Travel coaching & relocation guidance

Plan it like you've
already been there.

I coach independent travelers, careful movers, and curious scouts through the parts of a trip that actually matter — so you land somewhere that already feels a little bit like home.

Stef Marie in a red dress on stone steps in Dubrovnik, Croatia
Fora
Certified
Advisor

Dubrovnik, Croatia — one stop on the way here.

Fora certified travel advisor Trip coaching · relocation scouting · full-service booking By consult — limited seats each month
Ways to work together

Three ways in, one way of thinking.

Whichever level of hands-on help you want, it starts from the same place: understanding what you actually need from the trip, the move, or the life you're building around it.

Coaching

Trip planning coaching

For travelers who want to book it themselves but want an expert in their corner — routing, timing, budget, and the local details a search engine won't tell you.

Start planning →
Relocation

Relocation & scouting

For anyone weighing a move abroad or a season somewhere new. We map neighborhoods, cost of living, and day-to-day logistics before you commit to anything.

Scout a city →
Full service

Booking, handled

When you'd rather hand it off entirely. As a Fora certified advisor, I book flights, stays, and logistics — with the same care as the coaching itself.

Hand it off →
Stef Marie smiling in front of a tiled building facade in Lisbon, Portugal
The person behind the planning

I've made the mistakes so your trip doesn't have to.

Rooted & Roaming started from a simple frustration: most travel advice is either too generic to use or too much work to sort through. I coach people through the actual decisions — where to base yourself, what to skip, what's worth the splurge — drawing on both my own relocations and formal training as a certified advisor.

Fora certified travel advisor
Trip coaching since 2023
Relocation scouting, three continents
A few recent stamps

Recently rooted, recently roaming.

Ancient ruins overlooking the coast in GreeceGreece
Champagne vineyards in Hautvillers, FranceChampagne, France
Foggy cliffside in the Faroe IslandsFaroe Islands
Rocky Atlantic coastline in PortugalSintra, Portugal
What working together looks like

A process built around your decisions, not a template itinerary.

Consult

We talk it through

A real conversation about what you want the trip or move to do for you — not just where you're going.

Build

We shape the plan

Routing, neighborhoods, timing, budget — the decisions that make the difference, laid out clearly.

Go

You take it from here

Book it yourself with confidence, or hand the logistics to me. Either way, you're not guessing.

She didn't just hand me a list of places — she helped me figure out what I actually wanted the trip to be.

— A recent client, three weeks into a relocation to Lisbon

Tell me where you're headed.

Book a first consult and we'll figure out which kind of help actually fits — coaching, scouting, or full-service booking.