You have activities and clinical knowledge. But you may still wonder what this child needs next.
The Rooted Practice is a professional learning membership for pediatric occupational therapy practitioners who want practical resources and a deeper way of thinking about the children they serve.
Together, we explore how the child, occupation, relationship, regulation, environment, and moment interact so you can make more intentional therapeutic choices, strengthen your clinical reasoning, and discover how nature can become a meaningful partner in participation.
Root your practice. Expand what you notice. Discover what becomes possible
Maybe you need support making sense of what you're already seeing.
You may already be a thoughtful, caring practitioner. You prepare carefully. You gather activities. You complete trainings. You consider regulation, sensory processing, motor development, relationship, goals, and participation, all while responding to the child in front of you.
That's a lot to hold.
And even with experience and knowledge, you may still find yourself wondering:
What is really influencing participation here?
What does this child need from me right now?
Do I stay with my plan or follow what is emerging?
Am I addressing the occupation, an underlying capacity, the environment, regulation or some combination of them?
How do I know when to challenge, adapt, guide, wait, or simply notice?
The Rooted Practice was created for this space.
Not to give you another formula to follow.
But to help you connect what you already know, deepen what you don't yet understand, and become more intentional about what you notice, what you choose, and why.
From searching for the perfect activity → to recognizing the possibilities already present.
From holding disconnected pieces of knowledge → to seeing how the child, occupation, relationship, environment, and moment work together.
From second-guessing responsive sessions → to understanding and articulating your clinical reasoning.
From following a plan rigidly → to remaining prepared, intentional, and responsive to what emerges.
From seeing nature primarily as a place for therapy → to recognizing what the natural environment may contribute to participation.
From borrowing someone else's approach → to developing a practice that reflects your strengths, setting, children, and community.
This isn't about becoming a different therapist.
It's about becoming more grounded in the therapist you already are and continuing to grow from there.
You want practical nature-based activities and resources you can actually use.
You want camp curricula and intervention possibilities that can save you time and help you get started.
And you want more than an activity list.
You want to understand the reasoning underneath what you do.
You want to deepen your knowledge of development, regulation, sensory-motor capacities, occupation, relationship, resilience, and nature-based practice.
You want to become more comfortable following what emerges without losing sight of the therapeutic goals.
You want a framework without a formula.
You value evidence and clinical reasoning while leaving room for play, relationship, meaning, wonder, and the unexpected.
And you want to develop a nature-based practice that feels grounded in occupational therapy and authentically yours.
Nature can be more than the setting where therapy happens.
A log may invite balancing, climbing, building, gathering, imagining, collaborating, or manageable risk.
Water may invite pouring, carrying, experimenting, regulating, problem-solving, and shared enjoyment.
A trail may invite endurance, motor planning, executive functioning, conversation, discovery, and uncertainty.
And sometimes the environment changes the plan altogether.
Wind changes. Mud changes how we move. A fallen branch becomes a tool, a problem to solve, or the beginning of an occupation we hadn't planned.
Nature is not simply where therapy happens. It can contribute to what becomes possible.
Our occupational therapy reasoning helps us determine what, if anything, we do with those possibilities.
Come prepared.
Bring an idea. Use an activity from The Rooted Practice. Try something from a training. Pull out a resource. Follow a camp curriculum.
Planning and responsiveness can live together.
Maybe the activity you planned is exactly what the child needs. Stay with it.
Maybe an occupation begins to emerge. Follow it when it makes clinical sense.
Maybe the child needs more structure. Provide it.
Maybe the challenge is too great. Adapt it.
Maybe direct practice of the occupation is what's needed. Do it.
And sometimes the most therapeutic decision may be to wait long enough to see what happens next.
The activity can give us a place to begin without determining where we have to end.
Maybe you need a way to make sense of what you're seeing.
As pediatric occupational therapy practitioners, we can collect a lot of strategies.
Sensory activities. Regulation tools. Motor activities. Executive-function ideas. Handwriting interventions. Nature-based activities. Trainings. Downloads. Resources.
And still find ourselves in a session wondering:
What does this child actually need from me right now?
Why is participation difficult?
Do I stay with the plan—or follow what is emerging?
Is this a regulation need? A sensory-motor capacity? A relationship need? An environmental mismatch? An opportunity for challenge, agency, or meaningful occupation?
