life.
My own healing journey, teachers, professional experience, and the plants themselves all deeply inform my practice. Having grown up in a chaotic household eating the Standard American Diet (SAD) resulted in me having migraines for many years starting at age five, a depleted immune system, chronic fatigue, depression and anxiety.
Discovering herbal medicines helped me understand my body, strengthen my mind, and find inner peace. Flora and fungi regulated my immune and nervous systems. I also used nutrient-dense foods, probiotics, breathwork and biohacking with herbal medicines which has allowed me to experience ease and grace, reconnect with my true nature, and restore a sense wonder. I feel more resilient now in my late 40’s than I did in my 20’s!
This life experience uniquely places me in a position to help others transform their lives. I offer practical steps anyone can take to live a calm, purposeful, and exciting life.
Central to my practice is the use of plant medicines for healing from individual and collective trauma. I offer deep listening and aim to provide client-led, non-judgemental care.
I am a registered herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild, RH (AHG), since 2014 and have been in professional practice since 2008. I go by the pronouns she/her.
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Pamela Fischer is the founder of the Berkeley Herbal Center in Berkeley, CA. Berkeley Herbal Center is a non-profit organization serving the community through its Western Herbal medicine school, community clinic, and robust dispensary. It is one of the few schools in the country that operates a year-round community clinic on site.
For more than 30 years Pamela has been studying plants and herbal medicine. After receiving her degree in eco-psychology, Pam became attracted to the herbal healing path and immersed herself into a well-rounded education provided by the insights and wisdom of Western scientists, Western herbalists, native healers, wise women, and witches. Her basket of tools includes Western herbal theory, Traditional Chinese pulse diagnosis, Ayurveda, and Tibetan medicine. She has spent countless hours and days camping and hiking in our local woods, working with local plant medicine, and teaching about their use and conservation.
Pam is known as a visionary leader and grass-roots organizer. She has inspired generations of herbalists to be a stand for change in our healthcare system. Many of her graduates have and are currently creating similar establishments to provide services locally. In this vein, Pam endeavors to free her community from a broken system and move them toward an era of healthcare based on prevention, compassion, and care.
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