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Krista Dawn Poulton Cl.H. RHT (BCHA)

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Krista Dawn Poulton Cl.H. RHT (BCHA)

Krista Dawn Poulton is a Medical Herbalist in private practice in Victoria & the Cowichan Valley. Krista balances her private practice as a faculty member at Pacific Rim College, teaching courses in herbal medicine and medicine making, along with supervising clinical training.

Krista has also been a guest speaker at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Vancouver along with speaking at various conferences such as the American Herbalist Guild Symposium, Canadian Herb Conference, Kootenay Herb Conference and the Vancouver Island Herb Conference. Krista has focused on private practice and research on hormonal health, offering intensive training on Cycle Tracking for Hormonal Health Diagnostics, and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Treatment Protocols which have been offered through Pacific Rim College and Pacific Rim College Online (PRCO). Krista currently sits as Board Member of the British Columbia Herbalists Association (BCHA).

Krista is passionate about medicine making and has a full dispensary created 95% from herbs she has grown or from tinctures she has made herself from either percolations or macerations. Ethical wild-harvesting, cultivation, and developing those intimate relationships with plants fuels her spirit and her practice.

Education, medicine-making, and herb growing along with hormonal health are strong passions for Krista. Krista has focused her continuing education within hormonal health with herbal mentors, as well as Fertility Symposiums and Hormonal Health conferences.

Krista recently launched the Little Farm Clinic and the FARM to MEDICINE Workshop Series and Mentorship program in 2024 in the Cowichan Valley.  She is an avid grower of medicinal herbs, flowers and dye plants in the Cowichan Valley.

Experience/History:

  • Private practice with the Little Farm Clinic in the Cowichan and Focus Health Integrative Clinic in Victoria, BC
  • Owner/Operator of the FARM to MEDICINE Mentorship program and workshop series
  • Faculty member with Pacific Rim College
  • Instructor at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Vancouver
  • Board Member of the British Columbia Herbalists Association (BCHA)
  • Registered Herbal Therapist (RHT) with the British Columbia Herbalists Association (BCHA)

Krista’s Fav Herb: “Peony is my absolute favorite and one of my favourite flowers. I use this herb the most in my clinical practice to support the hormonal communication between the Hypothalamus, Pituitary and Ovaries.”

Fun Fact: “I love crafting and making art. I have always a project on the go, from washing/spinning wool, weaving, knitting and recently am very passionate about natural dye plants. This season’s project is to dye with all the dye plants that I have been growing – Indigo, Alkanet, Marigold, Safflower, Madder – and dye the bags full of washed wool that I cleaned last autumn! Then it will be spinning and weaving this winter!”