About Amber

I’ve lived many lives in this one body.

My story includes complexity—growing up around addiction, navigating grief, becoming a mother, fostering/adopting, advocating for children with medical needs, and navigating the dissolution of my marriage. I’ve known both deep love and deep challenge, often at the same time.
I’ve also spent years as a pediatric and hospice nurse, sitting with people in some of the most tender and vulnerable moments of their lives. Those experiences—along with my own health challenges and personal healing—have shaped how I understand care.
Not as something we fix.
But as something we offer through presence, honesty, and being willing to truly see one another.
Rooted in Care grew from that understanding.
It’s a space for people who feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure how to move forward—a place to slow down, sort through what’s real, and come back into relationship with themselves.
My work is grounded in both lived experience and formal training, drawing from approaches like Internal Family Systems, trauma-informed care, and meaning-making practices. But more than anything, it’s shaped by how I sit with people: with curiosity, steadiness, and respect for your own inner knowing.
I don’t believe healing only comes from working through pain.
It also lives in moments of lightness, laughter, curiosity, and remembering what feels good and true to you.
If you choose to work with me, you won’t be rushed, fixed, or analyzed.
You’ll be met, reflected, and supported as you find your own way forward.
— Amber

Welcome to the Rooted in Care Collective.
Here, we remember. We rise. We root deep.