Prescribing Nature: A Clinician's Guide to Ecotherapy

Bring nature to your therapy room-or take therapy into nature.

Psychotherapy has traditionally occurred in office spaces and focused on issues that stop at the urban boundary. But with the growing impacts of climate-related anxiety and trauma, and mounting evidence that contact with nature has powerful psychological, emotional, and restorative benefits, more clinicians are turning to the practice of ecotherapy to help their clients heal.

Ecopsychology pioneer Patricia Hasbach provides an ecot...