And how do I hold all of those pieces without losing sight of occupation—or the human being in front of me?
The Rooted Practice was created for that space.
It gives you practical things to do and helps you strengthen the clinical reasoning underneath what you choose, what you notice, and how you respond.
Not so you can practice like me.
So you can become more grounded in your own practice.
Nature doesn't replace occupation-specific intervention.
If the goal is handwriting, we support handwriting.
If the goal is dressing, we create opportunities to get dressed.
If the goal is toothbrushing, we work on toothbrushing.
And we can also ask:
What experiences might help develop the capacities that support participation in those occupations?
What meaningful occupations might invite those capacities naturally?
What does this environment afford?
What matters to this child?
What might transfer back into everyday life?
Nature doesn't replace occupation.
It expands the possibilities we have for supporting participation in it.
Nature isn't simply the place where this work happens.
And it isn't another piece of the child we need to assess.
Nature is part of the therapeutic ecology, sometimes quietly, sometimes powerfully and sometimes shaping what becomes possible.
The wind may change the demand.
Uneven ground may invite the body to organize differently.
A fallen tree may become a challenge, a gathering place, an obstacle, or the beginning of an occupation.
Water may regulate one child and create uncertainty for another.
Weather may change the plan entirely.
And a child's relationship with the natural world may influence curiosity, confidence, connection, challenge, regulation, and participation.
This is why nature doesn't need its own place within a framework.
It lives within and around the work, interacting with the child, the occupation, the environment, the relationship, and the moment.
Our role isn't to make nature therapeutic.
Our role is to notice what it may already be offering and use our occupational therapy reasoning to decide what to do with it.
The Rooted Practice is where this way of thinking becomes practical.
It is an annual professional learning membership bringing together what to do, how to do it, and how to think about why it matters.
You'll find resources you can use immediately.
And you'll find deeper professional learning designed to help you understand the reasoning underneath them.
Professional Education
More than 15 hours of existing education exploring areas that influence children's participation, including regulation, sensory processing, postural control, motor development, autism and motor development, sleep, emotional development, executive functioning, nature-based practice, and more.
Practical Nature-Based Intervention
Activities, intervention possibilities, real-tools resources, meaningful occupations, manageable challenge, and ways to work intentionally with the natural environment—rather than simply moving an indoor activity outside.
Clinical Reasoning + Rooted in Rhythm™
Clinical reasoning guides, case examples, reflection tools, application resources, and the Rooted in Rhythm™ framework to help you connect what you're noticing with intentional therapeutic choices.
Therapeutic Nature Programming
Seven ready-to-implement therapeutic nature camp curricula, summer programming guidance, and activities developed through years of nature-based pediatric practice.
HOW Trainings
Practical learning designed to help bridge the space between understanding an idea and figuring out what it might actually look like with a child.
Rooted Reflections
Opportunities to pause, question, integrate, and consider how new learning fits within your own practice.
An Evolving Professional Resource
New education, resources, tools, intervention possibilities, and learning will continue to be added as The Rooted Practice grows.
Some resources will save you time.
Some will give you something practical to use tomorrow.
Others will invite you to stop, reflect, and begin seeing your practice differently.
The goal isn't to give you hundreds of activities to collect. It's to help you need the activity list less.
Yes, you'll find activities, curricula, guides, downloads, trainings, tools, and intervention possibilities.
But eventually, the child will do something that isn't on the activity card.
The weather changes.
The occupation evolves.
The child responds differently than expected.
Something more interesting appears.
Or the plan simply doesn't work.
That's where clinical reasoning matters.
The Rooted Practice isn't designed to give you the answer to every situation.
It's designed to help you develop a way of thinking that allows you to respond when there isn't a predetermined answer.
Professional growth isn't only about knowing more.
Learning — Deepen what you understand about children, occupation, development, relationship, nature, and participation.
Doing — Apply that learning through activities, interventions, programming, adaptation, and meaningful occupation.
Being — Strengthen presence, observation, relationship, curiosity, co-regulation, and therapeutic use of self.
Becoming — Grow into a practitioner increasingly grounded in your own clinical reasoning, strengths, values, and way of practicing.
These aren't four steps to complete.
