Nature Connection Guide

Welcome! I am Amanda, a nature-lover, with a desire to share what I have found to enable connection with nature, with ourselves and others.

A certified ANFT Nature & Forest Guide, with a Master’s degree in Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapeutic Practice. Having moved away from a private clinical practice in embodied trauma work and long term core process psychotherapy, I now offer wild sensory adventures in nature.

The founder of ANFT, M. Amos Clifford, says, “The Forest is the therapist, the Guide opens the door.”

These may be Forest Therapy sessions or a combination of forest bathing and foraging, as well as guided walks/hikes. All are intended to aid the art of stillness - slowing down to truly engage and connect with nature, reconnecting and rekindling our relationship with nature.

I constantly draw on my personal experience of being in nature across the globe, as well as my ongoing learning in the ancient history of the British Isles, Celtic myth, culture, traditions and spirituality. I am a native of Devon and Cornwall. I have always felt close to the folklore and fairytales of these counties, as well as Jersey where I live. I also draw on my experience of transpersonal phenomena in wilder places, that have led me to develop my own animist and embodied intuitive practices, rituals and ceremonies, informed by a year-long Medicine Wheel Journey in the Andean lineage.