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 something fun for me, 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. Since 2021, I have been a certified forest guide with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (https://anft.earth/) and am passionate about providing opportunities for people to rememberthat

we are not separate from nature, we are nature.

My forest therapy 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 and The Serviceberry 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
Weyward by Emilia Hart
Treekeepers: The Race for a Forested Future by Lauren E. Oakes