I'm a photographer, writer, and long-time member of ICE (see my "bio" page for specifics), and over the last 10+ years I have been conducting long-term research experiments on how to create and host nature-connected environments online, using my businesses Clear Light Communications and weDialogue, and my work with Digital+Earth Wisdom.
See my websites or contact me for more information.
Ariana is founder of The Earthbody Institute, a professional, educational, and transformational forum dedicated to the cultivation of dynamic mutual relationships with the natural world.
Ariana Candell, LMFT, R-DMT, Ecotherapist, is a licensed psychotherapist with 20-plus years experience and a pioneer in the emerging field of Somatic Ecotherapy. For the last decade, she has been an active leader in transforming the field of psychotherapy to include connecting to the natural world as an essential part of healing.
Ariana is founder of The Earthbody Institute, a professional, educational, and transformational forum dedicated to the cultivation of dynamic mutual relationships with the natural world. She is creator of the groundbreaking Professional Ecotherapy Training and Certification Program, now entering its fourth year. She facilitates workshops locally and internationally, including Online Ecotherapy Certificate Programs, Ecotherapy Immersion Programs and consultation groups. She also teaches Ecotherapy seminars as an adjunct professor at John F. Kennedy University.
Ariana believes that developing a consistent nature connection practice with elements of somatic awareness and openness to the sacred can foster a more holistic and balanced way of life. She is devoted to her own daily spiritual practice in nature, and encourages her private clients and students to develop their own practice. In all of her programs, she facilitates creation of a strong Earth-honored community, fulfilling an ancient human need of experiencing a profound connection to the sacredness of all beings.
Ariana is thrilled to be practicing Ecotherapy outdoors in the East Bay hills with more than half of her individual clients, and also brings the power of nature indoors to her private practice in Berkeley. Her main therapeutic influences include Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy, Somatic Ecotherapy, Dance Movement Therapy and Earth-based trainings from The School of Lost Borders.
Fox Expressive Art Therapy LLC: Ben Fox, is a licensed mental health counselor and intermodal expressive art therapist practicing in Pomfret, Vermont focused on using ecopsychological expressive art therapy for individuals and groups.
Juneau, Alaska's nature is my location for counseling and educating, where I facilitate the process of Applied Ecopsychology and Integrated Ecology.
I am a recent academic having just completed my D Phil in Psychology with the theme: Integral ecopsychological investigation of Bonsai principles, meaning and healing. I am a full time lecturer and HOD in the Department of Psychology at the University of Zululand in South Africa and I also have a limited private practice. I have a registered research project working with bonsai and rehabilitation of perpetrators.
I raise Siberian Huskies and Carpathian wolves, that are part of my "pet-relationship team", helping humans find balance in their life and teaching humans about ecopsychology.
I'm a researcher in the Transpersonal field, my purpose is to guide people to reconnect with their inner Nature through the Nature, focusing on value and actionable steps, accompany people to their life purpose and make it actionable and enjoyable in every day life. Nature Awareness is the path to join our humanity and to express it, in the awareness that all is related.
I am interested in how the field of ecopsychology could open up interdisciplinary collaboration between ecopsychologists and social workers using the ecological model. I am trained in mindfulness meditation and Comprehensive Energy Psychology. I have great gratitude for the healing power of nature, having had profoundly therapeutic experiences in the wilderness. I am also very interested in animal-assisted therapy, having a life-long love of animals, both wild and domestic. Outside of my professional work, I enjoy learning about genealogy, spirituality, mythology, folklore, cultural anthropology, and much more.
Dr. Renye sees individuals and couples in psychotherapy sessions as well as coaching. She has an office located in San Francisco, CA and also offers sessions via video. She has been practicing ecopsychology in private practice by utilizing the woods/forest, beach/ocean, as well as in office plants and guided imagery.
The Centre for Ecopsychology and Wellbeing, International Academy for Professional Development, has been launched to further research into the links between Ecopsychology, health and wellbeing. The Centre offers an Ecopsychology coaching service. As part of this team, Siobhain is a Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Scientist and an International Society for Coaching Psychology Accredited Coaching Psychologist and Supervisor. She is Founder Chair of the International Society for Coaching Psychology, Editor of the ISCP journal, Coaching Psychology International. She is a Trustee of the International Stress Management Association (UK).
