2019-2020 Clinical Skills Apprenticship Faculty

Jean Madrone, SEP, RH, is the core faculty for this program. Jean has been studying and working with plant medicine for the last 12 years, and has been in clinical practice since 2011. She completed her Somatic Experiencing training in 2017 and integrates somatic trauma resolution therapy and the magic of the plants. Her background includes magic, clinical western herbalism, harm reduction, nutrition, and energetic medicine. In addition to her private practice, Jean co-founded and practiced at the Olympia Community Herbal Clinic for 8 years, seeing a high volume of clients from many different backgrounds. Jean believes that our physical, emotional, and spiritual healing is intertwined with the health of the earth and with collective liberation. Her work is an offering in service to that liberation and to the wild places in our world and ourselves.

Guest faculty

Renee Davis MA RH is a clinical herbalist, researcher, and educator in botanical and mycological medicine. She is a board member of the American Herbalists Guild, a writer for the American Botanical Council, and directs research and development management for nutraceutical mushroom company. She is currently a student of biomedical sciences at the University of Washington. 

​Carol Trasatto has been practicing and studying herbal medicine for more than 35 years. She is a dedicated community herbalist in Olympia WA—teaching, writing, consulting with clients, and serving as herbal educator and herb/supplement buyer for Radiance Herbs & Massage. Carol has survived her own journey through an aggressive cancer and intense treatments—and is more impassioned than ever to help others survive and thrive through similar circumstances. She is the author of Conscious Caregiving: Plant Medicine, Nutrition, Mindful Practices to Give Ease.

lara pacheco is a Taíno, Latinx mamita that believes that our collective liberation is accessed through decolonizing ourselves by weaving into the web of ancestral medicine. Lara directly works through this realm with plants, fungi, music and dance. When not caring for her family, land and creatures, lara runs seed and thistle apothecary, an educational resource, and co runs the seasonal wellness clinic that works to provide access to herbal medicine for marginalized communities and brown girl rise, a youth empowerment program for young femmes of color.

​Joyce Netishen is a plant healer and gardener who lives and works at Fire Rose Farm, a magical and tangled herb farm where she teaches classes and apprenticeships and keeps a potent garden filled with beauty, mystery and medicine.  She maintains a private practice, keeps a magical apothecary, loves flower essences and aromatic medicine, and is an inspired medicine maker. Joyce has completed two apprenticeships with Guadalupe Gonzales Rios, a Huichol Shaman and elder, and has devoted her life’s work to the Plants and the Shaman’s Path of the Heart.

​Thea Schnase is an herbalist, social worker, doula, and therapist-in-training.  She fell in love with the plants while exploring the woods of southwest Washington with her grandpa when she was a child. Thea's practice has been enriched through her studies with an assortment of skilled herbalists:  Mary Barnes, Joyce Netishen, Denise Townsend, Deb Soule, and two years of formal clinical studies with Paul Bergner. She has been practicing herbalism with clients since 2010.  She was a practitioner at the Olympia Free Herbal Clinic for four years, and is now studying to become a Couples and Family Therapist.  She is guided by her love for the living world and all of its beings, and her belief that the plants can help us remember who we are.

Larkin Schmiedl (Forest Heart Botanicals) is a trans & queer herbalist & medicine-maker who lives on Salt Spring Island in “BC.” He studied herbalism at the Wild Seed School and has been hanging out with plants in this part of the world for 15 years. He's excited to build community resources around trans health.

​Tracy Heron Moore, LMT, has been practicing and studying herbalism for 20 years and is a long-term member of The Massage Place Collective, where she practices herbalism, massage, and craniosacral therapy in Olympia, WA. Her work is about empowerment: empowering people to cultivate an ever-deepening connection with nature's rhythms and the gifts of the plants, to trust their body's intelligence, and to be in charge of their own health and healing. She focuses on the human nervous system, gently guiding clients through stress and trauma toward embodiment and resilience. Tracy loves formulating herbal remedies, and her two dearest plant friends are Rosemary and Yarrow. More at www.thistleandmoon.com. 

Phelicia Magnusson is an herbalist and flower essence practitioner whose formal training took place at Arbor Vitae School of Traditional Western Herbalism in New York City and with Delta Gardens in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. Phelicia is particularly interested in the intersection of ritual, healing, and community; she has spent a good deal of time learning with plants and elders in the Peruvian Amazon, the Big Island of Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest, and the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. You can learn more about Phelicia and her practice, Queen & Crow Healing Arts at queenandcrow.com or on Instagram @queenandcrow.

Rhonda Lee Grantham is a member of the Cowlitz Nation of SW WA, which translates to “Seeker of the Medicine Spirit”. She is a direct-entry midwife, herbalist and founder of the Center for Indigenous Midwifery. For over two decades, she has been actively catching babies and supporting culturally-centered programming within Indigenous communities. She is honored to share her experiences in midwifery and plant wisdom; as well as wilderness emergency medicine, cultural anthropology and global health; both at home and globally. She has served alongside Indigenous midwives and healers on tribal lands ranging from disaster relief zones to refugee camps, from reservations to rural birth centers. And everywhere she goes... she is thankful for her plant relatives, growing and offering their medicines, always traveling beside her.

Sean Croke is a wildcrafter, medicine maker, and gardener who has been working with the plants of the Pacific Northwest for a decade.  He is a co-founder of Understory Apothecary which produces small batch tinctures of local herbs, and is also involved in Cascadia Terroir which produces essential oils from native plants.  Sean is a graduate of The Evergreen State College with a BA/BS where he focused on Ethnobotany and Organic Chemistry. Sean has studied wildcrafting and plant spirit medicine with the School of Forest Medicine and studied under Sean Donahue.  Sean is the founder of the Hawthorn School of Herbal Medicine, and has been teaching about Pacific Northwest healing plants since 2012.