Focus Session: How to Write Better Newsletters with Camille Freeman
2026-01-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online Event
❤ Pay from the heart pricing available; See below event description.

$17 – Choose this option if you need to.
$37 – Choose this option if you can.
$57 – Pay it forward if you are able.

📆 Thursday, January 15, 2026
⏱️ 7:00pm – 8:30pm ET / 4:00pm – 5:30pm PT
Join live or watch the recordings.
How to Write Better Newsletters with Camille Freeman
Newsletters can help build your herbal business or clinical practice, as long as you understand where they fit in your marketing plan and how to write one that provides value to your potential clients. In this class, you’ll learn how to write a newsletter that reflects your personality and your work, fits sustainably into your busy schedule, and welcomes “right fit” clients into your practice. You’ll leave with a clear plan for your newsletter as well as tips for how to write newsletters that feel good to send and to receive.

Teacher Name: Camille Freeman

Teacher Bio: Camille Freeman, DCN, RH, has been in practice as an herbalist and nutritionist since 2003, with a focus on fertility, pregnancy, and menstrual health. She runs Monday Mentoring, a community of practice for herbalists and nutritionists, and offers continuing education programs as well. Camille has a podcast, In the Clinic with Camille (intheclinic.com), and is the author of the book Write Better Newsletters: Grow your 1:1 Practice with Emails People Actually Want to Read. She holds a doctorate in clinical nutrition from MUIH (now part of Notre Dame of Maryland), as well as masters degrees in both herbal medicine (from MUIH) and physiology (from Georgetown University). You can learn more about Camille on her website: camillefreeman.com

Herbal Supplements: Regulatory Overview and Current Trends with Rend Al-Mondhiry
2026-02-23 18:00 - 19:30
🌿 February’s Focus Session is FREE to the public as a thank you from the AHG to all of our members and supporters.

Herbal Supplements: Regulatory Overview and Current Trends with Rend Al-Mondhiry
📆 Monday, February 23, 2026
⏱️ 6:00pm – 7:30pm ET / 3:00pm – 4:30pm PT
About this Class
Today, amid political uncertainty and evolving regulatory priorities for nutritional and herbal supplements, understanding your role in navigating the complex regulatory compliance landscape for herbal supplements—knowing where things stand and what to expect in the year ahead—has never been more critical. Are you prepared?
Gain the practical tools you need to strengthen your understanding of current herbal supplement regulatory trends and minimize risk. Join us for our upcoming webinar, Herbal Supplements: Regulatory Overview and Current Trends, where Rend Al-Mondhiry, Co-chair of Amin Wasserman Gurnani’s Regulatory Practice, will walk you through how herbal supplements are regulated, including labeling, ingredient safety, and marketing compliance, unpack the unique considerations and potential challenges our industry faces, bring you up-to-speed on federal and state policy and enforcement priorities, and highlight key risks to flag now.
Teacher Name: Rend Al-Mondhiry
Teacher Bio: About Rend Al-Mondhiry
Rend Al-Mondhiry is Co-Chair of the firm’s Regulatory Practice Group and advises the dietary supplement, food, cosmetic, and over-the-counter medicine industries on a broad range of regulatory and compliance matters. Rend is committed to helping companies responsibly develop and market products, drawing on her years of experience advising the nation’s leading dietary supplement and food companies on complex ingredient and labeling issues. She is also a frequent speaker and author on emerging legal and regulatory issues in the industry and is regularly quoted in the trade press.
Rend’s practice focuses on reviewing product labeling, ingredients, and advertising to determine compliance with federal and state regulations, and assisting companies in matters before the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and National Advertising Division (NAD). She also advises clients on compliance with California’s Proposition 65, U.S. Customs issues, class action defense strategies, and FDA matters, including Warning Letters, recalls, detentions, seizures, and import alerts.

Webinar Intensive Series: How to Find More Clients with Camille Freeman
2026-03-18 18:00 - 20:00
📆 Wednesdays, March 18, 25, April 1, 8

⏱️ 6:00pm – 8:00pm ET / 3:00pm – 5:00pm PT

🎁 AHG Members receive $50 toward any webinar intensive! Use the coupon code found in the member discounts space when checking out for this and other intensives.

Join live or watch the recordings.

