Monica Iker

Monica (she/her) is a certified Clinical Herbalist providing individualized holistic protocols that address the root cause of illness and health concerns through herbal medicine, nutritional therapeutics, supplements, and lifestyle recommendations. Using a client-empowered and collaborative approach, Monica supports clients in weaving a path towards optimal health and vitality by potentiating the body’s innate healing capacity. Working integratively between traditional and modern scientific understandings of health, Monica blends Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Western Energetics, and Curanderismo with knowledge of pathophysiology to provide support. Care is inclusive, trauma-informed, and supports clients in finding greater harmonic balance within themselves and the world around them.

Who should see Monica?
Areas of Speciality

  • Stress, depression, anxiety

  • Brain fog, cognitive dysfunction, concussion recovery
  • Digestive issues such as IBS, GERD
  • Acute and chronic physical pain including fibromyalgia
  • Fatigue and thyroid concerns
  • Toxic heavy metals, Lyme disease, Epstein Barr Virus, and mold exposure
  • Immune system dysregulation including autoimmunity, MCAS, MCS
  • Chronic illness and other complex conditions including Long-COVID
  • Reproductive concerns
  • Support through grief, loss and other life-changing events
  • Support for marginalized populations: LGBTQIA2S+, BIPOC, immigrant
  • Maintaining mind/body/spirit connection

What to Expect in a Session:

Each session includes a comprehensive intake and assessment with a holistic review of a client’s needs and goals. Assessment includes tongue and pulse diagnosis, the client’s experience of the health concern, and an overview of diet, supplements, life patterns, lab work, and medical history. Monica provides written recommendations within 48 hrs after each session.

Recommendations can look like:

  • Herbal medicine in forms such as teas, tinctures, and powders

  • Nutritional therapy in specific foods and/or meals that support healing
  • Supplements and proper sourcing
  • Lab work requests through a licensed medical provider

Follow-up sessions are highly encouraged 3 weeks after the initial intake. Throughout ongoing care, Monica explores life habits and patterns, offering suggestions on specific techniques, tools, and therapies that can support the healing process. These can look like life and meal planning, meditation, aromatherapy, yoga therapy, sound therapy, and other self-care practices.

More about Monica:

With over 1500 hours of study, Monica completed her clinical training at the ArborVitae School of Traditional Herbalism in New York and advanced clinical training with Ember Peters (HANS), Stascha Stahl, and Vilde Chaya Fenster-Ehrlich. Monica is an Associate Member of the American Herbalists Guild (AHG) and a member of Herbalists Without Borders. She considers herself a forever student and continues to develop her practice to provide greater integrative care for her clients. In addition to her clinical trainings, she is grateful to continue to learn from and apprentice with several traditional healers. She is currently studying her own ancestral connection to Curanderismo (Central American Traditional Medicine) and is completing her 500 hour certification as a Yoga instructor with a specialty in lower body injury and mobility. She has been practicing dreamwork and breathwork for the last 6 years and has been a student of Buddhist psychology and meditation for the last 20.

Outside the clinic, Monica is an interdisciplinary artist with a BFA Magna Cum Laude in Painting and Animation. She has worked in leadership positions within art, education, and justice centered museums, nonprofits, and movements. When she is not supporting clients, she teaches art for mental health and self-empowerment in public schools.

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