Dale Bellisfield, RN, AHG is a holistic practitioner, approaching her patients as both a Holistic Health Practitioner and Registered Nurse.  She is the herbalist at the Saint Barnabas Health Care System’s Siegler Center for Integrative Medicine in Livingston, NJ, where she is in private practice.

She has over 10 years’ education and experience in the clinical use of herbal medicines, and is also trained in European, Native American and Chinese traditions of healing.  She is one of only 214 professional members of the American Herbalists Guild, the only peer-reviewed credentialing organization in the United States for medical herbalists.

She is a lecturer at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, where she participates in their Institute for Complementary & Alternative Medicine as a panelist and instructor for medical students. Dale is also on the faculty of David Winston's Center for Herbal Studies where she trains herbalists. Additionally, she integrates her herbal skills with New Jersey physicians, and has mentored medical residents from New Jersey’s Mountainside and Overlook Hospitals.   

She helped create a holistic HIV medical program at The Maitri Healing Center, a treatment facility in Yonkers, New York.  Recently, she has formulated herbal and supplement protocols for Broadway House for Continuing Care, an HIV residence and treatment facility in Newark, the first of its kind in New Jersey.  And she was the first Holistic Health Practitioner consultant to Hackensack University Medical Center in northern New Jersey. 

Dale continues to teach and lecture widely on the use of herbs and therapeutic foods to both health care practitioners and the general public in the New York/New Jersey area. Currently she is trained and certified in Peggy Huddleston's program Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster, which offers guided imagery and relaxation to improve surgical outcome and reduce anxiety.

She contributed to Rozanne Gold’s Healthy 1-2-3 cookbook, describing the medicinal benefits of the recipe ingredients.  This book won the coveted Julia Child Award and was nominated for the James Beard Award.

She has been working for the past ten years with Chief Jake Swamp of the Mohawk Nation, to create an herbarium of the traditional local plants in northern New York State, which will be translated into Mohawk.  This will help preserve the language, culture, and the traditional herbal knowledge.

Dale lives in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, and she has a daughter in college.