Psychotherapeutic and Outdoor Counselling in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire
Nature Connection
"Simply put, I believe humans are part of the web of life. When we feel connected to that web we can receive the support it offers"
I believe that reconnecting with nature can support us by offering a secure attachment to something solid, soothing and inherently loving. If you choose to, we can work together to explore your relationship to the natural world. This could mean simply going out in it and exploring what it offers to our senses and how that affects how we feel, you may even just want to be able to have counselling and be outside at the same time. Or you may wish to explore what it would mean to invite the natural world into relationship with yourself and to deepen that relationship over time. In therapy speak we could say we would work together to invite the natural world into the therapeutic alliance and explore what that means.
How we incorporate this into our work together is something we would navigate over time. Sometimes you might like to focus on it, sometimes not. I am happy to facilitate this exploration in a fluid way depending on what feels right and useful for you at the time.
If you would like to read any more about how I view the natural world, our place in it as humans and how I believe a restored connection to it can support us, enrich us and help to give us meaning in our lives, click here.
We can meet outdoors at a variety of beautiful locations in and around Slaithwaite, Marsden and the Colne Valley.
“When I am among the Trees”
by Mary Oliver
When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
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.”
