Change your life with herbal medicine.

Our Clinical Herbalist Certification is a 200-hour live online course to deepen your foundational herbal knowledge into applied herbal therapeutics and start your clinical practice.

STARTING IN FEBRUARY 2023

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What is the Clinical Herbalist Certification?

In Clinical Herbalist Year you will build your therapeutic skills to step into clinical practice.

This Certification is only available for US residents.

Community Herbalist Certification - Verse

Is the Clinical Herbalist Certification right for me?

Clinical Herbalist Year prepares you to step into a therapeutic session with clients.

This academic year deepens your confidence to formulate herbal medicine, determine therapeutic strategies, and craft advanced herbal medicines.

You will cultivate your clinical capacity through monthly case study reviews and presentations. Live online cohort meetings with a Clinical Herbalist supervisor supports you in working through case studies, cultivating a global community of like minded herbal practitioners, and completing you 40 herbal monographs.

This course is designed to empower a folk herbalist to step into clinical practice, a person who desires to join the booming Wellness product industry, life coaches, therapists and wellness educators who would like to expand their offering with herbal medicine.

You will leave as a Clinical Herbalist able to utilize tongue and facial diagnosis, craft advanced medicines, assess constitutional intake forms and guide clients through lifelong herbal powered transformation.

Each herbalist joining our Clinical Herbalist Year will have at least 300 hours of training before joining this class.

Interactive & Community Based

Live synchronous Zoom classes for real time questions with teachers
Monthly cohort meetings to connect with peers and dive deeper into materials
Sit-Spot Practices to connect with natural world around you
Internal Slack Channel to build community and engage in between classes
Experiential learning through hands-on medicine making projects

From our students...

Really surprised at how much deeper my understanding of herbal knowledge became. During the last 1-2 months I felt like all of the pieces of the puzzle started coming together and it was incredibly encouraging. I feel confident calling myself an herbalist now.

Apprentice Herbalist STUDENT 2022

The program is all live and online, which means that you're there in real time with the teachers and the other students. This really serves to build a sense of cohesiveness throughout the curriculum and a sense of community amongst the students and the teachers.

-Margo, Clinical Herbalist 2022

I'm surprised how much I loved having a clinical client. I've learned so much from having clients, more than I ever thought possible. I love seeing how this works practically. Overall, I'm so pleased with how much I learned. So much information and practical ways to improve health and well-being. truly blown away by herbs.

Clinical Herbalist STUDENT 2022

What will I learn in the Clinical Herbalist Certification?

This course is taught entirely through live instruction, featuring lecture, medicine making, group discussion, and Q & A sessions.

Learning will be supported through student cohorts that meet regularly outside of regular course time and receive group mentorship from program instructors.

Unlike other online herb schools, students have the opportunity to pursue individual inquiries, receive peer support, and cultivate real relationships with teachers and classmates. In this 200-hour Clinical Herbalist Year, you will cultivate your ability to apply herbal medicine with acuity.

Classes focus on:

therapeutic application
medicine making
case study presentations
sitting in session with clients
herbal medicine entrepreneurship

Your Classes This Year

You will receive instruction from integrative doctors, medical aromatherapists, clinical herbalists and traditional medicine people, combining the wisdom of traditional perspectives with the strength of modern science.

Therapeutic application of herbal medicine
Advanced medicine making
Aromatherapy
How to sit in session

How to use and incorporate intake forms into your session
Pathologies for common ailments of all body systems
In depth study of 40 herbs
Formulations

Products Included

$500+ curated box of supplies
Dried herbs, tinctures, glycerites, teas, essential oils, medicine making supplies, herb bundles, and crystals.
Featuring our favorite brands and trusted sources

Conveniently crafted for working professionals and busy parents.

3rd weekend of each month, from 9am to 3 pm and every Wednesday from 5.30pm to 8.30pm
February - November with a break in July
No live classes on National Holidays

*Want to know the exact dates before committing to the program? Click here.

How much does the certification cost?

The investment for the Clinical Herbalist Certification is $4395USD.

We offer two in-house payment plans:

- 3 monthly payments of $1538
- 6 monthly payments of $769

Paypal credit (6-month plan, interest-free) is also available directly at checkout.

Scholarship applications are closed for this year.

