The Clinical Skills Program and Clinical Practicum is for graduates of the Community Herbalist Program. This program is focused on clinical skills, case studies, and intake and assessment skills. The clinical practicum is an opportunity to put the skills that you have learned into practice, supporting clients (often with complex health needs) in a supervised and supported environment. Whether you already have experience seeing clients or conducting intakes is new for you, this is an opportunity to grow your skills in intake, assessment, formulation, specific indications of herbs, nutrition, and supplementation, applied harm reduction, herb/drug interactions, and trauma informed care.
(Applicants who have completed other courses of study but feel they are ready for clinical skills program are welcome to apply for 2023/24 and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.)
Areas of focus include:​
  • Case studies and long-term case management
  • Client centered care and counseling skills
  • Ethics
  • Intake and assessment
  • Harm reduction
  • Gender affirming care
  • Safety and scope of practice for herbalists
  • practitioner self-care
  • Harm reduction in clinical practice
  • Trauma-informed care
Details:
150 hour program
​September 15 through June 22
2022/2023 program: In person 9 to 5 every other Thursday
2023/2024 Times TBD
$200 deposit (waived for 2022/23) +$185 monthly
Clinical Practicum Participants will:
  • Observe 3 client intakes conducted by Jean Madrone Lynch-Thomason (recorded or live)
  • As part of a small group, conduct supervised intakes with new clients
  • Have supervision and support creating care plans and formulating for clients
  • Participate in clinical round tables where your clients/formulas/care plans are presented and benefit from hearing other groups' cases​