About

Aimee Vandemark (she/her)
Certified Forest and Nature Therapy Guide

After many years of experiencing the beauty and healing power of nature, I realized that being in nature wasn’t just for fun it was essential to my whole being. Since that realization, I have sought out readings, experiences, and education that reinforced the fundamental relationship between humans and the natural world.  I am now a certified forest guide with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (https://www.natureandforesttherapy.earth/) and am passionate about providing opportunities for people to remember that we are not separate from nature, we are nature. My practice is informed by my background as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a mother of two nature-loving children, and growing up a “farm kid”.

What's on my bookshelf?

Nature books I love to read and re-read

• Forest Bathing by Dr. Qing Li
  

• Your Guide to Forest Bathing by M. Amos Clifford

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• The Nature Fix by Florence Williams

• Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

• How to Be More Tree by Annie Davidson

• The Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv

• The Heartbeat of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

• The Overstory by Richard Powers