About ME
I graduated from Heartwood and I am registered with the National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH).
I have always enjoyed the outdoors and initially did my undergraduate degree in Geography. After falling into a career, life changed when a family member became ill and we were recommended a local Herbalist to help support his healing. It was such a positive, supportive and empowering experience with a real focus on looking at the body as a whole, I was fascinated and wanted to learn more. A year later, I dipped my toe into a foundation course and loved it so much that I gave up my job to study full-time. After 4 years studying, 500 clinical hours with some of the best Herbalists in the country, running workshops for Home Ed groups, community gardens and charities and seeing patients in clinic, I am now happily settled with the fabulous team at Medicine Tree, West Malling in Kent. I feel privileged to be able to help support people on their journey to good health and I hope that they feel the same as I did when I walked out of my first consultation with a Herbalist all those years ago.
For me, Herbalism is less a career and more a lifestyle in that the joy of herbs and good health cross boundaries into other areas of my life such as growing my own food and herbs, cooking, walking in the countryside, swimming and yoga and sharing all of this with my husband and children.