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Trees and Mountains

Resilient Nature Is
Around & Within Us

Ecotherapy for transformation & resilience

Foundations of Ecotherapy

At its core, Ecotherapy supports you to build a relationship with the natural world to more authentically and intentionally relate to yourself, your relationships and the greater world beyond.
In this emerging therapy, Nature is an acknowledged and invited participant in your therapeutic session. This allows nature-based therapy to holistically attend to your mind-body-spirit connection.
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Relational

Ecotherapy partners with the natural world to invite and reflect the wisdom of the natural world into your individual therapy goals. Together, we build relationships with the more than human world and discover the expanded possibilities, new perspectives and deepened interconnection available to us when we attune with the natural world.

Climate and Existential Concerns

Ecotherapy is a vital force in addressing and healing EcoAnxiety & EcoGrief. The natural world is the largest container to hold and explore suffering. Here, no emotion or experience is wrong or too much.

Inclusive & Accessable

The natural world is inherently nonjudgemental. We partner with nature acknowledging the many forces of systemic oppression while also being curious towards the intrinsic wholeness present in nature. I am passionate about supporting my clients to build connection with the natural world right where you are. Hiking and other "outdoor experience" is not required to participate in ecotherapy.

Experiential

Ecotherapy is directly experienced not simply a spoken process. It is an immersive, creative and at times spontaneous process. Ecotherapy can be a refreshing experience for those whom traditional talk therapy has not been supportive. 

Place-Based Attachment

Ecotherapy supports us in experiencing moments of belonging, safety and security. We also are met with moments of wonder and awe. These are the foundations of healthy attachment and can be profoundly healing to those who may have experienced emotional or physical needs going unmet by early caregivers.

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Trauma Informed

A trauma informed lens is the foundation of my work. I am EMDR trained and have extensive experience supporting folks in crisis and healing from PTSD. In ecotherapy, we lead with a consent based approach while also acknowledging land based trauma and impacts of colonization as we partner towards planetary healing. 

Nature is an incomparable guide if you know how to follow her. She is like the needle of the compass pointing to the North, which is most useful… when you know how to navigate. 
                                                                                       --C. G. Jung

Ecotherapy Indoors

  • Invites plants, animals or nature objects into session such as Horticulture Therapy or Animal Assisted Therapies to promote metaphor and meaning making

  • Can take place via teletherapy with in-home plants, animals or available outdoor access

  • Utilizes grounding practices, nature based meditation and visualization

  • Nature based prompts or experiences clients engage in between sessions to deepen therapeutic themes or to provide material to reflect on and process in the following sessions

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Ecotherapy Outdoors

  • Takes place at a park, farm or local nature center

  • May be seated outdoors or is movement based such as Walk & Talk therapy, gentle walking or hiking

  • Invites the natural world to participate in your healing such as the burst of wildflowers we may come across, being in the presence of animals big or small, or a soft breeze that provides comfort or relief in a needed moment

  • Allows for deepening sensory experiences and present moment awareness that provides shifts to unhelpful or distressing thought processes

  • Engages in real time with grounding practices to promote nervous system regulation

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