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About

CLINICAL HERBALIST

Fieke Mestdagh

Fieke is a Belgian Clinical Herbalist living at the foot of the Jeseníky mountains in northern Czechia.

As a passionate healthcare practitioner, she is dedicated to continuously evolving and supporting her clients through an individualised holistic approach. When she is not consulting in her clinic, you’ll find her making plant medicines, exploring local forests, foraging medicinal plants or crafting gut-loving ferments

Driven by her true nomadic spirit, Fieke has explored fascinating places across the globe. During her time in the Swiss Alps, she hosted weekly medicinal plant walks and holistic health workshops under the name Out in the Forest.

Love brought Fieke to the Czech Republic, where she feels honoured and grateful to be a practicing herbalist in a region rich with a deep-rooted tradition of plant medicine.

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An Energetic
Healthcare Approach

Fieke’s herbal practice merges Holistic Herbal Medicine with nuanced diagnostic tools originating from Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic medicine.

Rather than simply matching herbs to symptoms, she applies an energetic framework to assess the body’s underlying imbalance, allowing for herbal remedies custom formulated to her clients.

Her approach treats the person as a whole, assessing physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, while incorporating dietary recommendations, lifestyle adjustments, herbal medicine, and custom mineral rebalancing protocols to support both acute and chronic health conditions.

Through a functional medicine lens and an approach backed up by clinical & scientific research, Fieke empowers clients with the knowledge and tools to take charge of their own well-being, enhancing long-lasting benefits.

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EXPERIENCE

Fieke’s expertise is built on formal herbal medicine education from various institutes and teaching centers, combined with extensive clinical training. She is a registered practitioner with the Czech Naturopathic Society and the Flemish Herbalist Association. Much of her education has been under teachers outside of Europe, as Clinical Herbalism is still developing within European culture.

She continues her clinical apprenticeship and mentorship under experienced herbalists, including Poppy Burr, BSc MCPP (The Hormone Herbalist), and Colleen Emery, Cl.H (RHT) (Emery Herbals).

Fieke offers in-person and online consultations at Root Cause Herbals and is also part of Poppy’s team at The Hormone Herbalist.

A passionate language learner, Fieke primarily conducts consultations in English, but Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and Portuguese can be integrated as needed.

EDUCATION

  • 2021-2023: Wild Rose College of Herbal Medicine: Practical Herbalist Diploma

    2022-2023: Emery Herbals Teaching Centre
    Holistic Herbalism Advanced Clinical Program
    Medicine Making Program

    2023-2024: Emery Herbals Teaching Centre
    Clinical Observation Program
    Student Clinic

    2023-2024: The Hormone Herbalist
    Clinical Apprenticeship Poppy Burr BSc MCPP, HTMA-P

  • Advanced Therapeutics: Holistic Cancer Care
    Chanchal Cabrera MSc, FNIMH, (RH)AHG,
    Emery Herbals Teaching Centre

    TCM Dermatology
    Sabine Schmitz M.Med TCM, Global Branches

    Therapeutics for kids and teenagers
    Mary Bove N.D, Heartwood Education

    Flower Essences for Herbalists
    Wild Rose College for Herbal Medicine

    Integrative TCM Gynecology
    Clare Pyers, Global Branches

    Western herbs in Chinese Medicine
    Thomas Avery Garran,
    East West School of Planetary Herbology

    Acute Viral Infections
    The Human Path School, Sam Coffman RH

    Energetic & Holistic Advanced Clincal Program
    Colleen Emery Cl.H (RH), Emery Herbals Teaching Centre

    • Czech Naturopathic Society
      Česká Naturopatická společnost

    • Flemish Herbalist Association
      Vlaamse Herboristen Vereniging

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