Meet our Practitioners

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Kathy has been an acupuncturist for over 20 years.  She is a long-time practitioner of T’ai Chi and student of Classical Chinese Medicine.  She is also trained as a Classical Homeopath. 

This is how Kathy describes acupuncture:  “When the energetic rivers of our body flow freely, when the soil is rich and fertile and stable, when the cycles of rest and activity, the cycles of night and day are balanced, then we feel in tune, we are in health, we are nurtured in our lives.  Acupuncture can help us guide us toward this state of well-being.”  

Here’s how Kathy describes homeopathy:  “The path of Homeopathy is a process of unfolding that asks only a desire and a willingness to grow.  It is not magical thinking, but a proven method of helping the body to heal itself, honoring our own inner wisdom and the innate capacity to heal ourselves.”

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I was trained to be a primary care provider and received a Masters of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Academy of Chinese Cultural and Health Studies in California. While there, I interned at a bustling acupuncture clinic in downtown Oakland, where I worked with patients from all walks of life. I also wrote a research paper about the effects of acupuncture on depression. Previously, I received my Bachelor’s from Hampshire College in history and education, and later studied western herbalism for two years at the California School of Herbalism and Ancestral Apothecary’s Cecemanna program. I worked as a volunteer health educator at the SAGE project in San Francisco, where I provided resources and held small-group sessions with at-risk women to address health needs including issues of substance addiction, relationship health, and post-incarceration and sex worker health. I am a nationally board-certified acupuncturist.

As a queer, nonbinary, mixed-race person, I welcome people from all backgrounds to experience a trauma-informed space of non-judgement and understanding, where we can work together to encourage your system to experience more attunement and ease. I have a particular affinity and interest in pain management, mental/emotional/spiritual disorders (including anxiety, depression, and attachment issues), sleep disorders, respiratory health, digestive issues, and facial rejuvenation. I love working with highly sensitive people and incorporating coaching on energetic sovereignty.

I live in Amherst and can be found spending time in nature, nerding out with a book, making playlists, dancing, cooking Iranian and Italian food, and working in community for collective liberation.

Deb Tyler -Lic. AC, Dip. LAC, NCCAOM Certified.  

Licensed and Nationally Board Certified Five Element Style Acupuncturist 

Deb also offers hands on energy work and Acutonics (vibrational healing using tuning forks)  

Deb has had a lifelong passion for the resilience and beauty of the natural world and the fundamental ways that it informs and constitutes health in the human body and experience of life.   

She specialize in supporting vibrant health and wellness, and the treatment of auto-immune diseases, trauma, PTSD and chronic illness and treatment of dogs and the occasional horses or cat.  

 She practices in Greenfield and Wendell and can make house calls.  

She can be reached by email at: circlemedicine@gmail.com 

or by cell phone at 802 377 0825.

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Danielle provides therapeutic bodywork and wellness support.  This is how Danielle describes her work. “In an hourly session, together we will assess your needs and priorities for feeling well and supported in your body/mind. We may then choose to work with various hands on modalities (Acupressure, Cranio Sacral therapy, lymphatic drainage, myofascial therapy, etc) while you lie fully clothed on a massage table and/or discuss other means to facilitate a well body/mind. Discussion might include: stretching/strengthening practices, working with the breath, lifestyle choices (self care, routine, diet) and how/why to engage those choices. My intention is to support others in living a more ease-full life with greater clarity in expressing who/what we are. Whether rehabilitating an injury, working with chronic pain management or simply learning to “go with the flow of life’s river,” together we can create a more conscious health-full expression of being.”

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Deliah Rosel brings a unique combination of skills and over thirty years’ experience in the healing arts. Na is a nationally certified Licensed Massage Therapist, certified in Integrative Acupressure with Sam, Ana and Gwen McClellan and  Energy Medicine with Rev. Rosalyn Bruyere. Na has a Doctorate in Ministry in Jewish Spiritual Direction. A certified Chi-Lel Qigong™ instructor, Deliah has created L’Chaim Qigong™- A Jewish Approach to Qigong Healing. Nan master’s thesis in medical mycology explored the anti-fungal properties of garlic, propelling nan out of the clutches of the medical/industrial complex and into a life-long garden of healing.    

Each session weaves therapeutic and medical massage, energy balancing, integrative acupressure, structural realignment, and foot reflexology to optimize your ability to access the healing energies surrounding us all. , Deliah partners with you to facilitate healing and recovery from acute or chronic physical injuries and ailments, emotional trauma, anxiety and life’s stresses. Together we create a spaciousness for releasing physical, emotional and energetic restrictions – allowing a deeper level of well-being and ease in everyday living to emerge. Not unlike a gardener who prepares the soil so that the magic of growth and healing is encouraged. 

