Well on the Way (He/Him)

Approach Description: Ecotherapy is applied ecopsychology, which views the human psyche and spirit as inseparably and intimately part of the Natural World. Ecotherapy puts counselling and psychotherapy in this wider context of our connection with all life. It can involve working out of doors, getting up close and personal with Nature, which then becomes a co-facilitator. But even working indoors, healing, becoming whole, involves rebuilding this relationship. Remembering our own true nature enriches our lives. The corollary is that our psychological distress is always, deep down, bound up with the current environmental crisis and climate change. We do not have to take everything personally. Feelings of uncertainty, grief and a sense of loss are rational responses. Ecotherapy has a spiritual/transpersonal perspective. The greening of the self, that widening identification with all life, loosens the boundaries of the 'skin-encapsulated ego', as Gregory Bateson described it.