Our relationship with nature is an essential part of our humanity and can be a therapeutic resource, but “ecotherapy” goes beyond taking counselling or psychotherapy into the outdoors. It proposes that to be truly healthy and whole, we need to live with the conscious awareness that our individual health is connected to the health of other beings and to the health of our shared planet as a whole.

Ecotherapy offers simple yet powerful techniques that can easily fit into your daily routine to help lift your mood and boost your energy. Receiving an outdoor Ecotherapy session in a beautiful setting can help you access a calm, well-resourced state of being, which can enhance any counselling or psychotherapy undertaken in indoor spaces.

Mindfully connecting with nature, even in the midst of a city is one of the best ways to reduce stress and dramatically shift your mental and emotional state, widening perspectives and can offer a source of additional meaning and purpose to our lives. Ecotherapy acknowledges that nature is not just a thing to be used and that its practise should include ways to develop reciprocity with the places we live.

I offer facilitated walks where nature is the co-therapist in environments that are accessible, local and require no special equipment beyond walking shoes and a waterproof coat (always a good idea in Scotland no matter the season!). A nature connection session can be added to our work together, blended with “Walk and Talk” sessions or enjoyed entirely stand alone as therapeutic 1:1 or small group walk (you and a friend and me).

Interested? Please use the contact form to book a free consultation call and mention “ecotherapy” in your note.