Hi, I'm Sari Szasz
Clinical Herbalist &
Postpartum Doula.
Plant medicine deserves a steady place in every season of life - supported by compassionate, skilled care that's rooted in the body, driven by connection, and respectful of each person's unique situation. Hormonal wellbeing. Nervous system regulation. Gut function. Chronic health challenges. The slow, quiet work of coming back to yourself. And within that, birth, the postpartum period, and sleep deserve the same grounded, skilled support. Wherever you are in your story, you deserve care that actually sees you.
I've been a doula for over five years, walking beside families as they crossed the threshold into parenthood, and studying + working with herbal medicine for over a decade.
In the winter of 2024, I gave birth to my baby boy at home. The power of that threshold now lives in my bones. Becoming a mother showed me, in my own body, why continuity of care matters through life's great transitions, and herbalism continually reminds me how far that need extends, running like a thread through every stage of life.
Unfortunately, fractured support shows up everywhere. In the teenager whose cycles are dismissed as normal. In the mother whose exhaustion is handed back as a prescription. In the elder whose body is managed rather than tended.
Clinical herbalism and postpartum care are my way of mending these gaps. Drawing on modern evidence and deep traditional plant knowledge, I work with people navigating hormonal health, nervous system dysregulation, gut and immune function, chronic fatigue, sleep, and the slow work of coming back to yourself, from preconception through to the later seasons of life. I am passionate about child and family health, but everyone is welcome to find reliable and tailored support here.
My years of doula work live inside my herbal practice too, informing how I support people through pregnancy, postpartum recovery, and the fourth trimester. I am a dedicated postpartum doula who is trained and influenced by traditional approaches to nurturing the fourth trimester.
Here you find support that merges the scientific with the soulful, clinical herbal medicine held together by years of experience and a deep respect for your body's own wisdom and the intelligence of plants, so that nothing about you gets left at the door. If something in you recognises this, I'd love to work with you.
Training & Education
Over the years I have participated in both institutional and community education, and I am grateful and privileged to have learnt from many wise and advanced teachers in their fields such as Dr Greer Kirshenbaum, Dr Rocio Zunini, Dr Helen Ball and Louise Herbert. My herbal training has involved learning from a wide array of talented teachers in Australia and the USA.
HERBAL MEDICINE
+ Advanced Diploma of Clinical Western Herbalism, Nature Care College
+ Community & Family Herbalist Training, Commonwealth School of Holistic Herbalism
+ Herbs for Birth Workers Training, Commonwealth School of Holistic Herbalism
+ Childbearing Herbal Training w. Tessa Micaela Landreau-Grasmuck Midwife
+ Moxibustion for Pelvic Health, Red Tent Wellness
BIRTH + POSTPARTUM
+ Bachelor of Midwifery, SCU (current)
+ Birth and Postpartum Doula, Australia Doula College
+ Cert IV Doula Support Services, Womb to Tomb Foundation
+ Childbirth Educator and Mentor, Birthing from Within
+ Holistic Postpartum Practitioner Method w. Clover Postpartum
+ Optimum Maternal Positioning Training
+ Childbirth Physiology Course w. Dr Rachel Reed
+ Childbirth Collective w. Dr Rachel Reed
+ Tibetan Massage Training, Dharamsala
+ Belly Binding Masterclass w. Sarah Smit Midwife
+ Birth Trauma Training, Make Birth Better
+ Breastfeeding Mastered for Postpartum Professionals w. Milkybusiness
SLEEP & INFANT + MATERNAL WELLBEING & ATTACHMENT
+ Nurture Neuroscience Practitioner Certification w. Dr Greer Kirshenbaum & Dr Rocio Zunini (training)
+ Pediatric Sleep and Development Specialist, Mother Nourish Nurture
+ Nurtured Infant Sleep Workshop w. Dr Greer Kirshenbaum
+ Infant Mental Health Workshop w. Louise Herbert
+ Pre and Perinatal Psychology for Midwives w. APPPAH
+ First Aid & CPR Trained & WWCC
My Story & Values
I'm a migrant from Hungary; I was born in Budapest and my folks moved to the iconic Bondi Beach when I was five years old. Raised by creative, intellectual and progressive parents - early life helped shape me into a woman who values community, social justice, earth-based spirituality, creativity and care/healing work. During my late teens I had an ecological & animist remembering and have spent the 10+ years since learning and practicing agroecology, eco-spirituality, grounded ecofeminism and traditional skills including textile weaving + herbal medicine. I've worked alongside women in healing spaces, alongside Indigenous and Peasant women in food justice and UN policy spaces and women + gender diverse folks across the reproductive continuum to transform the way our culture treats and approaches this sacred rite of passage. Living in-tune with the land, place-based and trying to live regeneratively have been big parts of my adult life. My connection to herbs and plants weaves through my life. They remind me of our interconnectedness and the restorative potential in our gardens and ecosystems. I've been deeply immersed in herbal learning for over a decade and grow and craft my own herbal remedies alongside training to be a clinical herbalist with a desire to bring plant medicines to underserved communities. I have woven my Earth-based passion and orientation into a rich tapestry for supporting parents, mothers and babies through birth work + infant sleep care that supports the intersections of reproductive, climate and ecological justice. The way we are born, the way parents experience their rite of passage and how we nurture the early years is foundational to raising a wise human culture that will belong to the Earth, have the internal resources + creativity to contribute to co-liberation and will know how to be compassionate community members and leaders. Honoring ecological diversity necessitates we honor family structures of all kinds, fluid and diverse forms of gender and sexuality; I work in a way that respects and values non-heteronormative ways of being. As a cis-white woman I am self-reflective of my power + privilege and will always strive to be a safe and culturally sensitive ally to everyone I work with. I love feedback and honesty. I'm a science nerd and learning about maternal and infant mental health development through neuroscience and attachment grounds my intuitive sense that repairing broader human/earth relations begins at conception and is further shaped by nurture during the early years. I relish the privilege of education and wear many hats. I'm a systems thinker and am always seeing patterns between disciplines - hence my long and varied list of training + education. As a clinical herbalist I balance science, mutual aid and awe in my approach with plants and people. My work with the land infuses everything I do and my ongoing decolonial journey shapes the way I approach birth work and infant sleep support. There are many threads of connection between the way our culture treats the perinatal time, infant sleep and the shaping of these by capitalism & colonization, the latter two which have severed us from our instincts, community and created homogenization at the expense of biodiversity and equity. In all facets of my life, I aspire to remedy our connection to Earth and each other. Another significant life event that I am still digesting is my father dying during pregnancy. Growing up with a parent who struggled with substance use that ultimately killed him and witnessing his sensitivity, compassionate heart and challenges, has made me passionate about remedying mental health challenges. I don't shy away from darkness and know there is much healing in sitting with suffering, grief and the whole spectrum of experiences that make us human. Nurtured parenting and nurtured infant sleep has the profound, evidence-based ability to build brains towards greater life-long wellbeing, including mental health. I am trying to honor my dad's legacy through this work. I value inclusivity, being trauma-informed and respecting everyone's unique struggles + journey + resilience. I live in the wild forest on Unceded Gumbaynggirr Country and have a medicinal market garden where I grow food and healing plants for my community. I live with my husband, son and dog on unceded Gumbaynggirr Country. We practice reciprocity with the land and our First Nations Traditional Owners (imperfectly of course!). You can learn more about our farming enterprise here.