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Health Consultations
Experience the healing power of plant medicine
Energywork & Bodywork
Find alignment through Reiki and Craniosacral Therapy
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Tarot and Astrology Readings to help you come back home to yourself
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Herbal Health Consultations
2 Ways to Receive Care:
Herbal Health Consultation
For those seeking in-depth, longer term herbal support.
A full herbal consultation offers one-on-one, personalized care with a clinical herbalist. While each herbalist has a different approach, all will provide comprehensive, long-term herbal care and support that will yield lasting benefit.
There are 3 clinical herbalists on staff at The Elderberry, each with their own practice and specialties. To book an herbal health consultation, decide which practitioner you would like to work with by reading their bio, specialties, and booking details in the section below.
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Mini Consult
The Elderberry’s most comprehensive offering for quick, personalized care, a min-consult is a 30-minute herbal session with a clinical herbalist that addresses one specific health concern. Mini Consults take place every other Tuesday in-person at The Elderberry and are facilitated by one of our clinical herbalists.
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Natalie Rader, Clinical Herbalist, Waldorf School Teacher
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I began my journey with plant medicine while seeking solutions to my own chronic health issues and wanting alternatives to the pharmaceutical model while caring for my son.
I completed my 3 year study of clinical herbalism at Sacred Plant Traditions with Kat Maier in 2022 having gained a deep understanding of the clinical and energetic aspects of herbalism through the lens of Western Energetic herbalism as well as with knowledge of the principles and practices of Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese medicine, allowing me to work with clients at a constitutional level.
In addition to working with clients clinically I work at The Elderberry as an apothecary assistant, tend the apothecary of a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner, and assist at harvest time at a local medicinal herb farm. I also work at the Charlottesville Waldorf School with toddler/preschool aged children.
As a clinical herbalist, it is my goal to help people take control of their own health, build resilience, and feel at home in their bodies.
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As a mother, Waldorf school educator, and student of several different herbal philosophies, Natalie’s “specialty” is that she is a great fit for anyone looking for healing via plant medicine.
She enjoys working with children and families.
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Initial Consultation: $165, 60-90 minutes
Follow-Up: $110, 45 minutes
Email to book
Meg Madden, Clinical Herbalist, Tarot Reader, Ceremonialist
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There can be a profound dissonance between desire to be well and daily practice of tending an ecology in which wellness can germinate and flourish. Reconciliation of this dissonance is some of the hardest, most human work we can do in this life, and we cannot do it alone.
Healing, like germination, occurs within an ecology as an elegant collaboration between specific, unique, and harmonized conditions. Not within a vacuum. Not within sterility. Not with force or coercion.
Allow yourself to commit to learning your own ecology and be tended by a customized, finely-tuned program that pairs nurturance and healing from the network of resources surrounding you with the deep wellspring of life inside you.
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Tarot
Ceremony
Home Visits
Bone Broth CSA
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Includes:
One weekly hour of herbal consultation, mentoring, and touching base. Tarot included, if desired.
One weekly hour of meal prep and food guidance.
Herbs, sourced from The Elderberry.
Broth of choice, handmade with local ingredients.
Supplemental local, organic medicinal food.
Custom health diary and meditation prompts.
Custom ceremony and ritual design.
Custom array of resources, accrued over the duration of commitment.
One Month: $1,300
Three Months: $3,510
Six Months: $6,630
One Year: $12,480
Email to book
Tarot:
Single reading: $125
Four readings: $400
Email to book
Sydney Batson, Clinical Herbalist, Craniosacral Therapist
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A future without debilitating symptoms is yours to claim.
It can feel intimidating, sure.
Dedicating enough time or attention to your health on top of work, family, and everything else that needs doing is a daunting task—which is why most people never do it.
There’s so much to know (let’s face it, the human body is COMPLEX), and making life-style changes by yourself can feel alienating and downright hard.
If you just wish there was a way to commit to your healing without feeling so overwhelmed and alone in it—there is.
And it’s exactly how I’m here to help.
I offer bespoke 2-3 month healing containers that combine energetic herbalism, craniosacral therapy, and coaching.
I meet you where you are: If you need more support on the physical level, I can help you with diet, movement, and herbs to support your physiology. If you’re ready to explore the psycho-spiritual contributors to your chronic symptoms, I offer craniosacral therapy and coaching alongside energetic herbalism to integrate your whole being.
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Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Identifying the psychospiritual root causes of chronic illness
Digestive Issues, Insulin Resistance, Female Reproductive System, Depression, Anxiety
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Health Consultation Package
Combines herbalism, craniosacral therapy, and coaching; price includes herbal formulas
In-Person at The Elderberry, Virtual via Zoom, or at your home if you live in Charlottesville
2-Month Package - $1,500
3-Month Intensive - $5,500
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Single sessions: sliding scale $80 - $130
In-Person at The Elderberry or at your home if you live in Charlottesville (travel fee applies)
Energy Work + Body Work
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST)
Anxiety, depression, pain, insomnia…bring anything to this session and watch it unwind as your nervous system relaxes and allows your body’s inherent healing ability to unfold.
Craniosacral therapy is a gentle form of body work that allows your nervous system to deeply relax so that your body’s built-in healing process can emerge.
Your Practitioner: Sydney Batson
Reiki
Welcome softness and ground deeply within the vibrations of love, health, and longevity with our Reiki.
Reiki can help with pain management, stress, anxiety, depression, fatigue, trauma healing, bone and tissue recovery from surgery, and increase vital energy in the body.
Your Practitioner: Mochani Devi
Tarot + Astrology
Tarot
You already know the answers to all of your burning questions - the cards simply reflect them back to you. Book in for a 90-minute Tarot reading either in-person or virtually.
Your Practitioner: Meg Madden
Astrology
Whether you need some clarity and consulting in your personal life or you’d like to consult the starts before a move or business decision, we’ve got you covered.
Your Astrologer: Cameron Steele, PhD
Community Offerings
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