Taking Psychotherapy Outdoors

Taking therapy outdoors offers the opportunity to work in a shared space, encountering the wider human and (more-than-human) natural world. This invites us into a dynamic, living process, bringing us into contact with ourselves, our relationships (with others, place, and nature), and the therapeutic work in new ways.

I am interested to work within the outdoors / nature / more-than-human world in a reciprocal and ecological way, as a co-therapist in a co-creative process. I also recognise my anthropocentric and extractive position - working outdoors to  support (human) therapeutic work.

Being outdoors is enlivening, offering metaphor and adding sensory, embodied, and relational dimensions to therapy. This can feel supportive and regulating, offering space, movement, and connection that can facilitate exploration and understanding and / or it may feel distracting, distancing or overwhelming. In an initial meeting, we will consider how being outdoors feels for you and how it fits with your needs and therapeutic process.

My outdoor and ecological therapy work is rooted in my psychotherapy practice and clinical thinking, drawing upon my professional outdoor experiences as well as my relationship with the more-than-human world.