‘EcoPsychotherapy - the healing process of reconnection with the more-than-human world as well as our wild animal selves’ - Confer

Our Earth Story

  • The Shift

    Psychotherapy engages us in stories of our human relationships ; ecopsychotherapy grows this into our earth story - that is the greater context, the story of where and who our ancestors came from, our relations to other beings, land and places.

  • The Way Back

    It involves a change in perspective, a grounded journey reconnecting with our deeper, wild, animal selves and our relations, inside and out.

  • Becoming Animal

    A reorienting, retuning, and realignment of our senses - a physical and perceptual re-engagement with the natural world.

Distress about what is happening to our world feeds into the anxieties and challenges we face as humans. EcoPsychotherapy can contribute to the healing of our reconnection with nature and rediscover hope in turbulant times…becoming more at ease with uncertainty.

The Ecoself.

Ecopsychotherapy acknowledges and recognises that human experience and trauma arises not only through our human relationships but from deep time, and the complexity of relationships between communities, ethnic and racial roots, the layers of ecological and intergenerational trauma that surrounds us. The ecological self emerges, and healing is thus also in relation to the multicultural self.

Ecopsychotherapy recognises diversity as an essential aspect of life, be it human, or in the wider context of global biodiversity. Both are impacted by separation, disconnection and dissonance. It is the challenge of our times to become more connected and remain so, away from the present urbanised relational way of being, fearful of what is out there.

  • Sessions are an opportunity to get to know who you are, without conditioning, or expectations.

    Focus is on resourcing - of reconnecting with nature, of remembering our place in the web of life, and once more tapping into the vital experience of nourishment and oneness.

  • An invitation to grow in community - becoming familiar with apparent strangers, relating to one another within a natural environment - being, settling into the body, enabling presence in the moment. Welcoming emotions and feelings that may arise from the collective - eco-anxiety and eco-grief among them.

  • We are not entering the forest, woodland, meadow, coastal path, beach or sand dune to use or take anything away from nature, we ask permission silently, or out loud, to enter the landscape, creating a threshold over which we pass. We enter sacred space, where we are in reciprocal relationship with the more-than-human world at all times. Every encounter with a being holds meaning, potential guidance and connection. At the end of the session, we again cross the threshold, we offer our gratitude for whatever seems relevant that day.