Outdoor Counselling & Psychotherapy in Surrey
Welcome to new leaf
Psychodynamic in Nature
Outdoor Therapy
Welcome to new leaf
Psychodynamic in Nature
Outdoor Therapy
Explorations in Nature
My name is Cathy Pover-Jones and I am a BACP Accredited Counsellor and UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, based in Forest Green, Surrey.
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. Traditionally psychotherapy has been conducted indoors - within the walls of the therapy room, therapist and client seek to establish a relationship or therapeutic alliance, secure enough for the client to open up and explore their interior world.
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 and decay.
By reconnecting with the natural world and our human nature in therapy, essential developmental processes can be reactivated.
“...to trust to the elements my elemental self”
Jay Griffiths
Wild: An Elemental Journey (2006)
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