Ecotherapy & Nature Mentoring
Do you feel safer or more at home in Nature?
We all know that being in Nature can be highly restorative and therapeutic.
We understand logically that we are embedded in Nature, are always present in and a part of Nature.
Yet much of our suffering as humans comes from our disconnection and alienation from the natural world.
I understand that many people turn to Nature for healing, rejuvenation, self-regulation and so much more. I have made it a focus of my professional life to find many ways to enhance this innate therapeutic effect of being in Nature.
"Working outdoors with Nature is the ideal therapeutic venue for healing trauma."
- Ariel Giaretto, MFT, SEP, Somatic Experiencing training faculty
Photo by Alena Shure
ECOTHERAPY
Ecotherapy is a good match for people who long to feel more connected to nature; people who already find nature to be a restorative and powerful resource in their lives; and those who wish to enhance this effect and engage with it more intentionally in their healing or growth process.
If you are called work as an ally with Nature, ecotherapy can be a powerful part of your therapeutic journey as you learn more about how Nature can guide you and support your growth, healing or recovery.
Ecotherapy is a good match for people who long to feel more connected to nature; people who already find nature to be a restorative and powerful resource in their lives; and those who wish to enhance this effect and engage with it more intentionally in their healing or growth process.
If you are called work as an ally with Nature, ecotherapy can be a powerful part of your therapeutic journey as you learn more about how Nature can guide you and support your growth, healing or recovery.
Results Include:
- A greater sense of ease and belonging
- Accelerated and longer lasting personal change, vitality and joy
- Reduced stress and anxiety
- Greater access to your innate wisdom
- Increase in your confidence in meeting the challenges of your life
- A greater sense of ease and belonging
- Accelerated and longer lasting personal change, vitality and joy
- Reduced stress and anxiety
- Greater access to your innate wisdom
- Increase in your confidence in meeting the challenges of your life
NATURE MENTORING
For some clients, mainstream talk therapy is not the right 'fit'. Nature Mentoring is an educational and therapeutic alternative to therapy. Knowing more about one's natural surroundings and being able to connect with Nature more deeply and meaningfully can lead to increased self-confidence, sense of belonging, relaxation and joy. Indeed, this approach to nurturing the soul dates back many millennia to our origins in small hunter-gatherer communities.
With over 30 years of experiences as a wilderness guide and naturalist, in my nature mentoring work I blend therapeutic goals with instruction in wilderness skills, nature awareness, outdoor recreation, animal tracking, primitive skills, etc. This is a particularly good match for youth returning from wilderness programs who find that the success they experienced in their wilderness program is hard to integrate into their daily life.
Nature mentoring can also be a powerful way to deepen the positive effects of psychotherapy or ecotherapy and is a great compliment to couples or family therapy as well. In this regard, I offer nature mentoring outings both to my own clients and as a supplemental, collaborative service to people working with another therapist or mental health practitioner.
Format – Similar to ecotherapy work: One-on-one sessions may be 2, 4, or 8 hours long, as well as overnights and multi-day wilderness-based programs. Programs for families or groups can also be custom-designed to fit you specific needs. Sessions or longer programs can be local here in the SF Bay Area or elsewhere around the country.
With over 30 years of experiences as a wilderness guide and naturalist, in my nature mentoring work I blend therapeutic goals with instruction in wilderness skills, nature awareness, outdoor recreation, animal tracking, primitive skills, etc. This is a particularly good match for youth returning from wilderness programs who find that the success they experienced in their wilderness program is hard to integrate into their daily life.
Nature mentoring can also be a powerful way to deepen the positive effects of psychotherapy or ecotherapy and is a great compliment to couples or family therapy as well. In this regard, I offer nature mentoring outings both to my own clients and as a supplemental, collaborative service to people working with another therapist or mental health practitioner.
Format – Similar to ecotherapy work: One-on-one sessions may be 2, 4, or 8 hours long, as well as overnights and multi-day wilderness-based programs. Programs for families or groups can also be custom-designed to fit you specific needs. Sessions or longer programs can be local here in the SF Bay Area or elsewhere around the country.
David Talamo, MFT, CHT (Certified Hakomi Therapist) • (415) 339-7405
San Rafael Therapy Office • 705 4th St., Suite 200, San Rafael, CA 94901
San Rafael Therapy Office • 705 4th St., Suite 200, San Rafael, CA 94901
