ABOUT ME
In my early 20’s I was seriously sick.
Anxiety, chronic abdominal pain, obsessive thoughts, paranoia, severe suicidal depression, panic attacks, fatigue and acne ruled my life for a number of years. I followed the usual route of putting my trust in doctors, hospitals and consultants yet nothing offered any help. Rounds of different pharmaceuticals didn’t offer any positive response and often made me feel worse.
I lost my job, my relationship at the time, my friends, my home and my sanity. This culminated in me having to move into a makeshift bedroom in my mother’s dining room as there was nowhere else to go. Government benefits and family support became my only lifeline for survival.
After years of getting nowhere with doctors and the UK’s national healthcare provider I began to search in different places for the medicine I needed.
My journey back to better health and wellness started with seeing a nutritionist, changing my diet, taking supplements. My doctor warned me that I was wasting my time and money. Within a week of acting on what the nutritionist suggested I could feel a positive difference in how I was experiencing reality.
This change led me to explore acupuncture, psychotherapy, fasting, meditation, yoga, qigong and a whole list of other healing practises. All of which worked in subtle or powerful ways to bring me back to better health.
As the months and years passed I began to notice how much better I was feeling about myself, my body, my mind and my purpose. Meeting a herbalist was by far the most profound healing experience of it all and it is no surprise to me now that it was this meeting that helped give me the energy and focus to go back to University and complete a degree in herbal medicine.
I graduated from the University of Lincoln in 2017 with a first class honours degree in herbal medicine.
My life is now healthier, happier, more fulfilling and balanced than at any time in the past. I bring all of my life experiences and plant knowledge into how I work with my patients.
For it is in facilitating the healing power of transformation that I continue to give thanks for all the people who helped me. I am simply passing on the knowledge bestowed upon me.
PHONE: +44(0) 7525827558
EMAIL: jonnyapothecary@gmail.com
QUALIFICATIONS AND CREDENTIALS
Member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH) (Since 2017)
Level 1 Bach Flower Remedies certificate, Mount Vernon, Oxfordshire, UK (October, 2017)
Level 3 Certificate in First Response Emergency Care - FREC3 (August, 2017 - August, 2020)
First Class Bsc (Hons) Herbal Medicine - University of Lincoln 2017 (October, 2017)
Level 1 Yoga Intensive - Agama Yoga, Kho Panghan, Thailand (September, 2016)
Student of the year award - University of Lincoln 2014/2015 presented at the National Institute of Medical Herbalist conference, Warrington, UK
Junior Olympic athlete - Team GB 2000 - 2006
ATTENDED CONFERENCES, FESTIVALS, TRAINING AND RETREATS
2021, “Waking the Wild Masculine” with Jonathan Wilkinson of Primal Happiness, Online.
2020, National Institute of Medical Herbalist's Conference - “Facing the Future”, Online.
2020, Lincoln College Guest Lecture - “First Year of Business”, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England/UK
2019 Glastonbury Festival, Working in the ‘Healing Fields’ as a medical herbalist, Somerset, England/UK
2019 Founder and facilitator of the “Sheffield Men’s Group” - Leading a local men’s group using the masculine archetypes and shadow work as a method of self-development and personal growth for men, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England/UK
2019 Lincoln College Guest Lecture - “First Year of Business”, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England/UK
2018 Mankind Project - Primary Integration Training Weekend, Frome, Somerset, England/UK
2018 National Institute of Medical Herbalist's Conference - "The Diverse Scope of Herbal Practice”, Chester, England/UK
2018 BOOM Festival, Working in the 'Being Fields' offering herbal medicine consultations, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
2018 Mankind Project -Warrior Initiation Weekend, Townley Hall, Droghada, Ireland
2018 Smallworld Spring Festival - Working as a First Aid Responder at the Herbal First Aid Clinic, Kent, England/UK
2017 10 Day Vipassana Silent Meditation Retreat - As taught by S.N. Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin, Castle Head Field Centre, Cumbria, England/UK
2017 National Institute of Medical Herbalist's Conference - "Evidence based medicine: Ancient Herbs - Learning from experience", Stratford-Upon-Avon, England/UK
2017 Smallworld Summer Festival - Working as a First Aid Responder at the Herbal First Aid Clinic, Kent, England/UK
2017 Radical Herbalism Gathering, Shropshire, England/UK
2016 Radical Herbalism Gathering, Shropshire, England/UK
2016 Smallworld Spring Festival - Working as a student at the Herbal First Aid Clinic, Kent, England/UK
2015 National Institute of Medical Herbalist's Conference - "Herbal Medicine, Health and an Ageing Population", Warrington, England/UK
2015 Radical Herbalism Gathering, Shropshire, England/UK
