Approach

Therapy Approach

Many of the beliefs we carry about ourselves and the world were formed long ago—often in response to circumstances that required us to adapt, cope, or protect ourselves. Over time, these patterns can begin to feel limiting or disconnected from who we are becoming. Therapy offers a space to gently explore these patterns, reconnect with your inner wisdom, and cultivate greater choice in how you move through your life.

My approach is collaborative, relational, and grounded in curiosity. I work with you to understand the stories that have shaped your experiences while also helping you notice how those stories live in the body, the nervous system, and the present moment. Together we explore new possibilities for responding to life with greater flexibility, clarity, and self-trust.

Our work may draw from a range of approaches including somatic awareness, mindfulness practices, parts work, and trauma-informed nervous system regulation. These methods help us move beyond insight alone and support meaningful change at both cognitive and embodied levels. When helpful, we may also incorporate nature-based reflection and practices that reconnect you with a sense of grounding, perspective, and vitality.

Above all, therapy is a partnership. I will meet you with respect, presence, and care while supporting you in building on your existing strengths and capacities.

Areas of focus include

• Personal and professional identity
• Relationship and communication challenges
• Conflict and leadership dynamics
• Grief and loss
• Life and career transitions
• Anxiety, depression, and panic
• Trauma and nervous system regulation
• Meaning, purpose, and connection with self and the natural world

Nature Counseling

The practice of incorporating nature to enhance health and wellness is shared among many disciplines. In the wake of research that proves the healing power of nature, today’s cutting edge health care facilities often incorporate biophilia including day-lighting, natural materials like stone or wood, plants, water features, artwork of nature as well as designing outdoor spaces to be more natural, inviting patients to sit, visit with family and friends, or stroll. A report in 2009 from Centre for Environment and Society at the University of Essex shines more light on the use of nature as a therapeutic intervention, with growing empirical evidence that nature improves mental health. Researchers prescribe “green exercise” to improve psychological well-being, and enhance physical health and social networks.

Who hasn’t experienced a sudden emotional lift from sunshine following a period of prolonged rain or inner turmoil? The outdoors – sunshine, trees, birdsong, wind, snow-capped mountains, puddles, ocean beaches, beds of moss, even the rain – can calm us and provide a perspective that comes literally from outside of ourselves.

Jody sees in-person clients exclusively outdoors by appointment only.

For resources and readings on the healing power of nature visit Jody's Facebook page at Nature Counselling.