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Payment Plan available - Clinical Herbalist Year

Which Herbal Program is right for me?

Class Dates for 2023 Program

First Semester

February: 18, 19, 22

March: 1, 8, 15,
18, 19, 22, 29

April: 5, 12, 15,
16, 19, 26

Second Semester

May: 3, 10, 17
20, 21, 24, 31

June: 7, 14, 17,
18, 21, 28

August: 2, 9, 16,
19, 20, 23, 30

No Classes in July!

Third Semester

September: 6, 13, 16,
17, 20, 27

October: 4, 11, 18,
21, 22, 25

November: 1, 18, 19

Who teaches the Clinical Herbalist Certification?

Shayne Case

Shayne is a mother, healer, teacher, writer, medicine maker, and an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.

Yvonne Matthews

Yvonne BCHN®, NC is a board-certified holistic nutritionist, herbalist, wellness advisor and educator.

Kelsey Barrett

Kelsey teaches in all levels of our Herbal Medicine Certifications, focusing on tissue states, digestive wellness, nervous system support, and clinical practice.

Aba Gypei-Garbrah

Aba teaches in all levels of our Herbal Medicine Certifications, focusing on holistic aromatherapy.

Greta de la Montagne

Greta de la Montagne is a Clinical Herbalist, Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counselor and Bodyworker in practice for over 30 years, specializing in Herbal First Aid for large outdoor events, nonviolent direct actions and disaster response.

Laura Ash

Laura teaches in all levels of our Herbal Medicine Certifications, focusing on the business of being an herbal practitionerand maker.

Madeleina Bolduc

Madeleina teaches in all levels of our Herbal Medicine Certifications, focusing on herbal energetics, clinical practice, and plant spirit medicine.

Sarah Jane Fairless

Sarah Jane is a clinical western herbalist, educator, and ardent lover of nature.

Claire Raggozino

Claire teaches in all levels of our Herbal Medicine Certifications, focusing on Ayurveda and nutrition.

Lisa Fox

Lisa is a Clinical Herbalist, Holistic Gynecologist, Midwife, Wilderness First Responder, wildcrafter and medicine maker.

Tessa Kappe

Tessa is an environmental educator and plant loving person from the Los Angeles mountain town of Topanga Canyon.

Drea Moore

Drea is certified in Ayurveda, yoga, massage therapy and has been actively practicing clinical herbalism in her community for the past decade.

Erin Wilkins

Erin is an Asian American herbalist and Japanese acupuncturist.

Ingrid Bauer

Ingrid Bauer, MD, a board certified Internal Medicine physician, has been studying and practicing herbal medicine and nutrition for nearly 20 years. Ingrid is co-founder of Five Flavors Herbs, an herbal manufacturer, product line, and herbal pharmacy in Oakland, CA. She also practices primary care in a community health center in Grass Valley.

Lauren Ernst

Lauren is a Chicago-based herbalist working with clients all over the U.S. Her work empowers clients to create lasting change for their well-being by weaving together herbal medicine, nutritional guidance, energetics and lifestyle shifts to illuminate the path to long-term, sustained health.

American Herbalists Guild's Associate Herbalist

Proud Member of the
American Herbalist Guild

Our certification hours are eligible to be applied towards the American Herbalist Guild's Associate Herbalist and Registered Herbalists memberships.

What's included in the Clinical Herbalist Course?

LIVE SESSIONS WITH VIDEO REPLAY

Each class is available as a video replay to rewatch as many times as you'd like. So, when you register for VERSE class, you never have to worry about missing a moment of learning.

RENOWNED TEACHERS + HEALERS

Exclusive classes and workshops created by Registered Herbalists, Holistic Practitioners, Professional Divination Readers, Working Artists, and Sacred Space Holders.

6 MONTH ACCESS TO ALL MATERIALS

We understand life happens and you might need some time to get through our rich learning content. That's why you have 6 months access to class materials to review at your leisure.

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Want to Learn more Before Committing to the Full Certification?

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Free Recording

Community Herbalist Workshop with Laura Ash

Meet Laura Ash, Clinical Herbalist for 16 years, owner of Scarlet Sage, and founder of Verse. In this workshop, we will get a chance to talk about 5 herbs to support building immunity, cold and flu season, and discuss what is most important to the community as we shift seasons.

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