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Rebeca is a queer woman of African-American, Cape Verdean and Spanish ancestry and has been a licensed massage therapist (LMT) since 2019. She has a compassionate approach to bodywork and strives to create a safe, inclusive environment that facilitates healing by helping clients relax and tune into their bodies. As a former farmworker, she is excited to join the on-farm clinics where she will be offering chair massage and Spanish language support.

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Shaina Cantino blends several manual therapy modalities to best meet each client where they are. She relates to bodywork as facilitating each body’s inherent intelligence—towards regulation, comfort, and ease. This means that her work moves from a place of listening and intuitive touch first. In this process, she may integrate craniosacral therapy, visceral and neuromeningeal manipulation, myofascial release, and soothing massage. She has trained through the barral institute as well as graduated from Kate Klemer’s Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Training (2018) and the Massage Therapy School in Easthampton (2015). She has her MFA in dance and integrates her knowledge as a somatic practitioner and dancer into her sessions as well. Shaina is honored to be working with The People’s Medicine Project.

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Despite centuries of bodywork tradition and modern cutting-edge science, and there is still so much we do not understand about human bodies. Rather than filling in the unknown with my personal answer to life, the universe, and everything, I want to learn about what’s holding you back. I don’t have all the answers, but I do have a keen ability to listen deeply to your experience & needs. While my practice is probably closest to deep tissue massage, I don’t believe effective massage needs to be intense or painful.

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Martha (they/she) is a LMT, menstrual cycle educator, and doula. They believe that the client knows their own body best, and that the practitioner can facilitate deeper body literacy for the client. They aim to co-create sessions filled with ease and trust. In massage sessions, they offer modalities including Swedish massage, abdominal massage, myofascial release, sports massage, craniosacral therapy, and manual lymphatic drainage. 

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Janet Masucci has had a private practice in Hypnotherapy since 1980. She added Integrative Acupressure to her practice in 1991, receiving her Professional Certification  from the New England Institute of Integrative Acupressure. She also has a BA in Art Education and brings a diverse collection of skills and experiences to her work. Her varied interests include producing various programs on health, wellness, and sustainability on local radio and community TV.  
Janet works from the premise that all things are part of a greater whole and in all the work she does, the emphasis is on cooperation and teamwork. 

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Laura Torraco is a clinical herbalist, ecologist and owner of Sage Green Botanicals apothecary in Great Falls, Ma. They have been in clinical practice since 2018, and continue to be a facilitator and educator of herbalism, botany, and human and plant connection. Laura loves to learn about the natural world, and has committed their path to being a forever student. In 2022 they participated in a climate change research project that collected data to show the effects of climate change on Alpine Plants, and this awoke in them a deeper exploration in using research to explore plant based wisdom, trauma awareness, and finding creative solutions to educating people about the natural world; which is not just around them, but apart of them. They weave together practices of traditional herbalism, mental-emotional wellbeing, TCM,and have a biological and sociological ecology perspective to their work and the world around them.  Laura’s happy place is in connecting with their community, in the garden, looking at the small worlds of plant cells on her microscope, dancing, and in being in learning environments. 

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Vilde Chaya is a cheerleader for plants, the unquenchable beauty of nature, and our capacity to feel somewhat better when we’re well-supported and have a little room to breathe. She is an herbalist trained in the “Western Clinical” tradition, offering herbal care and plant connections to her community as accessibly as possible for more than 15 years. She is a lover of free clinics and queerfolk and rivers and seashores, and a hater of the ingrained cruelty of our society. Vilde will listen to what you’ve been going through, collaborate to divine root causes, and connect you with plant medicines to help alleviate symptoms and support your goals and dreams. 

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Dianne Clouet is a clinical herbalist in her practice, Feather and Bone Herbals, where she maintains a dual focus supporting caregivers and people with substance use disorders. Dianne has studied the intersection of plants and people with many excellent herbalists, including the faculty at Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, from which she  graduated in June 2023. Dianne is also a school librarian at two small elementary schools in rural Vermont. Plants and books. 
Such a lovely combo.  

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Alanna Birch is a holistic health practitioner and eco chaplain based in Western Massachusetts. She works at the intersection of clinical herbal medicine, education, spiritual care and deep nature connection.

