Resilient Nature is Around and Within us
Experiential Therapy
Rooted in
Charlottesville, VA
A Different Kind of Therapy
You don’t have to face anxiety, trauma, or eco-distress alone.
Resilient Nature Therapy offers experiential, emotion focused therapy in Charlottesville, Virginia, helping adults and older teens reconnect with themselves, process difficult emotions, and build resilience in a changing world.
I offer therapy that honors the full context of your life: your relationships, culture, identities, community, and the larger systems that shape your experience.
I believe healing happens in context. Our struggles are not only personal; they are shaped by the families, communities, and systems we move through every day. Here can be a place to make sense of those layers with care, compassion, and clarity.
Sessions are available outdoors, indoors, and virtually.
How I Work
Many people come to therapy feeling stuck, talking about their experiences but not fully feeling or shifting them.
That’s where AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) offers a different experience.
AEDP is a gentle, relational, and emotion-focused approach that helps you:
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Safely experience and process core emotions
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Heal from trauma and attachment wounds
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Build a stronger sense of self
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Experience meaningful, lasting change
When combined with ecotherapy, this work is grounded not just in conversation, but in your body, your environment, and your lived experience.
Embodied Change
Ecotherapy is a form of counseling that integrates the natural world into the healing process.
Ecotherapy supports you to build a relationship with the natural world to more authentically and intentionally relate to yourself, your human relationships and the greater world beyond.
Nature can support:
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Nervous system regulation
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Deepened emotional processing
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An increased sense of connection and belonging
In our work together, ecotherapy may include:
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Walk-and-talk sessions outdoors
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Mindfulness and grounding in natural settings
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Integrating nature into indoor or virtual sessions with mindfulness, metaphor or parts work
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Practices to explore or incorporate in between sessions