Meet our Practitioners

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Kathy has been an acupuncturist for over 20 years.  She is a long-time practitioner of T’ai Chi and student of Classical Chinese Medicine.  She is also trained as a Classical Homeopath. 

This is how Kathy describes acupuncture:  “When the energetic rivers of our body flow freely, when the soil is rich and fertile and stable, when the cycles of rest and activity, the cycles of night and day are balanced, then we feel in tune, we are in health, we are nurtured in our lives.  Acupuncture can help us guide us toward this state of well-being.”  

Here’s how Kathy describes homeopathy:  “The path of Homeopathy is a process of unfolding that asks only a desire and a willingness to grow.  It is not magical thinking, but a proven method of helping the body to heal itself, honoring our own inner wisdom and the innate capacity to heal ourselves.”

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Danielle provides therapeutic bodywork and wellness support.  This is how Danielle describes her work. “In an hourly session, together we will assess your needs and priorities for feeling well and supported in your body/mind. We may then choose to work with various hands on modalities (Acupressure, Cranio Sacral therapy, lymphatic drainage, myofascial therapy, etc) while you lie fully clothed on a massage table and/or discuss other means to facilitate a well body/mind. Discussion might include: stretching/strengthening practices, working with the breath, lifestyle choices (self care, routine, diet) and how/why to engage those choices. My intention is to support others in living a more ease-full life with greater clarity in expressing who/what we are. Whether rehabilitating an injury, working with chronic pain management or simply learning to “go with the flow of life’s river,” together we can create a more conscious health-full expression of being.”

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Deliah Rosel brings a unique combination of skills and over thirty years’ experience in the healing arts. Na is a nationally certified Licensed Massage Therapist, certified in Integrative Acupressure with Sam, Ana and Gwen McClellan and  Energy Medicine with Rev. Rosalyn Bruyere. Na has a Doctorate in Ministry in Jewish Spiritual Direction. A certified Chi-Lel Qigong™ instructor, Deliah has created L’Chaim Qigong™- A Jewish Approach to Qigong Healing. Nan master’s thesis in medical mycology explored the anti-fungal properties of garlic, propelling nan out of the clutches of the medical/industrial complex and into a life-long garden of healing.    

Each session weaves therapeutic and medical massage, energy balancing, integrative acupressure, structural realignment, and foot reflexology to optimize your ability to access the healing energies surrounding us all. , Deliah partners with you to facilitate healing and recovery from acute or chronic physical injuries and ailments, emotional trauma, anxiety and life’s stresses. Together we create a spaciousness for releasing physical, emotional and energetic restrictions – allowing a deeper level of well-being and ease in everyday living to emerge. Not unlike a gardener who prepares the soil so that the magic of growth and healing is encouraged. 

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I’m a trained herbalist and functional, integrative nutritionist, with a background in culinary arts. I love working with individuals seeking relief from sugar/carb cravings, mood swings, and digestive struggles.  If you are in recovery, have depression, anxiety, IBS, candida, dysbiosis, intestinal permeability, or SIBO, I can help you find your way back to health. I support individuals through comprehensive lab result analysis, a nutritionally focused physical exam, a complete intake/health history, and ongoing health coaching support to help you move towards your health goals.  Healing is a process; you can expect to meet for at least three sessions for minor health issues, and six or more sessions for chronic health concerns. 

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Ced is a queer non-binary herbalist, farmer, astrology enthusiast and budding massage therapist. Ced came to study plants through finding autonomy and answers with their own chronic health issues. With an animist perspective of the world, they believe that feeling well does not happen in isolation and that relationships with people, plants and our beyond human kin is key to our vitality. Accessibility is another foundation of their practice. They always strive to make treatment plans that are gradual, doable, and don’t require a lot of extra expense.

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Ann MD CCH has been practicing medicine for over 40 years. After many years of hospital based work, Ann immersed herself in the study of massage, yoga, and homeopathy, in order to offer holistic approaches to healing that would strengthen her patients’ vitality specifically and directly.

