Nature-based Therapy outdoors

Being in natural environments offers not only a location, but also a dimension to therapy that can enhance and enrich your experience. I work in a way that invites engagement with your relationship with the living world as an active participant to the therapy process.

Sessions usually include walking (generally at a slow pace), sometimes sitting, and talking together, allowing space for engaging with aspects of the landscape you might feel drawn to. We follow the themes you bring, supporting you in exploring your experience and feelings. I sometimes invite gentle therapeutic and creative exercises to support your process.

Taking ourselves out to nature naturally slows down our pace, allowing us to be more mindful. Our senses are heightened and this can invite us to pay more attention to our connection to ourselves, as well as the living world we exist in. We become more attuned to our embodied experience which helps to turn our attention to our internal - external relationship. This relationship can help to regulate us through calming, or invigorating, our nervous system. This offers a different dimension to integrating difficult feelings and past experiences to having therapy in an indoor setting.

I combine the focus on our nature-relatedness with creative arts therapy and lifespan integration therapy to support your individual needs and to integrate past wounds. I work outdoors in most weathers (except during weather such as high winds and storms), which means we attend to our relationship with the weather as part of the whole experience, the issues that come up, and the needs of you as an individual.