Rooted & Held
Nature-based healing,
guidance & care
Support held by the
branching, blooming,
deeply-rooted world
Rooted & Held
offers support for seasons of transition, grief, or uncertainty about what’s to come
In Rooted & Held, we’ll work together to uncover and remember your place
in the web of life.
With the support of the land, seasons, and natural world, you will feel yourself rooted and held by this loving world.
In Rooted & Held, we’ll draw on mycelial and cyclical wisdom. We’ll turn to the trees and plants, the winged ones and the furred ones to remember how to live and be held in relationship, always, even in the most taxing and veiled times.
The living world remembers you, and is here
to support and guide you.
Perhaps you’ve found yourself at the edge of the woods or at the mouth of a dark cave.
The path ahead is unknown,
but going back isn’t an option.
You don’t need to be fixed, but you are looking for guidance and support.
Rooted & Held is a space to root deeply into the support and care of the More-Than-Human World
How we’ll work together
I love working with people on their path to deeper self compassion and understanding.
These paths twist and turn, and we may encounter downed trees, foggy hollows, and thorny overgrowth along the way. With the land and the kind Seen and Unseen ones as our guides, you will (re)discover the love and support that waits for you.
I have experienced and witnessed the care and healing the More-Than-Human-World offers, and I’m grateful to be a guide to this support.
To learn more about me, my work and my background please visit this page.
I offer a free, 15 minute consult to help you decide if Rooted & Held is right for you.
With intention and care,
you’ll be supported through:
Gentle, relational listening, intutive reflection, and guidance.
Nurturing your connection to the web of being for care and support. This can include cultivating your relationships with other-than-human kin such as trees and plants; with the waters, air, earth and land; and with loving ancestors, guides, and holy helpers.
Practices such as art, journaling, tarot and oracle cards for deeper understanding and insight.
If you’re local, most often we’ll meet outside in a local green space. Meeting virtually is also an option.
I believe that it’s in turning to our larger world, to the web that holds us and
gives us life, that we can truly be held.
The land is calling us to be rooted, and to
feel the sturdyness of the deep earth.
Past clients on their experience working together:
“I felt more grounded and supported by the world around me. Afterwards, I dove into ancestor work, which now supports me on the daily. My time in grief care not only helped me grieve the loss but also taught me ways to resource support after our time together.”
Former client
“"It was all so supportive. My favorite bits were our landing/grounding meditations, the tea and earth ritual held so potently, and tarot cards at the end. I've brought both tea and tarot into my life thanks to this work and I love them both! :) :) The sliding scale is incredibly generous, especially given the quality of the care, and this allowed me to get support I would not have received otherwise.”
Former client
Through working with Heather, I learned how my grief is a river; a portal. She taught me how to transmute numbness and despair into something more sacred and alive. Through her gifts and guidance, I was able to re-engage with, and re-imagine reverence; for nature, with ancestors living and past, for the trees, and even eventually, for my grief itself. Heather is extremely intuitive, and her wisdom makes Grief Care so expansive, revolutionary, and profound. It was a transformative time for me. I am so grateful.
Former client
“I feel attuned and resourced enough to attend to my grief, with ritual and with care. I can look to guidance with nature, poetry, music, or tarot. I don't feel numb anymore, I feel my grief is sacred now. It can still be painful, but its also...I understand it more as its own organism moving so closely with love as well, it has its own power. I also have such a newfound gratitude for the wind, for water, for trees, and for listening closely to the lands I'm on. And finding the languages of animism also had a profound effect on me as well. I'm very much changed from Grief Care.”
Former client
Rooted & Held draws on these lineages and practices:
🌲My extensive community-based social work and grief support experience, as well as personal and collective heart, mind, body and spirit-tending tools and practices
🌲My Forest Bathing/Forest Therapy training from the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy
🌲Animism and nature-based spirituality, especially informed by Northern European and Eastern European/Jewish traditions. Many of these practices and traditions are now known as “pagan” or “Celtic”
🌲My personal practices of listening to the land where I live, colonially known as the Pacific Northwest; practicing tarot; cultivating plant kinship; meditation and visualization
🌲The teachers and thinkers and beings and practices named here
I offer free, 15 minute consultations over zoom, to decide whether Rooted & Held is the right fit for you (if the available times don’t work for you, please reach out by email).
