Are you wondering if ecotherapy is for you?
Friend, ecotherapy is for all of us.
Attuning with the outer wild helps us embrace the wilderness within.
Integrating nature into your therapeutic journey can encompass a wide variety of practices to deepen your healing. Strengthening your connection with nature is both simple and profound, and offers the healing balm of a supportive relationship with the earth, its beings, and systems. This relationship is felt as the senses are stimulated and soothed, and the nervous system regulates. It really can be as easy, and beautiful, as going for a walk in a natural space, tuning in to the details around you, and slowing down and paying attention. Guidance, healing and insight reveal themselves whether it’s among the breathtaking vistas of Yosemite peaks and valleys, or while admiring the sweetest springtime wildflower in your backyard.
Nature based therapy not only offers unique healing to a weary heart, but is a deeply desired balm to our thirsty souls in this time of greed, over consumption and artificial living; we are suffering because of this fracture with nature.
In my clinical practice, I offer and integrate ecotherapy with other therapeutic approaches when clinically appropriate and relevant. I also offer intensive group ecotherapy and rites of passage experiences and trained with Wilderness Reflections through the Somatic Ecotherapy Wilderness Apprenticeship program. Learn more about group work here.