Katja Swift Clinical Herbalist

Specialties

Katja Swift and her husband Ryn Midura co-​founded the CommonWealth Center for Holistic Herbalism. Together with Gavin McCarthy, a partner in their practice, they run a school as well as provide consultations, teaching people how to take control of their own health.

By teaching people how to eat real food and use plants for health support, Katja, Ryn, and Gavin help people to unwind the root causes of discomfort. Human bodies should be healthy bodies — if they’re not, let’s find out what’s going wrong and fix it from the ground up!

If you’re tired of waiting for someone else to provide you with a solution to your health problems, if you feel that there must be some way to get healthy without chemicals, if you want to be the one in charge of your body — come learn with us!

You can take a class or schedule a private appointment to learn strategies that you can take to change your health and change your life.

If you’re struggling with chronic illness, weight issues, or depression; if you seek alternatives to for attention and behavior disorders; if you have daily pain or discomfort but you have learned to consider it «normal»; if your health isn’t all you want it to be. .. Katja, Ryn, and Gavin are available to help you learn how to change it! Appointment times are flexible to fit into your schedule. Call or email to schedule an appointment today!

History

Established in 2007.

Katja initially built her practice in Vermont. She moved to Boston in 2007 and took a tiny office in Brookline Village to provide herbal consultations. Over the years, the practice has grown to include two other practitioners, Katja’s husband Ryn and their friend Gavin, and in 2010 they founded a school as well! The CommonWealth Center for Holistic Herbalism offers one and three year training programs, as well as weekly Wednesday evening drop in classes open to the public. They also partner with MCPHS and Northeastern University to teach traditional herbalism to 6^th year pharmacy students, as well as with Sustainability Guild International to provide free services to under-​resourced communities.

Katja, Ryn, and Gavin also speak each year at herb conferences across the country.

Meet the Business Owner

Katja S.

Business Owner

Katja began practicing as an herbalist in Vermont in the 1990s, and since 2007, here in Boston.

In addition to seeing clients, she is the director of the CommonWealth School of Holistic Herbalism, and teaches privately and publicly around the city, as well as for the Massachusetts College of Pharmacology and Health Sciences and Northeastern University School of Pharmacy.

Katja likes words like educate and choice, hike and campfire, music and art. She abhors the way in which the phrases «I can’t» and «I have to» are overused in our culture.

Katja chooses to practice in Boston (as opposed to greener, wilder places) because city folks need plants, too. The dandelions come to live in cracks in the sidewalks just to be close to us: teaching in a city means that more people can recognize them in gratitude instead of trying to be rid of the weeds. She homeschools her twelve-​year-​old daughter Amber, who makes a very good pot of tea, loves dogs, and enjoys helping in the school and clinic.

Katja Swift Clinical Herbalist also recommends

Red Fire Farm

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フルーツ&野菜

Katja S. says,

«We get our vegetable CSA from Red Fire Farm, almost year around! It’s wonderful to have local veggies — and they deliver to town!»

Cambridge Naturals

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健康食品

Katja S. says,

«A great place to get herbal and natural products, as well as some great local kombucha!»

Chestnut Farms, CSA Meat

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ファーマーズマーケット

Katja S. says,

«We love Chestnut Farms! They deliver our meat share every month, and we love knowing that we have fresh, pasture-​raised meat.»

CommonWealth Center For Holistic Herbalism

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専門学校

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自然療法/​ホリスティック

Katja S. says,

«This is the Yelp page for our school.»