Earthwalk Teachers
MELANIE ROSE SCOFIELD
Melanie opened the doors of the Earthwalk School of Herbal Traditions in 2016- Midcoast Maine’s very own herbal school! Melanie has a background in nutrition, herbs, and energy medicine. In 2005 she completed her nutritional consultant training with the Global College of Natural Medicine, as well as her first apprenticeship with the Boston School of Herbal Studies. In 2007 she completed her Advanced Clinical Herbalist Training, also with the BSHS, at which time she became a core faculty member and led apprenticeship programs for several years. The Earthwalk Apprenticeship is now completing it’s 7th year and we are overjoyed with the herbal learning community that has been created in that time. She feels incredibly blessed to have worked with such gifted teachers who have helped to shape her into the teacher she is today: Madelon Hope, Tommy Priester, Matthew Wood, Linda Patterson, Rocio Alarcon, Margi Flint, Kurt Leland, and many others. Melanie’s main passion is teaching others to cultivate their innate wisdom and fine tune their own intuitive abilities. She is available for private health consultations and for teaching workshops.
JILLIAN HYLLANTREE TWISLA
Jillian Twisla is an herbalist, health educator, passionate gardener and mama. She has a background in clinical herbalism, naturopathy, permaculture and plant mysticism. She studied Naturopathy and traditional European herbalism at Southern Cross University in Australia and has been lucky to learn from many incredible American herbalists as well. Jillian’s clear and grounded teaching approach is deeply appreciated and we at Earthwalk are honored to have her on board as a core faculty member. She co-facilitates the Community Herbalist Training and the Advanced Clinical Mentorship while helping out with the First Level Apprentices. Jillian lives close to the Earth with her family in Hope, Maine, where she offers classes, courses, and consultations. http://www.hyllantree.com
ROCHELLE BACA
Rochelle is a Traditional Herbalist, Medicine Maker, and a passionate educator with a focus on Sacred Plant Medicine. She was born and raised in California and began her relationship with plants in her early teens, delving into books by Rosemary Gladstar, Susan Weed, and Prescriptions for Nutritional Healing. These books inspired her to begin a life-long study of plants, whole foods, anatomy and natural healing. Now Rochelle resides in Maine, has completed the Community Herbalist Training and the Advanced Clinical Mentorship thru Earthwalk. She spends much of her time making products, offering health consultations, and teaching Rosemary Gladstar’s Science and Art of Herbalism for a number of years. Other teachers Rochelle has studied with include Rosemary Gladstar, Rocio Alarcon, Margi Flint, Sam Coffman, Nancy Phillips, Anne Marie Tedeschi, Megan Brown, and Helen Ward. Earthwalk is honored to have Rochelle join our team.
KAITLIN OVERLOCK (she/her)
Hello! My name is Kaitlin, but many know me as Kait. I am an unlicensed Clinical Herbalist with a deep appreciation for evolution, education, and connection. My purpose and driven goal is to help shed light on holistic healing, and to pass down education to those desiring to learn. I have been blessed to have completed all 3 levels of training with the Earthwalk School of Herbal Traditions. It is an honor to now work alongside my mentors and colleagues as one of the supporting faculty for the first level herbal apprenticeship. Thank you for being part of this journey and I look forward to working with you.
EMILY MUNCE
Emily Munce, LMHC, has been a practicing psychotherapist since 2007. She graduated from Lesley University’s Holistic Counseling Program. Raised in a home where holistic medicine was the norm, Emily looked for alternative ways of working with her body and her illness when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019. Landing on the practice of Western Herbalism, she found a new way of relating to her body, nature, and the work of healing. She found that herbal medicine gave her a sense of agency, an invitation to listen to her body and a sense of coming home to the greater natural world.
After completing a four-year apprenticeship, Emily is now a clinical herbalist who also continues to practice therapy, weaving the two modalities of healing together. Emily’s therapy practice, Wild Oak Holistic, is based in Salem, MA, where she is also available for Holistic Herbal Consultations and herbal education classes.
Emily is a mom of two boys and spends any time she can walking outside, cooking, knitting, or reading.