Nature-Connected Ecotherapy in West Sussex & Online UK
Ecotherapy: Remembering What You Already Know
I offer ecotherapy near Chichester, West Sussex, and online.
Ecotherapy starts from a simple truth: we are not separate from nature, we are part of it. Most of us have just been living like we've forgotten that. When we slow down and spend time with the land, it becomes something we can feel again rather than just know. Breath softens. The nervous system settles. The body remembers.
In practice this might mean walking and talking outdoors, sitting quietly among trees, or noticing how the turning seasons mirror our own cycles. It can also happen online: paying attention to the light through a window, returning to a favourite landscape in memory, or working with the images and symbols that nature offers up.
Ecotherapy isn't about wilderness adventures or knowing the names of every plant. It's about relationship: with the living world, with your own body, with the more-than-human world that holds and sustains us whether we notice it or not.
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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.
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
Sessions can take different forms depending on your needs, comfort and access to nature.
Outdoors, we might walk and talk in Chichester or nearby natural spaces, sit beneath trees, or move slowly through the landscape. Online, we bring attention to what's around you: the light, the weather, a nature memory from your week, or whatever the natural world is offering in that moment.
You don't need any particular knowledge of nature or the outdoors. We'll find a pace and setting that works for you. The aim isn't to do anything special. It's to listen: to yourself, to what's around you, to whatever arises.
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.