Mel Kasting

About

Mel is a practicing clinical herbalist, educator, poet, and emergent facilitator. Currently, she holds the positions of Clinical Program Director and Free Clinic Manager at the Eclectic School of Herbal Medicine. In these roles, she helps clients to get the support they need while guiding students through the rigorous process of preparing for and participating in active clinicals.Mel’s passion lies in both serving clients and empowering students to develop the essential relational health and clinical skills required to excel as herbal practitioners. Through her clinic work, art and class facilitation, she explores the intersections of herbalism, botany, society, and somatic experiencing to support plant-centered botanical medicine and celebrate the teeming diversity life has to offer.In her private practice, she blends traditional western herbalism and clinical nutrition with somatic herbal practices. She recognizes the significance of addressing personal and societal traumas as an integral part of the healing journey. This profound understanding shapes her approach, as she guides individuals toward greater well-being and helps them navigate the complexities of their own healing processes.