Tiffany Nicole Fletcher is a healing arts practitioner. A somatic healer, community herbalist, poet, and vocalist, she uses all of these healing tools—the body’s wisdom, the power and friendship of the plants, writing, and song—to foster wellness, resilience, and transformation.
Tiffany is a certified Body Deva somatic healing practitioner and a second-degree Reiki practitioner. As a rare disease patient, Tiffany is passionate about improving the healthcare disparities and inequities affecting Black women. Her healing practice is grounded in her lived experience of chronic illness and the desire to create true spaces of care, both individual and collective.
Tiffany received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University and a Master of Public Administration degree from the NYU Wagner School of Public Service. She is grateful to have served the nonprofit sector as a communications strategist, amplifying causes close to her heart, including the empowerment of women and girls, education, health and wellness, and the performing arts. Her creative writing has been featured in publications such as Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing and Heart of Flesh Literary Journal.
Tiffany proudly belongs to a lineage of public servants, lay leaders and ministers, gardeners and farmers, a self-taught beekeeper, spirit-seers, and strong, creative women who love fiercely and pray constantly. Her roots are on islands in the Caribbean Sea—a first-generation daughter of West Indian immigrants, Tiffany was raised in New York City.
▫ GUIDING PRINCIPLES ▫
Where can healing be found? This is a question I’ve been seeking the answer to for a long time, seeking to find and experience the answer for myself. All of my offerings are a way of sharing the answers I’ve found, making use of my journey to help others find healing too.
Presence, relationship, the natural world, creative expression, embodiment, touch, prayer—and ultimately, grace. These are the remedies/tools I work with. There are many more.
I believe in the body-mind connection, that spiritual healing has effects on the physical plane.
I believe in honoring and valuing the earth, and that plant medicine is our birthright. I am here because my ancestors had close relationships with plants, and with the living world.
I believe that relationship can be a sanctuary of profound healing and transformation—whether relationship with God, ourselves, or others. I believe in the unseen, in the soul, in the inherent dignity of all people, and in kindness.
I believe in the wisdom of the body—in its partnership with us as unrelenting voice and steady friend. Home throughout all our days, it is a gift—all bodies are.
I believe in interdependence, in fostering communities of care as a critical component of our well-being, in the ongoing need for a “village” to sustain us, and in valuing love over power. I believe that we were made to need each other, without shame.
I believe that the fullness of life comes from having the courage to visit our “shadow” places. That embracing and accepting grief, loss, sorrow, and other challenging emotions is where we find the very key to our vitality.
I am devoted to Love.
I believe that growth is possible. That with devotion to our unique path in this life, we can overcome even the most long-standing, pressing inner holds or difficulties and find transformation that leads to a better life. I believe that healing can be found.
▫ LINEAGE/TEACHERS ▫
I give thanks to the web of care and wisdom that has held me throughout initiations big and small, to this constellation of teachers who have guided me in the use of remedies that enable me to be of service now:
the folk herbalism practices of the West Indies and of all my ancestors
my mother, who pointed me in the God direction—I have not looked away since
the spiritual counselors and therapists who have taught me, by example, invaluable lessons about pastoral care, therapeutic presence, and the healing process
Mary Mueller Shutan, spiritual healer and teacher
Reverend Kristin Kaulbach Miles, priest and chaplain
Ifetayo White, Reiki Master
Christina Rohm, soprano
Old Ways Herbal School of Plant Medicine – Juliette Carr, Family Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Herbalist
Wild Gather Hudson Valley School of Herbal Studies
the legacy of Christian mysticism and prophetic wisdom
Vera Ruangtragool, meditation teacher; Founder and Executive Director, Truly Well
Amanda Votto and Emily Williams, who taught me the practice of mindful self-compassion
women of my Christian faith who have nurtured me, prayed over me, and encouraged my gifts
fearless Black women writers, past and present – too many to name
the plants. forever the plants.