Psychotherapy and healing in nature.
Returning to your sense of home on the planet and with yourself
Offerings
Available for in person (outdoors) or telehealth sessions.
Click below to learn more specifics about each service listed.
EMDR intensives/ retreats and nature based therapy intensives
Outdoor Individual therapy with EMDR as an option
Telehealth sessions with EMDR as an option
Family therapy for adults
Group therapy
Day walk retreats
Ecowellness planning
My approach
to therapy
I approach my work from a Systems perspective, contemplating how wounds from your past have impacted your ability to feel good in your body and be as alive as possible. Due to marginalization, trauma, and wounding; we find ourselves ‘shrinking to fit.’ While doing therapy together, I want to give you an opportunity to notice and grow your resiliency; exploring your vibrancy through reclamation of your sense of power. There are many paths to get us moving towards the embodiment of personal power. Some of the tools I use include: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) especially when working on trauma, attachment based interventions, Nature Based Therapy, a memory reconsolidation approach, a feminist approach, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Mindfulness interventions, elements of psychodrama, and additional creative/ embodied interventions.
If you choose to do outdoor sessions, we can stay dry even in winter. Nature based therapy is an opportunity to return to a sense of home- on the planet and within ourselves. Importantly to me, nature is a place without judgement; it offers a retreat where we can be utterly ourselves without fear of how we’re seen. When much of the world wants us to bend to a mold, It is a relief to be surrounded by life that asks nothing more than being our truest and most alive selves. Connecting with nature is a source of healing for many of us and it can be of tremendous benefit when participating in therapy. Nature based therapy typically involves talk therapy while adding in nature based exercises and embodied experiences outdoors. Click below to learn more specifics about my approach and my background.
Connect with Nature, Calm your nervous system
Time in nature, even without psychotherapy, has tremendous benefits: improved self-esteem, improved impulse control, decreased symptoms of depression, decreased symptoms of anxiety, decreased symptoms of ADHD, increased sense of belonging, and having a non-judgmental place for reflection. By participating in therapy outside, you may be giving yourself a leg up by starting with the ability to tolerate more difficult conversations due to the calming affect that nature has on human bodies. Studies indicate that people who spend 20 minutes outside in a restorative environment have lower blood pressure and reduced cortisol levels (stress hormone) (Park, Tsunetsugu, Kasetani, Kagawa, and Miyazaki, 2008). This is a great place to start therapy. Click below to see more research about the physiological affect and benefits of spending time outdoors.
Finding belonging and resiliency.
Free 20 minute consultation
“Stepping out into the world, into the grass, onto the path, was always a kind of relief. I was not escaping anything. I was returning to the arena of delight.”
Mary Oliver, Upstream