Alanna works with clients 1:1 to support optimal vitality though herbs, nutrition, mindfulness practice and other complimentary modalities custom tailored to each person’s unique circumstances. In addition to her clinical work, Alanna facilitates workshops on plant based medicine and deep earth connection.

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Lauren is a board-certified family nurse practitioner and classical homeopath, living in Western Massachusetts. Her main passions are healthcare equity for all, which includes access, and mentoring.  

She has three decades of experience doing primary care using Homeopathy 100%, along with supporting families on Cape Cod and the Islands with having their babies at home.  

Lauren served for 13 years as the lead educator and clinical director for Homeopaths Without Borders of North America and developed two curricula for teaching the fundamentals of Homeopathy for common ailments and those of the childbearing year.  She has practiced extensively in Haiti and Tanzania.

Lauren is very committed to seeing Homeopathy thrive in this country and serves as a trustee board member for the American Institute of Homeopathy and the Homeopathic Nurses Association, along with being a member of Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States. 

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Joshua has been in practice since 2017. His education focused on the Classical roots of Chinese Medicine which challenged him to develop a practice that investigates the deeper aspects of disease and one that embodies compassionate healing presence. He uses these perspectives in developing adaptable treatment strategies to meet old diseases with new names.
Joshua moved to Washington DC in December 2017 to practice in both private and community settings, and served a diverse population within the DMV metropolitan area. In DC he provided acupuncture through Bread For the City, a non-profit that provides free medical services to its most vulnerable population. His clinical experience led him to treating a wide-range of disorders, and to working with a broad demographic of people.
He describes his practice of acupuncture as facilitating “the harmony of the interior body with the external world and the natural procession of the seasons. When this harmony is interrupted through pain, stress, and involuntary dislocation, we fall out of harmony with the world aroundmus, the world can feel like a threat, and our bodies become vulnerable. Acupuncture functions inmreestablishing the interdependent exchange between one’s own and experience with the world,min such a way that we develop more trust in it, in our lives, and who we are.”

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Jovan Sage is a heart-centered healing practitioner and facilitator who guides people back to themselves. Sage supports people in tending to their seeds of pleasure, healing, and resiliency by nourishing their connection to the earth. Sage connects people to the plants and practices key to their transformation and healing.  

Their collaborative sessions are grounded in their reiki lineage, intuitive insight, meditative and energetic healing practices. They often pair sessions with pendulum, sound, and breath.  

These sessions can help ease tension, stress and can help support the body to facilitate an environment for healing on all levels.  

Their reiki practice is built on foundational Reiki Usui Shiki Ryoho First and Second Degree training with Reiki Master Drea Aguilar. Their energetic healing practice has been further expanded by an Etheric Gardening Apprenticeship with Maryam Hasnaa; Etheric Healing and Clear Perception Intensives with Kenneth Jover, Transformative Energy Work; Tantric Meditation Teacher Training with Tracee Stanley; and Flow Breathwork with Shanila Sattar.  

Sage’s practice encompasses fertility, sex, death, and the magick of transformation(s). Their practice is trauma-informed, anti-racist, queer and trans-affirming. 

Website: sagecircle.com

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I’m a trained herbalist and functional, integrative nutritionist, with a background in culinary arts. I love working with individuals seeking relief from sugar/carb cravings, mood swings, and digestive struggles.  If you are in recovery, have depression, anxiety, IBS, candida, dysbiosis, intestinal permeability, or SIBO, I can help you find your way back to health. I support individuals through comprehensive lab result analysis, a nutritionally focused physical exam, a complete intake/health history, and ongoing health coaching support to help you move towards your health goals.  Healing is a process; you can expect to meet for at least three sessions for minor health issues, and six or more sessions for chronic health concerns. 

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Hannah Jacobson-Hardy is a holistic health coach and community herbalist devoted to providing western Massachusetts with high-quality plant-based medicines that are locally grown and sustainably wild-crafted.

Hannah approaches her work at PMP with compassion and an open heart as she serves a wide range of clients. She also offers herbal medicine products and workshops throughout Massachusetts.

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Devon has trained in many different bodywork modalities and will tailor your session based on your needs and her experience in Swedish massage, Shiatsu, sports massage, deep tissue massage.  Devon uses her own infused herbal oils for her massage practice.

Devon believes that massage therapy is a flowing conversation between the client/client’s body and the practitioner. Through slow and present work it is her goal to listen to all the ways each person communicates their needs (both verbally and nonverbally) and to respond with compassion.  Each person’s healing process is unique and Devon feels honored to be a witness to that process through her work.