Two hands hold a green feathery stock of yarrow with white flowers against a blurred background of foliage. The overlayed white text reads Welcome to Yerba Nomadica, ancestral and integrative arts for collective resilience.
Rooted Care Shaped by Lineage and Land.
As an associate level clinical Social Worker (LMSW), Carla’s practice integrates mental health services with land based therapies through a liberation psychology and trauma-informed framework. Her approach honors individual, collective, and ancestral well-being through psychotherapy, therapeutic art-making and somatic oriented practices, grounded in a critical consciousness of the effects of structural violence and social inequity.
Additionally, Carla runs an herbal practice that encourages individuals to build personal & reciprocal relationships with plant medicine and the land they stand on. As a clinically trained herbalist, she offers herbal consultations, educational plant offerings, and herbal mutual aid in Tucson, Arizona. Occasionally, Yerba Nomadica releases small batch limited run apothecary remedios available locally & in the Tiendita.
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Community Offerings
In the left photo, a single hand holds up a fist full of light pink and magenta desert willow blossoms, small buds, and pointy green leaves. In the right photo, three woven baskets are arranged in a triangle. One holds cream colored dry mesquite pods, the other red hopy amaranth flower, and the third contains the pail green desiccated sems of desert mallow.
About
Carla Vargas-Frank MSW, Artist, Herbalist
Hola, todxs! I’m Carla and I am an artist, herbalist and social worker with deep roots in the Sonoran Desert and a background that blends expressive arts, clinical energetic herbalism, and community-based advocacy. My path into this work has also been shaped by a history of supporting the immigrant community, local food systems and anti-trafficking efforts. As a multiethnic person descended from colonized, colonizer, and diasporic lineages—and someone living with chronic health conditions—I approach healing as a layered, personal, and political journey.
My practice is grounded in trauma-informed care and liberatory psychology, cultural humility, and a deep reverence for ancestral knowledge, creativity, and the wisdom of the body. I draw on emerging mental health scholarship alongside holistic traditions to support clients in reclaiming their stories, reconnecting with themselves, and building resilience that honors who they are and where they come from as much as where they are going. Whether you’re moving through transition, identity exploration, physical health issues, or intergenerational healing, my goal is to hold a space that is warm, exploratory, collaborative, and deeply attuned to your needs. If this approach resonates with you, I invite you to reach out. I’d be honored to work with you.
