Erika Galentin MNIMH RH
I am the Clinical Herbalist, Lead Creatrix, Grower, Distiller, Educator, & Clinical and Business Mentor at Sovereignty Herbs. I am also the host of the Herbal Practice Connexion (HPX), a community and gathering ground for herbalists seeking resources and support to build and grow their clinical practice. My home base and medicine gardens are located in the Appalachian region of SE Ohio, but I serve a national and international community with my renowned herbs & wellness coaching, online and in-person classes and workshops, and clinical and business mentorship programs.
I have a degree in Herbal Medicine from the University of Wales, Cardiff, UK and Scottish School of Herbal Medicine, Glasgow, UK. I am a professional member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists (UK) and the American Herbalists Guild (USA) and also a proud member of Pi Alpha Xi National Honor Society in Horticulture (USA).
Over a decade of clinical practice has provided a platform for witnessing the efficacy of medicinal plants and aromatics within a clinical environment. It is through this clinical practice that I seek to encourage positive, learned relationships between plants and people and people and their bodies. I am a firm believer in celebrating the role that emotions and the psyche play in the ecology of our physical terrain. I am also deeply passionate about the history of botanical medicine in the United States as depicted by the American Botanical Movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and have built my clinical philosophy around the principles and practice of Physiomedical and Eclectic traditions.
In addition to clinical practice, I am both a student and teacher of horticulture, native medicinal plant conservation and ecology, and the phenomenological and Goethean study of plants and their medicinal virtues. And with my dedication to medicinal plants native to Ohio and the Greater Appalachian region, I teach, lecture, and write on native medicinal plant conservation and applied ecology, propagation, herbalism, and clinical efficacy. I also participate as a member of the Education Advisory Council of the American Herbalists Guild.
