The Cottage Naturopath
The Cottage Naturopath was created from a deep love of herbs, seasonal living, and the quiet craft of natural medicine. As a qualified naturopath and clinical herbalist, I bring together small-batch, seed-to-bottle remedies with evidence-based practice to offer care that is both grounded and genuine. Here, earth-centred traditions support your wellbeing, help you reconnect with the rhythms of the land, and invite the steady, time-honoured wisdom of plants into your everyday life.
Meet Storm
Qualified Naturopath & Medical Herbalist
Welcome, I’m Storm — a qualified Naturopath, Herbalist, Seleno Health certified cacao practitioner, and long-time wanderer of the natural health world. For the past ten years, I’ve found myself returning again and again to the plants, the quiet places, and the wisdom held in the land. My work is an extension of who I am: passionate, deep, grounded, deeply curious, and endlessly in love with the green world.
The Cottage Naturopath grew from my desire to offer a softer, earth-rooted approach to wellbeing — one that honors evidence-based clinical practice while still embracing the depth, magic, and relational nature of plant medicine. My path has been shaped as much by formal training as by years spent wildcrafting, making remedies, sitting with the plants, and learning from traditions older than any classroom.
I weave together clinical naturopathic medicine, grassroots folk herbalism, plant spirit medicine, and land led seasonal wellness. Many of the remedies I offer are small-batch, seasonal, and astrological, nurtured from seed to bottle with intention, love, and many years of experience.
My hope is that through my work, you remember your own belonging in nature, reconnect with your body’s wisdom, and find a way of healing that feels gentle, grounded, and true to who you are.
From the Cottage Apothecary
Devotional Cacao Medicine
This heart-opening cacao blend is inspired by Bhakti Yoga - the yoga of the heart, devotion and love.
It brings together peruvian ceremonial cacao, herbs flower essences to awaken the consciousness and wisdom of the heart.
Plant Allies
Ceremonial Cacao Paste: Traditionally revered as “food of the God’s”, cacao helps us connect with our heart, love and consciousness.
Rose petals: A heart ally to soften the guards of the heart and teach us healthy love with self and others.
Star Anise: Attracts good luck and protection, cleanses energy for a fresh start.
Rose Flower Essence (*refer to our rose flower essence blend)
Elderflower Flower Essence: A remedy of self-love, dissolving feelings of insecurity and encouraging faith and truth in your own energy.
Bobinsana Tincture: Master plant and heart teacher of the amazon, invites self love and teachings of the heart.
Ingredients:
• Cacao (Theobroma cacao)
• Rose Petal (Rosa spp.)**
• Cinnamon Bark (Cinnamomum verum)
• Star Anise (Illicium verum)
• Bobinsana Bark (Calliandra angustifolia)
• Rose Flower Essence**
• Elderflower Flower Essence**
**medicine from the cottage gardens
Ritual
Set an intention or affirmation.
Add 20-35g of ceremonial cacao to 250ml of warm plant milk or water, bring to boil. Whisk or blend until smooth and frothy. Sweeten to taste.
Take your time and prepare your cacao as an active meditation, speaking your intentions into the medicine as you go.
For best results, drink your cacao in nature, spend time writing or speaking your gratitude, meditating and being present with your experience for 30-60 minutes.
A Note from the Apothecary
Bhakti Cacao is blended in small batches in the cottage apothecary, crafted in rhythm with season and intention.
This is the cacao I serve in circle and work with in my own devotional practice. A blend created to support relationship — with the plants, the heart, and the unseen threads that hold us.
Offered in devotion.
Disclaimer
This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Consult your healthcare provider before use if pregnant, breastfeeding, taking medication, or managing a health condition.
A little bottle of calm
Stillness is a soothing nervine-rich herbal tincture crafted to support moments of overwhelm, anxiety, emotional intensity, and a busy or over-stimulated mind.
This blend is designed for the moments when the mind feels loud, the nervous system feels stretched, and you feel detached.
Stillness supports grounding, a deep exhaling, and returning to center. A plant ally blend for daily life, emotional steadiness, and cultivating a sense of inner quiet.
The Herbal Allies
A herbal blend of nervines & calming herbs used traditionally to support emotional balance and nervous system regulation:
Chamomile – a plant ally for the overly sensitive, overstimulated, overreactive and emotionally vulnerable states in our life.
Lemon Balm – Carried a lightness that helps to lift nervous heaviness and anxiety that sits in the chest and digestion. Lemon balm carries a playful energy that softens seriousness, invokes joy, play and calm.
Passionflower – a classic nervine traditionally used to quiet mental chatter, obsessive thoughts & an overactive mind, while encouraging a calm presence.
Ashwagandha – an adaptogenic herb traditionally used to support resilience during times of stress and nervous system depletion.
Kava – traditionally used to support relaxation, grounding you to a sense of physical calm in the body.
Catnip – gently relaxing and settling, used when the nervous system feels restless and overactive.
Ingredients
Matricaria chamomilla (Chamomile) **
Melissa officinalis (Lemon Balm) **
Passiflora incarnata (Passionflower)
Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha)
Piper methysticum (Kava)
Nepeta cataria (Catnip) **
In a base of coconut-derived glycerin and ethanol (alcohol).
