Why Ecopsychology? Bringing Nature's Wisdom into Your Professional Practice What Is the Need? Through years of therapy and self-help millions of people have explored their pasts and connected with their inner child. yet for many seemingly well-adjusted even successful men and women still something is still very wrong, something is missing.     Try as we may, we can’t seem to escape the dramatic rise in lifestyle-related stress, depression, anxieties, addictive behavior, ethical crises and rage disorders that continue to plague so many of us and our loved-ones. Eco-anxiety, concern about ecological change and its economic consequences is one recent example.    Many of today’s common physical, emotional and psychological problems arise not from psychopathology but from what we call Lifestyle Disorders, a chronic incongruity between the lifestyles and career choices our 24/7 consumer-driven urban culture demands and our biological and psychological needs as human beings within the larger natural ecological systems of which we are an organic part.      In other words often the lifestyles we're striving to achieve and maintain in our culture are making us ill.     The burgeoning fields of coaching and mentoring are evidence that people are seeking something beyond traditional therapy, something that will help them create more balanced lifestyles and livelihoods. But today’s lifestyle illnesses cannot be solved with traditional talk and analytical methods alone.     These problems lie beyond the rational and the logical.      Lifestyle-induced illness, including eco-anxiety, calls for a different type of guidance, one that focuses not on the individual’s shortcomings and personal history or on building better daily coping skills, but on the cultural context that’s keeping us disconnected from our innate natural wisdom that would guide us in how to live a balanced and harmonious life.       In nature-based cultures throughout the world, health has always been defined as living in balance with one’s environment. Illness occurs whenever there is “disorder” or a disturbance of the natural order of life. When illness strikes, it has long the role of the Shaman, or healer, to help people restore balance and harmony to their lives.       Ecopsychology provides tools that can be easily integrated into a professional healing or spiritual practice to help clients restore a natural balance and harmony to their lives even in the midst of today's economic and environmental turmoil by:             Reconnecting with:             Spiritual Desires for Purpose and Meaning              Nature             Community              Our Innate Biological Clock             Mastering the Skills for New Ways of Living:             Holding Paradox             Living in the Mystery             Finding Simplicity within Complexity             Understanding Duality             Welcoming Change             Building Community             Shifting One's View of Healthy Daily Life to Encompass:             Intuition             Direct Experience and Direct Knowing              Subjective Experience              Nature-Centered Activities             Experiential             The Imaginal             Consciousness-Altering Experience             Story              Spirituality              Reanimation              Place and Rootedness             Community              Group Energy             Directed Will              Systemic Approaches Home   Continuing Education  Newsletter  Books  Contact Us