Currently, Ann’s practice focuses on homeopathy, a system originating in Germany 200 years ago, which uses infinitesimal amounts of carefully studied substances to stimulate self healing. She has been practicing homeopathy in Western Massachusetts for 20 years. Ann has a special interest in practicing as a member of a healing team. She has observed, over and over again, that timely, judicious, and respectful balancing of conventional and complementary approaches can optimally support a person’s unique healing journey. Ann considers it a special privilege to work together with other volunteers and staff at the Peoples Medicine Project in serving our patients and clients.

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Jovan Sage is a heart-centered healing practitioner and facilitator who guides people back to themselves. Sage supports people in tending to their seeds of pleasure, healing, and resiliency by nourishing their connection to the earth. Sage connects people to the plants and practices key to their transformation and healing.  

Their collaborative sessions are grounded in their reiki lineage, intuitive insight, meditative and energetic healing practices. They often pair sessions with pendulum, sound, and breath.  

These sessions can help ease tension, stress and can help support the body to facilitate an environment for healing on all levels.  

Their reiki practice is built on foundational Reiki Usui Shiki Ryoho First and Second Degree training with Reiki Master Drea Aguilar. Their energetic healing practice has been further expanded by an Etheric Gardening Apprenticeship with Maryam Hasnaa; Etheric Healing and Clear Perception Intensives with Kenneth Jover, Transformative Energy Work; Tantric Meditation Teacher Training with Tracee Stanley; and Flow Breathwork with Shanila Sattar.  

Sage’s practice encompasses fertility, sex, death, and the magick of transformation(s). Their practice is trauma-informed, anti-racist, queer and trans-affirming. 

Website: sagecircle.com

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Laura Torraco is a clinical herbalist, ecologist and owner of Sage Green Botanicals apothecary in Great Falls, Ma. They have been in clinical practice since 2018, and continue to be a facilitator and educator of herbalism, botany, and human and plant connection. Laura loves to learn about the natural world, and has committed their path to being a forever student. In 2022 they participated in a climate change research project that collected data to show the effects of climate change on Alpine Plants, and this awoke in them a deeper exploration in using research to explore plant based wisdom, trauma awareness, and finding creative solutions to educating people about the natural world; which is not just around them, but apart of them. They weave together practices of traditional herbalism, mental-emotional wellbeing, TCM,and have a biological and sociological ecology perspective to their work and the world around them.  Laura’s happy place is in connecting with their community, in the garden, looking at the small worlds of plant cells on her microscope, dancing, and in being in learning environments. 

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Alanna Birch is a holistic health practitioner and eco chaplain based in Western Massachusetts. She works at the intersection of clinical herbal medicine, education, spiritual care and deep nature connection.

Alanna works with clients 1:1 to support optimal vitality though herbs, nutrition, mindfulness practice and other complimentary modalities custom tailored to each person’s unique circumstances. In addition to her clinical work, Alanna facilitates workshops on plant based medicine and deep earth connection.

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Rebeca is a queer woman of African-American, Cape Verdean and Spanish ancestry and has been a licensed massage therapist (LMT) since 2019. She has a compassionate approach to bodywork and strives to create a safe, inclusive environment that facilitates healing by helping clients relax and tune into their bodies. As a former farmworker, she is excited to join the on-farm clinics where she will be offering chair massage and Spanish language support.

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Shaina Cantino blends several manual therapy modalities to best meet each client where they are. She relates to bodywork as facilitating each body’s inherent intelligence—towards regulation, comfort, and ease. This means that her work moves from a place of listening and intuitive touch first. In this process, she may integrate craniosacral therapy, visceral and neuromeningeal manipulation, myofascial release, and soothing massage. She has trained through the barral institute as well as graduated from Kate Klemer’s Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Training (2018) and the Massage Therapy School in Easthampton (2015). She has her MFA in dance and integrates her knowledge as a somatic practitioner and dancer into her sessions as well. Shaina is honored to be working with The People’s Medicine Project.

