Main description:

Towards an Ecopsychotherapy offers diverse stories, from the therapy room to therapy in the forest, about the healing process of reconnection with the more-than-human world as well as with our wild animal selves. It provides an insight into ecopsychotherapy in practice and outlines its history, key themes, ideas, and controversies. This book is for anyone in the caring professions who seeks to practice therapy with the earth in mind, and for those struggling with eco-anxiety or eco-grief who wish to deepen their relationship with the earth and find hope in turbulent times.

Contents:

Introduction
1 Practising therapy outdoors
2 The diverse range of ecotherapy practices
3 Ecopsychology: context, frame, narrative
4 Psychological responses to ecological crisis
5 Exploring anthropocentrism
6 Ecopsychotherapy: weaving the threads
7 Ecopsychotherapy in the community
References
Index