It Began with a Love of Plants.
I’ve been slowly and sustainably building my practice and offerings since I first dove back into a deeper study with herbs in 2013. I'm a small-batch maker of elixirs, tinctures, oxymels, teas, balms + skincare, smoke blends, and more. In addition to the remedy line, I offer sliding-scale consultations for when you want to do some deeper work.
I bring my background in community organizing, desire for social justice and liberation, harm reduction, and survivor advocacy to this work to offer a trauma-experienced, liberatory, politicized, and person-centered experience.
Providing trauma informed care means that our trauma(s) don’t just get a seat at the table; they are the table. Centering trauma in this way allows us to interrogate what our trauma is made of, how it shaped our experiences and how we are still, often, responding from the wounded places. Trauma informed care honors these wounded places, sees them as our greatest teachers and creates room to bloom as it seeks to support and stabilize traumatic response.
Working with plants can be a liberatory practice. I always say when it’s hard to trust humans, we can always trust plants. Plants as caretakers, as friends, as wise healers.
I see herbs as powerful tools in supporting as as we work to shift and heal within ourselves and also in our communities. I am deeply invested in community healing and draw from my years of experience in trauma and anti-sexual violence work, queer & trans organizing, advocacy and activism.
What’s an herbal consultation?
This isn’t just about working with herbs. It’s about healing that honors your whole self, listens to and hears the story of our bodies.
In a world that often asks us to numb, simplify, override, or shrink ourselves, herbal medicine invites us to remember our innate, embodied wisdom. Symptoms are powerful communication from our bodies. I believe that healing isn’t a linear process; it’s a layered, relational unfolding.
Our herbal consultations are a place to slow down, listen in, and see what needs and wants some care. Together, we co-create a space where your story, your body, and your needs are centered without judgement or urgency.
I love being a connector between people desiring care and the plants that can offer that care. There’s more about my background and study here.
I offer sliding-scale herbal consultations— you can learn more here. If you’re a first-timer with herbs and want some support, or if you just want some focused and intentional care, or if you’re navigating a particular, complex situation, a consultation can be a really lovely way for us to collaborate.
I’ve worked with folks who want support around trauma, mental health, digestive health, long/ chronic illness, chronic pain, surgery support including gender affirming surgeries, sleep, and so much more.
Herb consultations are $90-180 depending on where you fall on the sliding scale taking into consideration your access to finances through income, family money, and additional support. The rate you choose includes the remedies, shipping and my consultation time.
I recommend monthly or bi-monthly follow-up sessions for the first few months as it can take some time, sometimes, to really benefit from working with herbs. Committing to 3-5 sessions for more complex health situations is ideal and will allow us to dial in the formulation.
Those with ample resources or access to resources are invited to pay at the higher end of the range to help support and sustain financially accessible work. I honor, respect and appreciate whatever level you pay at.
A consultation is a collaboration between you and I to find you some powerful plant support in a 75 minute virtual session over Zoom. In this session we will talk about your experience being in your body and what kind of support you are looking for. From there I will put together two custom remedies and will ship them directly to you.
Why book an herbal consultation?
You’re moving through emotional heaviness, fatigue, chronic pain, hormonal shifts, digestive imbalances, and more— and you want to approach it holistically
You’re tired of being dismissed or pathologized by conventional care and want to be in a space with someone who wants every last detail
You want to work with plant medicine in a way that is intuitive, embodied, and non-extractive
You’re seeking care that affirms your identity, your autonomy, and your lived experience
You’re ready for a healing relationship that honors both science and spirit
Shipping + Store Policies
Shipping + Store Policies
As I am just one person and because this work is slow medicine, it can take upwards of 2 weeks for me to get your order out.
I ship 1-2x per week through USPS.
Please contact me with questions or before placing any urgent orders.
I am currently only shipping within the United States but if you are outside the United States and are willing to cover additional shipping costs, please email me.
All sales are final but if for some reason your item is delivered damaged, please do get in touch and we will work it out!
GROWING + SOURCING values
I grow many of the herbs in gardens on land I am tending for a few years in so-called northern New Mexico, some are gifted from grower friends, and over the years I’ve sourced from small and medium size organic farms like Steadfast Herbs, Foxtrot Herb Farm, Foster Farm Botanicals, Sawmill Herb Farm, Feral Gardens, Annie’s Herbs, Cutting Root, Meetinghouse Herbs, Reverie Farm, Wild Few Farm, Lancaster Farmacy, Pacific Botanicals, and more. Knowing how the plants are grown and how the people harvesting are treated is essential to the ethics of my work.
