Clinical Herbalist ✴ Artist ✴ Educator ✴ Ritualist

I grew up in an old-growth forest in Southern Maine.  Within these woods is where I met plant intelligence for the first time. I was drawn to the forest as a shelter from the chaos of a challenging childhood. At the foot of White Pine, I felt connection with something bigger and wiser than anything else I had known. Here, I could access calmness and grounding. Here, is where I began to heal with plants.

As I began to build my own independent life as a young adult, I pursued an art degree at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. I focused on drawing and printmaking as my primary mediums. I’d spend hours outdoors drawing and finding inspiration from the twisted and weathered landscape of Point Pleasant Park, a site that had been battered by several hurricanes over the years. Gnarled and shaped by the elements, yet teeming with life and resilience. My art evolved as a medium through which I made spiritual connections with Land. Through this connection, my attention shifted from making art about Nature to making art with Nature. 

In 2017, I began a self study of occult plant wisdom and bioregional herbalism. I read and researched deeply utilizing critical discernment that I had cultivated while in school, motivated to learn pearls of wisdom from some of the most celebrated herbalists and some lesser known folk practitioners. I attended foraging walks and deeply immersed myself in the native plants around me. I began to know them by their common and native names. They began to visit me in dreams.

In 2020, I began my first herbal medicine garden. I created a sanctuary of native and naturalized plants in the small backyard behind my apartment in Portland. This space had been a patchy space of scrubby ground creeping plants that struggled to flourish in the dead soil. Within a summer, pollinators of all kinds graced the space and began to bring a vibrancy to the air. Songbirds followed, and the backyard became revitalized. Dandelions, ground ivy, violets, chickweed matted the soil between the raised beds. It was incredible to see how much the space changed in a short amount of time. How cultivating the right plants had regenerated a dead zone in a city. I began to experiment crafting medicine and elixirs from the plants growing in the raised beds. Sadly, I had to refrain from harvesting plants outside of the safety of the newborn soil in the raised beds out of concern for lead contamination. A reminder that we cannot outrun the toll we have put on our ecosystems and how that toll has real health consequences for generations. But on a positive note, I harvested plenty of fresh and healthy herbs from my garden including, sage, motherwort, perilla, lemon balm, mugwort, rhubarb, blue vervain, marshmallow, and mugwort. With these plants, I made tinctures, elixirs, and tea blends and began selling them sporadically local makers markets as Northern Muse Apothecary.

At the tail end of 2022, I attended a workshop on Addressing Trauma and Addiction with Herbal Medicine and Mindfulness taught by Melanie Scofield. This wasn’t my first herbal class, but it was one that really kick-started a desire to learn directly from teachers with clinical experience and spiritual integrity. At the invitation of Melanie, I enrolled in the Community Herbalist Apprenticeship training at Earthwalk School in December 2022, where I also met clinical herbalist and teacher, Jillian Twisla. Shortly after completing this program, I began a year long dedication to Ancestral Remembrance, an offering crafted by Jillian. Less of a formal class and more of a group exploration into the ancestral healing practices outlined by Dr. Daniel Foor and informed by Jillian’s rich experience as a ritualist, teacher, and healer. Within this container, I fused my passion for herbal medicine with the strength and traditions of my deeply well and wise ancestors. I accessed a healing that nourished me on levels that are too much to describe there. But it is from this place that I move in the world - supported and guided by the plants and the ancestors.

In September 2024, I began another year long commitment to my growth as a practitioner and herbalist and enrolled in the Clinical Herbalist Mentorship offered by Earthwalk School. Again, I was blessed to have Jillian Twisla as my mentor. I dove into topics including lyme disease and coinfections, the importance of mineral replenishment, herbal first aid, alcohol free herbal medicine preparation, the foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and much more. I developed crucial skills in holding space for clients, ethically advising on complicated health concerns, and building confidence in my knowledge and skills as a practitioner. I graduated from the program in September 2025 and have since begun developing a professional practice. I am currently seeking new clients to work with locally in the Southern Maine region, and beyond. I have big plans for the future, but for now am able to meet virtually via Zoom, or in-person with people who are acquaintances or referrals.

I truly believe that I am here to help support people on their healing journey. I have knowledge in a diverse and elcectic array of healing practices across time and tradition and can cater this knowledge to create cultural appropriate approaches for all individuals.

My practice is trauma informed, anti-oppression, LGBTQIA+ affirming, and harm- reductionist. I strive to provide inclusive care to everyone regardless of where they are at on their healing journey. I believe every individual deserves to feel well and whole in this life and has the capacity to heal themselves. I am simply here as a knowledgeable guide and ally on that journey and a conduit for the deep healing accessible through the world of plant medicine.