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Start your professional herbal journey with our FULLY ONLINE

 

Foundation Certificate in Innate Botanical Selections.

This is the foundation step where your calling becomes practice. A flexible, fully online pathway that blends science with intuition, seasonality with bio-adaptation, and structure with support — so you can rise as a safe, confident practitioner for animals.

Accredited training with UK Rural Skills • Led by a member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists. 

 

Step into a career where animals, plants, and nature rise together.


This Foundation Certificate isn’t just about learning protocols – it’s about stepping into the practitioner role you’ve always felt called towards. I created this pathway for those, like me, who once doubted if they could really make this their profession. The truth is: you can.

 

  • Self-led study with regular live meet-ups and full community support

  • Personalised 1:1 mentoring at the start to align your path

  • Innate Botanical Selections kit at commencement, so you can begin offering botanicals safely from day one*

  • Practitioner-level pathway designed for those who can’t commit to the full Diploma (yet)

*T&Cs apply.

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Empowering animals to intuitively and innately select their own herbal medicines.

This Foundation Certificate isn’t just protocols — it’s a reclamation. I built this pathway for those who, like me, once doubted they could. After burnout showed me a different way, I chose a model that elevates confidence, trusts your inner knowing, and banishes self-doubt. We can’t do it all in one go — but we can do it all. Your first step starts here.

What you’ll receive on your Foundation journey

 

Personalised mentoring that grounds your path — begin with a dedicated 1:1 session to banish uncertainty, clarify your vision, and step forward with confidence.

 Your own Innate Botanical Selections kit — over 38 ethically sourced essential oils, plus dried herbs, powders, and hydrosols, so you can start offering safe, effective botanicals to animals from day one.

Certificates and awards that mark your growth — celebrate each stage of your journey as your skills, confidence, and practice deepen.

A recognised Foundation Certificate — accredited by UK Rural Skills, affirming your training is professional, credible, and aligned with industry standards.

A flexible online framework with continuous support — learn at your own pace, while still being held by mentoring, live meet-ups, and a supportive community throughout the year.

 

Step into Your Transformative Practitioner Journey

 

This is a profoundly effective, soul-aligned method for restoring health, balance, and enrichment in animals — always on their terms, respecting their instincts and intuition.   

 

Master the art of safe, intuitive care
Learn to offer botanicals confidently within a structured, supportive framework — giving you clarity, assurance, and the foundation to step into your practitioner role.
Apply your skills from day one
Work directly with your animals using your botanical kit, cultivating confidence, deepening your connection, and seeing tangible healing and enrichment immediately.
Engage in immersive, hands-on learning
Through clear demonstrations, guided practice, and dedicated 1:1 mentoring, you’ll embed your knowledge in real-world application while building self-trust and personal authority.
Explore the full spectrum of botanicals
Move beyond essential oils to confidently use herbs, powders, teas, decoctions, hydrosols, essences, and fresh or dried plants — understanding their action, synergy, and transformative potential.
Hone your craft in creating bespoke herbal products
From hydrosols and balms to fruit leathers and infusions, you’ll develop a practical, reliable toolkit to support the animals you care for.
Learn local forage and wild medicine
Discover what to gather, why it’s beneficial, and how to integrate these plants safely into your healing practice — laying the groundwork for future exploration of seasonal bio-adaptation if you decide to top up to the Diploma.
Understand the medicinal properties of your botanicals
Gain confidence in 38 essential oils and a curated selection of native herbs — knowing their uses, benefits, and applications, and how to guide animals toward their own innate healing.
Discover the language of animal behaviour
Learn to observe, interpret, and respond to preferences — guided by the animal’s intuition — so your care is always personalized, effective, and aligned with natural rhythms.
Through this journey, you’ll not only gain practical skills and confidence but also step toward a soul-led, empowering career, positioned within a growing professional space where herbal animal care is increasingly recognized.

 

We’re riding a wave: herbal medicine for animals is no longer a fringe path — it’s becoming normal, accessible, and financially sustaining. So much so, I’ve had to close my doors to new consultations,

Here is the breakdown

Module 1: Science & Theories'.

Discover the roots of self-healing
Explore the history, significance, and science of animals self-medicating. You’ll connect with the ways wild animals and indigenous cultures have used herbs, blending ancient knowledge with modern applications — awakening your understanding of the innate wisdom guiding all creatures.

Learn the language of herbs
Herbs speak a subtle language that supports self-healing. You’ll learn this terminology and how it shapes the methodology of animal care, giving you the confidence to interpret, offer, and guide healing with clarity and intuition.

Understand animal choice and botanical pathways
Gain insight into how animals select and use medicinal plants, and the ways these botanicals interact with their bodies. This knowledge will empower you to facilitate care that is safe, personalized, and profoundly effective.

