About
Hi, I'm Claire.
I have been working with herbs since 2014, training formally as a phytotherapist (aka medical herbalist) from 2015-2019 on unceded Lekwungen land, so-called Victoria, BC, at Pacific Rim College. I graduated in 2019 with my Community Herbalist Certificate and my Diploma of Phytotherapy, a program which incorporates anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, biology, phytochemistry, over 200 medicinal herbs, 510 hours of clinical training, and much more. Since graduating I have found herbs to be wonderful teachers, at times rebelliously railing against the margins of allopathic/ western/ colonized practice and ideas of health, and have taught me far more about connection to the land, to the body, and to spirit than I imagined possible. In every adventure and misadventure life has brought me through since, there has always been a plant friend there, waiting to help me find my way back to myself.
Because of all this life learning, I found myself necessarily restructuring my herbal practice to encompass and honor an uncolonized perspective on health and wellbeing. I am pleased to say this period of integration is nearing completion and I am opening my books to herbal patients in the spring of 2025.
My love affair with tarot and astrology began in 2016, and I have been using both as tools to live a more meaningful life and create intimate containers for both my personal and professional relationships since.
I am otherwise deeply devoted to somatic healing work, antiracism, my LGBTQIA+ community, art, gardening, my cat Althaea, and mining information rabbit holes for psychic gems. I look forward to working with you, and hope our work together will bring you a richer, more meaningful lived experience
Readings give you a snapshot of a moment in time. My role as a channel is to affirm, confirm, and realign, ultimately with the goal of deepening your trust in your own inner voice. Readings can bring spiritual clarity to specific circumstances such as (but not limited to) relationship dynamics, business ventures, ancestral messages, and creative endeavors. In a reading messages come through with the support of tarot and my natural clairsentience, clairaudience, and clairvoyance.
Workshops are my love project. The entire goal behind these sessions is to help you tap more deeply into the innate wisdom of your body and unique intuition, facilitate community connections, and empower you with the knowledge to safely use these medicines in your own day to day life. I firmly believe that reading about herbs in books or on the internet but never tasting or meeting them in nature is like trying to describe color to someone who has only ever seen black and white; to experience a plant for yourself is to know it.
Sub Rosa. The expression "under the rose" indicates a space where secrets can be spoken in confidence without fear of disclosure. Any and all services I provide are 100% confidential, as your privacy is important to me.