About Cerina Hebbard
Master Herbalist, Nutritional Coach,
Mental Health/Emotional Wellness Specialist
My passion is guiding people of all ages to experience optimal health emotionally, intellectually and socially so they thrive!
I especially appreciate helping parents to know exactly how to help their teens, preteens, and young adults when they’re going through difficulties
that get in their way, preventing them from feeling good inside.
I’m blessed to do what I love, guiding people and parents when someone’s struggling with any combination of severe anxiety, ADHD, autism (any level), ODD, bipolar, and other challenges - so that, very soon, they all begin to feel better, processing emotions and self-regulating more easily - soon becoming more self-confident, independent, joyful and empowered people with bright futures.
My Journey to Holistic Healing
My expertise, like so many other wellness practitioners, developed from my own health struggles as a child and in my teens when medical doctors couldn’t diagnose or treat my chronic pain and other debilitating health challenges. They dismissed it as in my head, as they often did to women and girls.
I made a powerful commitment to find wellness tools to live my best life possible, and set out to find answers that actually worked to help my unique body and mind.
I’ve always believed that we can all recover to some great degree - no matter our condition - as long as we’re committed seek, find, and then follow an approach that feels balanced, and meets one’s own specific needs. We also need to have a positive support team, and put effective structures in place to reach optimal success.
Overcoming Autoimmune Conditions with Natural Remedies
As a teen, I embarked on a personal journey to achieve optimal health and vitality. Facing conditions like fibromyalgia, chronic exhaustion, Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA), Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), and several inflammatory skin issues, I sought more holistic ways to relieve my pain and discomforts. Through an extensive exploration, study and practice, I used shiatsu, acupuncture, herbalism, mycology, nutritional therapies, restrictive diets, massage therapy, among other healing modalities and eventually found success. But it took many years of trial and error to finally find a path to healing.
Raising Healthy Families: My Motivation for Learning
As I raised two extraordinary daughters, they each experienced their own unique childhood health concerns. One had a gran mal seizure disorder, and one diagnosed with moderate autism (now called level2), so life was not easy for any of us during those years. I was motivated to find real answers to help them feel better. I dedicated myself to ‘unlocking’ the symptoms that limited each one of us so we’d be able to live more joyful, fulfilling lives.
First, I learned from experts and put into action everything I could (that made sense to me) for my daughters’ specific health challenges, and then I worked to recover my own health. We each reached freedom from our former struggles, turning those old difficulties into our strengths and superpowers, and living fulfilling lives!
My First Wellness Programs Came Naturally
My mission expanded as I saw more families in my community struggling with similar physical, intellectual, and emotional pain, discomforts, and needs.
As I’ve studied various healing modalities, listening keenly to my clients and students, I’ve gathered a deep understanding of how individual human bodies/minds work. I’ve been able to help thousands of others to heal themselves by getting to the root cause of their struggles.
Even when medical doctors said there was nothing that could be done for their condition, except medications to hide some of the symptoms, but never getting to the root cause of the situation to remedy it, I’ve been able to help them see what was needed so they could heal themselves.
My journey led to the creation of an herbal and nutritional wellness consulting business where I’ve worked with individuals and families facing a variety of chronic conditions, from asthma, allergies, autism and ADHD to chronic pain, cancer, digestive problems, respiratory issues, hormonal and endocrine concerns.
I’ve found that helping people feel better nourishes me and expands my life, too. I especially love to help guide parents of teens and young people experiencing any of the challenges associated with autism and other behavioral, social, and/or communication struggles.
Working with Autism, ADHD, etc, so ALL People Thrive and Feel Good Inside
I worked with an amazing doctor/nutritional herbalist to help my daughter after she was diagnosed with autism and struggled to manage her emotions, especially anger and rage. This lovely
I began working with people, teens, and children about 30 years ago with more significant emotional and mental health diagnoses, including severe autism (levels 2 and 3), after finally healing myself.
the first 35 who were on or near the autism spectrum. The results were extraordinary, with each and every child experiencing significant independence, and their whole family gaining greater joy.
Since 2018, our previous autism wellness program has offered customized wellness plans that address each child's specific needs, providing parents with the guidance, understanding and support they need to empower their teens, preteens and young adults to overcome so many of their challenging concerns, as they developed emotional maturity, resilience, and truly thrive.
A New Approach to Emotional Wellness for Teens
These days especially, teens’ emotional wellness needs are ever-growing, and our services continue to expand to meet these needs. Through our WELLNESS and FREEDOM NOW Programs, we offer families the tools to help ‘unlock’ their kids’ full potential, guiding them toward experiencing greater calm, effective conversational communication, ease with social skills, full self-expression, and emotional wellbeing.
Join One of Our Wellness Programs Today and Experience the Comfort of Real, Lasting Mental Health
and Emotional Wellness for Your Family Really Soon!
If you are a parent seeking powerfully effective natural solutions to help your child or teen overcome emotional and physical challenges, our Wellness Programs provide you with safe, customized solutions you’ve probably been wishing, praying, and searching for. Together, we’ll create a pathway toward a joyful, balanced, harmonious family life. Please read on to discover more about our programs and services.
More About WELLNESS and FREEDOM NOW programs
With our fast-acting, all-natural wellness programs, we guide stressed out, highly-committed parents whose teens, preteens, and young adults are struggling with mental health crises and/or chronic upsets; things like:
meltdowns, anger, aggression, self-harm, dysregulation, defiance,
anxiety, panic attacks, emotional upsets,
lack of attention, focus, learning, or safety awareness,
behaviors, obsessions, eloping, etc,
We design a customized ‘Holistic Wellness Toolkit’ so that teens, young people and their parents quickly gain a deeper sense of internal calm, with more ease, focus, and self-management, no matter how complex, unconventional, or potentially dangerous things are right now.
This soon leads parents of these formerly struggling kids to witness them being more joyful, and experiencing closer personal connections, kind, effective conversational communication, greater empowerment, more self-regulation, and social ease, all while providing them with a lifetime of greater emotional maturity, independence, productivity and fulfillment!
PLEASE NOTE: When your family joins us, your young people may be on one or several medications, and that’s perfectly okay and typical. We’ll put together a plan with those medications in mind, and urge you to review the plan with their doctor(s). Over time, they may no longer need some of those medications, but we will leave that to their medical team. We do not make recommendations about medications. Instead, we will educate you to know what will support their optimal health and wellbeing, for a lifetime of feeling productive, accepted, self-worthy, and experiencing maximal independence (and inter-dependence)!
Case Study
"Just two months into working with one extraordinary family, their 13-year-old son shared something remarkable with me. He expressed his gratitude for the things I had taught his parents, saying that he no longer wanted to hurt his family, some school kids and teachers, or anyone—not even fish! He told me he dreams of getting his master’s in social work so he can help children who are struggling, just like he was only a few months ago." ~ Cerina