About This Course

Struggling to find enough clients to sustain your practice without feeling salesy or in over your head? Many herbalists rely on word-of-mouth, tinker with social media, or sign up for expensive online courses without any discernible results. It’s no wonder, since most of us are trained in herbalism, not in marketing.
Promoting your practice doesn’t have to be a guessing game.
In this intensive, you’ll create a simple marketing plan based on foundational business principles. We’ll clarify who you help and how to describe your work in language that’s accurate and easy for clients to understand. You’ll leave with a personalized plan for how to meet new people, how to stay in touch with interested folks, and how to invite them to work with you in ways that feel ethical and and aligned with your values and voice.
This framework works for many types of clinicians, including introverts, those with very limited time to devote to marketing, low‑tech practitioners, and those who avoid social media, because your plan is customized for your voice, your capacity, and the ways you prefer to show up in community.
Because you can’t know what will work until you try it, you’ll also set up a lightweight system to track results, run small experiments, and adapt your plan so it’s both feasible and effective for your practice.
With a solid plan in place, you can stop wasting time on haphazard tactics (or feeling guilty for doing no marketing at all). You’ll know what to do each week to promote your practice and have simple data to guide your next steps. Over four weeks we’ll build a plan that’s true to your values, time‑efficient, and tailored to your capacity and community.

Teacher Name: Camille Freeman

Teacher Bio: Camille Freemaan, DCN, RH, has been in practice as an herbalist and nutritionist since 2003, with a focus on fertility, pregnancy, and menstrual health. She runs Monday Mentoring, a community of practice for herbalists and nutritionists, and offers continuing education programs as well. Camille has a podcast, In the Clinic with Camille (intheclinic.com), and is the author of the book Write Better Newsletters: Grow your 1:1 Practice with Emails People Actually Want to Read. She holds a doctorate in clinical nutrition from MUIH (now part of Notre Dame of Maryland), as well as masters degrees in both herbal medicine (from MUIH) and physiology (from Georgetown University). You can learn more about Camille on her website: camillefreeman.com.

From Student to Practitioner: Building a Thriving Clinical Practice with Caty Crabb
2026-03-23 18:00 - 19:30
❤ Pay from the heart pricing available; See below event description.

$17 – Choose this option if you need to.
$37 – Choose this option if you can.
$57 – Pay it forward if you are able.

From Student to Practitioner: Building a Thriving Clinical Practice with Caty Crabb
📆 Monday, March 23, 2026
⏱️ 6:00pm – 7:30pm ET / 3:00pm – 4:30pm PT
About this Class
How do you make the transition from herb student to successful clinical herbalist? The gap between studying herbs and running a thriving practice can feel vast, but it doesn’t have to be. To make this leap realistic, we need more than just plant knowledge and business how-to—it requires professional, ethical, and practical skills.
Join Caty Crabb, a clinical herbalist with over two decades of experience running a full-time practice, for a workshop designed to make that transition achievable and successful. With experience working with hundreds of clients and managing a high-volume apothecary, Caty brings deep, practical wisdom to this session.
In this class, you will:

Bridge the gap: Learn how to acquire the skills, confidence, and experience necessary to be a well-rounded practitioner.
Avoid common pitfalls: Discover when you are truly ready to practice and how to avoid mistakes that new practitioners make.
Build with ethics: Navigate the ethical considerations and intricacies facing new practitioners.
Get practical advice: Gain actionable strategies on client intake, working with family and friends, and running your apothecary.
Address your doubts, establish your boundaries, and start practicing! Register today to build the confidence you need to take the next step
Ideal for herb program graduates, self-taught herbalists looking to go professional, or students looking to gain insights and confidence.

Teacher Name: Caty Crabb
Teacher Bio: About Caty Crabb
Caty Crabb has spent the past twenty years as a full-time practicing clinical herbalist, consulting with clients, making medicine, and growing herbs primarily in southeast Ohio. Her ethics of practice are grounded in accessibility, with a client-centered and harm-reduction approach to healthcare.

Before starting her own practice, Caty studied with Michael Moore of the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine and Adam Seller of the Pacific School of Herbal Medicine. Through these teachers, she developed a philosophy of herbalism rooted in a deep understanding of physiology, ecology, and cultural awareness. She is inspired by the grassroots, locally centered nature of herbal medicine and by being part of a growing, decentralized network of herb growers, practitioners, and medicine makers dedicated to community health. Now living in Vermont, Caty is focused on teaching through her own school, the Aralia School of Herbal Medicine.

