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Naturopathic consultations in Columbus, OH. Online/phone consultations available. Naturopathic doctors are experts in evidence based, integrative, natural medicine and utilize a wide range of holistic therapies, including herbs, lifestyle counseling, nutrition, homeopathy, hydrotherapy, supplements and mind-body medicine.

09/22/2026

✨ A new chapter: my practice is going global ✨

After 10 years in Columbus, Ohio, this December, I’ll be moving back to the UK.

What does that mean for my practice? If you’re currently working with me in Ohio, or elsewhere in the US, not much is changing! I’ll continue providing care, with the same amount of availability, just with a shift in appointment times to account for the time difference.

Mid-late afternoon and evening appointments will no longer be available, but I’ll be opening up new early morning appointments, alongside later morning and early afternoon appointments (Eastern time).

And while I’ll be living across the Atlantic, my connection to Ohio isn’t going anywhere. I feel deeply connected to this community and am incredibly grateful for the people, relationships, non-human beings and experiences that have shaped my time here. Not to mention, my family of origin is now deeply rooted in Ohio and I will always consider wherever they are to be a home.

I’m looking forward to staying connected in new ways, and I’m already dreaming up future retreats in both Ohio and Europe.

I’ll be residing in a new physical location, but my dedication to, and deep care for, everyone who has trusted me with being a part of their health journey will remain the same 💓

09/21/2026

Blue spaces are bodies of water such as oceans, lakes, rivers, streams and ponds. How do you feel when you’re watching a babbling brook, listening to ocean waves crashing, watching wildlife living in a pond or swimming in a beautiful clear lake? I’m guessing you feel something along time lines of calm, low stress, meditative or grounded?

It makes sense that we feel great in blue spaces. We evolved alongside them and humans have historically sought them out. Urban environments have ever decreasing blue spaces. Also, as with so many root causes of chronic health conditions, socioeconomic, ethnic and radial disparities impact who has safe/easy access to such spaces in both urban and rural environments. To compound the issue, while there isn’t research regarding blue spaces (that I could find), there is research showing that lack of access to green spaces worsens disparities. I would bet that the same will eventually be found to be true of blue spaces.

Earlier this summer, I remember returning to Ohio from Puerto Rico. In PR I spent time by/in the ocean every day and it felt so good - mentally and physically. When I got back to Ohio the powers that be were trying to open our only National Forest to fracking and toxic wastewater was bubbling up from the ground. Our blue spaces and green spaces are being harmed. When will we stop? We are part of the earth and this all not only hurts the non-human world, it hurts us too.

Lately there has been overwhelming amounts of eco-grief for each human to hold. My practice lately has been to visit my local blue space by the river and a nearby wetland as often as possible. It reminds me of how interconnected we are to our blue spaces. My community does not include just humans, it includes the red squirrels, the grandmother cottonwood, ducklings, chickadees, frogs, beavers and other beings I share space with; beings who also flourish when our blue spaces flourish.

This week, perhaps you can go to a local blue space and let the water help hold your worries and griefs for a moment. Maybe you take a moment to let the water wash away that which you no longer wish to hold. Do you have a relationship with a local blue space?

09/01/2026

Last month we harvested the ripe elderberries in our garden and made some delicious elderberry syrup. We have a huge elder in our garden and while the berries may look appetizing, know that you should never eat raw elderberries or make a juice of raw elderberries, as all parts of the fresh plant, except the flowers, are toxic. Once thoroughly cooked, however, the berries are very safe!

Elderberry has a long history of use in colds and there are many double blind randomized controlled trials to back elderberry’s use for influenza. The research shows that it can reduce both severity and duration of influenza. One double blind placebo controlled randomized study (PMID: 15080016) showed that standardized extract reduced duration of flu sxs up to 4 days. A 2019 meta-analysis of randomized controlled clinical trials (PMID: 30670267) showed elderberry to be effective at treating upper respiratory tract symptoms. Elderberry works by increasing cytokine production (messengers of the immune system) and preventing viral entry into cells.

Ideally elderberry should be started at the onset of symptoms. In my household, we take 1 tsp a day through the colder months for prevention. If we feel the onset of upper respiratory symptoms we increase to about 1 tbsp 4-5 times a day for a few days.

We used the recipe from Dr. Tieraona Low Dog/ Mountain Rose Herbs, but used fresh berries instead of dried (to adapt the recipe to fresh berries, use twice the amount of fresh as you would dried). Here’s the link to the Mountain Rose Herbs recipe: https://blog.mountainroseherbs.com/elderberry-syrup-recipe

08/27/2026

The sit spot is a both a place and a practice. It’s a place that you choose to cultivate a relationship with and it is a practice of opening up your senses, cultivating awareness of self and connecting with the world around you.

