“One of the greatest treasures in the world is a contented heart.”
John O'Donohue
"And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye,
clear. What we need is here."
Wendell Berry
Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. The disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.
Richard Louv
Our Birthright
First of all, there is nothing wrong with you.
We are all paying the cost of our alienation from the natural world.
I don’t fix people. I help them remember who they are. At 12 years old my AOL email was "toluvtheworld13" - and I have committed myself to this mission.
I hadn't read Mary Oliver's instructions, "Love yourself. Then love the world," yet.
I believe you make sense.
Like Mary also said, "My work is to love the world."
Grounded in connection and relationship.
We all need empathetic, mutual, and empowering relationships to change and grow.
Therapy is one of those relationships.
We grow skills to notice and name your needs.
We notice patterns and stories that show up in the space between us.
I strive to hold a space where you can fully explore and express yourself.
Through the power of resonance, you are accompanied into a new life.
As many neuroscientists have said, "Change your brain, change your life."
Time in nature using our fascination attention rewires our brains and heals our focus.
Healing happens when we return to the more-than-human world and remember ourselves as part of it.
The wind, the trees, the fire, and the clay earth are all elemental bodies that enrich our living.
Wild, feral, bushcraft and ancestral skills like fire birthing with flint and steel, animal tracking, plant identification, and foraging influence me.
You matter.
Vision
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When we remember our lives as a journey of discovery, something inside us opens.
Clarity happens in the body first.
There is no clearer place to experience this than the wilderness.
I mean, would ya, look at this cool web!?
Ecotherapy is a relational, nature-based approach to therapy that understands human well-being as inseparable from the living world.
At its core, ecotherapy holds that distress doesn’t only live inside an individual—it also arises from disconnection from land, body, community, and natural rhythms. It pairs well with my training in contemplative and relational psychotherapies.
Healing happens through a direct, intentional relationship with nature; healing happens as naturally as the leaves grow and fall. It's a remarkable paradox that "the work" isn't anything we force to occur; it is something we remember.
In practice, ecotherapy may include:
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Guided time in forests, fields, or wild edges
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Seasonal and cyclical frameworks (solstices, equinoxes, sabbats)
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Somatic attunement with weather, plants, animals, and place
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Ritual, storytelling, myth, and poetry
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Witnessing grief, trauma, identity transitions, and initiation in nature
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Practices that restore belonging rather than “fix” a person
How I practice:
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Nature is not a backdrop
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Nature is us, and our active partner/teacher(s)
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The focus is on relationship, meaning, and belonging, not pathology
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Symptoms are understood as intelligent responses
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I am person-centered, wild-centered, and soul-centered
