Green Bird Nature Therapy

06/26/2026

Early morning session of forest therapy in a primeval mountain cove of huge boulders and rushing water. Including a card spread for the client's past, present, and future.

06/22/2026

"“By spending time in nature ... we can nurture the very skills and emotions that cannot be digitized: awareness, empathy, humility, and above all, love.”

The princess published an essay Friday warning against a childhood “mediated by screens,” days after Britain announced a ban on social media for children under 16.

06/02/2026

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05/08/2026

Here is my "office" for this morning's session of nature therapy with a client. I love this work I do, connecting people with the Earth's healing energies.💚

04/12/2026

On Monday April 13, I will be speaking online about all things nature therapy -- twice!
🌿 Please join me. 🌿

12 noon ET: Earthbound Live - a 30-min. conversation with Susan J. Tweit: https://open.substack.com/live-stream/156352?appStoreRedirect=true

6:00 pm ET: Paying Attention: The practice of mindfulness in nature — a 45-min. lecture for the Tennessee Valley chapter of Wild Ones (open to the public): https://tnvalley.wildones.org/events/?wo_event_id=11982

03/31/2026

As a nature-based psychotherapist, I am heartened to see luminaries like Harrison Ford talking about our reciprocal relationship with nature. 🌿

01/24/2026

Beautiful words about how we can find solace in nature. 💚

When the mind is festering with trouble or the heart torn, we can find healing among the silence of mountains or fields, or listen to the simple, steadying rhythm of waves. The slowness and stillness gradually takes us over. Our breathing deepens and our hearts calm and our hungers relent. When serenity is restored, new perspectives open to us and difficulty can begin to seem like an invitation to new growth.

This invitation to friendship with nature does of course entail a willingness to be alone out there. Yet this aloneness is anything but lonely. Solitude gradually clarifies the heart until a true tranquility is reached. The irony is that at the heart of that aloneness you feel intimately connected with the world. Indeed, the beauty of nature is often the wisest balm for it gently relieves and releases the caged mind.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his books, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (US) / Divine Beauty (Europe)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

Lough Inagh, County Galway, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

10/22/2025

Last week, I taught a workshop in nature therapy for other therapists. At the close of our day together, we created this lovely (and impermanent) work of Earth art. 💚

10/22/2025

10/05/2025

The Jane Goodall Institute has suggested ways we can honor the memory of their leader, including this one.