Outdoor Counselling & Psychotherapy in THE Surrey HILLS

Dorking :: Cranleigh :: Horsham :: Guildford :: Reigate


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Psychodynamic in Nature

Outdoor Therapy

Welcome to Psychodynamic in Nature Outdoor Therapy

My name is Cathy Pover-Jones and I am a BACP Accredited Counsellor and UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, based in Forest Green, near Cranleigh and Dorking, Surrey.

Psychodynamic in Nature, Outdoor Therapy is a form of psychotherapy or counselling, taking place in a natural outdoor setting - also known as Eco-psychotherapy or Nature-Allied therapy.

Exploration in Nature

Psychodynamic therapy is an exploratory approach. This means taking time to explore, understand and reflect on feelings and past experiences, to help make sense of the present.

We all carry within us an internal landscape made up of people, places and experiences, which help shape who we are and how we relate to others. Psychodynamic in Nature therapy offers a way of exploring this interior world outdoors in nature, allowing the external landscape to reflect and illuminate our past and present relationships with self, other and place.


Nature Connection

It has been said that the natural environment “offers and invites our nature-connectedness” (Dr. Ruth Allen 2020), a profound affinity between human nature and the natural world. Physiologically and emotionally, we have evolved to be receptive to and affected by our natural environment and the plants, trees and wildlife we encounter there, the terrain we move through – hills, valleys, woods and open spaces, and the elemental forces which shape them - sun, wind, rain, fire, ice and continuing cycles of growth, decay and regeneration.

When we struggle with anxiety, depression, loss, loneliness, stress or trauma, our own vitality and inter-relatedness can be subdued or lost. By reconnecting with the natural world and our human nature in therapy, deadened parts of ourselves can be reawakened and essential developmental processes can be restored.

“...to trust to the elements my elemental self”

Jay Griffiths

Wild: An Elemental Journey (2006)


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