Decode the choices animals make
Explore why animals sometimes select substances that seem toxic or unusual, and how these choices reflect innate intelligence and instinct. Understanding this deepens your trust in their natural guidance and your role as a facilitator.

Master practical skills with your botanicals
Learn to store and manage your herbal products effectively, including hydrosols and other preparations. Build a reliable foundation for safe, professional, and organized practice.

Connect with seasonal and local forage
Begin your journey into autumn herbs, exploring their actions, uses, and significance. You’ll gain hands-on understanding of how to integrate these plants safely, laying the first steps toward confident, intuitive, and aligned practice.

Module 2. Guidelines and Methodology.

Learn the essential framework for safe practice
Discover the rules and guidelines for offering botanicals responsibly, including legal requirements, legislation, and veterinary collaboration. You’ll see how these structures work in harmony with animal behaviour to create effective, intuitive, and safe therapy sessions.

Understand animal communication and preference
Animals express their needs through subtle behaviors and body language. You’ll learn to read these cues, interpreting their choices to provide deeply personalized, aligned care that honours their instincts.

Gain mastery in applied behaviour
Learn how to apply equine and canine behaviour insights in your sessions, empowering you to facilitate meaningful, transformative healing experiences.

Integrate ethics and professional collaboration
Explore our ethical framework and learn how to work alongside vets and other practitioners. You’ll see how to position yourself confidently within the integrated health care of animals, always aligned with their best interests.

Harness case notes as a transformative tool
Understand how detailed session records become powerful tools for tracking healing, shaping management plans, and supporting your growth as a practitioner.

Step into confident, embodied practice
Through hands-on training in animal behaviour, body language, and applied techniques, you’ll gain the skills and presence to guide sessions with clarity, trust, and alignment — cultivating both your confidence and the animal’s natural healing.

Module 3. Kit Discovery.

Discover the full potential of your botanicals
Explore every plant in your kit and uncover how they can enhance the health, well-being, and happiness of animals. From calming herbs to nutritional powders, you’ll gain the knowledge and confidence to use botanicals in ways that honor each animal’s intuition and natural needs.

Understand a wide spectrum of botanical forms
Learn to work confidently with essential oils, dried herbs, nutrient powders, hydrosols, spirituous waters, and essences. This module covers all 38 essential oils and a curated selection of herbal powders, local and wild medicines, providing you with a versatile toolkit for holistic care.

Engage in hands-on, guided practice
Through live demonstrations and interactive sessions, you’ll safely apply your knowledge to horses and dogs, building practical confidence and embodying your role as a skilled, intuitive facilitator of natural healing.

Connect with seasonal herbs and their uses
Explore a selection of native Spring herbs — their actions, indications, and applications — and understand how to integrate them thoughtfully into your practice. This empowers you to create healing experiences that are both safe and profoundly effective.

Module 4. Practice & Demonstrations. 

Expand your practical skills with confidence
This module is designed to broaden your understanding and significantly enhance your hands-on abilities in applying botanicals for animal well-being. Through immersive practice, you’ll develop a deeper, intuitive sense of how to use botanicals effectively across a variety of scenarios.

Connect with the power of seasonal herbs
Explore the actions, uses, and benefits of Summer herbs within the Innate Botanical Selections method. You’ll learn how to integrate seasonal medicine thoughtfully and safely, supporting animals in alignment with natural cycles.

Create a safe, inviting healing space
Through step-by-step guidance, you’ll learn how to set up environments where horses and dogs feel confident and curious to explore botanicals, encouraging them to self-select and engage with their healing journey.

Master essential oil application
Understand best practices for ingestion, topical use, and inhalation. Gain practical, safe, and effective methods for incorporating essential oils into your sessions.

Harness the subtle power of hydrosols
Discover how hydrosols can be a gentle, yet potent, tool for healing, and learn to tailor their use to each animal’s unique needs and preferences.

Integrate topical applications into your sessions
Learn how to combine botanical forms safely and effectively, supported by demonstrations and downloadable guides, ensuring your practice is confident, aligned, and deeply transformative.

 

Module 5. Structure & Framework.

Enhance the healing environment with intention
Learn the essential skills of joining, sequencing, and grouping botanicals to create a supportive and nurturing healing space. You’ll discover how thoughtful arrangement amplifies their therapeutic potential and deepens the animal’s experience of care.

Apply botanicals for common disorders and challenges
Explore botanicals for a range of common disorders and dysfunctions. This module guides you in adjusting and tailoring your selections with confidence, helping you provide precise, safe, and effective care that aligns with the animal’s needs.

Learn the professional framework for real-world practice
Gain access to the exact framework I use in my own sessions, ensuring you are fully prepared to apply your knowledge and skills in practical, real-world settings. This builds confidence, clarity, and competence, empowering you to facilitate meaningful and transformative healing experiences.

