YOUR PRACTITIONER
Mikhala McCann is a degree-qualified herbal medicine practitioner and the creator of Temple Door, a holistic wellness and integration space supporting people through significant psychological and physiological transitions.
At the centre of her practice is a formal grounding in western herbal medicine and nutritional therapeutics — the pharmacological literacy of a qualified clinician working directly with plant constituents, dosing, and physiological effect — paired with sustained study in somatic and psychological practice, built specifically to hold complex, non-ordinary states of consciousness with clinical rigour and genuine presence.
Her herbal training extends into formal study of plant intelligence and traditional healing systems, giving her a grounded, first-hand understanding of the therapeutic and ceremonial use of plant medicines across cultural traditions — knowledge she holds alongside, not instead of, her clinical herbal pharmacology. This dual fluency is paired with core psychological competencies developed through somatic experiencing, compassionate enquiry, human psychology, and mindfulness and meditation — disciplines centred on staying steadily present with clients as they move through intense emotional, physiological and perceptual states without imposing interpretation on what arises.
Mikhala works from an evidence-based foundation while holding genuine respect for lineage and tradition — treating clinical safety and cultural integrity as complementary requirements rather than competing ones. Her approach to integration work is herbally and nutritionally led: personalised botanical and lifestyle protocols to support the nervous system before, during and after periods of significant psychological opening, grounded in the same plant-based clinical training that underpins her wider practice.
She brings a person-centred, collaborative style to her work, prioritising trust, epistemic humility, and the client's own capacity for insight over directive or interpretive intervention.
Temple Door reflects this philosophy directly: a space built on herbal and nutritional medicine at its foundation, extended through nervous system regulation, embodied integration, and a considered blend of modalities supporting a return to balance.
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
Bachelor of Health Science (B Hsc)
Qualified herbalist and naturopath via Southern School of Natural Therapies (Torrens University).
Somatic Experiencing & Integration Practitioner
Qualified trauma informed plant medicine integration and somatic experiencing practitioner.
Compassionate Enquiry Practitioner
Completed the compassionate enquiry course with Dr Gabor Mate.
Post Grad Studies in Integrative Oncology
Various seminars, conferences and ongoing mentoring targeted to the latest in evidence based integrative oncology therapies.
TEMPLE DOOR RETREAT SPACE
Temple Door's sanctuary has been created to provide solutions to the anxiety, stress, and health issues posed by the ever-changing world around us based on a realisation that often deep and profound work is required to induce meaningful and profound healing opportunities.
The sanctuary offers a range of complimentary wellness services combining modern evidence-based practise and traditional knowledge aimed at allowing individuals to experience stillness, nurturing and support whilst going through a process of healing from a chronic illness, releasing trauma & addiction, increasing vitality, learning mindfulness or integrating spiritual experiences into the framework of their lives in order to reach a space where they can embody and share their gifts with others.
