
Discover new paths for resilience, grounding, and sacred practice.For Healers Who Hold the Space, Who Holds You?The weight of our world is real. As a healing professional, you navigate crisis, hold compassion, and bear witness daily.The demand to be a steady, centered presence has never been greater—and the risk of burnout, depletion, and losing touch with your own sacred center has never been higher.Newtrailheads offers ritual guidance and spiritual integration for professionals like you. This is not therapy; it is collaborative, practitioner-to-practitioner guidance.Blending psychological insight (informed by Internal Family Systems) with the grounding wisdom of practical, embodied ritual helps you build sustainable, everyday practices, protect your energy, and remember the sacred thread in your work and life.

My work is deeply inspired by the sauna tradition of my Finnish ancestors. Historically the sauna was not merely for bathing; it was a revered liminal space—a portal between worlds for healing, spiritual cleansing, and rebirth.It was a ritual space of holistic well-being, where the löyly (the steam) carried prayers to the spirits, ailments were transferred to the stones, and the after-silence held profound clarity.As someone of 98% Finnish ancestry, my journey has been one of remembering these wisdoms first and foremost, and then reweaving the remembrance into the modern world.I draw from this ancient wisdom to offer the Sauna as a Metaphor and Ritual Container: a safe space to intentionally commune with the web of life, release what no longer serves, and emerge—clarified, grounded, and empowered to serve from a place of deep resilience.

Choose your point of departure for exploration. All offerings are held online, serving a global community.1. The Virtual Sauna Trailhead (Free Monthly Offering)Step into the liminal space. Join a monthly, live-guided "Virtual Sauna"—a modern adaptation of this ancient, animist practice. This is a communal ritual for cleansing professional fatigue, releasing held energy, and finding clarity. A gift for the community.Next Session: Coming soon!
Please indicate your interest by emailing me at: [email protected]2. The Ritual Grounding Trailhead (1:1 Guidance)Personalized sessions to co-create daily rituals, protective practices, and integration techniques tailored to your specific challenges and spiritual language. We draw from IFS parts work, animist principles, and your own wisdom, by exploring Self in connection with your supportive guidance, to build a sustainable foundation.3. The Ancestral Lineage Healing Trailhead (1:1 Guidance)If you are called for deeper work, I offer ancestral lineage healing to clear generational burdens and foster a conscious relationship with your healed and well ancestors.


I'm Riitta - my Finnish heritage tells the story of my ancestors' lives over centuries in that region—absorbing and becoming part of that land.I'm also an immigrant in foreign lands (three times over in my adult years), a mother of two adult daughters, and an enthusiastic dancer and singer whenever possible.My spiritual foundation is rooted in living animism—the direct experience that the world is a community of persons, only some of whom are human.I am an IFS-informed trauma therapist, a ritualist, an ancestral healing practitioner, and a student of Finnish and Finno-Ugric shamanic traditions.I draw from over 20 years of experience in the healing arts. My life's work is the integration of profound psychological frameworks with timeless animist wisdom.Newtrailheads is my offering to the community of healers—to help us stay well so we can do our essential work in the world.
This practice is not psychotherapy or clinical counseling. It is not a crisis service or a substitute for medical or mental health treatment.I do not provide therapy, diagnose, or treat mental health disorders in this capacity.This work is for established healing practitioners seeking peer-level guidance and personal/spiritual development.

All sessions are via Zoom. I offer flexible pricing to accommodate various humans and situations around the Earth.Please contact me for a free consultation and to discuss pricing for individual sessions.[email protected]

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