The practice entails sitting in one spot for 20-45 minutes, most days, in all seasons (be safe, of course!), and just noticing. Nothing to achieve; just an invitation to presence. This is not a formal meditation practice and does not have any structure or expectations, besides committing to at least 20 minutes. If you find your mind wandering as you sit, just invite it back to noticing with all your senses. What does the air smell like today? How does it feel against your skin? Can you hear birds, rustling of leaves, insects, frogs? What can you see: close by and in the distance? Avoid journaling or reading, as this will take your attention away from the world around you, and definitely turn your phone off. As you become more intimate with the space, you are more likely to notice how it changes over time and might even start to befriend plants or animals in the vicinity. You will most likely experience a slow expansion of awareness with each sit, as the world’s details continue to reveal themselves to you, inviting an expanded sense of awe and wonder.

But where to sit? A sit spot does not need to be on a mountainside or deep in the forest. If you live in an urban environment, as most of us do, you don’t need to take a trip to the forest to cultivate a sit spot practice. There is so much nature around us right here in the city. Ideally a sit spot is not more than a few minutes away from where you reside, as that makes it so much more likely that you will actually spend time there on a regular basis. As with most relationships, repeated, intentional time is required to build it. A sit spot can be on a bench in your yard, under a tree in a public park, on a fire escape overlooking a few trees growing in a parking lot, or by a creek near your house. Somewhere where you can sit most days.

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08/20/2026

Bird friendly coffee: good for the Earth, good for you

Not all of us are coffee drinkers, but for those of us who are, opting to purchase bird friendly coffee is a better choice for our health, as well as the health of the Earth. The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center gives this designation of high environmental sustainability standards to coffee that is grown under the canopy of shade trees. This designation also requires that no harmful pesticides are used. Coffee is meant to be shade grown, so the use of pesticides that are often heavily sprayed on coffee that is grown out in the full sun is not needed. Choosing bird friendly coffee not only helps to preserve forest habitats, fight climate change, support biodiversity and protect migratory birds, it also is a better health choice, as it isn’t laden with microbiome and liver damaging pesticides. Win-win. Not surprisingly, choices that protect the health of the earth, help protect our health too, reminding us of our interconnectedness with all life on this planet.

08/18/2026

I recently finished Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv and it was both tragic and wildly inspiring. I couldn’t believe this book was published a year before the first iPhone came out in 2006, since which time our connection to our devices and disconnection from nature has skyrocketed exponentially. Richard Louv discusses the changing relationship between humans and the natural world around us, and how we’ve been distancing and disconnecting from the natural world with each successive generation. There are so many human costs (not to mention a plethora of non-human costs) to this disconnection, including lowered attention, lowered sensory awareness and increasing in mental health conditions and physical illnesses. I highly recommend this book for all humans.

08/14/2026

Surrounded by trees, birdsong and people we love, we got married in the calm between summer thunderstorms.

The weekend was a true community effort and we are so grateful for everyone who helped to make it so magical.

08/03/2026

Take a summer flower essence walk with me in my garden! ☀️🌸🌼

1. Sweet pea - can help us to foster a sense of place, commitment to community and roots on this Earth (this disconnection to place/community can be due to living in areas where we literally are disconnected from each other, the non-human world and the Earth). Fun fact: my cat Shiva’s middle name is Sweet pea. Swipe to the last slide to see him accompanying me on my flower walk.

2. Cosmos - brings coherence and clarity to ideas and speech when we’re overwhelmed, unfocused or overexcited.

3. Calendula - brings more yin to communication. When we are imbalanced in our communication, leaning to much on yang (argumentative, intensity of speach without listening), calendula helps us bring in more receptivity or listening to our communication.

4. Borage - for when we are feeling discouraged or disheartened, borage can bring in light, courage and optimism.

5. Zinnia - helps to connect us with our childlike delight, joy, playfulness and curiosity. Really helpful if we’ve become too serious and overly attached to workaholic tendencies.

07/20/2026

As beings on the living earth, our health is inextricably interconnected with the health of all other life on the planet. Witnessing our earth literally burn as humans take more and more without consideration for the non-human world has brought with it ever mounting levels of eco-grief.

I just returned from 9 full days in nature, in relationship with the non-human world. The humans in our forest community over those 9 days gave me so much hope and were a balm to the grief. Each individual so deeply yearns to find ways to deepen their relationship with the non-human world and/or find ways to open the doors for others to remember their innate connection to the living earth. To remember our interconnectedness with the non-human world is to heal not only our planet but ourselves.

As mindful outdoor guides, I am so excited to see how my colleagues will share what they’ve learned in their corners of the world and I am also so excited to share what I have learned. Stay tuned!

So grateful to our guides and mentors in this journey and Katie Hagel, as well as the mindful outdoor guide volunteers for all the ways in which they assisted and held space for us.

02/13/2026

With each journey around the sun, I find ever increasing solace in nature. I wanted to share a few moments from the past year during which I felt deep presence, belonging, connection and peace.

Over the past few years I have been dreaming up ways in which to directly weave the medicine of time in/connection with nature into my offerings. My clients know that it is often integrated into my recommendations, and my intention in this upcoming year is to create additional offerings in nature, outside of my one on one naturopathic sessions (which will continue to be where I directly share the individualized, whole systems, root-cause medicine that I am so passionate about). These new offerings will weave in the medicine of deepening our connection with nature, rediscovering our natural rhythms and embracing the wisdom and healing that direct relationship with plants can offer. So excited for this upcoming year ✨

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