We Stand for The Trees As a Health Consultant, Frances DeForrest BSN, RN encourages client choice and participation in developing their personal IDEAL health care plan. Identifying and developing personal health and food stories for improved nutrition and health Discussing questions about various types of medicine and health care practices. Explaining concerning symptoms and lab requests to your primary care provider Answering questions about health concerns using the most recent available research Learning best self-care practices and when to seek further professional health care. Frances has lived and worked in various environmental and social ecosystems, and on indigenous lands on the N. American continent. Frances’s completed her associate degree in science from Delaware Technical and Community College (1997). For the love of the mountains and the West, Frances then moved to the Central Rockies in Montana. Bringing her two daughters with her. Now, Frances’s family has grown to include a grandson, a son-in-law, and many pets and plants. Frances has worked in many capacities of care with all ages across the lifespan. Her love of learning and social exchange brought her to complete her bachelor’s degree in nursing science with a minor in health law and ethics online from the longest-running nursing program in the country, Drexel University (2015). While practicing Western Medicine, Frances has kept her learning anchored in various other types of health education and practices such as herbal medicine including cannabis as medicine, nutrition, healthy and local food access, soil health and human health, and rural health issues. Jumping on the trend of mini course education Frances has tailored many of her required CEU’s for nursing licensure continue education credits towards topics like nutrition, rural and tribal health and suicide interventions. Frances completed the first cannabis continuing education for nurses offered at the 2014 Portland Patients out of Time Conference. Frances keeps current on cannabis medicine as a member of healer.com. She started writing for Montana Cannabis Magazine in 2024. Other current continuing education credits earned in regenerative health studies on a scholarship at Rodale Institute, and certification in Nutritional Psychiatry certification course through Integrative Psychiatry Institute. More recently  in 2025, she has started a role with Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments as a Forum Organizer for the North West USA. All her studies and work experiences have led Frances to develop a unique independent health consulting practice We Stand for The Trees. Frances is comfortable discussing all modalities of health care and encourages choice as part of creating each client’s health plan.
Frances likes to spend time in her organic greenhouse and garden. Frances is a craft herbalist growing plants for making medicinals, botanical dyes, and prints. She grows and harvests local food. Focusing on filling her diet with as many local foods as available. She practices balneotherapy on regular basis and can often be found in a hot mineral water pool. Other activities include fire flow dancing and a new love of Alpine skiing and open-water swimming. Frances strives to show others that their lives can grow health and happiness regardless of where they started or the paths they have walked