Kimberly (Kim) Keenan, MS, MSW, LCSW, PhD is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker for the State of Illinois and adjunct professor of graduate studies at The University of Illinois. She earned her PhD in Applied Ecology and has been regionally and nationally recognized for her work specializing in improving food systems within vulnerable communities. In addition to having maintained a thriving family therapy practice, Kim is a national speaker, educator and freelance writer. She is the author of Anxiety Mapping for Kids and has been a contributing author of over 20 articles in her 28 years of experience working with families and communities. Her research in the health benefits of nature is featured in Health Environment & Research Design Journal, “Nature Contacts: Employee Wellness in Healthcare”, Winter 2015. In 2012, she created her own not-for-profit, The gitm Foundation, where she serves as education and research director. She serves on the Illinois Alliance to Prevent Obesity Taskforce, the Homegrown by Heroes Illinois State Veteran Agricultural Workgroup and directs the Tri County Fresh Food Hub.
My experience in academia is as extensive as my work in mental, physical, and spiritual health. During my 15 years a senior lecturer and adjunct professor, I taught a wide range of courses at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as other New England-area colleges and universities, before working as a mental health professional in the Portland, Oregon area and eventually relocating to San Diego to focus on independent therapeutic services. My communication style is both effective as well as non-dogmatic, and allows me to reach easily across generations and cultures. Through my experiences and background as student, professor, mental health professional, and ecopsychoIogy practitioner, I have developed the ability to communicate, engage, and empathetically connect with individuals of diverse cultural, social, and religious backgrounds, including varied ages, genders (including non-binary genders), and sexual orientations.
My graduate and post-graduate research includes ancient Celtic and Megalithic studies, non-traditional fields of research, human health, dialectical thinking, educational issues, eco-rhythms, holotropic breathwork, advanced astrology, the science and art of herbalism, yoga, and tai chi.
I feel that life is a process and, as such, is better lived with at least some modicum of consciousness and sense of personal accountability. We live in a very short-sighted society that seems overwhelmed by the fast-paced environment we have created. This is especially evident in the public’s willingness to accept the current medical model of psychiatric treatment and diagnosis of mental illness disorders that may be, in fact, a direct result of our disconnection from nature. I came to this conclusion after many years' experience working within the mainstream medical model of psychiatric treatment as a mental health professional as well as a crisis and addiction specialist. In consideration of this, I believe my purpose is to help others better navigate life’s challenges and vicissitudes and that this may best be done using holistically-based mindfulness techniques and practices.
Pranotherapist and Reflexologist at the A.Mi. University of MIlano (Italy)
Blogger and communicator
My fields of expertise range from the promotion of ecological connectivity and of green infrastructure to landscape history and human/wildlife relationship.
The basic concept is to (re-) build the bond between humans and the environment, understanding that all living beings share the same environment and the same needs.
Additionally, my work focuses on the ideal concept of raising environmental awareness to arrive at the point of having not the need anymore for protected areas.
I am a Pranotherapist and Reflexologist, studying the combined effects of Prana with other wellness and meditation techniques
Geoffrey completed a Master’s (MSc) in Addiction Psychology and Counselling at London’s Southbank University, his research looked into ‘Exploring How People with Addictions Experienced Nature-Awareness as a Therapeutic Intervention’.
After attending university Geoffrey went on to develop Nature Awareness into what is now known as Natural Awareness as a therapeutic intervention, which looks at and investigates behaviours. This concept came into existence in 2005 when he began working with addictions and has since been successfully used throughout the UK, Europe and the USA.
Geoffrey has illustrated bird books and leaflets for rare/extinct worldwide bird programmes and he is the author of the DNA series (Discover Nature Awareness).
Jennifer Owens is a licensed clinical social worker and certified ecotherapist with a passion for the outdoors, holistic health and environmental justice. Jennifer has worked in a variety of settings in both clinical and directorial roles since 2002 in holistic health and 2010 in mental health. She has a background as a licensed massage therapist, certified personal trainer, herbalism and essential oils. She is adjunct faculty at the University of Louisville, Kent School of Social work since 2014.
