About
Weaving Vitalist and Wise Woman healing traditions with evidence-based herbal and nutritional science
Welcome, I’m Christine (she/they)
I’m a Certified Clinical Herbalist, Holistic Nutritionist, Fertility Awareness Method Practitioner, Birthworker, Mother, and Partner.
I believe that health and healing are multi-dimensional and that our bodies will innately move towards wholeness and vitality when given the right conditions. I take a whole-systems approach to health, which recognizes that the body is an interconnected ecosystem and that our individual healing also heals the collective.
My practice is rooted in Western Herbalism, East Asian Medicine, traditional ancestral knowledge, the Symptothermal Method of Fertility Awareness, and somatic embodiment practices.
Anchored in the principles of trauma-informed care, my approach is client-centered and affirming; it is never prescriptive. I recognize that you are the expert on your body and your experience and that healing is a dynamic, ever unfolding process.
At the core of my work is herbal medicine and the Fertility Awareness Method (FAM). I believe that using FAM with the support of plant medicine can help us nurture a relationship with our fertility and sexuality, both of which are vital to our health and well-being.
After experiencing a deeply challenging postpartum phase in 2021, I became interested in reproductive and generative health. In my quest to learn more about how I can nourish my womb and reestablish connection to my newly transformed postpartum body, I learned how to use the Fertility Awareness Method through a mentorship with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack. I now use FAM as a diagnostic and educational tool in my practice to help women and cycling folks better understand their menstrual cycles, fertility, and hormones.
I identify as a queer femme Filipinx with roots in East Texas and Southern California. There’s nothing more delightful to me than going to a farmers market, gardening in the mornings and late afternoons, botanizing native plants, and cooking my ancestral foods and sharing it with those I love. I currently call Boulder, Colorado (Ute, Cheyenne and Arapaho Native lands) home where I reside with my partner and daughter.
Certifications
Clinical Herbalism and Holistic Nutrition with The Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism
Fertility Mastery Mentorship Program with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack, FAE, HRHP (in-progress)
Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss with Joanne Zerdy, Ph.D of The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death
Postpartum Care Provider with Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings (in-progress)
Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy with The Embody Lab (in-progress)
Trainings
Fertility & Conception with Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings
Maidens & Menstruation Facilitator with Kris Gonzáles, L.Ac, MSTOM
Naturally Nourishing Fertility with Ayla Barmmer, MS, RD, LDN
Nutritional Approaches to Metabolic and Reproductive Dysfunction in PCOS with Ayla Barmmer, MS, RD, LDN
Hormone Deep Dive with Camille Freeman, RH, (AHG), LDN
Herbs for the Childbearing Years with Camille Freeman, RH, (AHG), LDN
Diabetes: A Client-Centred Approach with Ember Peters, RHP (HANS)
Holistic & Herbal Thyroid Support with Maria Noël Graves, RH, (AHG)
Experience
Christine is a Certified Clinical Herbalist and Holistic Nutritionist through The Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism. She has over 1300+ hours of supervised clinical training in medical herbalism, pathophysiology, advanced herbal formulation, field botany, and integrative nutrition.
She completed her supervised clinical training at the Evergreen Center, a sliding-scale community clinic, under the guidance of medical herbalists, Paul Bergner and Dr. Tania Neubauer and herbal mentors Kat Mackinnon and Lisa Ganora.
As of 2023, Christine is finishing up a Fertility Awareness Method practitioner mentorship with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack to educate clients on how to use their menstrual cycles as their fifth vital sign. She is also in the process of certifying as a somatic trauma therapy practitioner.
Professional Affiliations
American Herbalists Guild, Associate Member
Association of Fertility Awareness Professionals, EDI-RJ Committee
Lineage & Acknowledgement
The knowledge I hold and the cultural traditions that influence my work come from a culmination of different teachers and mentors below who continue to inform and inspire the work that I do.
Herbalists
Lisa Ganora, 7Song, John Slattery, Rebecca Altman, Jim Mcdonald, Susun Weed, Angela Angel, Ember Peters, Kris González, Paul Bergner, Sam Coffman, Maria Noël Graves
Mindfulness & Somatic Teachers
Spring Washam, Jeevan Singh, Steve Armstrong, Mark Coleman, Carol Wilson, Alexis Santos, Tempel Smith
Fertility Awareness Mentors
Lisa Hendrickson-Jack, Nathalie Daudet
Birthwork and Reproductive Justice
I honor the traditional ways of my Filipinx ancestry and the traditions of East Asia and Central America. SisterSong