About Mona Safabakhsh
I am a clinical herbalist working in ethical relationship with people and plants.
My path to herbal medicine has never had a single starting point. Plants have been quietly present since childhood, showing up first as small curiosities before I understood their shape. That thread eventually led me to Central America, where I learned alongside Indigenous communities in service of protecting their plant medicine traditions, and later into the Amazonian traditions, where what began as my own healing became an invitation to serve — sitting with elders and their medicine as an apprentice, not just a seeker. In time, I brought that path home, formalizing my training in Western Herbalism at the California School of Herbal Studies and in Ayurveda with Deanna Batdorff at Dhyana Essentials, where the intuitive and the clinical finally met.
My practice carries the imprint of Persian botanical heritage — the gardens, remedies, and rituals passed down through generations before me. Together these threads shape how I work with each person who sits across from me: intuitive, relationship-centered, and grounded in clinical research.
Today, from my studio apothecary in Napa Valley, I help people find their way back to balance: easing stress, supporting hormonal health, restoring sleep, and strengthening the body's natural resilience. Every consultation begins with deep listening, and every remedy — whether a tincture, a tea, or a considered course of treatment — is made by hand, in small batches, grown in my own garden or sourced from growers I trust and traditions I honor.
For me, herbal medicine is not a service. It is a devotion.
This is an expanded approach to care. It asks for time, attention, and ritual — the same qualities plants have always asked of the people who tend them. My work is guided by the rhythms of the seasons, and by a belief that healing happens in relationship: to the plants, to the earth, to the people who came before, and to the ones I have the privilege of caring for now.