Programs & Courses
Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism is here to guide you through your journey to become a certified clinical herbalist, nutritionist and/or flower essence practitioner. Our comprehensive program prepares students for a life-long journey of personal wellbeing, healthfulness, vitality, and service to others. Below is a quick glimpse of how it works. You can complete our entire program in 3 years and be ready to enter a new exciting and growing career field in the science of herbal medicine.
- Holistic nutrition
- Field botany
- Plant identification
- Herbal medicine-making
- Flower essences
- Herbs of commerce
- Formulation
- Physiology & pathology
- Herbal energetics & actions
- Materia Medica
- Vitalism
- Horticulture
- Nutrition in the Vitalist Paradigm
- Toxicity and Detoxification
- Therapeutics for Acute Symptoms
- Roots of Chronic Disease
- Reproduction and Vitalist Therapeutics
- Safety, Side Effects, and Contraindications
- Bach Flower Essence
- Nature Observation and Field Trips
- Professional Practicum
- Materia Medica
- Advanced Herbal Pharmacy
- Interview Skills
- Client Coaching
- Case Review – Roundtables
- Development of Interview & Assessment Procedures
- Case Write-ups, Evaluation & Critiques
- Safety & Referral Screenings
- Scope of Practice Requirements & Limitations
- Create Health & Wellness Educational Materials
- Develop Practical Apothecary & Herbal Pharmacy Skills
- Teaching / Workshop Opportunities
- Constitutional Effects of Food
- Food and Mood
- Nutrition Through the Life Cycle
- Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Disease
- Optimal Weight and Eating Disorders
- Phytochemical and other Specialized Supplements
- Scientific Methodology in the Nutritionist’s Office
- Nutrition Thesis
- Materia Medica Categories of the Flower Essences
- Bach Remedy Differentials
- The Bach Flower Interview
- Flower Essence Intensives
- Case Studies
- Clinical Practice
The Rocky Mountain Field Botany course is designed to provide a thorough introduction to field botany, positive plant identification, wild-crafting ethics, and sustainable harvesting and preservation techniques for the beginning to intermediate student. The main focus is a hands-on experience, along with a variety of lecture formats and labs. Classes meet on Fridays in the late spring and summer, with two weekends (Fri, Sat, Sun) field trips. Classes will be conducted mainly outdoors, on private lands at various altitudes, and in a variety of local ecosystems.
What is your path?
Fundamentals, Advanced and Clinic Programs all provide a Certificate through the Colorado Division of Occupational Schools.
Why choose Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism?
We are approved and regulated by the Colorado Department of Education, Division of Occupational Schools
and a Member School of the American Herbalists Guild.
Grow within a Community of Certified Clinical Herbalists
Our instructors provide immersive and practical lessons that give you the best learning experience in the classroom, in nature and online.
