for the one ready to explore the roots of their inner ecosystem.
I offer one-to-one InnerRoots sessions, therapeutic nature program consulting, and a practitioner manual coming late fall 2026. My approach is trauma-informed and body-based, bringing together sensory awareness, gentle reflection, and connection with the living world.
as human beings, we are meant to belong.
Our inner lives long to grow, root, adapt, and move through seasons of rest and change. In a world that asks for constant output, healing needs more than insight. It needs space, steadiness, and a way of working that can honor your pace without asking you to perform.
InnerRoots begins from a simple understanding:
we are not separate from nature.
The same patterns that shape forests, rivers, and seasons also shape the inner ecosystem: growth and rest, adaptation and resistance, rupture and repair. InnerRoots does not try to fix what is wrong or push for transformation before the system is ready. It creates the conditions for awareness and sustainable change to take root: through sensory attention, relationship with place, and gentle reflection.
Together we slow down enough to listen. Through Arrive, Sense, Reflect, and Integrate, there is guidance without pressure, and structure without rigidity. You are invited back to what is immediate and real: sky, air, ground, breath, season, the feeling that has just arrived.
Over time this becomes more than a series of sessions. It becomes a way of meeting yourself with care — not by becoming someone else, but by returning to what is already here.
Choose the Path that Fits Your Season
Whether you need a personal space for reflection and regulation, or you want to bring this work into a wider practice, there are a few ways to begin. Each path is rooted in presence, gentleness, ecological awareness, and care.
Hour-long, 1:1 sessions in a trauma-informed, nature-based space. Follow the rhythm of Arrive, Sense, Reflect, and Integrate. Come once, or walk a 12-week arc.
For the one tending their own inner ecosystem.
InnerRoots Sessions
InnerRoots Manual
For practitioners who want the framework in their hands.
A grounded guide to the Inner Ecosystem approach, the session rhythm, and adapting the work to real settings , from woodland to a room with a window.
Coming Soon - Winter 2026
Therapeutic Nature Program Consulting
For practices, care settings, and organizations.
Support to shape a nature program that fits your people, your place, and your constraints, without losing the values of the work.
ARRIVE
InnerRoots sees the self as a living system: adaptive, relational, shaped by place, always in some process of becoming. Each session follows a simple arc so that view can be practiced, not just understood.
The Rhythm of InnerRoots
We settle, orient, and come into contact with the present moment.
Sense
Through body and senses, we notice what the natural world is offering, and what begins to stir within.
Reflect
From direct experience, meaning starts to emerge: what was noticed, what it brought up, what feels significant.
Integrate
We close by carrying forward an insight, image, sensation, or invitation that can keep unfolding after we part.
Reflection becomes less about self-judgment, and more about learning the inner ecosystem with care.
InnerRoots Sessions
A 60-minute, one-to-one space for self-awareness, nervous system regulation, reflection, and inner growth done in relationship with the living world.
You do not need a forest. We work with what is present: sky, air, ground, a window, a stone in the hand, the body itself. The shape of the hour stays the same so your system can settle. What lives inside it is yours.
This is not about fixing what is wrong, or performing insight. It is a trauma-informed, body-based hour of attention, relationship, and time.
The 12-Week Journey
For those who want a longer growing season.
Twelve weekly hours, each held by one ecological principle — a lens for noticing the outer world and the inner ecosystem. The same session rhythm, week after week, so change can be slow and real.
A Single Session
For this season, this week, this need.
One hour to arrive, sense, reflect, and carry something small forward. Come once. Return when you are ready.
How We Hold the Hour
Sessions are one-to-one and 60 minutes. Invitations are offered; nothing depends on pressure or performance. You set the pace. If outdoor time is not available or not wanted, the work still holds.
Not sure which path fits? Start with a single hour.
The InnerRoots Manual
Coming Soon - Winter 2026
A grounded guide for people who want to hold this work in their own setting.
The manual is for facilitators, therapists, educators, and care staff who need a structure that is clear enough to trust and spacious enough to adapt. It offers the philosophy, the one-hour session arc, and the 12-week journey — without asking you to perform a perfect forest, a perfect script, or a perfect version of the work.
Nature, here, is whatever is present: a woodland, a courtyard, a window, a stone, the body itself.
What you recieve
The Foundations
An ecological view of the self. Trauma-informed and body-based roots. How to practice on real land, in real rooms, with real nervous systems.
The Session
How Arrive, Sense, Reflect, and Integrate unfold inside 60 minutes. Includes timing as a guide, not a rule.
The 12 Week Journey
Each week held by one ecological principle: theme, intention, nature practice, reflection, and a gentle close.
Adaptation
Guidance for full outdoor immersion to a single room, so no one is excluded because of geography, mobility, or setting.
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You’ll also receive any updates about its release as winter approaches.
Therapeutic Nature Program Consulting
Thoughtful support for bringing nature into the care your offer
You may have the beginnings of a nature-based program: a garden, an outdoor space, a few meaningful activities, or simply a sense that the living world could have a greater place in your work.
I help you shape those beginnings into a grounded, adaptable program that fits your people, your setting, and the resources you have.
Together, we consider what is already present, what needs tending, and how nature-based experiences can become a sustainable part of your practice, not another demand layered onto an already full system.
What we can explore together
Your program’s purpose and the people it will serve
Opportunities for nature connection within your setting
Activities and session rhythms that fit your participants
Ways to adapt the work to different needs and levels of nature access
A manageable approach to beginning, developing, or refining your program
About Me
Antoinette Vasseur, CNIT, CPD
My path began in land-based permaculture design. From there, I moved into therapeutic garden design and the development of nature-based therapeutic programs. As my work shifted from tending landscapes to supporting people, a question began to take root:
If ecological principles can help us design resilient landscapes, what might they teach us about tending our inner lives?
InnerRoots grew from that question.
I approach the self as a living ecosystem, shaped by relationship, responsive to its surroundings, and moving through seasons of growth, rest, and change. In the spaces I hold, understanding comes not only through conversation, but through sensation, experience, and attention to the living world.
My approach is gentle, grounded, and trauma-informed. I pay close attention to pacing, consent, and the choices that help each person participate in a way that feels right for them. There is room to pause, to adapt, and to leave something unfinished. You do not need to arrive with the right words or turn every experience into an insight.
What matters to me is offering steady companionship and a structure spacious enough for reflection to unfold without force. Together, we notice what is present, what offers support, and what may need care.
I also hold this work with respect for the ecological wisdom that informs it - wisdom that belongs to the living world and long predates modern frameworks. I bring gratitude, humility, and a willingness to keep learning into my relationship with both place and practice.
Begin Where You Are.
Perhaps you are curious about an InnerRoots session, considering a nature-based program for your setting, or wondering whether this work fits what you need.
If something here resonates, I invite you to reach out. We can begin with a conversation about what you are looking for, what kind of support would be most meaningful, and whether InnerRoots feels like the right fit.