What is Ecotherapy?

Ecotherapy is a structured therapeutic approach that uses interactions with nature to improve physical, emotional, and mental health. This somatic and nature-based therapy invites a relationship with nature that goes both ways: receiving what it offers and becoming more attuned to how we can give back.

Sessions can be outdoors, indoors, or virtual. We use the body and the environment as a guide, noticing what shifts when you slow down and pay attention.

Who can benefit from Ecotherapy?

Many of us feel the state of the world deeply. The grief of environmental loss, anxiety about the future, and the weight of living between cultures can settle into the body in ways that are hard to name. Everyone can benefit from integrating ecotherapy with other therapeutic modalities, as research supports what many cultures have always known: time in nature lowers anxiety, reduces cortisol, and helps regulate the nervous system.

It is quite natural for many of my clients to do some sort of ecotherapy one way or another, regardless of what their goals are. For highly sensitive people especially, reconnecting with the natural world in some way can be genuinely restorative.

For more information about ecotherapy, you can visit https://www.everydayhealth.com/integrative-health/ecotherapy/guide/.

I am have completed Level 1 of the Ecotherapy Certification Program through The EarthBody Institute (TBI).