Nature-Connected Ecotherapy in West Sussex & Online UK
You were never separate.
Even when you forgot,
The soil still held your name
I offer ecotherapy near Chichester, West Sussex, and online for people seeking a deeper, more embodied relationship with themselves and the living world.
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 ecotherapy is for
People come to ecotherapy for many reasons. Sometimes it’s to find steadiness in a busy or overwhelming life. Sometimes it’s to reconnect with a part of themselves that feels distant, muted, or worn thin by constant adaptation.
It can be a gentle way to work with grief, anxiety, burnout, or the slow ache of disconnection from body, community, or the living world. For neurodivergent people especially, time in nature can offer a different kind of regulation, less demand, less performance, more space to simply be.
You don’t need to be outdoorsy or confident in wild places. You don’t need to know the names of trees or feel spiritual about the land. Ecotherapy is not about achievement. It’s about relationship.
It offers a chance to slow down, breathe differently, and remember your place within something larger, a living world that can hold, mirror, and steady you when you allow it to.
Fees and Particulars
Sessions are usually 60 minutes and take place in woodland near Chichester, UK.
My fees for 2025 and 2026 are £90-110
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 Ecotherapy Works
Ecotherapy sessions in West Sussex or online can take different forms, depending on your needs, comfort, and access to nature. Some sessions happen outdoors, walking and talking in Chichester or nearby natural spaces, sitting beneath trees, or moving at a gentle pace through the landscape.
Others take place online, where we bring mindful awareness to what’s around you, noticing light, weather, memory, or nature experiences from your 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 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 Carn, a Certified IFS Psychotherapist, Approved IFS Clinical Consultant, and ecotherapist based near Chichester in West Sussex. I work online across the UK and outdoors in the local landscape.
My work sits at the meeting point of psychotherapy, ecology, ecopsychology, and belonging. I’m especially drawn to working with neurodivergent and queer clients, and with therapists seeking supervision that honours complexity rather than smoothing it out.
Whether online or outdoors, I offer spaces where you can move at your own pace. Spaces to reconnect with your own rhythms, to find steadiness in change, and to remember that you are not separate from the living world that holds you.
You don’t need to know the names of trees or feel confident in wild places to explore this work. Nature meets us exactly as we are. When we slow down and listen, something in us softens. Something remembers.