ketamine-assisted
Ecotherapy
Consultation and Teaching
Experiential Depth Psychotherapy
Amanda Morrison
individuals
couples
Ecotherapy is grounded in the understanding that human wellbeing is inseparable from the wellbeing of the Earth. Our emotional, psychological, and relational lives are shaped by our relationship to the natural world—and when that relationship is strained or broken, both people and the planet suffer.
This work recognizes that many forms of distress—anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, burnout, and climate-related despair—are not only personal, but relational and ecological. Ecotherapy offers a space to tend to both individual healing and our connection to the living world, supporting resilience, meaning, and care at multiple levels.
In ecotherapy, nature is not a backdrop, but an active participant in the therapeutic process. Sessions may take place outdoors or include nature-based practices that support nervous system regulation, emotional integration, and reflection. The work invites the body, senses, and more-than-human world into the therapeutic relationship.
Psychotherapy that includes our relationship to the living world
Ecotherapy
In my work, ecotherapy is not something added onto psychotherapy—it is an orientation. We listen for how place, seasonality, land, and ecological belonging shape emotional experience, nervous system regulation, and meaning. Therapy includes exploring your relationship to the natural world and how this relationship may be more fully developed as part of your healing process. It also explores how creating a more intentional and relational connection with the natural world can be part of a larger healing process between humans and nature.
Ecotherapy invites an awareness of how personal distress is often intertwined with broader cultural and ecological conditions, and how healing unfolds in relationship—to ourselves, to one another, and to the wider living world we are part of.
Ecotherapy invites an awareness of how personal distress is often intertwined with broader cultural and ecological conditions, and how healing unfolds in relationship—to ourselves, to one another, and to the wider living world we are part of.
How Ecotherapy Works
Ecotherapy sessions may take place outdoors or incorporate nature-based practices within the therapeutic frame. Time in nature can support nervous system regulation, emotional integration, and perspective in ways that talk therapy alone sometimes cannot.
Sessions may include:
The pace is slow and intentional, with ongoing attention to safety, consent, and your individual needs.
My approach to ecotherapy is relational, trauma-informed, and attachment-based. We move carefully and collaboratively, tracking the nervous system and honoring boundaries at every step. Nature is never used as a tool to push change, but as a steady presence that can support regulation, insight, and connection.
I bring clinical rigor to this work while also honoring Indigenous, place-based, and decolonizing perspectives that recognize the deep interdependence between human and ecological systems.
Alongside my clinical practice, I have been teaching and training therapists in ecotherapy for many years. I currently serve as faculty and Director of Programs with the EarthBody Institute, where I help design and facilitate multi-level ecotherapy trainings for clinicians.
My work is shaped by decades of study and practice in land-based approaches to healing, as well as direct experience facilitating ecotherapy in therapeutic, community, and institutional settings. I am deeply influenced by the work of Joanna Macy, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Bill Plotkin.
Ecotherapy can be especially supportive if you are:
Sessions may include:
- Walking or sitting together outdoors
- Somatic and sensory awareness practices
- Attending to land, weather, seasons, and place as mirrors for inner experience
- Making space for grief, love, and care for the Earth
- Quiet reflection alongside conversation
The pace is slow and intentional, with ongoing attention to safety, consent, and your individual needs.
My approach to ecotherapy is relational, trauma-informed, and attachment-based. We move carefully and collaboratively, tracking the nervous system and honoring boundaries at every step. Nature is never used as a tool to push change, but as a steady presence that can support regulation, insight, and connection.
I bring clinical rigor to this work while also honoring Indigenous, place-based, and decolonizing perspectives that recognize the deep interdependence between human and ecological systems.
Alongside my clinical practice, I have been teaching and training therapists in ecotherapy for many years. I currently serve as faculty and Director of Programs with the EarthBody Institute, where I help design and facilitate multi-level ecotherapy trainings for clinicians.
My work is shaped by decades of study and practice in land-based approaches to healing, as well as direct experience facilitating ecotherapy in therapeutic, community, and institutional settings. I am deeply influenced by the work of Joanna Macy, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Bill Plotkin.