The history of herbalism in the United States (and beyond) has often been extractive with theft and erasure of the wisdom indigenous folks and Black folks hold, who have developed complex systems for working with plants and people, whose traditions and land have been stolen and misused. As a white person, as a settler, as someone who lives in land with rich indigenous history and current practices, I’m deeply committed to tending to the land and the plants in an intentional, respectful way. I’m committed to land tax, to supporting BIPOC- led projects, to 5-10% of my sales being redistributed, and to mutual aid work.
I also source local, raw honey and beeswax from High Desert Honey Co. and Taos Honey— both based in so-called northern New Mexico. All oils are cold pressed and organic. All plant matter is always organic. Alcohol is organic as much as possible.
For shipping materials, I use EcoEnclose, an eco conscious shipping supply company, for as many supplies as I can.
Many years ago I joined the call to boycott some big name herb companies in solidarity with the BDS Movement (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) in solidarity with Palestine. More recently, I have reaffirmed my commitment to the BDS Movement. While some big name herb companies have finally responded and dropped their Israel-sourced products, I will continue to source from small, organic farms more in alignment with my politics and values instead.
I do my best to work from my ethics, values, and politics and will continue to grow and change as needed.
The Long Road of Ongoing study
The land is my first love and first teacher; additionally my path of study has been winding and continuous.
I grew up spending time with plants and planting my own gardens with my grandmother and mother. At one point, my mother had an herb garden with over 50 herbs!
When I first began looking for teachers in 2011-ish, coming from a community organizing background, I was most interested in finding a teacher who taught from a social justice lens and who linked personal and collective healing. While there were a couple that I felt aligned with, there weren’t too many and much of the available programs and tuition were far outside what I could afford or meant that I would have to leave NYC which I was not ready, or financially able, to do. I began my more formal study with a program from Candis Cantin but decided I needed a slightly different direction. I then began studying with Sean Donahue, which I found nourishing for some time, but unfortunately had to end my study with him after some time because of a lack of consistency and disappearance from programs after receiving payment, among other issues. A few years after I moved on, accusations of harm and abuse were shared by people who had studied with him. I stand in solidarity with the people who have come forward.
I then began and completed a Master’s Degree program at Goddard College, taking out loans, which allowed me to dive deeply into my own self-directed study while also partaking in outside workshops and herbal conferences. I believe firmly in the plants as teachers and I think that a wealth of knowledge comes from rooting our study with them directly. I both value studying with teachers I feel in alignment with and reject the gate-keeping and hierarchical nature of folk medicine study. There are many herbalists I’ve learned from over time. I’m sharing all of this because I believe it’s important to speak about the complexities of finding a teacher in late-stage capitalism and the rise of the healing industrial complex. It is not always easy to both find a teacher with whom we share a similar lens of viewing the world while also being able to afford the school and their very valuable time and expertise. I rarely teach about herbalism because I believe that our elders, or people with decades of experience, are the ones we need to be looking to for that. I also believe that sometimes our elders or teachers are harmful and speaking up about that is important. There are so many ways to be in relationship and deep study with plants. I’ve found my way and continue to study in a multitude of ways.
In 2021 I returned to a 8 month long herbal program with the amazing herbalists at Terra Sylva where my knowledge expanded 10 fold.
In 2023 I took a 4 part Long Covid herbalism program and 2025 I returned to deeper study in Thomas Easley’s 6 month “Understanding and Managing Long COVID patterns: a holistic approach” program where I furthered my knowledge and experience for working with folks navigating Long Covid which is also something I experience personally. I am thrilled to be able to better support my clients.
As a queer person who is dedicated to working with queer & trans people, my practice does not engage in the biological essentialism often found in other healing modalities and therapeutic spaces and works to offer support that is accessible on a number of levels.
I also honor where people are at with their own experiences and work through a lens of harm reduction so if you are struggling with substance misuse and are looking for support, I would love to help. I am committed to doing this work with a commitment to healing justice meaning that I believe we all deserve access to affordable, dynamic and high quality care.
I invite you to create new rituals for your body; ones that boost immunity, nourish the nervous system and ease grief & the impact of trauma. Ones that allow you to stabilize energy or allow you to rest. I offer herbs for the everyday; herbs that inspire, focus on healing the body after and through trauma and help cultivate healing in what I believe is a lifelong process. I believe that herbs are our allies. I believe that herbal remedies can aid us, sharpen our senses and return us feeling alive. I believe that herbs can help us re-imagine ourselves and our world at large. I believe that health and wellness should be available to all who seek them. I believe in accessibility, in transformation. I believe in self-care and compassion.
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intense autobiography. mutual aid., light touch. land-escape / soundscape. a charged space. building the dream house that is the body, where we live. self-organization as a devotional act. poetry as radical organizing. What forms do we create in crisis, from crisis? What forms nourish us, heal us, free us to live?
Eleni Stecopoulos