Why people choose this pathway

• To ease stress, anxiety, or burnout

• To sit with grief, loss, or endings

• To find belonging in times of isolation or change

• To restore balance and relationship with the earth

• To explore questions of ecological identity and meaning

Individual sessions may include:

• Quiet walking or sitting outdoors

• Sensory or movement awareness practices

• Guided solo time in nature

• Symbolic or threshold experiences

• Space for reflection and integration

How ecotherapy supports organisations

Ecotherapy can also support organisations, teams, and leaders. Outdoor experiences create space for groups to step out of habitual patterns, reconnect with purpose, and strengthen relationships in fresh ways. Time outdoors helps teams to see themselves as part of wider living systems – clarifying values, fostering resilience, and encouraging collaboration rooted in care and reciprocity.

If you’d like to explore ecotherapy, let’s begin with a conversation and see where the path leads.

The lineage of this offering

My ecotherapy offering is grounded in the ethical and practical framework of my training with Dave Key (ecoSelf), which provided a strong foundation in designing and facilitating outdoor experiences.

Many of the practices I work with, however, have roots in indigenous wisdom traditions and animistic ways of being. I offer this work with deep gratitude and respect to all those who have gone before, especially those who lived on these lands I now call home, whose stories the land still holds.

At Integral Earthways, a framework is emerging – the spiral of the ecological self – which invites us to move from experiencing nature as a setting or mirror towards recognising nature as kin and, ultimately, as self. This spiral offers a gentle orientation for the work, while remaining flexible, responsive, and alive to each person’s unique journey. Guidance for those wishing to work with others therapeutically outdoors with this approach will be available soon.