Tessa Micaela grew up in Philadelphia, picking the weeds that came up through the sidewalk cracks and tending to bruised knees. Tessa comes to herbalism through community care work, and is committed to building and sustaining resiliency for individuals and ecosystems. Tessa has worked in reproductive health and generative care for over a decade, and is currently a midwife-in-training and full-spectrum doula. Tessa is a poet, and uses a somatic and trauma-centered approach, weaving language, metaphor and embodiment into herbal protocols and healing practices. Committed to meeting everyone where they are at, but not leaving them there, Tessa works with clients to address their physical and emotional imbalances toward sustainable wellness, with an emphasis on joy and connection.

Vision

Tessa is among a web of herbalists committed to social justice, who carry on the history of using plants to heal and care for ourselves, our families and communities. Tessa believes that all people deserve to make empowered personalized choices about their health, their bodies, and their medicine and that all people deserve health care practitioners that advocate and support those choices.

Tessa supports clients to find unique sources of healing, resilience, and respite in their own bodies. Tessa believes that all individuals can tap into their own power and abundance, and support that capacity with plant and energetic medicine.