"Ecopsychotherapy is a relatively new form of psychotherapy which understands that human relationships exist within the larger context of life on earth.
The web of life is not just a collection of beings but more like a continuum of earth-water-sky-tree-air-creatures-sun-human.
Trauma arises when relationships within that continuum are disrupted; healing ourselves cannot be done in isolation." (Mary-Jayne Rust, 'Towards and Ecopsychotherapy', Confer Books 2020.)
The key principles of Ecopsychotherapy for me are:
we are part of a larger whole, the web of life;
all beings are inter-connected and inter-dependent, living lives of reciprocal relationships; and,
human healing is inseparable from restoring the earth.
Working with the wider natural world is deeply healing and restorative. It provides a context that is both deeply real and beautiful with an unpretentious
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