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Vilde Chaya is a cheerleader for plants, the unquenchable beauty of nature, and our capacity to feel somewhat better when we’re well-supported and have a little room to breathe. She is an herbalist trained in the “Western Clinical” tradition, offering herbal care and plant connections to her community as accessibly as possible for more than 15 years. She is a lover of free clinics and queerfolk and rivers and seashores, and a hater of the ingrained cruelty of our society. Vilde will listen to what you’ve been going through, collaborate to divine root causes, and connect you with plant medicines to help alleviate symptoms and support your goals and dreams. 

Deb Tyler -Lic. AC, Dip. LAC, NCCAOM Certified.  

Licensed and Nationally Board Certified Five Element Style Acupuncturist 

Deb also offers hands on energy work and Acutonics (vibrational healing using tuning forks)  

Deb has had a lifelong passion for the resilience and beauty of the natural world and the fundamental ways that it informs and constitutes health in the human body and experience of life.   

She specialize in supporting vibrant health and wellness, and the treatment of auto-immune diseases, trauma, PTSD and chronic illness and treatment of dogs and the occasional horses or cat.  

 She practices in Greenfield and Wendell and can make house calls.  

She can be reached by email at: circlemedicine@gmail.com 

or by cell phone at 802 377 0825.

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Dianne Clouet is a clinical herbalist in her practice, Feather and Bone Herbals, where she maintains a dual focus supporting caregivers and people with substance use disorders. Dianne has studied the intersection of plants and people with many excellent herbalists, including the faculty at Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, from which she  graduated in June 2023. Dianne is also a school librarian at two small elementary schools in rural Vermont. Plants and books. 
Such a lovely combo.  

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Joshua has been in practice since 2017. His education focused on the Classical roots of Chinese Medicine which challenged him to develop a practice that investigates the deeper aspects of disease and one that embodies compassionate healing presence. He uses these perspectives in developing adaptable treatment strategies to meet old diseases with new names.
Joshua moved to Washington DC in December 2017 to practice in both private and community settings, and served a diverse population within the DMV metropolitan area. In DC he provided acupuncture through Bread For the City, a non-profit that provides free medical services to its most vulnerable population. His clinical experience led him to treating a wide-range of disorders, and to working with a broad demographic of people.
He describes his practice of acupuncture as facilitating “the harmony of the interior body with the external world and the natural procession of the seasons. When this harmony is interrupted through pain, stress, and involuntary dislocation, we fall out of harmony with the world aroundmus, the world can feel like a threat, and our bodies become vulnerable. Acupuncture functions inmreestablishing the interdependent exchange between one’s own and experience with the world,min such a way that we develop more trust in it, in our lives, and who we are.”

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Martha (they/she) is a LMT, menstrual cycle educator, and doula. They believe that the client knows their own body best, and that the practitioner can facilitate deeper body literacy for the client. They aim to co-create sessions filled with ease and trust. In massage sessions, they offer modalities including Swedish massage, abdominal massage, myofascial release, sports massage, craniosacral therapy, and manual lymphatic drainage. 

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Mary Kate first became a Nationally Certified (NCTMB) & licensed Massage Therapist in 2006, as well as a Reiki Master Teacher and Kripalu-trained Yoga Instructor, while living in and around her hometown of Philadelphia, PA. Since then, MK has been blessed with many mentors and masters in the worlds of Peer Support, Harm Reduction, and Complementary Medicine of all kinds. She continues a life-long love affair with learning, especially about the profound benefits of modalities like massage, yoga, nervous-system regulation, and energy work for removing barriers and facilitating ease and joy-filled living!

