I practice holistic clinical herbalism, Somatic Experiencing™, and healing touch in Olympia, Washington, territory of the Squaxin and Nisqually peoples. I grew up deeply influenced by the woods, mountains, and plantain-filled parking lots of Tennessee and North Carolina, and part of my heart will aways be there. In 2006 I moved to the Northwest and fell in love with the magic and plants of this place. 

​My herbal training includes apprenticeships and studies with Corinne Boyer here in the Northwest, clinical training at the Appalachian Center for Natural Health with Phyllis D. Light, and clinical apprenticeship with CoreyPine Shane of the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine, as well as a host of eclectic influences and teachers across the west coast and southern states. I completed Somatic Experiencing ™ trauma resolution therapy training in October of 2017, and love integrating this trauma resolution therapy with herbal medicine.  I am forever in gratitude to the plants, my first teachers, as well as each of the clients who have chosen to share part of their journeys with me. 

Focuses of my practice and teaching include supporting recovery from trauma and healing for emotional and mental health. I love working with plants during pregnancy and birth, as well as working with plants to support those experiencing pregnancy loss and termination. I especially love working with parents, children, elders and babies. I am comfortable and honored to work with folks who are receiving palliative care and who are at the end of life. While I am happy to provide care to folks from many walks of life, my practice has been largely rooted in serving queer and trans communities. My practice is informed by co-founding and working at a low barrier sliding scale herbal clinic- the Olympia Community Herbal Clinic- from 2008-2015, which specifically intended to serve communities with institutionalized barriers to healthcare access. It is also informed by the deep medicine that I have discovered in living with physical disability.

I practice in the Southern Folk Medicine constitutional style. My background also includes magical practice, clinical western herbalism, harm reduction, nutrition, and energetic medicine. My ancestors are primarily from Ireland, Scotland, and England, and many of the lineages that I practice and teach are derived from western European traditions. My intention is to honor these ancestral lineages while deconstructing white supremacy and supporting decolonization in my work. I believe that our physical, emotional, and spiritual healing is intertwined with the health of the earth and with collective liberation. My practice is an offering in service to that liberation and to the wild places in our world and ourselves.

Jean Madrone

Training

Psychobiology of Systematic Oppression with Anne Phillips and Liz Goodwin 2018

Touch Skills for Trauma Therapists with Kathy Kain 2018

Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner Training   2015-2017

The Herbal Freedom School  with Toi Scott 2017

Holistic Abortion and Pregnancy Loss Care with Molly Dutton Kinney 2015 and 2017

Elemental Magic Series 3 month intensive with Maeanna Welti 2016

Trauma-Informed Care for Herbal Practitioners Intensive with Kirstin Hale     2016

Beyond Trauma: Neurobiology, Epigenetics and Health Justice intensive with Lydia Barthalow    2015

Constitutional Energetics Series with Erin Adams of Woven Branches Botanicals   2014

Dismantling Racism in Healthcare The Evergreen State College    2014

Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine, Asheville, NC. Clinical Apprenticeship    2010
 
Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine, Asheville, NC. Holistic Herbalist Program          2011

Appalachian Center for Natural Health, Arab, AL. Community Herbalist Program: The Endocrine System    2011

Herbal Apprenticeship with Corinne Boyer       2010

Herbal Medicine and Body Systems Series with Corinne Boyer     2010

Reiki I Certification The Reiki Training Program, Seattle                2008