If you’re interested in accessing support from the Black Flag Herbal Clinic, please complete this expression of interest form: https://cloud.seatable.io/dtable/forms/753a2230-fb7f-48d8-8745-f6f7d345a9bc

We aim to get back to you within two weeks. If you want to contact Nicole using encryption, please find the info on the contact page.

This pages uses ‘we’ as there may be student involvement or other comrades involved in admin, checking emails etc.

Student involvement in 1:1 support is completely optional – if you prefer 1:1 private support from Nicole, that is 100% okay. Please just communicate via the expression of interest form.

How the Clinic Works

Expressing Interest

You are welcome to express your interest via this form.

We will then get in touch within two weeks to say if we’re able to support you. Sometimes people’s needs are beyond the scope of practice of clinical herbalism. We will always do our best to refer people to other options if we are unable to support.

If we are able to support you, we will email you a link to an online calender where you can book your first welcome call. You will also be emailed two online forms to complete before we meet that ask more details about your needs and health history.

First Call

This is a comprehensive call where we dive into your health history, different life experiences that may have shaped your body, things that are affecting you right now. We look at current health challenges and symptoms you are experiencing, as well as your goals and desires.

This takes roughly 40 mins – 1.5 hours depending on your context. If you are experiencing chronic fatigue, we can pace this across smaller calls if needed.

Herbal & Nutritional recommendations

After our call, we will send a personalised plan explaining the herbs, supplements and nutritional changes we recommend. We will explain why we’ve chosen certain herbs so that you have informed consent and so you can feel more connected to the medicine.

We will make sure you’re okay with our suggestions and tweak as needed. I believe working together in this way creates a more empowering process that builds health autonomy.

Start your medicine

We will post you whatever we’ve chosen together. It may be a tincture blend, glycerine blend, or dried herbs for tea, an ointment or a combination. We aim to send this to you within two weeks of confirming your recommendations with you. Sometimes it could take a little longer, especially if we need to make a new medicine for you.

If it’s not possible to post herbs to you due to your location or living situation, we will do our best to support you to access plants locally.

At present, 90% of the medicines made are directly from the land where I live and grow. However, longer term, the plan is to have people all over the world that have the skills and resources to prepare medicines that can be distributed to people.

You will also be supported to start implementing any other recommendations e.g. further testing, supplements, nutritional changes etc.

Follow-up Calls

We will reconnect 4 to 6 weeks after you’ve received the herbs to assess how the it’s all going. We will discuss changes, next steps and any new prescriptions needed. Follow up calls can take between 15 mins and 1 hour depending on your context.