**Grown in the Cottage Gardens
How to Use
Take 10–20 drops, up to five times per day, in a little water or directly under the tongue.
A Note from the Apothecary
Stillness is handcrafted in small batches in the cottage apothecary, made in rhythm with the seasons and moon cycles. Herbs are grown in the cottage gardens or sourced from ethical, organic suppliers with care and intention.
Disclaimer
This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Not suitable during pregnancy or breastfeeding.
Please consult your healthcare provider or naturopath before use, especially if you are taking medications, have a medical condition, or are sensitive to kava.
A gentle invitation into rest, dreams + nervous system ease.
Dream Lodge is a calming, nervine-rich herbal tincture created to support deep rest, relaxation and the transition into sleep. This blend is for winding down after long days, quieting a busy mind, and creating space for your body to soften into stillness.
Dream Lodge is an evening ritual in a bottle; a plant ally for the liminal hours between waking and dreaming and a space for the nervous system can exhale.
The Herbal Allies
This blend brings together traditional nervine and sedative herbs, long used to support sleep rhythms and emotional rest:
Passionflower – a classic nervine traditionally used to calm racing or obsessive thoughts and support restful sleep.
Chamomile – gentle, soothing and comforting to both the nervous system and digestion.
Lemon Balm – uplifting yet calming, traditionally used for nervous tension, heart palpitations, stress and emotional overwhelm.
Catnip – deeply relaxing, often used for restlessness, overactivity, feeling “tired but wired”.
Skullcap – A powerful nervous system tonic traditionally used for mental fatigue, overstimulation and being “too much in your head”
Lavender – aromatic and calming, supporting relaxation and emotional ease.
Valerian – a well-known sleep herb traditionally used to support deep, restorative rest.
Hops – a sedative herb traditionally used for insomnia, nervous tension and overactive minds.
Together, these plants work synergistically to support the parasympathetic nervous system — the body’s natural “rest and digest” state, ideal for sleep.
Ingredients
Passiflora incarnata (Passionflower),
Matricaria chamomilla (Chamomile) **
Melissa officinalis (Lemon Balm) **
Nepeta cataria (Catnip) **
Scutellaria lateriflora (Skullcap),
Lavandula angustifolia (Lavender),
Valeriana officinalis (Valerian)
Humulus lupulus (Hops),
in a base of coconut-derived glycerin and ethanol (alcohol).
How to Use
Take 20 drops, 30 minutes before bed or on night waking , in a little water or directly under the tongue. Repeat every 20-30 minutes up to 10x, as needed, to invoke sleep.
Best paired with a slow evening ritual: dim lights, technology detox, gentle music, breathing exercises or journaling.
Can also be used during the day for moments of anxiety, stress or nervous tension. A great combo with the “stillness tincture” to support chronic stress states.
A Note From The Apothecary
Dream Lodge is handcrafted in small batches in the cottage apothecary in cycle with the seasons and moon cycles. Herbs are gathered from the cottage gardens or sourced from organic and ethical sources.
Disclaimer
This product is not intended to treat, diagnose, cure or prevent any disease. Not safe during pregnancy. Please consult your healthcare provide or naturopath before use; if you are taking medications, have a health conditions or breastfeeding.
Offerings
Offerings
My Naturopathic and herbal consultations offer a space where you’re truly heard. Blending evidence-based practice with traditional plant wisdom, I work with you to understand the deeper patterns influencing your health—not just the symptoms. Together, we explore personalized herbal formulations, lifestyle guidance, and natural therapies that support your body’s own capacity to heal. Whether you’re seeking clarity, balance, or long-term wellbeing, these sessions are designed to meet you exactly where you are and help you move forward with confidence and care.
Wellness Menu
Naturopath & Herbalist Consultations
Our time together starts with a relaxed, in-depth conversation about your health, lifestyle, and what you hope to achieve. From there, we may explore gentle physical assessments, iridology, or functional testing to get a fuller picture of your health.. After our session, I’ll put together a bespoke care plan with herbal, nutritional or lifestyle suggestions - simple, doable steps to help you feel more at ease, nourished, and in tune with your body.
90-minute Initial consultation + 30-minute care plan review $200
60-minute Follow up consultation $75
Functional Medicine Testing (optional): Individual test pricing varies
Small Batch Apothecary
The cottage apothecary is full of seasonal batch herbal remedies crafted straight from the herb garden & local wild spaces. Working in this way keeps each remedy fresh, alive and deeply potent - made only when the plants themselves are at their peak and aligned with supportive astrological timings.
Circles, Retreats & Workshops
Gathering is medicine.
We come together to share stories, craft herbal remedies, pass along herbal wisdom & recipes, and remember the ancient ways of healing in community.
We offer in-person herbal medicine workshops, retreats, circles, cacao & plant ceremonies.
Collaborations:
I love collaborating with like-minded practitioner—when we weave our work together, the medicine becomes even more powerful. I’m always open to co-creating with those who share a heart for earth-led healing and community. Please reach out for collab opportunities.
Root In & Reach Out
Whether you're seeking naturopathic support, exploring herbal remedies, or feeling the call to join a circle, workshop, or retreat—I'd love to connect.
Share a little about yourself below, and I’ll be in touch soon.
I’m looking forward to weaving something meaningful, supportive, and earth-led with you.