anxiety + stress
Helping you move beyond anxiety and into greater calm, connection and confidence
Is it hard to slow down? Do you spend your hours overthinking, researching, worrying, and bracing for what might happen? Are you chronically stressed, operating at an unsustainable pace or experiencing burnout? Is anger and frustration spilling out and onto your interactions, your work or your relationships?
“Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed. ”
— Mary Oliver
Nature-based therapy offers:
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Restoration and opportunity to recover from stress
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Expanded perspectives that unlock rigid thought patterns and loosen the grip of control
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Embodied learning for resourcing, grounding and emotion regulation
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Access to new possibilities and ways of being
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Cultivation of resilience - knowing that you can be "OK" even when facing uncertainty
depression
Helping you get unstuck by accessing vitality to create the life you dream of
You’re not feeling like yourself. It seems like you’re carrying a weight that is impossible to put down. Maybe you’re dealing with challenges that are hard to accept. Hopelessness and defeat take over.
“For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
- Wendell Barry, The Peace of Wild Things
Nature-based therapy helps by:
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Stimulating the senses to restore vitality and provide nervous system regulation
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Engaging in organic and spontaneous interactions with nature that inspire possibility
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Using movement to loosen the grip of rigid thought patterns that perpetuate depression
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Participating in activities that cultivate empowerment and resilience
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Fostering connection to place, reducing isolation and loneliness
relationships
Helping you navigate and improve relationships with honesty and vulnerability
Are your relationships lacking the closeness you desire? Do you find it hard to trust? Find yourself fighting with loved ones about the same thing over and over? Do you struggle with perfectionism or shame that gets in the way of connecting with others?
“Keep some room in your heart for the Unimaginable.”
— Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems
Nature-based therapy is inherently relational and helps with:
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Understanding how relational dynamics function like ecosystems
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Building compassion and empathy
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Cultivating authenticity and intimacy while strengthening connection
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Expanding perspective and interpersonal skills
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Repairing trust with self and others through natural rhythms
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Becoming interdependent
life transitions
Supporting you in the ebb and flow of life changes as inspired by natural rhythms
You’re launching out on your own for the first time, moving to a new place, becoming a parent, ending a relationship, career changes, empty-nesting, grieving a loved one. Transitions can knock us off our feet.
“The land knows you, even when you are lost.”
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
Nature-based therapy supports navigation through change by: ​
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Normalizing change as a natural process in the cycle of life
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Encouraging acceptance without judgement
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Expanding perspectives that unlock rigid thought patterns and loosen the grip of control
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Supporting resourcing, grounding and emotion regulation
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Inviting new possibilities and restoring agency
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Cultivating resilience - knowing that you can be "OK" even while facing uncertainty
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Making meaning of your transformation
self-worth and identity
Helping you nurture your inner nature and embrace your wild
Nature has a way of meeting you exactly where you are. Knowing who we are, what we stand for is an ongoing, evolving development. We can all get de-railed in the process, finding ourselves off course without a map. Or feeling like we don’t belong.
Nature has a way of meeting you exactly where you are.
Nature-based therapy facilitates self-discovery by:
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Inviting a slower pace, enhancing self-awareness
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Connecting to your authenticity outside a therapy room
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Experimentation without judgement
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Building trust, confidence and empowerment through embodied learning
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Providing corrective emotional experiences
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Cultivating self-compassion
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Establishing belonging with nature
parenting and reparenting
Helping you break patterns and create healing for future generations
Raising other humans is hard! Many of us didn’t receive the parenting we needed, making it difficult to show up for ourselves and our children in the way they need.
"I stand outside with my empty, upturned hands and understand opening them is the only way to hold light."
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, You, the Light
Nature-based therapy is reparative by:
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Modeling patience and consistency through natural rhythms
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Offering nervous system regulation
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Providing non-judgmental presence
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Developing relationship with your inner child
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Increasing empathy and self-compassion
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Building confidence, empowerment and resilience
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Rewriting your personal narrative
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Encouraging relationship-based leadership
perectionism and inner critic
Helping you experience wholeness, just as you are
Most of us have loud inner critics or voice of self-doubt that can take over and influence how we engage with the world. We develop patterns that perpetuate this as a way of coping with difficult emotions—we stay small, or avoid, or are relentlessly hard on ourselves with impossible expectations. You don’t want it to be this way anymore.
“...we give the moon all our attention until every part of us, even our wounds, are shining.”
-Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, How We Momentarily Become the Moon
Nature-based therapy helps embrace imperfection by:
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Encouraging curiosity
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Offering Non-judgement
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Cultivating self-acceptance and self-compassion
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Inviting new experiences
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Easing tension and finding relaxation
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Shifting from a linear focus that demands you to "be more" or "do more" and embrace a cyclical focus of "enoughness"
work and career
Helping you connect with purpose and deal with the complexities of modern expectations
We spend more hours dedicated to work than any other activity, and work comes with challenges: stress, dissatisfaction, caregiver burnout, hostile workplaces, stifled creativity, underemployment, performance issues. Work impacts our mental health and our mental health impacts how we show up in our work.
Take root and blossom.
Nature-based therapy can help you cope, accept, or envision new possibilities by:
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Restoring your nervous system from stress, pressure and negative experiences
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Connecting with your values and purpose
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Expanding perspectives
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Experiencing your gifts and interests
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Separating identity from productivity
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Inspiring creativity
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Developing as a systems-thinking leader
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Realizing goal achievement
mind-body connection and emotion regulation
Helping you connect to the messages of your body
Chronic stress, trauma, or overwhelming experiences can cause our bodies to enter “survival mode”, an adaptive and helpful response, that allows us to carry on. But this sort of adaptation may have negative effects for your mental health and wellbeing, and may no longer be serving you. Maybe it’s leaving you numb and disengaged with life or confused and ruled by your emotions.
"I recover my capacity and remember my gifts, recognizing as a long lost friend the grace of my soul. "
- Ruby Gibson
Nature-based therapy can connect us with our animal bodies by:
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Experiencing physiological, energetic, mental and emotional co-regulation with nature
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Learning grounding techniques
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Listening to the body without fear and judgement
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Tolerating discomfort, embracing pleasure, and experiencing peace
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Cultivating trust in yourself and in the world around you
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Aligning with the Earth body
spirituality
Supporting you connecting to your inner light
Feeling lost or adrift? Questioning the meaning of life or suffering? Experiencing a deep ache for something more out of this life? Falling into the trap of spiritual bypassing?
"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep."
– Rumi
eco-anxiety and climate grief
Helping you navigate complex feelings for the Earth
Disenfranchised, hopeless, broken hearted, angry? Weighed down with ecoanxiety, climate grief and existential concerns about the future?
“The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity.”
– Joanna Macy
Nature-based therapy can help you find comfort amidst the pain suffering in the world by:
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Cultivating relationships with the more-than-human world
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Honoring your connection to the Earth
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Providing space for all the complex responses to loss
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Encouraging a sense of agency and contribution
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Offering hope