Chiara Fortina Santin is an Italian woman in her fifties. Born in a middle-class family near the Italian Alps and lakes, she landed in Sussex, (UK) in her adult life with her partner, an academic and researcher, as economic migrants in search for jobs and a better future.

Chiara went to the University of Brighton and studied Social Science and Psychology, to pursue her passion for working with children, young people and their families in the community. She then worked ten years in Social Care whilst pursuing the Systemic and Family Therapy Clinical Master training which she completed in 2008. She also attained a qualification in Systemic Supervision in 2012.

Chiara has been teaching on systemic courses for twelve years, enjoying seeing students blossoming in their way of connecting to systemic ideas and apply them in their working contexts. As an independent systemic and family psychotherapist, she has been working with adoptive families since 2012. In the last seven years she has developed her ecosystemic practice in Nature and is passionate about depathologise, decolonise mental health support via Nature and community building. She is now more focused on nature-based therapeutic interventions, community work and ecosystemic online groups.

She loves colours, creativity, dancing, doing and making. She is committed to social justice, self-reflexivity, multiple languages and diversity in dialogue.

Chiara has written various articles and more recently she has published a book on Rewilding Therapy. Ecosystemic Theory and practice. Available on Amazon.