Ecotherapy is a unique form of therapy where nature co-facilitates the experience of the session. It utilizes the natural environment to promote mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. Some interventions include exploring childhood other-than-human attachment figures and practicing sensory embodiment through exercises like assuming primal posture, walking barefoot blindfolded, and experiential meditations like forest bathing.
The innate truth ecotherapists hold as the foundation of their practice is that every human belongs to the ecosystem. This sense of environmental belonging leads to greater acts of contribution to those ecosystems promoting reciprocity and mutual respect. Ecotherapy inherently promotes racial and environmental justice as its primary goal is to break down the illusion of separateness to nature. Even while we breathe, eat, drink, and move on this planet, we are caught in the rush of modern life which often leaves us forgetting this simple and refreshing truth –