Meet Our Team

Clinical Herbalist, Energy Work
& Seed Founding Member

Alberto Carbo is a people person - someone who loves to connect with fellow human beings to talk, share, joke, laugh, and learn. At some point, in his desire to connect with others through the sharing of food, Alberto sowed seeds in the Earth, and tended to a vegetable garden, not knowing that this was the beginning of his relationship with Plants. Extensive travels, with lots of time spent in farms and rural areas, solidified his bond to the natural world, and after personally experiencing and witnessing the power of Plant medicine in the Amazon, Alberto realized that the influence of the Plants had unequivocally changed him. Today, Alberto is a practicing clinical Herbalist in Ottawa, serving his community in English and Spanish, and utilizing his abilities to connect with others as a bridge for those who could benefit from connecting with the Plants.

Clinical Herbalist, Energy Work
& Seed Founding Member

Abrah Arneson has been practicing herbal medicine for 18 years. Abrah has worked in a hospice to support the dying, trained as doula to hold women while they labour, travel to all continents on this planet and spend a year in retreat in the Yukon wilderness. Abrah’s practice of herbal medicine has nourished this question and deepened her understanding of transformation from illness to health, from despair to hope and from disconnection to connection. Abrah is the author of the Grandmother series - The Wellspring: Ancestors, Plants & Healing, The Weaving: Plants, Planets and People, The Vessel: Women, Plants and Contraception, The Herbal Apprentice: Plant Medicine and The Human Being and the Herbal Apprentice Workbook. She is passionate about sharing all that plants have taught her on her journey as a herbalist. 

Clinical Herbalist & Seed Founding Member

Tori Lubbers is a Registered Clinical Herbalist. She is a mother, a creative, and lover of wild places, details, and people’s stories. She tends to & wildcrafts herbs on her family’s farm for her busy community apothecary and creates a line of herbal skincare products. She received an Honours Bachelors of Health Sciences from the University of Ottawa, then went on to work in the non-profit sector of the healthcare industry. Her clinic Balsam Herbals blossomed out of her studies in Traditional Western Herbalism, a three-year apprenticeship in Clinical Herbalism, and has its roots in her own healing journey with plant medicine. She is committed to offering her clients an unhurried, personalized, and collaborative approach to care.