Center For Nature Informed Therapy

Center For Nature Informed Therapy The Center for Nature Informed Therapy integrates mental health practices with healing found in the natural world.

🌵 CNIT has a new co-therapist: the desert herself.Over the years, our work has partnered with forests, oceans, and mount...
09/05/2026

🌵 CNIT has a new co-therapist: the desert herself.

Over the years, our work has partnered with forests, oceans, and mountains—but never the desert.

As we develop a new Nature-Informed Resilience Program, we started wondering: Who better to teach us about resilience than the desert herself?

The desert knows something about resourcefulness, adaptation, patience, and thriving with less. Life here doesn’t just endure challenging conditions—it finds remarkable ways to flourish within them.

So here we are in the Mojave Desert, scouting, listening, and learning as we prepare for this new program.

Because sometimes the best teacher of resilience isn’t standing at the front of a classroom.

Sometimes, she’s the landscape beneath our feet. 🌵☀️

🌿 It's almost time to celebrate!Fall into Nature is made possible by the generosity of our sponsors. A huge thanks to Ar...
09/05/2026

🌿 It's almost time to celebrate!

Fall into Nature is made possible by the generosity of our sponsors. A huge thanks to Ari and the Buffalo Kings, The French Paradox Wines, and Irvine Nature Center for helping bring this to life.

Join us as we celebrate the first evening of autumn with live music, food, w**e, and a wonderful community - all in a beautiful setting.

📅 September 23 | 6–8 PM
📍 Irvine Nature Center

Tickets & details:
https://FallintoNatureCNIT.eventbrite.com

We’re heading to Utah. 🌿We’re delighted to share that Dr. Heidi Schreiber-Pan, founder of the Center for Nature Informed...
09/02/2026

We’re heading to Utah. 🌿

We’re delighted to share that Dr. Heidi Schreiber-Pan, founder of the Center for Nature Informed Therapy, will be the keynote speaker at the 2026 Utah Outdoor Recreation Summit in Cedar City, Utah.

This year’s Summit theme, “Built Here. For Tomorrow.”, invites us to consider what the choices we make today will leave for future generations.

It’s a conversation that feels deeply aligned with CNIT’s work. Heidi will bring a nature-informed perspective on resilience, healing, wellbeing, and our relationship with the natural world to a gathering of outdoor recreation leaders, advocates, land managers, and community partners from across Utah and beyond.

We’re grateful for the invitation, and excited to see nature-informed mental health becoming part of the broader conversation about how we experience, care for, and shape our outdoor spaces.

📍 Cedar City, Utah
📅 September 8–9, 2026
🌐 https://recreation.utah.gov/summit-2026

🌿Nature can be a powerful source of healing - even in the midst of war.Join us for Fall Into Nature at Irvine Nature Cen...
08/30/2026

🌿Nature can be a powerful source of healing - even in the midst of war.

Join us for Fall Into Nature at Irvine Nature Center, featuring Dr. Heidi Schreiber-Pan and an exclusive screening of Shared Ground, a short documentary following Ukrainian park leaders and mental health professionals as they train with CNIT to harness the healing power of nature amidst the trauma of ongoing war.

Stay for the music, food, w**e and conversation as we celebrate the first evening of autumn together.

📅 September 23 | 6–8 PM
Tickets & details:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fall-into-nature-tickets-1994516211680

Not every therapy that happens in nature works in the same way.Wilderness therapy often centers sustained immersion. Adv...
08/27/2026

Not every therapy that happens in nature works in the same way.

Wilderness therapy often centers sustained immersion. Adventure therapy centers purposeful challenge. Nature-Informed Therapy centers relationship and reciprocity with the living world.

The approaches can overlap, but their primary emphases are different:

🌲 Wilderness Therapy: immersion
🧗‍♂️ Adventure Therapy: challenge
🍃 Nature-Informed Therapy: relationship

Nature-Informed Therapy can take place indoors or outdoors, in one session or over the course of ongoing therapy. It may also be integrated into established therapeutic approaches or group programming.

Read the full comparison on the CNIT blog:
https://www.natureinformedtherapy.org/post/exploring-the-differences-between-nature-informed-therapy-and-adventure-therapy

🍂 Fall Into Nature with us!Celebrate the first evening of autumn at Irvine Nature Center with live music, food, w**e, an...
08/21/2026

🍂 Fall Into Nature with us!

Celebrate the first evening of autumn at Irvine Nature Center with live music, food, w**e, and a wonderful community - all in a beautiful natural setting.

📅 September 23 | 6–8 PM
📍 Irvine Nature Center

Come enjoy the evening and learn more about the inspiring work of the Center for Nature Informed Therapy.

Tickets & details:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fall-into-nature-tickets-1994516211680?aff=oddtdtcreator

With the votes tallied, we're excited to announce the official winning design of the CNIT T-shirt contest: Healing Is Re...
08/19/2026

With the votes tallied, we're excited to announce the official winning design of the CNIT T-shirt contest: Healing Is Reciprocal

Our deepest thanks to everyone who shared their time and energy to create beautiful works of art. We are honored to have had the opportunity to present them to the community.

We'd also like to thank the community as a whole - we greatly appreciate your enthusiastic engagement with this project!

🎇 Be on the lookout for a follow-up post spotlighting the artist and their work

We'll also make an announcement here when the t-shirt is available 🌿

08/14/2026

Student outcomes, in their own words.
We sat down with students after their time in the Alps to hear what they actually carried home. Their reflections speak to the depth of experiential, nature-informed learning, growth, connection, and practices that outlast the trip itself.
Hear directly from the students who lived it.
CNIT partners with universities to design custom nature-informed study abroad and immersive learning experiences. Learn more link below: https://www.natureinformedtherapy.org/eco-psychology-study-abroad

Eco-psychology, experienced firsthand. 🏔️This past year, students traveled to the Alps for an immersive study abroad pro...
08/11/2026

Eco-psychology, experienced firsthand. 🏔️
This past year, students traveled to the Alps for an immersive study abroad program grounded in nature-informed learning. Through structured challenge, quiet reflection, and community-building practices, students moved beyond theory into direct experience, building both academic understanding and personal insight.
Swipe through to see what students learned and how the program was structured.
CNIT partners with universities to design custom nature-informed study abroad and immersive learning experiences. Learn more link below: https://www.natureinformedtherapy.org/eco-psychology-study-abroad

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