Rhiannon Lewis is an aromatherapist, educator, author, conference organiser and host of the professional online International Clinical Aromatherapy Network (ICAN).
Her initial aromatherapy studies began in the UK in 1989 and were further deepened over the years in the USA and in France, where she has been living since 1997.
Rhiannon is the director of Essential Oil Resource Consultants (France), providing education, information and research in the field of essential oils.
From 2004 to 2020 Rhiannon was editor of the International Journal of Clinical Aromatherapy until its integration within the ICAN platform.
A former nurse, Rhiannon’s effective teaching style and passion for making an aromatic difference at the bedside of sick patients has taken her all over the world as a speaker at conferences and as facilitator of numerous advanced clinical aromatherapy programs. She is an initiator of several important advances in the clinical aromatherapy world including the introduction of personalised aromatherapy inhalers in settings such as cancer care in 2003.
She is the host and organiser of the Botanica and the Essence of Clinical Aromatherapy (ECA) conference series that run biennially in alternance with one another:
- ECA specialises in providing excellence in education for the clinical aromatherapy field and has been running since 2017.
- Botanica specialises in connecting the phytotherapy and aromatherapy worlds in a large international event that celebrates plant medicine and has been running since 2012.
Rhiannon is a Fellow of the International Federation of Professional Aromatherapists (GB) and honorary member of the Alliance of International Aromatherapists (USA) from whom she received a lifetime achievement award in 2019.
She is also a scientific committee member of several structures within France including the Gattefossé Foundation, Phyt’Arom Grasse and AromaDays (Cosmed).
She lives with her husband and an assortment of animals in the mountains of Provence and continues her aromatherapy work in her local community.
