Restorative time away, planned directly with you.
I help you plan restorative time away, with personal advice on setting, pace and hospitality. General travel advice starts with a conversation. For travel during recovery from illness or treatment, I ask for your clinician's referral and agreement that travel is appropriate.
Begin a first conversationThe first conversation is a conversation, not a booking.
The first conversation is free. A Working Hour is CA$50, credited toward a Working Week. A Working Week is CA$250 per journey — one region, one travel window, your household included — for seven days of advisory consultation in writing, with calls by arrangement. A second region or window is a second week. Travel is separate: providers quote their services to you, and you book and pay them directly.
What a Working Week involves →What this is
My work is travel advice: researching places, comparing operators and planning a suitable pace with you. You make reservations and pay travel providers directly. I do not provide therapy, diagnosis or treatment. Decisions about your care and fitness to travel remain with your clinician.
Planning time in nature
Nature is part of the travel setting I help you choose. I advise on accommodation, access, pace and opportunities for rest. A nature-based journey is not a prescription or proof of a health benefit. Your clinician advises on any medical needs, and I do not promise recovery or longevity outcomes.
Who this is for
Most clients come for restorative travel — a demanding year, a decade turning over, time in a real landscape planned around your health rather than a brochure. That work starts with one conversation, nothing else required. A smaller number come during recovery from illness or treatment; for that work I ask for a clinician's referral first, because the plan must answer to your care team, not replace it. If you are in crisis or need care, this is not the place for that — please reach your clinician or local emergency services. If you're unsure which applies to you, say so in the first conversation — that is what it is for.
How I work
It begins with a first conversation, not a booking. If we go ahead, I plan one place, one operator, one week — directly with you. I stay in the picture after you are home. I work with a small number of people each year. No packaged itineraries.
The first conversation is free. A Working Hour is CA$50, credited toward a Working Week. A Working Week is CA$250 per journey — one region, one travel window, your household included — for seven days of advisory consultation in writing, with calls by arrangement. A second region or window is a second week. Travel is separate: providers quote their services to you, and you book and pay them directly.
What I check before I recommend a place
Thirty years of running hotels teaches you where they hide the problems. This is some of what I ask before a property reaches your shortlist.
Who actually runs it
Owner-operated or management contract, and how long the general manager has been in post. Short tenure shows up in the guest's week as inconsistency.
The rooms nobody photographs
Above the kitchen extract, beside the service lift, facing the generator yard. I ask for the floor plan, not the gallery.
Whether the spa can deliver its own menu
Twelve treatments listed and two therapists rostered is a schedule that breaks the moment the house is full.
What breakfast is in low season
The buffet in the photographs is the August buffet.
How the kitchen handles a change
A quiet request at nine in the evening, a diet nobody warned them about.
How the operator answers a complaint
I read their replies to the bad reviews, not the good ones.
Transfer time, not distance
Measured at the hour you would actually travel.
What the place is like full
Occupancy patterns, group bookings, and whether there is a wedding on the lawn the weekend you arrive.
None of this is in a brochure. I ask — and when I cannot get a straight answer, that tells you something too.
The reader's version: nine questions to ask before you book →On independence
I charge for advisory work. If a referral or affiliate link may earn me a commission from a hotel or operator, I disclose it before you use it. You book, contract and pay directly with that provider; I do not hold reservations or collect travel payments. Recommendations follow the same assessment standard whether or not a commission is available.
Questions
Is this therapy or treatment?
No. I do not provide therapy or medical treatment, and I do not diagnose. I design restorative time away that supports the recovery work you do with your own clinician.
Do I need a referral from a clinician?
For anything that touches recovery, yes — I work by referral, with your clinician's agreement that time away is right for now. For general restorative travel, a first conversation is enough.
What is restorative travel by referral?
It is travel planning for someone whose clinician has agreed that time away is appropriate during recovery. I advise on places, pace and practical arrangements within the agreed scope. It is not a medical prescription or a treatment programme, and no health outcome is guaranteed.
Who is it not for?
Anyone in crisis or in need of care. If that is where you are, I will say so and point you toward the right help.
Begin a first conversation
If a week away might help the work you are doing, start with a conversation.
Begin a first conversation