❤ Pay from the heart pricing available; See below event description.

$17 – Choose this option if you need to.
$37 – Choose this option if you can.
$57 – Pay it forward if you are able.

Herbalists as Health Advocates with Benjamin Zappin, LAc and Ingrid Bauer, MD
2026-04-22 18:00 - 19:30
❤ Pay from the heart pricing available; See below event description.

$17 – Choose this option if you need to.
$37 – Choose this option if you can.
$57 – Pay it forward if you are able.

Herbalists as Health Advocates with Benjamin Zappin, LAc and Ingrid Bauer, MD
📆 Wednesday, April 22, 2026
⏱️ 6:00pm – 7:30pm ET / 3:00pm – 4:30pm PT
In this focus session with Five Flavors Herbs founders Benjamin Zappin, LAc and Ingrid Bauer, MD, we will discuss the important role of herbalists as health advocates. In addition to the many natural tools we can offer family, friends and clients with herbs, diet & supplements, herbalists can play an important role in integrative healthcare teams. In addition to minimizing the need for some medications and ameliorating side-effects from necessary drugs, herbalists can help individuals navigate their healthcare experience. This requires developing a broad knowledge base about health and illness, recognizing red flags that require referral to a higher level of care, careful charting (in clinical practice), and practicing interprofessional communication. We will share examples and invite dialogue about how to navigate between alternative and conventional healthcare approaches.
Teacher Bios:
Dr Ingrid Bauer MD, MS has been studying, teaching, and practicing medicine and nutrition for nearly 20 years. She completed her MS and MD through the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program, and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. She currently works as a hospitalist in a rural community hospital. She is also co-founder of Five Flavors Herbs in Nevada County, CA. Dr Bauer is also an avid cook, yoga practitioner, gardener, and Spanish language enthusiast.
Benjamin Zappin, LAc co-founded Five Flavors Herbs to provide his community with exceptional herbal formulas supported by his years of clinical experience. Along with his unwavering dedication to crafting high-quality herbal extracts, Benjamin is acclaimed for his work as an herbalist, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner, and licensed acupuncturist. Benjamin offers integrative herbal consultations through Paeonia Integrative Medicine. In his free time, you’ll find Benjamin mountain biking or skiing, cooking, and studying music.
❤ Pay from the heart pricing available; See below event description.

$17 – Choose this option if you need to.
$37 – Choose this option if you can.
$57 – Pay it forward if you are able.

Herb-Drug Interactions: An Integrative Approach with Benjamin Zappin, LAc and Ingrid Bauer, MD
2026-09-14 18:00 - 20:00
Herb-Drug Interactions: An Integrative Approach with Benjamin Zappin, LAc and Ingrid Bauer, MD

📆 Monday, September 14, 21, 28, & October 5
⏱️ 6:00pm – 8:00pm ET / 3:00pm – 5:00pm PT

About this Series
A Four-Part Series (4 x 2 hour classes, 90 min plus 30 q&a each class)
In this series, Ben & Ingrid will share from their years of experience in clinical practice navigating the intersection between herbs and pharmaceuticals, and their years of teaching about this topic. Rather than trying to cover every possible topic, after the first week of laying a solid foundation, they will delve into their three favorite areas of health expertise: cardiovascular health, pain & inflammation, and mental health.

This series will be geared toward advanced students and practicing herbalists and will primarily review Western herbs, but will also include some information about TCM. We will ground our teaching in cases and offer suggested treatment protocols while promoting “flexible” herbalism. We will take a “both/and” rather than an “either/or” approach to integrative medicine, and will highlight “red flags” that merit referral to a higher level of care.

Part 1: Introduction to Pharmacology & Herb-Drug interactions

Foundations of pharmacology including pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
How to read scholarly articles and interpret information about herb-drug interactions
Potentially beneficial and/or harmful herb-drug interactions
Interprofessional communication about herbs & drugs

Part 2: Cardiovascular Health

Blood pressure
Lipids
Cardiac conditions: CHF and arrhythmias

Part 3: Pain and Inflammation

Musculoskeletal conditions
Inflammatory conditions
Smooth muscle and visceral pain

Part 4: Mental Health

Depression & Anxiety
Extreme states of consciousness
