This Introduction workshop will be the start of a series of courses that Emma will be offering to the Onlinevents community.
Emma Pritchard is an integrative accredited counsellor and certified forest therapist who has been working solely in woodland and outdoor spaces with her clients since 2018. Emma will be sharing how her personal nature connection supports her counselling practice and how woodland spaces become her therapist as well as her clients.
This workshop will create a space for you to reflect on your own connection with nature and why nature will support self-care. Emma will also include the practical essentials she believes support her to work safely with her clients in outdoor spaces.
Learning Objectives:
- An increased competency to work safely with clients within outdoor spaces
- A space to reflect on our own connection with nature
- A reminder of how nature can become our therapist and support self-care
Who is this workshop appropriate for?
- student counsellors, qualified counsellors and school pastoral support workers
How can this workshop impact your practice?
- Supporting participants to offer nature therapy as part of their tool box
Course Content
Presenter
I am an integrative accredited counsellor and certified forest therapist, and since 2018 I have worked solely in outdoor spaces, mainly in woodlands to support my clients on both an intuitive and spiritual level. I grew up in the Staffordshire countryside climbing trees and after a period of purely city life during my 20s and 30s, I moved to Dorset in 2009 during a difficult transition. I reconnected with nature as a healing, comforting space and time for me. My innate connection with nature encouraged me to transfer my counselling practice into the outdoors and since 2018 I have supported and continue to support many adults, families, couples and young people affected by bereavement, loss, trauma, abuse, gender transitions, sexual identity, anxiety, suicidal ideation and self-harm behaviours, anger and neurodiveristy within my private practice, as well as supporting schools , charities. and multi agency work with camhs, gps, and social care teams.
