Colleen Emery, President

RHT

Colleen Emery, Clinical Herbalist and Aromatherapist, Mentor and Medicine Maker, founded Emery Herbals in 2003. Emery Herbals offers open access to consciously sourced botanicals and compounding services, professional wellness care and online and onsite education experiences in the heart of the West Kootenay Mountains, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded təmxʷulaʔxʷ (homeland) of the Sinixt Peoples.

Educated and experienced in both Traditional Eastern as well as Contemporary Clinical Herbal Medicine, Colleen’s practice mandates affordable, reduced barrier care for all

ages. Colleen has a keen interest in clinical practice supporting inclusive generative and reproductive wellness, children’s health and eldercare. In the past 5 years her practice has specifically focused on complex health conditions. Colleen is a active supporter of the herbal community at large and is a co-founder and producer of the Canadian Herb Conference project, bringing forward events of the Kootenay Herb Gathering, the Vancouver Island Herb Gathering and the online Canadian Herb Conference.

Colleen has sat as a board of director with the BCHA since 2019, currently as President. Colleen’s focus with the Board of Directors during her term as President is to ensure  the board is acting in best interest for the membership at large. Colleen, along with fellow board of director Alina Baker are working to introduce a new mentorship program for RHT’s that are new to practice, partnering the new clinician with a long term RHT member for support.

Additionally, Colleen is working to showcase the Herbal Advocate professional membership, acknowledging a larger part of our profession do not work within clinical care and yet hold a dedicated and important role in the profession of herbal medicine. Colleen is passionate about supporting the association by maintaining existing systems while developing new methods that distribute a proportionate work-load for all directors. She is grateful to be doing this work on behalf of the herbal medicine profession.