Jennifer is one of the only therapist in the state trained in ecotherapy and wilderness therapy. Jennifer loves the natural world and has experienced many healing benefits from her time outdoors, in fact she often credits her adventures in the backcountry and deepening relationship to the “other than human” world, to her recovery from severe panic and anxiety. She has a lifetime of experience in the wilderness (kayaking, backpacking and hiking), leading outdoor adventure groups and is a certified level 2 Ecotherapist and certified Yasei Forest Therapy guide and practioner. She has studied with the Earthbody Institute, the Mindful Ecotherapy Center, Wildcraft Forest School and Animas Valley Institute. Jennifer leads guided Shinrin-Yoku or Forest Bathing walks for the community as well as nature connection programs and retreats. She is also the president of the Shinrin-Yoku Society of Kentuckiana and a founding member of the Southeast/Northeast Ecotherapy Alliance.
She is currently working on Shinrin Yoku in Clinical Practice training as well as Ecotherapy for Mental Health professionals workshops. If you are interested in becoming a faculty member of the Academy of Integrative Mental Health, please reach out. We are currently organizing our live training weekends in the US this year.
The idea is to see Nature more clearly by learning more about basic biology. The learning process is seen as a meditation. For example, you learn basic flower structure, then we walk about seeing how every blossom met with differs from our idealized average flower. As we absorb "variations on a basic flower theme," you fill your mind with colors, textures and designs that feel good taking them in. Do this enough and "Nature speaks to you... " in the sense that your spirit is impressed with natural paradigms. All I do is to provide one of many doors to experiencing Nature, then Nature does the rest.
Short Description: Psychotherapist, Ecotherapist, Author, College Educator.
Description: Co-editor with Craig Chalquist of Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind (Sierra Club Books, 2009) and blogger for The Huffington Post on ecotherapy and ecopsychology. Adjunct Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Depth Psychology M.A./Ph.D. program in Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology and Ecopsychology. Editorial Board member of Ecopsychology journal, co-editor with Craig Chalquist of Dec. 2015 special issue on "Ecopsychology and the Long Emergency." Author of "The Many Ecotherapies" chapter in the 2016 Palgrave Macmillan anthology Ecotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, edited by Martin Jordan and Joseph Hinds.
Website: http://www.ecotherapyheals.com
City: Santa Barbara
State or Province: California
Country: USA
Email address: lindabuzzell [at] gmail [dot] com
Tags: ecopsychology, ecotherapy, ecoresilience, ecospirituality.
Lizabeth Kashinsky, BA, MA has worked in the field of conservation in Hawaiʻi since 1994 and is passionate about protecting rare and endangered Hawaiian plants, animals, and ecosystems. Her experiences living fully immersed in nature while conducting research on endangered Hawaiian monk seals in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands was life changing. Inspired by her transformative experiences connecting deeply to nature there, she completed a masterʻs degree in Ecopsychology from Naropa University in 2012. She also holds a Level 1 Ecotherapy Certification with the Earthbody Institute, a Certificate in Ecopsychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and was trained by Joanna Macy to facilitate The Work That Reconnects. She also teaches yoga, including yoga on horseback as a way to deepen connections between horse and human.
Promotes Ecopsychology in Italy since 1996. She studied with a direct student of Roberto Assagioli and works in training for personal growth in the professional and business. She completed her education with seminars and vocational retraining in California, Holland and Spain, with some of the most important figures in this field: Fritjof Capra, Joanna Macy, Molly Young Brown and Anna Halprin.
She is co-founder and teacher of the CREA, School of Humanistic Existential Counseling, in Milan. She founded in 2004 and heads in Osnago (Lc), "Ecopsiché" the Italian School of Ecopsychology, that combines personal awareness and environmental ethics. She is member of the board of the European Ecopsychology Society (EES). Author of numerous books on self realization, among them: “Ecopsicologia - Crescita personale e Coscienza ambientale" (Ecopsychology - Personal Growth and Environmental Awareness) (Urra-Feltrinelli 2006, in Italian).
