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GAHA Associates

Self-Care League & Integrative Associates 

SELF-CARE LEAGUE 

Certified Herbal Diplomat®
Consultants & Trainers

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Martha Mathews Libster

PhD, MSN, APRN-PMHCNS, APHN-BC, FAAN, Historian

Certified Herbal Diplomat®

Wisconsin

Projects:

GAHA CEO 

Programs and Webinars - Lead

SEF and Herbal Diplomat Trainer

Bamboo Bridge World Cafes

Nurse and Caregiver Support

Dr. Martha, Founder and CEO of The Self-Care Institute at Golden Apple Healing Arts and the Bamboo Bridge Herbal Diplomats®, is delighted to welcome you to the Self-Care League! Our focus is teaching people of all ages, communities, and organizations precision Self-care with plants as partners and promoting peace through health culture and herbal diplomacy. More about Dr. Martha

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Lisa Posigian

MSN, PMHNP - BC

Certified Herbal Diplomat®

California

Projects:

Youth Chautauqua - Lead

SEF and Herbal Diplomat Trainer

Nursing Student Program - Lead 

Lisa Posigian, MSN, PMHNP, and Herbal Diplomat®, works in a Post Anesthesia Care Unit. Lisa is a certified Science of Energy Flow Foot Reflexology practitioner and Facilitator (Fire Starter) of the Bamboo Bridge Global Tea House Peace Fire and Co-Director of the Youth Chautauqua program.

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Cathy Poral

RN, BSN, MA

Certified Herbal Diplomat®

New Mexico

 

Projects:

Herbal Diplomat TrainerHospice Care Team - Lead

Traditional Healing

Choreosophy Institute

Cathy Poral, an Herbal Diplomat®, works as a registered nurse with 29 years of nursing experience, including 20 years in hospice. She also works for a mobile urgent care facility in Colorado during the ski season. Cathy has experience with college health, public health, and labor and delivery. She is also a travel nurse, which feeds her strong desire for seeing new places. She is an End of Life Doula and holds a Master’s degree in Psychology. Cathy was the first community health nurse for the Colorado Springs Fire Department where she was instrumental in developing their Community Resource Program, which became a model for all fire departments around the country. She is passionate about creating a health care system where people return to and learn from indigenous cultures and ways of life. Reconnecting to and rediscovering our relationship with plants and the earth is her main goal when working with clients; this is achieved through precision self-care.  This reconnecting can be applied with all age groups throughout every stage of life. This sacred relationship to the living world fosters self-discovery, self-love, gratitude for the simple things, and a sense of oneness. Well-being and health naturally emerge. Cathy is excited to promote precision self-care as a new standard for health and healing.

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Julie Smith Taylor

PhD, RN, WHNP-BC

Certified Herbal Diplomat®

North Carolina

 

Projects:

Dean Self-Care Institute

SEF and Herbal Diplomat Trainer

BambooBridge Global Tea House

Dr. Julie, Dean of the Self-Care Institute at Golden Apple Healing Arts, is a women's health nurse practitioner, nurse-herbalist, and Herbal Diplomat® committed to opening the heart, mind, and body to self-care and healing. She also is certified in Science of Energy Flow Foot Reflexology with Herbal Stress Relief. Dr. Julie partners with horses as well as plants in creating health and healing experiences.

More about Dr. Julie

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Libby Davis

RN

Certified Herbal Diplomat®

Kentucky

 

Projects:

Herbal Diplomat Trainer

Traditional Healing

BambooBridge Global Tea House

Home Care Team

Libby Davis is a Registered Nurse with experience in neurology, critical care, geriatrics, and people with special needs. Libby is of Cherokee heritage and first learned herbal medicine from her aunt, Marti (Momfeather) Erickson. She has a passion for people and animals and enjoys working in her family apiary.

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Christine Kirkman

MSN, RN, CPNP

Certified Herbal Diplomat®

New York

Projects:

Herbal Diplomat Trainer

SOS Youth Program

Christine is licensed as a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in New York State and as a Registered Nurse in both New York and Pennsylvania.  She has focused her professional career in healthcare on children and families.  Christine was most recently a primary care provider in pediatrics and a specialty care provider in pediatric neurology in the Syracuse, NY area. She has practiced as a CPNP with an emphasis on informed consent and minimizing medicalization. Christine believes in “parents as partners” in the care of children. The focus of her practice has always been on the importance of teaching children how to take care of themselves.  She is now active as a freelance healthcare and self-care writer.  Christine surrounds herself with plants and has a thriving garden in the milder months in Central New York. 

Self-Care League

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Janet Juricic

RN, BSN, CCRN, CEN

Nurse-Herbalist

Illinois

Projects:

Youth Chautauqua

Pathfinders

SOS Youth Program

Janet is an Emergency Department Nurse Manager for an Inner City Chicago hospital. She has 35 years Home Health and Critical Care experience. She is a Scout Master for a small diverse troupe as well as  the mother of twin eagle scouts. She has been the health care provider for national scout jamboree and Order of the Arrow conferences. Janet shares her love of teaching and encouraging adults and youth in self-care!

