Kelsey Barrett is a clinical herbalist on a mission to transform contemporary culture through the power of plants. Her approach is based on cultivating intimacy with self, health and the natural world by way of herbal medicine. Kelsey’s clinical practice focuses on herbal detoxification, high density nutrition, and the psycho-emotional roots of illness. Her therapeutic approach is collaborative and educational, centering client experience to reveal the psycho-emotional roots of disease and integrate lifelong strategies for wellness. Kelsey helps people reclaim their health from the modern world with strategies honed while recovering from her own chronic illness. While working as the Director of Operations of Berkeley Herbal Center, Kelsey also taught Clinical Herbalism and oversaw the community clinic. She is now the Co-Director of Scarlet Sage School of Traditional Healing Arts in San Francisco, cultivating a new variety of Clinical Herbalism through convening diverse practitioners to seed a new generation of modern healers. She has studied Clinical Herbalism at Berkeley Herbal Center, organic gardening at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, and with master herbalists Julia Graves, Matthew Wood and Dr. William Morris. Her herbal and environmental insights have been published in Vogue, Edible East Bay, GOOD Magazine and Gestalten. She is currently based in San Diego, and has a private practice across California, coaching clients in life-changing strategies for long term wellness.

Laura Ash (she/her) is a clinical herbalist, a mother, a teacher, a dancer, a storyteller, and a social entrepreneur. In 2006, Laura graduated from The California School of Herbal Studies in Clinical Herbal Medicine while running a chai tea company, and in 2008, Laura co-founded Avra Organic Spa in San Francisco, founded Herbal Anthropology Project, 501(c)3 in 2011, and in 2015 acquired The Scarlet Sage Herb Co. Laura's current passions are in supporting feminist business principles and encouraging sound financial education for healers. Laura has studied with many teachers; David Hoffmann, Matthew Wood, Dr. Vasant Lad, to name a few. She has also been a guest lecturer teaching Western herbalism at UW Madison. Laura has consulted with wellness start-ups exiting the Oxford School of Business. After living overseas in the UK and East Africa, Laura has felt a sacred obligation to support Indigenous People in their health sovereignty, and in 2011 she started a nonprofit called Herbal Anthropology Project which has protected Traditional Medicine through the framework of the Traditional Knowledge Division of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Laura’s business education includes Goldman Sachs, social impact finance, Indigenous impact investing, and product development in the natural channel. Laura currently lives in San Francisco, California with her two children and her partner.