Someone to help you find your next step
Guides
Guides are trained volunteers who welcome you to Tree of Exchange. Meet with one to talk through what you are carrying, find your next helpful step, and connect with the Commerce and Community Branches that can help.
What a guide does
- Welcomes you and listens
- Helps you name what you need and your next step
- Points you to people and branches here who can help
- Encourages you along the way
Guides are not counselors, therapists, or professional advisors.
Guides offer encouragement and direction, not emergency or crisis care. If you are in danger, contact your local emergency services. For free emotional support in your country, visit Find A Helpline.
What would help right now?

Ernest Howard
- Parenting support
- Connection
A warm first conversation to talk through what you are carrying and find your next helpful step.