Marién A. Peña is a parent, educator and artist with 20 years of experience in the field. She obtained a Ph.D. in Eco-Art Therapy/ Organic Psychology from ProjectNature Connect and Akamai University in 2018 and a B.A. from the University of Iowa in Art History and Graphic Design. She has also completed her Montessori Education Certifications for ages 3-6, 6-9 and 9-12 and graduated from St. Catherine University with a M.A. Ed. in Montessori Education. Marién currently serves as Field Consultant and Art Teacher for Maitland Montessori School and Teacher Training Program.
She is a founding member of Art for Living Inc, a non-for-profit organization which main goal is to create awareness through art and to provide tools for healing, and a space for expression among children, teenagers and adults in our community.
As a profession, she -along with her colleagues- manages a counselling service and works behind the scenes to ensure that the service stays open for those in need. She is passionate about providing access to mental health services, especially to those who encounter obstacles in obtaining support. She holds a Canadian Certified Counsellor designation.
When she is not at the counselling office, you can find her online as an instructor in psychology (and soon: ecopsychology!) for a global online university. Or you might catch her buying yet another book for her dream library.
Intensely interested in nature of all kinds (Nature with a capital N, human nature, animal nature, nature of relationships, etc.), much of her studies and leisure are related to ecopsychology, ecotherapy, psychology, relational cultural theory, and others.
Convinced that much of our nature is connected to early development and inheritance, Mary is also drawn to subjects like neuroscience, attachment, epigenetics, the formation of values and culture and their relationship to identity, and the subsequent effects of all these on individual and generational resilience.
On a path of unhurried spiritual reflection, she is undergoing a process of decolonization and development by re-immersing in inherited nature-based indigenous traditions and philosophy. One of her most valued inheritance is the innate understanding of living nature namelessly and corporeally (how does one explain this?). She wishes to integrate decolonization methods in the study and teaching of ecopsychology, and in the practice of ecotherapy.
When there's an extra minute or two, she volunteers for a center on indigenous studies, a school of Thai massage, and sits on a couple of non-profit boards. And when she gets more than a minute, she may dance, pick up a paintbrush, use an old typewriter, and give massage. Everyday she non-verbally communicates with plants and animals and gives thanks through the air. She also sings for no reason at all and to no one in particular.
She hopes to widen her eco-sensitive connections through this directory.
I identify as a depth therapist - psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and ISTDP (intensive short term dynamic psychotherapy.) I have also researched, written about, and practice ecopsychology/ecotherapy. With some clients this includes doing outdoor therapy sessions, when appropriate. At times I also draw on mindfulness and buddhist perspectives.
At times I am able to offer reduced fees to activists, and am available for sessions via skype for those who are not Christchurch or NZ based.
I offer consultation and coaching by phone and Skype, for both personal and professional development, based on tools and principles drawn from psychosynthesis, ecopsychology, and the Work That Reconnects. I also offer on-line courses in psychosynthesis.
My dear friend and mentor Joanna Macy, and I recently revised our 1998 book Coming Back to Life. The new edition is subtitled: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects. My other books include: Growing Whole: Self-realization for the Great Turning, Held in Love: Life Stories To Inspire Us Through Times of Change (co-editor Carolyn Treadway), and Lighting A Candle: Collected Reflections on a Spiritual Life.
Full bio coming soon as I complete my PhD thesis project!! Please visit my websites, PamelaHoke.com, TheNatureConnection.net, or inVisionBP.com for updatss to nature-comnected blogs, new artworks, books and personal and corporate retreats.
Photojournalist.
A psychologist by training, I take individuals and groups of leaders from corporate, social enterprise and non profit sectors outdoors to facilitate deep shifts in awareness and identity. We also use the natural world as inspiration for innovation.
The Big Stretch blends ecopsychology / sustainability approaches of Joanna Macy, Transition Towns, The Natural Step, Natural Change/Ecoself with strategic, coaching and creative approaches from Creative Problem-Solving Institute, Zenergy, and a background in branding.
The Big Stretch takes groups walking in the mountains of Spain for a week of creative coaching, or into the bush on Waiheke Island NZ for individual coaching intensives, or on 5rythms creativity/dance retreats for embodied shifts.
Be the Change Journey takes groups of career-shifters to meet social entrepreneurs in India for 8 days to pinpoint meaningful vocational calls;
Leadership NZ takes leaders from 3 sectors to visit NZ societal issues over the course of a year.
