Ecotherapy sessions can offer a restorative space to slow down and step away from the pressures of everyday life, and spend time in relationship with the natural world. We can remember something that can be easy to lose touch with in the busyness of modern life: that we are part of nature, not separate from it. Ecotherapy offers an opportunity to create spaciousness around whatever we are carrying and to find perspective if there are challenging experiences. It may support us with stress, anxiety, emotional overwhelm or difficult emotions, grief or disconnection or depression, while also offering space to explore our sense of meaning in our lives. Mostly, ecotherapy sessions don’t involve a lot of conversation, but offer a space to ‘be’ and allow things to unfold.

Sessions are grounded in nature connection and informed by somatic ecotherapy, bringing awareness to both the outer landscape and our own inner landscape. We may walk, sit, pause, listen, notice, explore and spend time with the other-than-human world.

There is no particular way you need to experience or connect with nature. We follow what feels supportive for you, with space for curiosity, choice, intuition and your own inner wisdom.

I bring a trauma-aware approach to these sessions, with gentle and playful invitations rather than expectations. We may explore what happens in your body as you spend time in nature: your breathing, sensations, emotions, thoughts and nervous system responses. We can notice how the natural world affects us and what it might be inviting us to notice, without needing there to be a particular outcome. Often nature whispers with meaning, insight or a deeply supportive presence during sessions.