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Anne Walters

RN, Nurse-Herbalist

Virginia

Projects:

Soup Grandma

Recipes and Remedies Tradition

Hospice Care Team

Anne Walters is a registered nurse with experience in hospice, comfort care, and whole plant medicine. She has been with Dr. Martha and the Bamboo Bridge Global Tea House since 2006. Anne brings her life work forward through artful soup making. Her other name is “Soup Gramma”! Anne is interested in our ancestors, their soups, and healing folk remedies. She welcomes your stories about your family traditions for soups and home remedies. That is where we find great wisdom.

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Ellen Presnell

RN, BSN, HN-BC,

Nurse Coach-BC

North Carolina

Projects:

Home Care Team

Nursing has been Ellen's life-long service, which began as a nurse in the hospital and then a Public Health Nurse. This was followed by many years as Nurse Entrepreneur. Ellen holds two Board Certifications as a Holistic Health Registered Nurse and Integrative Nurse Coach, and she is a licensed and certified bodyworker. Through her years of service, she has remained enthusiastic and optimistic that people can continue to grow in their self-care relationships. She believes that deepening our commitment to ourselves improves how we value our health and relationships to life. This not only nourishes our bodies in various ways. We also grow in our relationship to each other and our planet. Ellen is excited to share her ever-growing skill sets, with compassion and care, with those who want a better outcome with their health and well being. 

www.EllenPresnell.com

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Sherrie Abbott

MSN, CNS, RN

South Carolina

Projects:

Hospice Care Team

Home Care Team

Sherrie considers it a privilege and an honor to be an elder Advanced Practice Clinical Nurse Specialist, still growing in the wisdom of nursing ways of knowing and being as nurses care for humanity and all life.  Sherrie’s forty-seven years of nursing have focused on caring, fostering hope, creating healing relationships using the arts, field dancing in particular, as metaphor and method. Sherrie and Dr. Martha have worked together since 1994 to further the understanding of plant life as a metaphor for human and all life. Sherrie enjoys helping others to look and learn from the patterns in life and dance with their perceptions and truths. Her twenty-one years’ experience as a full-time nurse educator and twenty-six years of nursing practice in the areas of gerontology, rehabilitation, hospice care / end of life care, inform her Elements of Care® work. Sherrie’s passion and interest is the ether element. Not surprisingly, her colleagues, clients, and friends often refer to her as their “Grandefaerie Caregiver” and “Fairy hospice God Mom.” Sherrie’s current practice interests are promoting how to stay in contact with the garden and exploring where plants ‘fit’ in during the dying process.

INTEGRATIVE ASSOCIATES - LEADERS

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Martha Mathews Libster

PhD, MSN, APRN-PMHCNS, APHN-BC, FAAN, Historian

Certified Herbal Diplomat®

Wisconsin

Dr. Martha founded Integrative Associates and Golden Apple Healing Arts in 1999. She is a psychiatric mental health APRN clinician, educator, consultation-liaison executive specializing in behavioral healthcare using solution-focused, strength-based, health culture diplomacy strategies to achieve client and corporate goals. Dr. Martha also is an international expert in salutogenic healthcare and integrative nursing science specifically focused on precision self-care, nurse-herbalism, health culture diplomacy, integrative holistic nursing, and healthcare reform. She has been practicing the integration of solution-focused nurse psychotherapy with Chinese herbal medicine for over 30 years. Since 1983, she has also practiced Jin Shin Mother's Touch and developed her own brand Science of Energy Flow Foot Reflexology with Herbal Stress Relief. Dr. Libster’s contributions to the integration of emerging technologies and healing traditions are demonstrated by two decades of publications and events for thousands of nurses and the public on five continents.   More about Dr. Martha

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Enna Lamarre-Theodore 

DNP, RN, PMH-BC

New York

Dr. Enna holds over 25 years of experience in mental health and clinical psychiatric nursing. She most recently served as Nurse Manager in Behavioral Health with Beth Israel and Mount Sinai Health Systems. She is a Nurse Leader, Educator, and Advocate for mental health programs that focus on wellness for everyone. Through caring and compassion, Dr. Lamarre-Theodore continues to demonstrate transformational leadership, nursing excellence, and innovations in professional practice that advance initiatives to improve the well-being of diverse populations across various healthcare settings and communities. She is best known for her contributions to making quality mental health and wellness programs accessible to communities worldwide. 

ENGAGE INTEGRATIVE ASSOCIATES

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We are enthusiastic visionary clinician-leaders and researcher-storytellers who seek opportunities to participate in innovative healthcare solutions that have significant outcomes in demonstrating service to humanity by promoting greater balance in body, peace of mind, and discovery of purpose and belonging.

Our Consultation Services Team Includes:

  • Clinical Nurse Specialist (Team Leader)

  • Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Nurses

  • Educators

  • Holistic Nurse Specialists

  • Health Culture Diplomats

  • Policy Expert

  • Chaplain

  • Researchers Specializing in Predictive Analytics​​

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