noun. A woman who practices folk medicine; an herb doctor.

noun. A specifically female curandero, or traditional Central American healer

noun. a Mexican woman who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans

"Though I recently featured Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton in a Poetry Dispatch, occasionally a critic out there (including my old Yaqui Village friend, Judith Wiker — poet, singer, songwriter, curandera/Eastern healing arts) reminds me: Where are all the women?"

healer  therapist