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.

COVID-19 Update: As of 4/2/2020, we are holding classes online until further notice. Once it is safe to meet in person again, our classes will resume to it’s normal programming. In the meantime, if you have any questions, you are welcome to email us at brshm.assistant@gmail.com for any questions or concerns you might have. Stay safe and be well.

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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