If you've ever tried to describe what's wrong and ended up saying “I know this sounds weird, but” — you're in the right place.
I help people figure out what’s actually happening in their bodies.
I'm Deborah Mizeur — a clinical herbalist and nutritionist working at the intersection of Classical Chinese Medicine and Western herbal and nutritional medicine.
The symptoms that bring people to me are often awkward, bizarre, or mysterious. Not because they're unusual, but because they haven't been looked at the right way yet. Hot flashes that don't respond to anything tried. Grief that has settled into the body and won't move. Eczema that appeared the year everything else fell apart. Depression or pain that hasn't lifted, even with treatment, and nobody can say why. Recurring cycles of poor sleep, irritability and fatigue — the body behaving in ways nobody has taken the time to fully understand.
I take the time.
Note: I work alongside physicians, therapists, and prescribers rather than in place of them. I'll want to know what you're taking and who's caring for you.
A different kind of looking
In Classical Chinese Medicine, symptoms are information — about how your life force is moving, where it's getting stuck, where it's being depleted. My process for finding the root is methodical and specific: two people with identical symptoms may leave with completely different recommendations, because the root is different for each of them.
The conversation that gets us there may go in directions that don't seem immediately obvious. I'll ask about things that feel unrelated. I stay curious. People tell me they can share anything without fear of judgment — and that the questions I ask have a way of unlocking something they didn't know they were carrying.
The same is true of the plants. I don’t work from a supplement list or specific protocol. In both the Chinese and the Western traditions I was trained in, a plant has character - a direction it moves, a temperature it carries, a tissue it favors, things it will and won’t do alongside other plants. Knowing a medicine well enough to use it takes years, and it’s closer to knowing a person than to knowing an isolated chemical compound. What I recommend comes out of the relationships I have cultivated, not out of a database.
You might be in the right place if -
You've tried the remedies, followed the advice, and are still searching. Your doctors have run the tests and come up short. You know something has shifted and you want to understand it, not just survive it. You're ready to explore what's actually going on rather than manage what's on the surface.
If you think we might be a good fit, reach out.
Ready when you are.
Most people start with a free 20-minute conversation. We figure out together whether this is the right fit and which door into the practice makes sense for you. If you already know, you're welcome to book directly.
In-person in Chestertown, Maryland · Telehealth available
If you're not sure whether what you're experiencing is something I work with, reach out. The symptoms that are hardest to name are often the most important ones.