For any session, please see my scheduling page for discount codes to support financial access.
If you prefer to meet virtually for your Rooted & Held sessions, please indicate this when scheduling.
Frequently asked questions
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If you’re local, we’ll meet at a local park or forest. I’m also available to meet virtually if needed.
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No, this is not therapy. Rooted & Held is offered as supportive presence and deep listening; it can be considered counseling or coaching. To support you, I guide and accompany you as you reweave your relationships with the more-than-human world; your wise and well ancestors and kin (if this fits for you); and with your own embodied wisdom.
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Rooted & Held is for anyone who needs gentle support in a challenging time. You may be grieving the loss of a beloved being or experience; in a liminal or transitional season; or just unclear about the path ahead. I work with the more-than-human world to support anyone moving through these shrouded seasons.
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I carry over 20 years of professionally working with crisis, trauma, and grief. I carry a lifetime (and beyond) of personally working with my own and others’ grief.
In my own life, I have experienced grief through the death of many beloveds, including my father, other kin, a beloved friend, and animal companions. I’ve grieved the experience of infertility and miscarriages, divorce, and my own stable ground while living with mental and emotional health struggles.
If you’d like to learn more about me and my experience, please visit my About page. You are also welcome to reach out to hello@rosecedarforest.com.
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I do not accept insurance. I do offer discount codes to support financial access. Please see this page for more information and discount codes.
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I am happy to wear a mask if requested. Please don’t hesitate to ask. If you are feeling sick at all, please reschedule your appointment (I will do the same). Please reach out with any questions.
Please note that Rooted & Held is not therapy. It is offered as a form of support grounded in nurturing relationships with the more-than-human world, wise and well ancestors and guides, and your own embodied wisdom.
How I think about and work with
grief and other challenging seasons
Too often I’ve seen people receive the message that they or their grief, confusion, or pain is too much.
We can be seen as a problem to be solved - or turned aside and turned away.
We may even be pushed out of the circles we hold dear. People are scared, they’re unsure, they’re uncomfortable. They don’t know what to do, and they just want us to be “better.”
I’ve come to believe that “better” is too limited an aspiration.
Instead, I think transitional, challenging, and grief-filled times are experiences that can become integrated into our lives. This integration can be both supportive and deeply meaningful.
We can even, sometimes, find joy, magic, and connection inside of and alongside our most difficult seasons and experiences.
The trees that give us breath, the soil that gives us life, the beings of air and earth and water, seen and unseen - they are our family, and they want to support us. We can ask for their help, support, love, and guidance.
I am here to be that person that is not afraid, and to help you
forge, reweave and nurture your connection with your more-than-human kin.
To learn more, you are welcome to schedule a free 15 minute consultation, or email hello@rosecedarforest.com.
Some other important things to know:
I have learned that our toughest emotions and experiences are thorougly entangled with who we are and the world we live in. Our experiences our own, and are deeply woven with our intersecting identities; our relationships with family and ancestors; the body we live in/are; access to financial resources; and more. In my work, I honor the tension between grief and other difficult times as universal experiences, and as a totally unique and individual at the same time.
In my work with grieving people (and in all areas of my life) I work for liberation and justice, and I welcome all of who you are.
I believe it’s also important to state my identities and some of the life experiences I bring to Rooted & Held. I am a white, cis, queer femme, woman. I am Jewish (complicatedly so, as many of us are), and also a descendant of Irish, Scottish, and German ancestors. I am a deeply grateful animist.
No matter what brings you here, you deserve care and support. If Rooted & Held is not the right fit for what you need and want, I will do my best to help you find other resources.
If you are in urgent need of mental health support and are in Multnomah County, please call the Crisis Line at 503-988-4888 and find other urgent resources here. Click here for national crisis lines, or dial 988.