22/02/2026
IF YOU ONLY TALK IN THERAPY WITH ONE OTHER HUMAN – YOU WILL GET VERY LIMITED INPUT
Ecotherapy is “talk therapy”
with more than another
human. It is inviting deep
conversations with both
your inner and outer context.
When you engage in ecotherapy you will get so many other opportunities to input, exchange and interaction that you can ever get from one human in a traditional talk therapy set up.
In ecotherapy you engage also with your surroundings, and often an ecotherapist will meet you outdoors, in a more natural setting, like out in “nature” or in a park. I always put “nature” in quotation marks, because to me “nature” is not a place, it is all that we are – all of us. You, as a human, are “nature” too.
Ecotherapy is not only about “nature” as a place or as an experience, but also equally much about context. We are all part of an ecological context, an eco-system. And while we might feel disconnected from it, which often happens when we feel disconnected from ourselves, we are still a part of it.
Ecotherapy helps you find your way back to those connections. It helps you dare to open up, both to what is around you and what is inside of you.
The human animal is getting increasingly more fearful. We fear each other, we fear ourselves, we fear the future, we fear the past, we fear staying in the now, we fear all “what ifs”, we fear our emotions and the constant message coming from all kinds of directions that we are not enough, and not okay.
Ecotherapy does not only engage with your emotions, or your mind, but also your body, and how you extend into the world, and equally much, how the world extends into you.
You are a system, an eco-system that is part of a larger eco-system, that itself is part of a larger eco-system – and so it goes on, until you know you are connected to earth. We are all part of the same kind of life web and in different phases of our life it feels right to either expand or contract, to make our world larger, or smaller, to focus inwards or to focus outwards.
Ecotherapy is great because it allows for all of this. For expansion and retraction, for relaxation and activity, for observing and taking part, for thinking and feeling, for depth and breadth, for integrating and for letting go…
Ecotherapy is life therapy. It is an (w)holistic therapy. It is even a therapy and a non-therapy.
And it is a therapy where the therapist is not particularly important, at least not more important than anyone being or entity that you meet engaging with it.
Ecotherapy is not the therapist’s therapy – it is equally much everyone’s therapy.
If you want to try it out, learn more about it, get supervision, contact me.
You can read more on www.livethechange.se
–The Shameless Unmasker of “Mental Health Care” Myths and the Enthusiastic Proponent of Alternative Ways to Support and Care.
