Larken Bunce, MS
2 Courses • 12 StudentsBiography
Larken Bunce, MS is a clinical herbalist, educator, writer, gardener and photographer. She is founding co-director and core faculty at Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, which runs a full-time sliding-scale community clinic and a 3-year training program for clinical herbalists. Her practice and teaching draw equally from science and spirit, novel practice and tradition, clinic and garden, reflecting her diverse experiences in over 20 years in the field. She holds a Master of Science in Clinical Herbal Medicine from MUIH (previously Tai Sophia Institute), as well as certificates in Zen Shiatsu, Swedish/Esalen Massage and Mind-Body Skills.
She is currently working towards an MS in Counseling, while completing certification in Somatic Experiencing, based on the trauma resolution work of Peter Levine. Larken is passionate about clinical mentorship, bridging traditional healing models with biomedical sciences, and restoring Nature to culture through herbal medicine. www.larkenbunce.com and www.vtherbcenter.org