- Greater nervous system regulation and emotional grounding
- A renewed sense of meaning, vitality, and belonging
- Increased capacity to stay present with grief, fear, and uncertainty
- Deeper connection to the body and the living world
- Integration of personal healing with collective and ecological awareness
- More sustainable ways of relating to responsibility, care, and limits
Ecotherapy can be especially supportive if you are:
- Feeling drawn to working outdoors or in relationship with nature
- Experiencing climate grief, ecological anxiety, or despair
- Feeling disconnected from meaning, belonging, or vitality
- Navigating burnout, exhaustion, or chronic over-responsibility
- Processing trauma in ways that benefit from grounding and embodiment
- Seeking therapy that acknowledges both personal and collective conditions
This work often resonates with people who sense that their distress is connected not only to personal history, but to broader cultural and ecological realities.
If you are curious about whether ecotherapy may be a meaningful part of your work, I invite you to reach out.
What Therapy Can Be Like:
What Therapy Can Be Like:
How I Work:
Over Time, This Work Can Support:
This work may be a good fit for you
This work may be a good fit For you.
Ecotherapy can be especially supportive if you are:
- Feeling drawn to working outdoors or in relationship with nature
- Experiencing climate grief, ecological anxiety, or despair
- Feeling disconnected from meaning, belonging, or vitality
- Navigating burnout, exhaustion, or chronic over-responsibility
- Processing trauma in ways that benefit from grounding and embodiment
- Seeking therapy that acknowledges both personal and collective conditions
This work often resonates with people who sense that their distress is connected not only to personal history, but to broader cultural and ecological realities.
If you are curious about whether ecotherapy may be a meaningful part of your work, I invite you to reach out.
Ecotherapy sessions may take place outdoors or incorporate nature-based practices within the therapeutic frame. Time in nature can support nervous system regulation, emotional integration, and perspective in ways that talk therapy alone sometimes cannot.
Sessions may include:
The pace is slow and intentional, with ongoing attention to safety, consent, and your individual needs.
Sessions may include:
- Walking or sitting together outdoors
- Somatic and sensory awareness practices
- Attending to land, weather, seasons, and place as mirrors for inner experience
- Making space for grief, love, and care for the Earth
- Quiet reflection alongside conversation
The pace is slow and intentional, with ongoing attention to safety, consent, and your individual needs.
My approach to ecotherapy is relational, trauma-informed, and attachment-based. We move carefully and collaboratively, tracking the nervous system and honoring boundaries at every step. Nature is never used as a tool to push change, but as a steady presence that can support regulation, insight, and connection.
I bring clinical rigor to this work while also honoring Indigenous, place-based, and decolonizing perspectives that recognize the deep interdependence between human and ecological systems.
Alongside my clinical practice, I have been teaching and training therapists in ecotherapy for many years. I currently serve as faculty and Director of Programs with the EarthBody Institute, where I help design and facilitate multi-level ecotherapy trainings for clinicians.
My work is shaped by decades of study and practice in land-based approaches to healing, as well as direct experience facilitating ecotherapy in therapeutic, community, and institutional settings. I am deeply influenced by the work of Joanna Macy, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Bill Plotkin.
I bring clinical rigor to this work while also honoring Indigenous, place-based, and decolonizing perspectives that recognize the deep interdependence between human and ecological systems.
Alongside my clinical practice, I have been teaching and training therapists in ecotherapy for many years. I currently serve as faculty and Director of Programs with the EarthBody Institute, where I help design and facilitate multi-level ecotherapy trainings for clinicians.
My work is shaped by decades of study and practice in land-based approaches to healing, as well as direct experience facilitating ecotherapy in therapeutic, community, and institutional settings. I am deeply influenced by the work of Joanna Macy, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Bill Plotkin.
- Greater nervous system regulation and emotional grounding
- A renewed sense of meaning, vitality, and belonging
- Increased capacity to stay present with grief, fear, and uncertainty
- Deeper connection to the body and the living world
- Integration of personal healing with collective and ecological awareness
- More sustainable ways of relating to responsibility, care, and limits
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Amanda Morrison
Licensed Psychotherapist
LMFT #78449
amandamorrisonmft@gmail.com
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- Individuals
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