Sovereignty Herbs

Sovereignty Herbs Herbal Consultations and Wellness Education, Athens, Ohio. But you are not alone...the plants are with you.

Clinical Herbalism Education & Mentorship
Herbs & Wellness Coaching with Erika Galentin MNIMH RH
Host of the Herbal Practice Connexion
At home in Athens, OH but serving and supporting an international community. Wellness is more than the absence of ill-health, it is a personal journey and state-of-mind that must be cultivated from within. We offer herbal consultations, workshops, and other education services to support, guide, and empower you all along the way...

08/20/2025

"From graduates of the 2022 Clinical Foundations Mentorship program:

☀️ ""Really appreciated the opportunity to observe a practicing and experienced clinical herbalist in action. I'm leaving this program with the confidence that I have the basic skills required to start supporting my community. As a recovering perfectionist, this eased my anxiety and prepared me to get started more formally.""

☀️ ""This program has given me the confidence and reassurance of my skills on becoming a clinical herbalist by allowing me to experience the clinical setting from the beginning forms + initial consultation to strategy + planning to dispensing to the follow up appointment with a client, while being observed. Observing Erika in the Ohio Free Clinic has also been such a phenomenal experience on so many levels, which I highly recommend.""

☀️ ""I have learned so much in this wonderful and well thought out course! I gained so much confidence in myself that I now feel able to take on new clients and feel really supported with knowledge and understanding. Sitting in on the Ohio Free Clinic and seeing the way Erika interacts with her clients is life changing and has taught me more than any other clinical course could have. It helped me to develop my interview skills and know how to speak to clients and ask the right questions. I highly recommend working with Erika in any capacity that you are able, she is truly a wonderful mentor with a wealth of knowledge.""

The key phrase that continues to appear is ""confidence."" Confidence is vital in our path, whether it's confidence in our skills, developing our clinical practice, or working with clients. Like a muscle, confidence can be strengthened. Our Clinical Foundations Mentorship program aims to aid in the building of confidence in both individual and group settings!

Applications for Clinical Foundations Mentorship are due by Monday, September 1st, 2025 with the program beginning in October! Check out the link on my bio for more info! 🫶

This month in HPX we are celebrating Wood Betony as our herb of the month paired with self-reflection as a pillar of her...
08/18/2025

This month in HPX we are celebrating Wood Betony as our herb of the month paired with self-reflection as a pillar of herbal practice.

One critical aspect of self-reflection in herbal practice is about learning how to identify our triggers as practitioners and the emotional regulation required to navigate them safety while in consultation. In order to be safe, ethical, and accountable practitioners, we have to be aware of when we are projecting our own healing journey onto our clients.

For me this means embracing myself as a wounded healer - that as a practitioner I must be prepared to take stock of my own healing journey and how it impacts the way I practice and interact with my clients.

Wood Betony is adored as a nervine and cephalic herb with a long tradition of use for supporting cognition while relaxing the nervous system (in addition to being supportive to so many other systems, like digestion, when under the duress of stress. It also has a long tradition of use for helping to clear the psyche when nightmares are disturbing sleep.

With these relaxing, clearing, and thought-provoking actions, Wood Betony makes a perfect pairing for such self-reflective work.

"I want to take all those years of herbal training and actually put it into practice!"I have heard from students that th...
08/15/2025

"I want to take all those years of herbal training and actually put it into practice!"

I have heard from students that they had doubts about their own skills when working with clients. What if they messed up? What if they froze up when seeing a client? What if??? This hesitation put a stop on developing their clinical herbal practice. That’s why we offer our Clinical Foundations Mentorship program! This 6-month intensive includes:

❣️ Live Clinical Observation
(3+) 10-hour days
Observe live cases with real clients during the monthly Ohio Free Herbal Clinic and experience how an established herbal clinic functions. Includes case review prior to each client session.

❣️ Clinical Forms Audit
Clear, concise forms provide the foundation for clinical practice. Review and improve intake forms, consent disclosures, privacy policies and practicing guidelines.

❣️ Live Clinical Supervision & Support
(2) 2-hour supervised consultations.
Mentees conduct online consultations with mentor support and supervision using our online consultation room. Gain confidence in your interpersonal skills and client relationships.

❣️ Protocol and Assessment Evaluation
(2) 60 minute meetings following supervised consultation. As a follow up to your supervised consultations, receive feedback and support on protocols and formulation.

❣️ Free membership to HPX
12 months free access to the Herbal Practice Connexion. Connect with colleagues through live online meetups and community forum and hone your clinical and business skills with resource libraries full of speciality trainings from guest instructors.

