Wild Therapy is a specific type of eco-psychotherapy or nature based therapy. Although it could include moving therapy outdoors, it also adopts an approach of celebrating spontaneity, boundlessness, and passion. It recognises our interdependence with all other living things and encourages a deeper connection to the ‘more than human world’ (The world that includes humans and all other living things).
I offer Wild Therapy as a therapeutic practice and I am currently in a year long Wild Therapy training programme, founded by Nick Totton, who originated the term in his book, “Wild Therapy” in 2011. You can find out more here.
This can be a great way to work if you are feeling stuck with traditional talk therapy or feel like the trauma you have experienced is too big for the traditional therapy room to hold. It can also help you to reconnect with nature, process eco-anxiety or climate-anxiety and help you embrace unpredictability and uncertainty, allowing you to soften your traditional controlling or rigid self-regulatory behaviours. It is also a great way to rebuild the mind – body split that so many of us struggle with in our modern, fast paced societies.