 Module 6. Integrating Practice, Relationships, and Seasonal Insight.

Build deep, intuitive connections with animals
The foundation of every successful healing session is the relationship you create with the animal. In this module, you’ll focus on cultivating empathy, active listening, and clear communication, learning to connect deeply and intuitively with each animal in your care.

Master session documentation as a transformative tool
You’ll train in effective session recording, learning how to track observations, behaviours, and botanical responses. These records become a powerful tool to understand patterns, join the dots, and enhance your ongoing practice.

Prepare for consecutive sessions and seasonal care
This module concludes with guidance on consecutive sessions, helping you plan and progress your interventions. You’ll also explore a selection of Winter herbs, understanding their properties and applications to continue supporting animals through the seasonal cycles.

Step into confident, aligned practice
By the end of this module, you’ll have the skills, insights, and intuition to confidently facilitate healing sessions, integrate learnings over time, and honour the natural rhythms and needs of the animals you work with.

 

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If you’ve felt stuck, watching your animals struggle without the results you know they deserve, this course is your pathway forward. The Innate Botanical Selections method supports the release of physical, emotional, and spiritual blockages, helping animals to realign, rebalance, and heal—even in the most challenging cases. Our approach works alongside veterinary care when needed, providing safe, natural alternatives with minimal side effects, creating a toxin-free, inflammation-free environment for your animals.

By guiding your animals through this process, you offer them freedom, choice, and a deeper sense of purpose, while you gain a structured, intuitive method for profound healing. This journey is not only about supporting your animals—it’s about empowering you, offering continuous learning, professional development, and the opportunity to step into a rising field where holistic, natural animal care is increasingly valued.

Through this training, you embrace a truly integrative model of health that addresses root causes, cultivates lasting results, and positions you as a confident, aligned practitioner in a growing, soul-led profession.

 

 

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Make profound heath changes to animals. 

 

The biggest challenge I see for people supporting animals with herbs is overwhelm—too much information, too many options, and no clear guidance. With Innate Botanical Selections, that confusion is replaced with structure, clarity, and purpose, giving you a step-by-step framework to facilitate animal well-being on every level:

  • Emotional balance

  • Physical health

  • Spiritual alignment

Through our method and personalized guidance, you will no longer be left searching for answers. Instead, you’ll gain the confidence, skills, and intuition to support your animals in a profoundly transformative way.

This is your opportunity to step into your soul-led path as a healer, gain practical expertise, and make a tangible difference in the lives of the animals you care for.

We offer flexible payment options to make this journey accessible: a Pay in Full & Save option, or Pay in Installments.

 

Enhance Your Expertise and Maximize Your Impact

To support your journey and empower your growth, we’ve added exclusive bonuses designed to deepen your learning and expand your practical skills:

#Bonus 1 Making & Creating. (Value ÂŁ900)

 

  • Craft a variety of herbal products – From hydrosols to fruit leathers, gain hands-on skills to apply botanicals confidently in real-world animal care.

  • Learn effective herbs for poultices – Discover practical applications that support healing, enrichment, and well-being.

  • Explore herbal macerates – Understand their qualities and importance, and how to use them with intention and precision.

  • Step into professional practice – Receive business guidance on moving into practice, marketing your skills, and building a sustainable, soul-led career.

 

#Bonus 2. Exclusive Discounts (10% Off )

 

  • Early access to resources and webinars – Be among the first to explore new online courses, live sessions, and special learning opportunities, supporting your growth as a confident herbal practitioner.

  • 10% off in-person workshops and retreats – Deepen your practice through immersive experiences, connecting with other practitioners, and expanding your hands-on skills and intuition in animal herbal care

 

 

#Bonus 3. Free Access to our Private WhatsApp group and Inner Circle Facebook groups. (Value, Priceless)

 

 

  • Direct access to experienced practitioners and animal owners – Connect with a network of like-minded individuals dedicated to supporting animals naturally and holistically.

  • Group support and friendship – Build trusted, heartfelt connections that uplift, inspire, and guide you as you step fully into your role as a confident, empowered practitioner.

 

August Elevation Offer: 40% off • Closes Monday, August 26, 8pm CT

 

 

This is Rachael founder & CEO of Animal Botanical, avid natural world connector & this is one of her dogs,Tiz

 

 

Rachael is a holistic & innate medicine practitioner, Medical Herbalist MNIMH, horticulturist, with additional qualifications in equine chiropractic and massage with a host of CPD to add. 

She helps students step confidently into their calling, guiding them to trust their intuition, deepen their connection with animals and plants, and build soul-led, purposeful careers in herbal and animal care.

