Earth based therapy is the term I use to describe my work in nature. Other use terms like ecopsychotherapy and environmental arts therapy.

My particular approach to earth based therapy is informed by principles within environmental arts therapy, ecopsychology and spiritual ecology. As a registered art psychotherapist, I weave these wider perspectives into my work in and with Nature.

I offer bespoke outdoor sessions, informed by the intentions of those I work with. Inviting you to slow down, attune to the natural world and listen deeply to life itself. Sometimes we may work indoors with nature, but generally nature based sessions take place outdoors where natural materials, specific locations, natural cycles, seasonal change and the elements become integral to the work. During the pandemic I have offered online sessions, individually and for groups.

Being outdoors allows the process to be felt as an embodied process. We immediately access our felt senses, including interoception (our bodily intelligence and knowing). We can work with the embodied imagination, our personal creative imagination and our felt receptivity to the imagination of the world soul, the 'anima mundi'.

Developing a deeper relationship with nature and the natural world, however ordinary that natural environment may appear, can have a deeply powerful impact on us, facilitating an increased sense of connection with both inner and external world. At a basic level, research clearly shows the powerful benefits of spending increased outdoors in nature: - increasing feelings of well being, reductions in cortisol and stress, improved immunity, concentration and attention, to name a few. But there is so much more than this ...

2020 has brought the global issue of species extinction, climate emergency and environmental destruction to the forefront, and rightly so. In nature based therapy curiosity, Presence and careful inquiry open an emotional and spiritual investigation of one's experience - in time and in place. Nature is our guide; we follow her tracks and path. We listen, observe and experience all her aspects, paying attention to the plants, trees, animals and landscapes we work within to help locate what it is we are exploring within the wisdom of the Earth. There is an opportunity to explore the meeting points between the particularity of our being (our story, our body, our knowing) and the wisdom of the Whole. We explore nodes along the way, from personal to collective, from inner to external, from psyche to soma.