They're interconnected parts of becoming more fully yourself as an occupational therapy practitioner.
I'll share what I've learned.
I'll share activities I've used, camp curricula I've developed, professional education, clinical reasoning, resources, questions, mistakes, and possibilities.
But the goal isn't to create another Rainbow Tree Therapies.
Because your children will be different.
Your environment will be different.
Your strengths will be different.
Your resources will be different.
Your community will be different.
And you will be different.
The Rooted Practice isn't here to give you another practitioner's practice to replicate.
It's here to help you continue developing your own.
A practice grounded in occupational therapy.
Informed by evidence and clinical reasoning.
Responsive to the human in front of you.
Open to what nature may offer.
And authentically yours.
You don't need a forest.
You don't need acres of land.
You don't need every certification.
And you don't need to become a nature-based OT overnight.
Nature-based practice might begin with a forest but it might also begin with a tree, a schoolyard, a garden, a patch of grass, a puddle, a container of water, a windy day, or something living just outside the window.
Start with what you have.
Look at what the environment offers.
Look at the occupation.
And most importantly, look at the human in front of you.
Learn something.
Try something.
Notice what happens.
Reflect.
Adapt.
Return.
Let your practice grow from there.
The hope isn't simply that you leave The Rooted Practice with more activities.
It's that over time, you become increasingly able to ask:
Who is the human in front of me?
What matters to them?
What is influencing participation?
What is the occupation asking?
What is this environment offering?
What am I noticing?
And how can I use my skills as an occupational therapy practitioner to support what becomes possible?
A place for practical resources.
Deeper professional learning.
Clinical reasoning.
Nature-based possibilities.
And a practice that can become authentically yours.
$397/year
FAQ section
You've got questions. We've got answers.
I chose the $397 annual price intentionally. I wanted The Rooted Practice to be an investment that individual practitioners could realistically make in their professional growth while still honoring the depth of what I've created and continue to add.
Your membership includes professional trainings, the Rooted in Rhythm™ framework and its six R's, intervention ideas connected to the framework, clinical resources, activities, Rooted Reflections, ready-to-implement therapeutic nature camp curricula, summer programming guidance, and an expanding collection of tools you can bring directly into practice.
Some resources are designed to save you time.
Some will give you something practical to use tomorrow.
And others are meant to make you stop, reflect, and begin seeing your practice differently.
Because ultimately, The Rooted Practice isn't about giving you more content to consume. It's about helping you become more rooted in why you do what you do and more confident in recognizing what becomes possible from there.
Not at all. The Rooted Practice isn't about moving every therapy session outside. It's about expanding how we think about occupation, environment, relationship, regulation, and participation—and learning to recognize what nature may offer when it is available. Whether you have access to a forest, playground, backyard, courtyard, or simply a few natural materials, you can begin where you are.
You'll absolutely find practical ideas, resources, and activities but that's not the heart of the membership. The Rooted Practice is designed to strengthen your clinical reasoning so you can understand why you are choosing an experience, what you are observing, and how to adapt in response to the child. The goal isn't simply to give you more activities. It's to help you see more possibilities within the occupations and environments already around you.
The Rooted Practice brings together the resources I've developed through years of pediatric occupational therapy practice, nature-based programming, teaching, and continued learning and takes them deeper for the professional.
Inside you'll find practical education you can immediately apply, including trainings on postural control, autism and motor development, sensory-motor development, regulation, sleep, emotional development, and other topics that influence children's participation.
You'll also have access to ready-to-implement therapeutic nature camp curricula, summer programming guidance, activities, intervention ideas, clinical tools, and original resources developed through my own practice.
But what makes The Rooted Practice different is the professional layer underneath it all.
Through the Rooted in Rhythm™ framework, we'll explore the six interconnected R's ~ Roots, Resonance, Rhythm, Restoration, Realization, and Resilience ~ and the clinical reasoning and intervention possibilities associated with each.
You'll learn to ask not only:
What can I do with this child?
but also:
What am I noticing? Why might this be happening? What is influencing participation? What does this child need right now? What is the environment offering? And how might I respond?
Yes. If you purchase Creating Conditions for Participation and later decide to join The Rooted Practice, use discount code ROOTED at checkout to receive $67 off your first year of membership. Your first-year membership price will be reduced from $397 to $330.