Bek Staten
Rowe
Summary
Dedicated holistic health advocate with expertise in herbal remedies and compassionate care. Proven ability to create tailored wellness plans while ensuring clients' comfort and safety, ready to enhance quality of life through respectful, collaborative support.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Caregiver
Joan Henderson
Santa Fe, NM
01.2025 - 05.2025
- Assisted clients with daily living activities, ensuring comfort and respect.
- Maintained a clean and organized living environment, promoting hygiene and well-being.
- Monitored clients' health conditions and reported changes to healthcare professionals promptly.
- Provided companionship and emotional support, enhancing clients' quality of life.
- Collaborated with family members to develop personalized care plans tailored to individual needs.
- Assisted client and family through the shock of Joan's mother, Jean, after losing home in Florida to hurricane.
- Assisted client and family through the transition process of finding a consistent new home with other family in Salt Lake City.
- Assisted with dressing guidance, grooming, meal preparation, and medication reminders.
Camp Counselor and Curriculum Developer
Mountain Kids!
Santa Fe, NM
05.2023 - 08.2024
- Facilitated engaging outdoor activities to enhance campers' teamwork and social skills.
- Supervised daily camp operations, ensuring safety and compliance with regulations.
- Developed creative programs that fostered camper participation and enjoyment.
- Developed the age appropriate curriculum for foraging and herbal knowledge still in use at Mountain Kids!
- Mediated conflicts among campers to promote a positive camp environment.
- Assisted in training new counselors on best practices for camper engagement and safety protocols.
- Organized group games that emphasized inclusivity and collaboration among participants.
- Monitored camper behavior, providing support and feedback to encourage personal growth.
- Maintained clear communication with parents regarding camper progress and concerns.
- Worked with children of varying age, interest, skill, and developmental levels.
- Led groups of children safely through variety of camp activities while in a mountain environment.
- Acted as a positive role model, demonstrating strong leadership skills and exemplifying the camp''s core values.
- Developed strong relationships with co-counselors that resulted in seamless teamwork during challenging situations or emergencies.
- Continued periodic involvement in back-up support and training to present day.
Herbalist
Birds of a Feather Apothecary (Self)
Santa Fe, NM
01.2022 - 05.2023
- Developed customized herbal remedies based on individual client needs and health goals.
- Conducted consultations to assess client health history and recommend appropriate herbal treatments.
- Educated clients on the benefits and uses of various herbs in natural healing practices.
- Managed inventory of herbal supplies, ensuring quality control and product availability.
- Created informative materials detailing herbal properties and preparation methods for customer reference.
- Collaborated with local suppliers to source high-quality, sustainably harvested herbs for apothecary offerings.
- Organized workshops to educate community members about herbal medicine and wellness practices.
- Grew and produced herbal remedies for patient use.
- Advised patients about use of remedies to educate on how to take, when to take and how much to take of each remedy,
- Collaborated with healthcare practitioners to integrate herbal medicine into clients'' overall treatment plans effectively.
- Successfully developed a herbal remedy line directed towards gender affirming care for trans-masc people.
- Continued herbal support on the side to this day
- Created a forage focused learning experience held at Canyon Preserve, still continuing this practice.
Education
Herbal Knowledge And Practice
Academy of Scottish Herbalism
Eugene, OR09-2019
Associate of Arts - American Sign Language And Interpreting
Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma City, OK05-2005
Skills
- Respectful and compassionate
- Elderly care
- Sign Language
- Herbal Knowledge
Languages
ASL
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Caregiver
Joan Henderson
01.2025 - 05.2025
Camp Counselor and Curriculum Developer
Mountain Kids!
05.2023 - 08.2024
Herbalist
Birds of a Feather Apothecary (Self)
01.2022 - 05.2023
Herbal Knowledge And Practice
Academy of Scottish Herbalism
Associate of Arts - American Sign Language And Interpreting
Oklahoma State University