As a Massage Therapist, Mary Kate consciously nurtures a trauma-informed, gender-affirming, compassionate container so people can feel safe to experience whatever might bubble up for them. Her intuitive approach follows the principle of “meeting people where they’re at” and she sees her role (all while providing a relaxing rub down!) as being an “empathetic other,”a consistent presence as Dr. Peter Levine teaches, to support her clients’ finding pathways of freedom from suffering.

MK continually deepens her personal practice by integrating a variety of tools such as meditation, breathing, sound healing, and Dharma to name a few. She’s deeply inspired by the transformative work of Pleasure Activist and Creator adrienne maree brown, renowned author and addiction Doctor Gabor Mate, as well as “Somatic Abolitionist” Resmaa Menakem, She’s also pursued continuing education with Bessel Van Der Kolk, Anodea Judith and other experts in trauma- informed yoga and somatic healing, as well as training in Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction.

In her free time Mary Kate is a proud Mama to several Beloved Beans (of the human, cat, and dog variety) and is also a singer, musician, performer, and writer currently composing a musical for Broadway! She earned a History degree with honors from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where, she says, some of her most profound learning came from being a member of the world-renowned Minuteman Marching Band.

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Derek offers reiki sessions combining the clearing, rejuvenating and reconnecting modalities of pendulum, sound, and energy healing. Each unobtrusive hands-on session is guided by the client’s specific energetic needs and/or prior requests. Derek’s one-hour sessions aim to cleanse and clear unhelpful energy and instill deep restoration along with overall mind and body health.   

Derek was certified as a Holy Fire Reiki Master in 2015. He has studied Energy healing techniques since 2008 and has incorporated them into his sessions along with pendulum work and, more recently, a variety of sound healing practices. Derek has been volunteering his services for 8 years at various organizations such as Hospice, Cancer Connection and local CSAs as well as to local community members. 

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Kristen Graser is a midwife, mother, and educator. She has been attending births for nearly 20 years and each day she continues to find inspiration, joy, and insight in her work. Kristen worked  as a Community Health Educator at La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland, CA prior to moving to Western Massachusetts. She has also worked domestically and internationally on issues of health and social justice. Kristen has studied herbalism and plant medicine for the past 20 years with both traditional healers and western herbalists. Kristen believes all birthing people and their families should have access to quality, safe, midwifery and reproductive healthcare and feels a strong commitment to making that happen.

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Ale was born in Argentina, and recently moved to the area.  She has studied multiple healing modalities including massage therapy, zero balancing, and internal family systems therapy.  At our on-farm-clinics, Ale offers Zero Balancing, described below.   

Developed by Fritz Smith, MD in the early 1970s, Zero Balancing is a powerful body-mind therapy that teaches skilled touch to bring balance to body structure and energy. A session typically lasts 30 to 45 minutes and is offered through clothing. The practitioner uses finger pressure and gentle traction on areas of tension in the bones, joints and soft tissue to create fulcrums, or points of balance, around which the body can relax and reorganize. 

By addressing the deepest and densest tissues of the body along with soft tissue and energy fields, Zero Balancing helps to clear chronic tension and blocks in the body’s energy flow. ZB has been shown to reduce stress, amplify vitality and promote better postural alignment. 

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Lynn is a community herbalist, artist, gardener, and birth doula-in-training. She is of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. Lynn has been with People’s Medicine Project since 2019 and currently serves as the Apothecary Coordinator. Lynn practices herbalism through the lens of bioregionalism, mutual aid, body autonomy, & deep love of the Earth.  Lynn believes in the regenerative and connective healing that comes from being with the land and communing with the plants – feet on the earth, sun on her skin, lungs full of air, hearing the birds and bees buzzing.  

When not in the apothecary, you can find Lynn barefoot in the garden, hanging at the local swimming hole, making a salad, learning, dancing, and laughing with friends. Some of Lynn’s closest plant allies are Nettle, Rosemary, St John’s Wort, Lemon Balm, and Rose.  

