What is Ecotherapy?
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I am currently offering limited sessions of outdoor ecotherapy in the East Bay as an addition to weekly virtual sessions for regular clients.
Ecotherapy as a Holistic Therapy Practice
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You can access the healing wisdom and connection of the natural web of existence at any time. But, you may find that you have become severed from this connection. You have lost your ability to understand or embody the belonging that is intrinsic to your being. Further, you feel overwhelmed by grief for the suffering of the Earth.
Your sense of embodied connection, belonging, and trust in the web of life can give you deep healing and hope. It can help you return to the understanding that you belong here. That you are simultaneously a steward of this web which includes yourself and every other being. While at the same time acting as a student and receiver of the abundant offerings and gifts of this web.
When you feel deep in your bones that you are safe, cared for, and loved – that you belong – you grow. It is by rooting into your unique role in this larger web, that you can begin to make sense of this world.
We are made whole by recognizing that we are a unique, sacred, integral part of something much larger. Something that already holds us. Cares for us. Gives us everything we need.
The Earth.
You are part of the Earth just as the Earth is a part of you. Even if you have no idea what that may look like yet.
What does Ecotherapy in Berkeley, CA look like?
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Through the use of guided indoor and outdoor nature journeys, Ecotherapy practices support you in healing on a embodied soul level. We may use collaborative outdoor walks and sessions focused on connecting your breath and awareness to the messages of the natural world around you. Or we may use guided inner journeys to explore your relationship to a place in nature, a plant being, or an animal being, as a collaborative support on your process.
Here we can begin to directly access parts of you and your lineage that may need support. We can learn how these patterns of disconnect came to be, explore their purpose, and discover the medicine they need to heal. Like an overgrown plant in the forest, we can learn their story of evolution. We will look at their gifts, dangers, and how they impact the current ecosystem. Then we can decide what care may be necessary to address them in a compassionate and holistic way.
Through the use of guided inner eco-spiritual journey practices, as well as outdoor nature practices, Ecotherapy can support you in finding your own inner healer and source of wisdom. Once you begin to find the seed of trust and wisdom within yourself, it is easier to find your place in the home of this Earth, and your body and life.
Symptoms of dis-ease:
Feeling powerless
Sense of not belonging anywhere
Needing to isolate
Exhaustion, depletion
Anxiety
Scattered energy
Being on edge
Sense of separation and aloneness
Loss of purpose or meaning
Ecotherapy sessions
may include:
Guided walks in nature
Creating art and journaling in nature
Prepared rituals in nature
Guided meditations and eco-spiritual journey work
Visiting the ocean or the forest together
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I offer a variety of services that can support you on your journey:
For solo journeyers, we will work together to build a sense of safety, connection, and embodiment so you may reclaim your joy, self-love, aliveness, and community.
For partners, I offer couples therapy. We will create a path of more clear and aligned communication. You’ll learn practices to deepen intimacy with each other and your own selves.
For groups, I offer Soul Sanctuary: LGBTQ Empaths. We will come together to explore how to incorporate creativity, spirituality, and healing on the path of activism.
I specialize in supporting LGBQA and TGNC folx. I also offer a variety of therapy modalities, including: spiritual therapy, somatic therapy, expressive arts therapy, and ecotherapy