Applications for Clinical Foundations Mentorship are due by Monday, September 1st, 2025 with the program beginning in October! I am hosting free meet & greet sessions to all applicants the weeks of September 8th and 15th so that you can get all your questions answered before committing to the program. Once your application has been reviewed, I will reach out to schedule a session with you. Check out the link on my bio for more info! 🫶

08/14/2025

Join us on September 17th at 6 PM EST for the next installment of the Clinical Craft Series: Herbal Fundementals for Fertility Support with Camille Freeman from Bloom & Grow and Monday Mentoring.

In this Clinical Craft Series, we’ll cover the essentials of herbal support for fertility: foundational physiology, common patterns you’re likely to see in practice, key actions and herbs to consider, and guidance on working alongside conventional care. We’ll take a "big tent" approach, recognizing that fertility journeys are diverse and deeply personal. Whether you’re new to this work or looking for a refresher, you’ll leave with practical tools to help your clients feel seen, supported, and empowered when they are trying to conceive.

As with all installments in the Clinical Craft Series, members of Herbal Practice Connexion will have this training included in their membership. Learn more about this class and registration (and HPX!) at the links in my bio. 💗

A gentle reminder that applications for our Clinical Foundations Mentorship are due Monday, September 1!If you have been...
08/13/2025

A gentle reminder that applications for our Clinical Foundations Mentorship are due Monday, September 1!

If you have been looking for a mentorship to help you gain confidence in your skills and help you move forward in your clinical and business career, then this 6-month intensive program may be for you!

The curriculum includes:

❃ Strategy Session, Clinical Forms Audit, and Online Clinical Classes

❃ Two Live Clinical Supervision & Support Sessions
Mentees conduct online consultations with mentor support and supervision. Gain confidence in your interpersonal skills and client relationships.

❃ Three Live Clinical Observation Days
10-hour days observing clients during the monthly Ohio Free Herbal Clinic.

❃ Two Protocol and Assessment Evaluations
Discuss herb-drug interactions, laboratory analysis, relevant research and lifestyle changes while receiving feedback and support on protocols and formulation.

❃ Monthly Buzz Sessions
Review and discuss your clinical cases with Erika and your mentee peers. During these buzz sessions you will build skills to dissect complex cases, formulate herbal rationale, explore scope of practice, and strengthen your understanding of clinical ethics.

We hope you can join us from October 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026! Erika is also hosting free meet & greet sessions to all applicants the weeks of September 8th and 15th so that you can get all your questions answered before committing to the program. Once your application has been reviewed, Erika will reach out to schedule a session with you. Check out the link in our bio for more information on the program! 🫶

Group learning is an essential part of our mentorship program! While the opportunity of one-on-one support from a mentor...
08/11/2025

Group learning is an essential part of our mentorship program! While the opportunity of one-on-one support from a mentor can help build confidence individually, being a part of a peer group can also give students the opportunity to learn from each other. This community can make clinical herbalism feel less isolating when there are others like you.

Our Clinical Foundations Mentorship has two ways to support peer learning:

⁂ Live Clinical Observation of the monthly Ohio Free Herbal Clinic
Students receive the opportunity to observe live cases and experience how an established herbal clinic functions with other mentees.

⁂ Case Study Review and Buzz Sessions�
Review and discuss your clinical cases with Erika and your mentee peers. During these buzz sessions you will build skills to dissect complex cases, formulate herbal rationale, explore scope of practice, and strengthen your understanding of clinical ethics. �

“The online mentorship course is inspiring and brilliantly designed. I love the way that an immediate community can be found in meeting more practicing herbalists like myself getting started in clinical work.” — Clinical Foundations Graduate 2021

⁂ Curious to learn if mentorship is the next step for you? Check out the free training "Making the Move to Clinical Mentorship - A Roadmap for What Lies Ahead" at the link in our bio! More information about the Clinical Foundations Mentorship program can be found there as well! 💕

Applications are due Monday, September 1st, 2025! Erika is also hosting free meet & greet sessions to all applicants the weeks of September 8th and 15th so that you can get all your questions answered before committing to the program. Once your application has been reviewed, Erika will reach out to schedule a session with you. Check out the link on my bio for more info!

