Tuesday Clinic

Lara Jonasdottir has been working as an herbalist for over 10 years. She had her own clinic in Dublin before joining Dilis and the clinical team in 2014. Lara has great passion for clinical and herbal education and holds a postgraduate diploma in Clinical Education.

Katolen has been working as a medical herbalist in private practice in Vancouver and Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada since 2000. She also holds a degree in Osteopathy providing manual osteopathic care to clients.  Katolen has interest in women’s health, skin and digestive issues.  Katolen aims to provide usable tools for inspiring positive change and education for clients and students alike.  

For 3 terms, Katolen was the president of the British Columbia Herbalist Association from 2013-2019, and was the president of the Canadian Council of Herbalist Associations from 2017-2023. She has instructed anatomy, physiology and physical assessment skills in Herbal Medicine programs within Canada and was adjunct professor in Botanical Medicine at a Canadian School of Naturopathic  Medicine for 15 years.  From 2000 until 2015, Katolen appeared monthly on nationally syndicated Global Television morning news speaking about herbal medicine and holistic health. Her book, “The Good Living Guide to Natural and Herbal Medicine” was published in 2015 and contains medicine making recipes and monographs of numerous medicinal plants. Katolen has been a mentor and clinic supervisor since 2008 – working with students for the American Herbalist Guild membership and various herbal schools in Canada and the UK. 

When not focused on herbal medicine and osteopathy, some of her passions include travelling, experiencing new cultures, photography and yoga. 

Wednesday Clinic

Garreth is a Consultant Medical Herbalist, Theologian, & Social Entrepreneur. He a member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists and owns a shop based clinic in Northern Ireland.

Garreth has an interest in oncology, men’s health, and an area of functional medicine known as psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology which understands the intricate balance of how the systems of the body are all tightly interwoven and depend on each other. This is important in all areas of chronic ill health and he feels it is an important dynamic often missed by modern medicine. He is very much a believer in addressing all aspects of a persons health; the emotional, physical and spiritual.

It is his love of people and desire to see wholeness in the community as a social entrepreneur that seeded the vision of his practice, “The Wild Sage”. When not working you might find him in the open water, out in the garden, foraging or experimenting with his newest homebrew!

Thursday Clinics

Calder Bendle MNIMH

Bendle has over 25 years of experience as a Medical Herbalist, and for most of his
professional life has worked in an NHS setting alongside conventional medical
practitioners. He has been a clinic supervisor and lecturer on the Herbal Medicine BSc course in Lincoln, and was a regular guest lecturer on the degree course at The Scottish School of Herbal Medicine. He also teaches on a number of post-graduate level courses, and has a particular interest in understanding the links between emotional and physical health that play a vitally important role in healing and recovery. He likes to grow and to collect plants to make his own herbal tinctures. Bendle was in 2023 recipient of The Christopher Hedley Memorial Award , a special award from National Institute of Medical Herbalists for outstanding contribution to the world of Herbal Medicine.