Ecopsychotherapy

Are you a human who gets overwhelmed or avoids topics related to polycrisis?

Are you a professional or activist who is noticing signs of burnout?

Are you a parent, family member, or someone who works with youth or young adults who are expressing sadness, resignation, and hopelessness about their future?

Are you a healer or in a helping profession and feeling helpless when it comes to treating people, animals, plants, or land in crisis?

Does it seem that you feel more deeply and are more sensitive to the world around you than your current friends and family?

Have conventional therapies not included your personal cultural, spiritual, or value systems in your treatment?

You may need specialized, informed, and targeted support for the specific ways that these issues affect you.

It is likely that you are experiencing a normal reaction to these very trying times.
You don’t have to go through this alone.

Ecopsychotherapy and other types of Ecotherapy can help you manage your life.

Ecopsychology is a field of study combining Ecology and Psychology.

Ecotherapy is the practice of enhancing and mending human relationship with other-than-human nature. There is a wide range of ecotherapies that are complimentary therapies to western medical and psychological treatment.

Ecopsychotherapy is an emerging field. It is the practice of bringing concepts and interventions grounded in the theories and practices of Ecopsychology into the practice of psychotherapy.

Specific methods of treatment may include:

• Mindfulness and guided meditation
• Somatic techniques
• Breathwork
• Art therapy
• Deepening one’s creative life
• Play and humor
• Dreamwork and working with metaphor
• Family Systems work
• Understanding of trauma and generational trauma through a systems lens
• Ecospirituality- the spirituality of our genetic or cultural lineage that was tied closer to nature
• Storytelling, myth-making, meaning making through written or oral practices
• Immersion in nature and finding one’s own unique connection there
• Working with bio-philias and bio-phobias
• Circles or group work
• Community building
• Growing friend groups or community
• Deepening current relationships
• Individual and/or group retreat
• Animal therapies
• Grief work and support
• Deep rest
• Radical Self-compassion

Ecopsychotherapy can help us:

• Manage, mitigate, and metabolize the effects of trauma.
• Connect with something bigger than ourselves.
• Understand the difference between secondary traumatization and burnout and address it.
• Find ways to honor and process the deep grief and loss we’re experiencing.
• Find support for the changes that we may need to make in life.
• And most of all, create an environment where you are heard, believed, and taken seriously.

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