Resilient Nature is Around and Within us
Experiential Therapy
Rooted in
Charlottesville, VA
A Different Kind of Therapy
You don’t have to face anxiety, trauma, or eco-distress alone.
Resilient Nature Therapy offers experiential, emotion focused therapy in Charlottesville, Virginia, helping adults and older teens reconnect with themselves, process difficult emotions, and build resilience in a changing world.
I offer therapy that honors the full context of your life: your relationships, culture, identities, community, and the larger systems that shape your experience.
I believe healing happens in safe connection.
Many of our wounds are shaped in relationship, and healing can happen there, too. Our work together is grounded in the understanding that meaningful change happens not only through insight, but through the experience of being met with care, attunement, and genuine emotional presence.
Emotions that may have once felt overwhelming can begin to feel more accessible. Painful experiences can be processed with support, and new experiences of safety, connection, and resilience can begin to take root.
Sessions are available outdoors, indoors, and virtually.
How I Work
Many people come to therapy feeling stuck, talking about their experiences but not fully feeling or shifting them.
AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) offers a different experience.
AEDP is a gentle, relational, and emotion-focused approach that helps you:
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Safely experience and process core emotions
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Heal from trauma and attachment wounds
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Build a stronger sense of self
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Experience meaningful, lasting change
When combined with ecotherapy, this work is grounded not just in conversation, but in your body, your environment, and your lived experience.
Embodied Change
Ecotherapy is a form of counseling that integrates the natural world into the healing process.
Ecotherapy supports you to build a relationship with the natural world to more authentically and intentionally relate to yourself, your human relationships and the greater world beyond.
Nature can support:
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Nervous system regulation
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Deepened emotional processing
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An increased sense of connection and belonging
In our work together, ecotherapy may include:
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Walk-and-talk sessions outdoors
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Mindfulness and grounding in natural settings
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Integrating nature into indoor or virtual sessions with mindfulness, metaphor or parts work
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Practices to explore or incorporate in between sessions