About Beth

“I feel at home in nature; it makes my heart sing and I feel at peace. I love being in silent conversation with the trees, the birds, just listening and watching. Sometimes you catch something of the knowledge being shared; it feels a blessing to be part of it.”

I am a Nature Allied Psychotherapist and ethnographer, teaching natural history and woodland living skills; I lead Wild in the City and the Nature Therapy School, my therapeutic work focuses on supporting people experiencing relational trauma in their connections with people, and with nature.

In today’s fast-paced world, many feel isolated from both human’s and nature, leading to feelings of anxiety and discontent. Reconnecting with the natural world can restore balance and peace

I help individuals heal through authentic connections with nature and others.

As a therapist I work exclusively in natural settings, working in allegiance with nature to explore our emotional worlds. I have theorised our relationships with nature from an applied psychotherapeutic perspective, developing Nature Allied Psychotherapy as a modality of practice for ongoing client work. I’m currently writing Nature Allied Psychotherapy: Exploring Relationships with our Self, Others and Nature to be published by Routledge. I provide professional training for psychotherapists and well-being professionals on the therapeutic use of nature through the Nature Therapy School.

As a naturalist and bushcraft practitioner I have an interest in traditional ecological knowledge and ethnopsychology. I have a life long passion for nature stemming from a rural upbringing. I’m happiest in the woods, listening to the nuthatch and the crackle of the fire, absorbing all that is going on around me. I love sharing an ancestral gaze for perceiving the world around us, some favourite ways of being include natural navigation, forgaing, tracking and basketry. I have experience of wilderness living in Scotland and Sweden. I have a certificate in Advanced Wilderness First Aid.