Advanced Clinical Herbalism

Overview

The first year of this program focuses on holistic assessment skills, pathology and client care. The second year is a student clinic. In the clinical program, you’ll learn to blend Chinese medicine principles with Western herbal medicine for a truly planetary approach to herbalism.

We will cover traditional diagnostic strategies and treatment protocols, balanced with a holistic view of how a client-practitioner relationship should be.

We teach an embodied and intuitive approach to interaction with clients combined with modern science and traditional ways.

Prerequisites

Graduation from a 300-hour herbal program OR Ability to show equivalent training.

*Students are expected to know anatomy and physiology, medicine making skills, and demonstrate a good working materia medica, all of which can be learned in our Holistic Herbalism Program. If students do not have a background in basic Chinese medicine, there are a few courses we can suggest to help get you prepared for this class.

What You’ll Learn

• How to interview and learn a client’s medical history
• The pathophysiology of the major body systems along with assessment skills, patterns of imbalance and treatment protocols
• Holistic diagnostic skills such as reading the face, Chinese pulse and tongue assessment, and interpreting client responses
• A deeper understanding of plants and their uses
• Low-dose botanicals
• Herbalist counseling skills
• Business skills
• Clinic observation
• Student Clinic
• Herb-Drug Interactions
• “Red Flags” (Signs you should refer out)
• Scope of practice
• Trauma Informed Care
• Research skills

• Dispensing skills
• Working with gender non-conforming and trans people
• Living as an empath
• Consent issues and appropriate boundaries in the client-practitioner relationship
• Intake and consent forms
• Understanding and working with food allergies
• Chronic inflammation
• Understanding the effects of chronic stress on disease
• Working with complicated conditions such as auto-immune conditions, lyme disease, insulin resistance and cancer
• Understanding neuro-diversity and working with neuro-divergent people
• Common pharmaceuticals and their effects

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