Hi, my name is Abby, and I'm a heretical nerd who loves to help sensitive souls remember their wholeness.

I’ve been in conversation with plants for as long as I can remember. One of my earliest memories is talking to the honeysuckle bush next to my childhood home when I was six. This was a spirit that would find their way back to me years later. To me, the Earth has always felt alive, responsive, and relational. For me, relating with the Earth is relating with God, or whatever you'd like to call the grander scheme of things going on here. 
 

For a while, though, I lost my way.
 

Like a lot of us sensitive souls, I’ve moved through long stretches of anxiety, depression, burnout, and the particular exhaustion that comes from trying to survive a society not built for deep thinkers and feelers. Trauma narrowed my capacity for being in my body, and I lived on edge. Disconnection dulled my senses, and I felt numb. Life was too loud, and I oscillated between panic and shutdown as a result.

What I know now is that none of that was the end of the story. What helped me start finding my way back was spiritual healing in many forms, and in layers and spirals (still). Trauma-informed therapy and energy work gave me footholds when I couldn’t see a way forward. As my nervous system’s capacity grew, everything else started to change. (It’s amazing what becomes possible when your bandwidth isn’t constantly consumed by distress!)

Studying herbalism reoriented me to the Intelligence I’d always related to in the natural world: Life already knows how to heal when met with the right conditions. In Western herbal traditions, this is often called the vital force. In Eastern traditions, you might hear it named as prana or qi. In Christian language, it might be called ruach, or the animating breath that raised the dry bones. Regardless of your vernacular, suffice it to say that engaging with the natural world has proven to be an effective and supportive method of healing time after time.

Engaging in conscious relationship with the natural world began to stitch me back together in a way that felt grounded, honest, and sustainable. It brought me back to God and into my body on my own terms.

Along with a particular love for botanicals, I’m a strong advocate for individual nervous system healing as a foundation for broader change. When your nervous system becomes more resilient, you regain access to your own agency and authenticity. Your choices feel clearer. Your capacity expands. And that shift doesn’t just stay with you! It ripples outward into your relationships, family, and community.

My integrative approach blends functional medicine and Chinese medicine principles, neuroscience, structural energy work, and inner parts work. While I support a wide range of wellness concerns, I’m especially attuned to what Chinese medicine calls the Shen—often translated as the Spirit that resides (or not) in the heart. No matter what it is that compels you to reach out to me, I pay attention to the state of the nervous system, the energetic body, and your inner child because tending to the Spirit changes how everything else is experienced and processed from the inside out.

And while I truly love to support anyone, I do have a particular interest in and affinity for cases where people are navigating physical pain, trauma recovery, anxiety, depression, or long-standing, complex health questions.

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I offer one-on-one sessions online.

 

Locally, I offer 1:1 sessions at Mindful Wellness Center in Denton or at Rockhill Counseling in Aubrey, TX. I host workshops and events and handcraft small batch herbal remedies. I curate botanical elixir menus, and my botanical bar is available for parties, events, and retreats. Finally, I teach (deconstructed) energy work, and I occasionally make barn visits (DFW metroplex) for equine acutherapy and energy healing.

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If you'd like to get to know me, you can find me on Threads at @bloomapotheca, and for more on my perspectives, check out my blog.