Through her programs, Rachael blends practical expertise, scientific knowledge, and intuitive wisdom, giving students the tools and confidence to thrive in this growing industry.

Animal Herbal Health

Innate Botanical Selections Foundation Certificate

 

This course is designed for individuals who are passionate about facilitating healing for animals using a herbal method that prioritizes the animals' well-being.

 

This course is for those called to guide animals toward balance, well-being, and vitality through the gentle, intuitive power of botanicals. You’ll step into a practice that is aligned, soulful, and transformative—learning to grow your confidence and purpose as a practitioner.

By enrolling on our Foundation Certificate training, you will benefit from being:



  • A Safe Provider

You’ll gain the confidence to offer customized herbal support safely, always honoring each animal’s natural choices and intuition through the Innate Botanical Selections method.

  • A Compassionate Facilitator

You will step into the role of a skilled, intuitive facilitator, learning the full methodology and practical applications of herbal medicine for animals, with guidance that nurtures both you and your students’ growth.

  • A Knowledgeable Practitioner  

Deepen your understanding of essential oils, forage herbs, and animal behaviour, while exploring a broad materia medica that supports your holistic practice. You’ll emerge equipped to empower animals and their humans with herbal solutions that are safe, effective, and transformative.

A Discovery of Interconnectedness.

 

We created our Foundation Certificate to provide a simple and clearly structured way for owners to provide herbs to their animals.

 

Our course is fully online and self led giving students the time and space needed to commit. We hold regular live online mentoring. 

 

Students receive a personalised 1-1 mentoring session at the start of their studies.

 

Students receive a full Innate Botanical Selections kit at the commencement of the course which enables them to start offering herbs straight away.

(T & Cs Apply)

 

Students receive our Field guide to common plants and hedgerow herbs at commencement of the course. This makes a handy additional resource for forage and homework. (Value ÂŁ15.99)

 

This Is For:

People seeking to master a holistic modality that will heal, rejuvenate, restore.

  • Those individuals who are looking for a solution to chronic or acute illnesses who do not want to seek an allopathic pathway.
  • Those individuals who are looking for the foundation stepping stone to working with animals and herbs.
  • Individuals who are looking to enrich and supplement the lives of animals, including being able to work alongside medications and with the veterinary profession. 
  • Individuals looking for a modality that addresses the psychological, physical and spiritual traumas experienced by animals.
  • Those looking for a new modality to enrich the lives of animals.

This Is Not For:

Those people looking for prescription and dose based herbalism

  • Our Foundation Certificate will not provide prescriptive, dose based herbalism for animals. 
  • Those looking for a quick fix answers to chronic disorders and dysfunctions in animals

 

August Elevation Offer: 40% off • Closes Monday, August 26, 8pm CT

 

Pay in Full & Save 10%

ÂŁ2372

ÂŁ2604 before discount

  • Innate Botanical Selections Kit (Value ÂŁ380). UK ONLY- 

  • Pay in full and save 10%

  • Life time access to the training including all updates and additions.

  • Downloads, handbooks, workbooks all yours to keep forever. 

  • Dedicated 1-1 mentoring session.

  • Free 30 minute discovery call.

  • Ability to top up to Diploma.

  • Free seasonal foraging guide.

  • Discounts on all Animal Botanical Courses.

  • Bonus lessons on making and creating.

    If you are based outside the UK, please contact us directly. Depending on your location, we can either ship your kit to you or adjust the course price accordingly.

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12 Monthly Payments

ÂŁ217

Pay in Installments

  • Innate Botanical Selections Kit (Value ÂŁ380). UK ONLY- 

  • Life time access to the training including all updates and additions.

  • Downloads, handbooks, workbooks all yours to keep forever. 

  • Dedicated 1-1 mentoring session.

  • Free 30 minute discovery call.

  • Ability to top up to Diploma.

  • Free seasonal foraging guide.

  • Discounts on all Animal Botanical Courses.

  • Bonus lessons on making and creating.

If you are based outside the UK, please contact us directly. Depending on your location, we can either ship your kit to you or adjust the course price accordingly.

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Innate Botanical Selections

Innate Botanical Selections Kits

At the start of the Foundation Certificate you receive your Innate Botanical Selections  Starter kits enable you to start providing herbs to your animals straight away. Our kist contain 38 high quality absolute essential oils and a host of dried herbs, powders and hydrosols.

 

Field Guide

At the start of the Foundation Certificate you will receive our Field Guide to common plants and hedgerow herbs. This will assist you in learning all the forage herbs required.   

Certifications

Upon completion of the courses students receive a formal 'Animal Botanical - Innate Botanical Selections'  Foundation Certificate.  

 

Herbal health and wellness for all animals

Gain your Foundation Certificate in Innate Botanical Selections & start helping animals to heath, wellness and enrichment.