Nature-Based Therapy

Nature can be a powerful therapeutic setting and tool, offering new perspectives on the seasons of your life and a sense of security and support. Plus, a growing body of research shows that spending time interacting with the natural world can lower levels of stress hormones and improve your mood.

I use a variety of nature-based practices to help clients feel grounded, calm, and resourced — whether counseling or coaching sessions are held outside or online.

If you find a sense of peace in nature, these practices can help you work through feelings of fear, sadness, grief, and more. Nature-based therapy can also teach us about secure attachment and is a great complement to EMDR, helping you calm your nervous system so that you can more easily confront difficult experiences.

Walk-and-Talk Sessions

As a way to incorporate the power of nature into therapy or coaching, I offer walk-and-talk sessions. This is also a great way to add bilateral stimulation, or left-right movements, to your sessions. This type of movement helps you process and integrate what you are experiencing in therapy. During these sessions, we’ll meet outside (at your favorite hiking or snowshoeing spot in Grand County, Boulder, or Denver) and find quiet places where you can feel supported by the outdoors. We may simply talk while we walk, or stop to do a variety of nature-based therapy interventions.

Climate Anxiety and Grief

This emerging field of psychotherapy addresses the dread, confusion, uncertainty, and guilt triggered by climate change. If these issues are weighing heavily on you, we can work through these feelings and use nature as a model for how to change, embrace adaptation, and find community support.

Let’s connect about how nature-based therapy might benefit you.