The fall schedule for the Clinical Craft Series is now available! Check out what's coming next:🍂 September 17, 2025: Her...
08/07/2025

The fall schedule for the Clinical Craft Series is now available! Check out what's coming next:

🍂 September 17, 2025: Herbal Fundamentals for Fertility Support with Camille Freeman, DCN of Bloom & Grow

🍂 October 14, 2025: Roots that Run Deep: Herbal Support for Pelvic Pain, Dysfunctions & Pleasure with Alex Crofoot of Bloodroot Herb Shop and Community Care Camper

🍂 November 4, 2025: Medical Astrology for the Clinical Herbalist with Sajah Popham of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism

Folks can read more about each class and register at the link in my bio! Installments in the Clinical Craft Series are included in the HPX membership, or you can register with three different 'pay from the heart' options. 💕

This month's theme in the Herbal Practice Connexion is all about reflective practice, or the capacity to observe our tho...
08/06/2025

This month's theme in the Herbal Practice Connexion is all about reflective practice, or the capacity to observe our thoughts, feelings, and actions in our clinical work and our business practices through the lens of non-judgement, vulnerability, and the desire to evolve.

I might say something like, "In order to support our clients in claiming accountability and responsibility for themselves and making needed changes in their lives, as practitioners we also need to do the same."

Reflective practice is also a cultivator of skills surrounding identifying our triggers as practitioners and the emotional regulation required in consultation. A part of this theme of reflective practice also encompasses the concept of the wounded healer - that each of us as practitioners must be prepared to evaluate our own healing journey and how it impacts the way we practice. In order to be safe, ethical, and accountable practitioners, we have to be aware of when we are projecting our own healing journey onto our clients.

I would like to invite you all to explore how self-reflective practices can teach us more about ourselves and in so doing prevent us as practitioners from causing harm to our clients (and our colleagues for that matter). Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!

08/01/2025

Each month in the Herbal Practice Connexion is accompanied by a theme, or what Erika refers to as a ‘Pillar of Clinical Herbal Practice’. These themes, like professionalism, trust, and ethics, provide HPX members an opportunity to explore their identities and their values as clinicians and entrepreneurs. These types of reflections are critical for the health and wellbeing of the practitioner, their practice and business, and the profession at large.

At the beginning of each month, an accountability quest is posted in one of the three main rooms in HPX. These quests are heralded by a question pertaining to the pillar of the month and invite members to share insights and inspiration regarding the very complex journey of being a clinical herbalist. If this kind of community support sounds like it could benefit you and your practice, check out the link in my bio for more about HPX! 💕

07/31/2025

"The fall schedule for the Clinical Craft Series is now available! Check out what's coming next:

🍂 September 17, 2025: Herbal Fundamentals for Fertility Support with Camille Freeman, DCN of Bloom & Grow

🍂 October 14, 2025: Roots that Run Deep: Herbal Support for Pelvic Pain, Dysfunctions & Pleasure with Alex Crofoot of Bloodroot Herb Shop and Community Care Camper

🍂 November 4, 2025: Medical Astrology for the Clinical Herbalist with Sajah Popham of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism

Folks can read more about each class and register at the link in my bio! Installments in the Clinical Craft Series are included in the HPX membership, or you can register with three different 'pay from the heart' options. 💕"

07/30/2025

Group learning is an essential part of our mentorship program. While the opportunity of one-on-one support from a mentor can help build confidence individually, being a part of a peer group can also give students the opportunity to learn from each other. This community can make clinical herbalism feel less isolating when there are others like you.

Our Clinical Foundations Mentorship has two ways to support peer learning:

⁂ Live Clinical Observation of the monthly Ohio Free Herbal Clinic
Students receive the opportunity to observe live cases and experience how an established herbal clinic functions with other mentees.

⁂ Case Study Review and Buzz Sessions�
Review and discuss your clinical cases with Erika and your mentee peers. During these buzz sessions you will build skills to dissect complex cases, formulate herbal rationale, explore scope of practice, and strengthen your understanding of clinical ethics. �

“The online mentorship course is inspiring and brilliantly designed. I love the way that an immediate community can be found in meeting more practicing herbalists like myself getting started in clinical work.” — Clinical Foundations Graduate 2021

⁂ Curious to learn if mentorship is the next step for you? We're offering a free training titled Making the Move to Clinical Mentorship! All links can be found in my bio. 🫶

Do you prefer learning on your own or in groups? Let us know in the comments!

One of the many community benefits of the Herbal Practice Connexion (HPX) includes slow marketing meetups. Content creat...
07/28/2025

One of the many community benefits of the Herbal Practice Connexion (HPX) includes slow marketing meetups. Content creation beyond social media! Let's get together and talk about the mainstay of slow marketing: regular content creation...and all the things we as herbalists can do with our valuable content. General meeting outlines consist of mini presentations on slow marketing topics, check-ins for attendees about goals & ideas, Q & A and peer support.

Check out the HPX link in my bio for so much more about the HPX community and register for 2 weeks free!

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7247 N. Coolville Ridge Road
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