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My path toward the Healing Arts began with a call from the plants. It formally took place at The California School of Herbal Studies in Forestville, California in 1995. In 1996, I lived and worked at The Heartwood Institute In Humboldt County, California for one year where I began my study of massage and bodywork. From there I studied for two years both with Herbalist Karen Sanders, as well as Curandera and Ethnobotantist, Camila Martinez through Kalpulli Tonantzin.  

As this unfolded, I heard my call to Midwifery. I completed a Doula certification at  The Santa Rosa Birth Center in 2000 and began attending births. At the same time I became certified as a massage therapist at Alive and Well Institute of Conscious Bodywork. I became a Certified Professional Midwife through NARM in 2006 by apprenticing with Cindy Lara Haag and at The Northern New Mexico Birth Center founded by Elizabeth Gilmore in 1978.

I practiced in Boston and the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts as a primary homebirth Midwife from 2006-2015, as well as serving as Vice President and President of the Massachusetts Midwives Alliance. I continue to offer my midwifery skills as a midwife-assistant and as a birth and postpartum doula. I most recently completed training at Turtle Back Craniosacral Education with Margery Chessare to become certified as a Biodynamic Craniosacral Practitioner. Through my practice, Tender Courage Birth and Wellness, I offer birth and postpartum doula care, craniosacral therapy for newborns, children and adults, and herbal consultation. 

I am inspired by the way our body, mind and spirit respond to and repair from the challenges that call us forth in life. I believe that repair is always an accessible option, that it is both a choice and a process. It is through the act of growth and repair that we maintain connection with our most whole selves and with the world.

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Hello, I’m Ivy.  I’ve been a massage therapist for over 3 years and have worked in the mental health field for 9 years.  I believe in the importance of physical, mental, and spiritual health, and know from experience and research that massage can promote healing in all three areas.  I offer a variety of techniques and hold several certifications, including Swedish massage, Deep tissue, Trigger-point therapy, Hot stone/ Salt stone, Reiki, CBD wrap, Myofascial release, and Craniosacral.  Because everyone’s bodies and preferences are unique, I never give the same massage twice and will customize it to the client.  My massages range from physically therapeutic (where my pressure is firm and I work out tight muscle tissue and “knots”) to relaxing (where my pressure is less firm and the goal is to feel pampered and soothed). 

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Janet Masucci has had a private practice in Hypnotherapy since 1980. She added Integrative Acupressure to her practice in 1991, receiving her Professional Certification  from the New England Institute of Integrative Acupressure. She also has a BA in Art Education and brings a diverse collection of skills and experiences to her work. Her varied interests include producing various programs on health, wellness, and sustainability on local radio and community TV.  
Janet works from the premise that all things are part of a greater whole and in all the work she does, the emphasis is on cooperation and teamwork. 

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LB is a migratory pollinator, land-based ritualist, and trauma steward. In their relationship with PMP and beyond, they weave somatic exploration, relational plant medicine, and bodyful movement to support healing for and between bodies and land. LB roots in counter-oppressive ancestral practices, integrating wisdom from Ashkenazi and Irish blood lineages, disability justice brilliance, and queer&trans transformative magic in service of toppling white supremacy and other systems that seek to harm us all.   

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Hannah Jacobson-Hardy is a holistic health coach and community herbalist devoted to providing western Massachusetts with high-quality plant-based medicines that are locally grown and sustainably wild-crafted.

Hannah approaches her work at PMP with compassion and an open heart as she serves a wide range of clients. She also offers herbal medicine products and workshops throughout Massachusetts.

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Devon has trained in many different bodywork modalities and will tailor your session based on your needs and her experience in Swedish massage, Shiatsu, sports massage, deep tissue massage.  Devon uses her own infused herbal oils for her massage practice.

Devon believes that massage therapy is a flowing conversation between the client/client’s body and the practitioner. Through slow and present work it is her goal to listen to all the ways each person communicates their needs (both verbally and nonverbally) and to respond with compassion.  Each person’s healing process is unique and Devon feels honored to be a witness to that process through her work.