What is Ecotherapy & How Does It Work?
What is Ecotherapy
Ecotherapy vs. Being Outdoors
Ecotherapy vs. Being Outdoors
Ecotherapy also called nature therapy, is a type of mental health therapy that involves experiencing nature to remediate mental health symptoms and boost overall well-being.
Ecotherapy vs. Being Outdoors
Ecotherapy vs. Being Outdoors
Ecotherapy vs. Being Outdoors
The difference between nature therapy and simply being outdoors is akin to the difference between working with a mental health therapist and talking to a friend. Like any type of therapy, ecotherapy is more formal than just being outdoors. It’s structured and involves targeted interventions done to achieve a specific goal.
Who Can Benefit from Ecotherapy?
Who Can Benefit from Ecotherapy?
Who Can Benefit from Ecotherapy?
All can benefit, but clients who are interested in the group will be screened. Not all people have positive relationships with the natural world or feel safe in nature.
What Can Nature Help With?
Who Can Benefit from Ecotherapy?
Who Can Benefit from Ecotherapy?
It nurtures mind, body, and spirit, soothing the nervous system and reducing levels of stress hormones circulating through the body. In our modern society, we’re spending less time outdoors. This is leading to increased distress, longer recovery times from physical and mental illness, and plummeting well-being.
Nature therapy has been demo
It nurtures mind, body, and spirit, soothing the nervous system and reducing levels of stress hormones circulating through the body. In our modern society, we’re spending less time outdoors. This is leading to increased distress, longer recovery times from physical and mental illness, and plummeting well-being.
Nature therapy has been demonstrated in studies to help with mental health conditions and experiences such as:
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Depression
- Fatigue
- Memory
- Mood (general)
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Self-esteem
- Stress
- Substance use and addiction
- Climate anxiety or other existential related anxieties