Megan Waddy is a Medical Herbalist and the founder of Ancient Origins Medicinals, where she weaves clinical herbalism, plant-spirit medicine, and a deep respect for the living world into an approach that honours the innate intelligence of plants, people and nature. She is a third-generation settler living and working on the Traditional and Unceded territory of the Quw’utsun’ people, on Vancouver Island, Canada, with ancestral roots in the Norse and Celtic lands. As a highly sensitive intuitive, the plants have been her primary allies and lifelong guides. This early and enduring connection with the natural world continues to shape her understanding of healing, relationship, and the subtle communication of the more-than-human realm.
Megan’s path bridges clinical training with decades of experiential study. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biopsychology from the University of Victoria, completed a Medical Herbalist Diploma at Pacific Rim College, and deepened studies in Alchemical Herbalism with focuses on spagyrics, medical astrology, Ayurveda, and Western herbalism. Her academic background also includes master’s-level counselling training, study in Somatic Experiencing with Peter Levine, PhD, and more than a decade working in Mental Health and Addictions. Much of that work was as a Psychiatric Case Manager supporting individuals through trauma, crisis, and complex life transitions. These experiences cultivated the grounded, trauma-informed presence she carries into her private practice.
Alongside her formal education, Megan has devoted more than twenty years to advanced apprenticeships and study across multiple healing lineages. Her shamanic training began at age twenty, when she completed a three-year Core Shamanism program through the Michael Harner Institute. Shortly afterward, she met Haida Medicine Man Nungkaathgaa (Douglas Wilson), whose mentorship profoundly shifted the course of her life. Under his guidance, she entered over a decade of one-on-one apprenticeship in rites of passage, plant-spirit medicine, energy healing, and depossession.
Her studies continued through Ancestral Lineage Healing with Daniel Foor; an immersion in Celtic plant-spirit medicine with Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue; initiatory work within the Lakota lineage; and study in metaphysics and dreamwork with Chaty Secaira. She later trained for three years with Coast Salish and Norse medicine practitioner Betsy Bergstrom in depossession, curse unwinding, seiðr, and advanced shamanic practices. Following this, she completed a 1.5-year apprenticeship with Johannes Björn Gårdbäck in traditional Nordic folk-healing practices, including ancestral spirit-work, nature-based healing, and land and space clearing.
Mentorship with Ariella Daly in European Bee Shamanism has further shaped her work within women’s mysteries, womb healing, dreamwork, and land-based ritual. In addition, her immersion in traditional plant-medicine ceremonies throughout South America, Africa, Mexico, Central America, and Europe has deepened both her clinical relationship with medicinal plants and her ceremonial relationship with the wider living world.
At the heart of Megan’s work is the remembrance that we are both of the Earth and of the Stars, and that true healing emerges when we learn to live from that knowing. She understands healing as inherently relational, an ongoing conversation between the body, the plants, the land, and the subtle intelligence that moves through all living things. Her intention is to weave modern clinical herbalism with trauma-informed, intuitive, and nature-rooted practice, supporting individuals in restoring balance, reclaiming vitality, and remembering their place within the wider web of life.
Through Ancient Origins Medicinals, Megan offers a space where plant wisdom, compassionate care, and grounded presence meet, guiding people toward greater wholeness, coherence, and connection.
