Professional Clinic

Make an appointment with one of our professional herbalists below.

Initial sessions last approximately two hours, and are devoted to exploring the interplay between body, mind, and spirit as herbalist and client co-create a plan to meet your healing goals. You should expect to have at least two subsequent visits, which range in length from 30 minutes to an hour. You may purchase custom formulations according to your herbalist’s recommendations from our full-service apothecary. You are welcome to purchase herbs elsewhere and we are happy to provide suggestions for reputable sources.

Because we are a teaching clinic, when you make your appointment you will be offered the choice to allow a clinical student to observe your consultation—please know that you have the option to decline for any appointment. Thank you in advance for helping us to further the practice of herbalism through our students.

“I just want to say that my meeting with you was the single most comfortable and caring health ‘care’ appointment of my life! Thank you!” – AA, Burlington

Fees and Payment

We offer consultations and herbs on a sliding-scale payment structure. We employ a sliding scale model not only as a tool for economic justice for our clients, but also as our sole source of operational funds. We recognize that we are all part of an ecological web where the health of our organization, our clients, our wider community, the plants, and our planet are mutually interdependent. Our payment structure values the labor of our clinicians and staff, as well as the plants themselves, while expanding access to care and herbs for folks who need them.

Sliding-Scale Consultations and Herbs

The bottom of our scale reflects the costs we incur to provide herbs and consultations while the top reflects the lower end of retail pricing for comparable goods and services.

Consultation

Initial Visit (2 hours): $100 – $175

Follow-up Visits (1 hour): $50 – $80

Herbs

Bulk herbs (tea, powders): $2.50 – $5 /oz (3 – 12 oz are typically recommended monthly)

Liquid extracts (tinctures, oils): $6 – $12 / oz (5 – 15 oz are typically recommended monthly)

Access Support – Below-Cost and No-Cost Consultation and Herbs

While there are real costs associated with providing herbs and consultations, when needed, we are committed to absorbing and offsetting these costs to make our services available in solidarity with our community. We turn no one away for inability to pay. If, after careful consideration, you find that your current circumstances prevent payment at the bottom of our scale, we are happy to receive whatever payment you are able to make. If you can’t afford to make any financial contribution, we will cover the full cost of your consult and herbs (not including shipping).

How does payment work?

For each appointment or herb order, you’ll be asked what you can afford to pay based on your current situation. We don’t ask for income information. Payment can change as your needs change. If you can pay full retail price (or more!), you support our capacity to provide low cost and even free herbs and consultations to those with less access to resources. No matter the amount, all payments truly do make a difference.

Why sliding-scale?

Despite our non-profit status, we are not supported by philanthropy. In order to cover the costs of producing and transporting herbal products, pay our staff, and maintain our facilities, financial exchange with our clients remains crucial to our continued operation and service. In addition to covering our costs, the scale enables well-resourced clients to support our ability to offer services and herbs at cost–and even below-cost, to clients who need it.

It is our ultimate goal to undermine and divest from the capitalist economy that extracts from the earth and exploits communities for resources and labor. Until then, we offer a sliding-scale structure as an act of solidarity while we continue to build a world where all of us can thrive.

Not sure where you fall on the scale?

Many folks who utilize a sliding scale refer clients to the excellent graphic below created by Alexis J. Cunningfolk. Very simply, if you recognize your experience in the full bottle on the left, we ask you to pay at the top of our scale. At this end of the scale, you are engaging in mutual aid through redistribution of resources and care. If you see yourself reflected in the middle bottle, you might pay in the middle. At this range of the scale, you are covering our costs, plus a little extra to support our mission of collective care. If your experience aligns with the bottle on the right, you’re welcome to pay at the lower end of our scale. At this point on the scale, you are covering our costs for the services and herbs we’ve provided.

If you find the low end of the scale is still inaccessible to you, you can indicate that at the time of invoice. No one is turned away for lack of funds. (See Access Support, above.)

You can read more about the purpose and navigation of sliding-scales as a tool for economic justice here. If you have questions after reviewing the article and image below, feel free to be in touch to discuss your circumstances.