My practice is oriented around mental health support, trauma, and resilience, weaving herbal medicine, Somatic Experiencing, ecopsychology, social neuroscience, traditional healing systems, and a deep commitment to liberatory healing for all beings.

I see clients as a clinical herbalist through the professional clinic at Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism (VCIH), the non-profit herb school and community clinic that I co-founded and currently serve as executive director.

I am currently limiting my new client intake to folks with health goals that fall within my area of specialization: mental health, trauma and resilience. This includes experiences of depression, anxiety, chronic stress, trauma (PTSD and C-PTSD), ADHD, insomnia and related neuropsychological and cognitive concerns.

Of course, we are integrated systems and our mental-emotional-spiritual health can’t truly be separated from other aspects of our health. With this in mind, if you’re not sure whether your goals for working with an herbalist fall within my specialization, feel free to email me directly at Larken@vtherbcenter.org with a brief summary of your concerns and goals for me to review before you schedule.

Consultations and herbs are available on a sliding scale, and below-cost and no-cost services are also available. Scheduling and more information can be found below.

My practice philosophy and approach: 

My clinical approach is one of partnership, centering each client’s self-knowledge and agency to choose the support and outcomes they desire. I use a bio-psycho-socio-ecological model that acknowledges that our health is not an individual experience and our communities and environments are key determinants of both our illness and our healing.

Having studied and practiced as an herbalist for over 30 years, with 20+ years of clinical practice oriented around emotional and psychological wellbeing, I continue to add to my experience and knowledge through professional development. I have specialized training in Somatic Experiencing, integrative somatic coaching, radical ecopsychology, relational culture, integrative trauma therapy, mind-body medicine, shiatsu and massage, ear acupuncture (NADA protocol), conflict resolution, and graduate level coursework in mental health counseling, in addition to a master’s degree in clinical herbal medicine.

My training and experience has led me to view health and illness as relational, political and ecological–meaning we must look to our connections with family and community, to our social and political systems of care and harm, and to our relationship with more-than-human nature to see what causes our illness and what resources we have to reduce harm and move towards resilience.

In addition to my work as a clinical herbalist, I am co-founder, executive director and core faculty at VCIH and offer ecosomatic coaching and clinical mentorship to the broader herbal community. I’m also a gardener, writer, and photographer deeply inspired by a life-long love affair with plants. My work is rooted in commitments to anti-oppressive and liberatory healing for all beings, to bridging traditional medical systems with biomedical sciences and, ultimately, to restoring Nature to culture through herbal medicine.

Still want to know more? You can read more about my background on my About page.

Ready to schedule?

Scheduling, more information about the VCIH professional clinic, and what to expect during a consultation can be found here. From there, you can click through to our scheduling platform where you can select me as your practitioner and find a time to begin our work.

I see clients five days a week during regular business hours and all appointments are offered via Zoom.

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