What Is Eco-Therapy?
Ecotherapy, also known as Nature-Based Therapy
It is a restorative and relationship-centered approach to counselling that invites connection with the natural world as a pathway toward emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. Rooted in the understanding that humans are deeply intertwined with the Earth, ecotherapy recognizes that the health of people and the health of our environment are profoundly connected. In many ways, when we nurture our relationship with nature, nature offers care, grounding, and renewal in return, often inspiring a deeper sense of stewardship and reciprocity toward the world around us.
Nature-Based Therapy is a holistic, embodied, and experiential form of counselling that can take many shapes. Like traditional talk therapy, we gently explore the challenges you may be carrying alongside the strengths, values, and hopes that support you. Bringing therapy outdoors through practices such as walk-and-talk sessions or quiet sit-spots can encourage mindfulness, sensory awareness, curiosity, and playfulness while fostering a meaningful connection with the living systems surrounding you.
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Sacred Spiral represents the symbolic journey we take moving inwards to grow, find balance and build reliance as we move through life.
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The Vision is to cultivate a world where people remember their inherent connection to themselves, one another, and the natural world, a world where healing is rooted in relationship, reciprocity, and belonging.
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I gratefully acknowledge that I live, work, and learn on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xÊ·mÉ™θkÊ·É™yÌ“É™m (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), and sÉ™lilwÉ™taɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation).
I feel lucky to call Burnaby home, a place of mountains that hold the horizon, forests that whisper ancient stories, and waters that carry memory. Long before streets and skylines, these lands were (and continue to be) places of gathering, teaching, trading, celebrating, and caring for community.
As I move through my days, whether walking through neighbourhood trails, watching the fog roll off the mountains, or sharing meals with friends, I remember that I am a guest here. With that awareness comes responsibility: to listen, to learn, to respect, and to contribute in ways that honour the peoples who have stewarded this land since time immemorial.
May I live here with gratitude, humility, and a commitment to reconciliation, not just in words, but in my actions