Betzy is not currently accepting new clients.
Betzy is not currently accepting new clients.
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Larken has limited clinical availability, so she is currently only taking new clients with health goals that fall within her areas 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 Larken’s specialization, feel free to email her directly at Larken@vtherbcenter.org with a brief summary of your concerns and goals for her to review before you schedule.
Current clients are always welcome to schedule follow up appointments regardless of the focus of their concerns.
More about Larken:
Larken’s clinical approach is one of partnership, centering each client’s self-knowledge and agency to choose the support and outcomes they desire. She uses 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, Larken continues to add to her experience and knowledge through professional development. She has 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.
Her training and experience has led her to see 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 her work as a clinical herbalist, she is co-founder and core-faculty at VCIH and offers ecosomatic coaching and clinical mentorship to the broader herbal community. She’s also a gardener, writer, and photographer deeply inspired by a life-long love affair with plants. Her 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.
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