I contribute modules on responsibility in business, values and societal forces as prompts to innovation to leadership development programmes for corporates worldwide.
I'm also a photojournalist and my column 'Money Can't Buy It ' in NZ Herald is about unsung intrinsic values.
My name is Ryan Van Lenning and I am an inner & outer wilderness guide, and poet. I am founder of Wild Nature Heart and am passionate about facilitating re-connections with wild nature and our most authentic selves to assist in the work of repairing broken belonging. I believe in catalyzing human wholeness and that our world desperately needs each person becoming more fully themselves and offering their gifts back to the community and the more-than-human world. I am certified as an ecotherapist through the Earthbody Institute. Coming soon: Wild Nature Heart Academy!
I published my debut collections of poetry, Re-Membering: Poems of Earth & Soul, and High-Cooing Through the Seasons: Haiku From the Forest. in 2018 under Wild Nature Heart Press.The 2019 Jodi Stutz Poetry Award by Toyon Literary Magazine was awarded to my poem ‘And All the Walls Between Them’ and I have published work in Earth Island Journal, Deep Time: The Journal of the Work That Reconnects, Terrain Magazine, Elephant Journal, various poetry journals, and the soon-to-be-released book A Walk with Nature: Poetic Encounters that Nourish the Soul.
Services Summary :
1-on-1 Earth-Rooted Mentoring/Coaching (Inner Wilderness Guiding)
Wilderness Ceremonies/Rites-of-Passage
Custom Wilderness Backpacking Journeys (1-4 days, groups of 1-5)
Weekend Immersions, Community Nature Meetups
Small group facilitation (Council Circle, Writing Wild Workshops, Deep Belonging Workshops)
Online teaching at Wild Nature Heart Academy (Coming soon!)
I live among the forests and rivers of Humboldt County, and when I can also spend time in the rich redwood forest of the East Bay hills, the wild oaks & coyote along the American River, the alders and otters along the Mad River, and the lodgepole pines of the Sierra mountains. Email: ryanvanlenning@gmail.com
I am one of two UK delegates on the International Adventure Therapy Committee and am vice chair of the Institute of Outdoor Learning Outdoor and Adventure Therapy Special Interest Group (OATSIG).
I've worked with the UK Mindfulness Trainers Network helping to develop national guidelines for mindfulness teachers and trainers and am an Ecotherapist and Humanistic Psychology practitioner. Having taught at Salford, Lancaster and Manchester Metropolitan Universities I am now researching the role of nature and mindfulness in the Faculty of Health and Science at the University of Cumbria.
An Ecotherapist and Humanistic Psychology practitioner, I have a BSc(Hons) in Integrated Therapy and an MSc which examined the role of environment in improving health. I am a member of the Mountain Leader Training Association and Institute of Outdoor Learning.
My current work includes helping people with chronic conditions as well as those coping with stress and anxiety. In the past I have worked with a wide range of clients, from young people in the Criminal Justice System through to business executives.
In addition to health based work I have been a mountain leader for over thirty years, former military medic and am an emergency care practitioner. I'm also Casualty Care coordinator of a Lake District mountain rescue team and a medic on adventure races. I am a TRiM (trauma risk management) assessor for Mountain Rescue and the Police.
In addition to the listed website I have a blog at:
http://naturallymindful.blogspot.com
After more than 10 years of personal work with native traditions (Nahuatl, Lakota and Guarani), I felt that I couldn't put together my psycotherapy practice with all I had learned in my personal journey. When I was about to quit my practice, my junguian psychotherapyst talked to me about Ecopsychology.
I fell in love at first sight with all I could learn and integrate, and now I'm fully commited to the practice, teaching and developing of Ecopsychology in Uruguay and in South America.
I introduce Ecopsychology in my clinical practice by helping people integrate their inner nature to the day to day life.
I work a lot with Ecofeminism, bringing back old forgotten values such as the importance of menstruation, and the sacredness of maternity and sexuality.
I own with my husband a beautifull piece of land where I conduct reatreats, walks in the wild with families (including children), and where I take myself to get nurtured when I need it.
I believe that we need to work with the darkests parts of our souls to transform them into the fertile soil where the new seed will grow.
Ecopsychologist and PhD student at Akamai university through Project natureconnect.