Ecotherapy
You were never separate.
Even when you forgot,
The soil still held your name
Ecotherapy begins with a simple truth: we are not separate from nature; we are part of it, and we’ve been separated from it. When we slow down and spend time with the land, that truth becomes something we can feel again. Our breath softens, the nervous system settles, the body remembers its place in the wider web of life.
In practice, this might mean walking and talking outdoors, sitting quietly among trees, or exploring how the turning seasons mirror our own cycles of change.
It can also happen online, by noticing the light through a window, recalling a favourite landscape, or working with the images and symbols that nature offers us.
Ecotherapy is not (just) about wilderness adventures or knowing the names of every plant. It is about remembering relationship: with the living world, with our own bodies, and with the more-than-human kin who hold and sustain us.
When we connect, we can begin to heal.
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Who is it for?
People seek ecotherapy for many reasons. Sometimes it’s to find calm in a busy or overwhelming life, or to reconnect with a part of themselves that feels distant or forgotten. For others, it’s a way to work gently with grief, anxiety, burnout, or a sense of disconnection from body, community, or the natural world.
You don’t need to be “outdoorsy” or have a deep love of nature to benefit. Ecotherapy offers a chance to slow down, breathe, and remember your place within something larger, a living world that holds, mirrors, and restores us when we allow it to.
Fees and Particulars
Sessions are usually 60 minutes
My fees for 2025 and 2026 are £85-110
Please note I currently have very limited availability for online or face-to-face ecotherapy sessions.
This list of other neurodivergent therapists might be useful to you in your search.
How it works
Ecotherapy sessions can take different forms, depending on your needs, comfort, and access to nature. Some sessions happen outdoors, walking, sitting, or moving at a gentle pace in a natural setting.
Others take place online, where we bring mindful awareness to what’s around you, or nature experiences from the week. The aim isn’t to “do” anything special, but to listen to yourself, to the land, to whatever arises in that shared space.
You don’t need any particular knowledge of nature or the outdoors to take part. We’ll work together to find a pace and a setting that feels safe, accessible, and right for you. Ecotherapy can be reflective, creative, embodied, and deeply regulating, a way to reconnect with the wider world while also reconnecting with yourself.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
Mary Oliver - When I am Among the Trees
Meet Your Guide
Jude Carn
Ecotherapist
I’m Jude, a Certified IFS Psychotherapist and Ecotherapist based near Chichester, West Sussex. My work sits at the meeting point of psychotherapy, ecology, ecopsychology and belonging. Whether online or outdoors, I offer spaces for people to reconnect with their own rhythms, find steadiness in change, and remember their place in the wider web of life.
You don’t need to know the names of trees or feel comfortable in wild places to explore this work; nature meets us exactly as we are. When we slow down and listen, something in us begins to soften and return home.