Nature Based Therapy Sessions
Feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, burned out, or emotionally stuck?
Finding it difficult to slow down, regulate stress, or feel present in your daily life?
Or maybe traditional office-based therapy has never quite felt like the right fit for you?
Nature-based therapy offers a different approach to healing — one that combines the benefits of counselling with the restorative effects of the natural world. Through outdoor sessions, movement, mindfulness, and connection with nature, therapy can become a more grounding, experiential, and embodied process.
Here’s what you can expect:
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A supportive and non-judgemental space
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Therapy that integrates movement and nature
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Support for stress, anxiety, trauma, and burnout
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An approach focused on connection and regulation
Together, we’ll work to better understand your experiences, strengthen emotional regulation, build resilience, and reconnect with yourself through evidence-based therapeutic approaches integrated with the outdoors.
Why Choose True Life Therapy?
About Nature Based Therapy
Nature-based therapy combines traditional counselling approaches with the calming and restorative effects of the outdoors. Sessions take place in natural settings and may include walk-and-talk therapy, mindfulness, grounding practices, reflective conversation, and gentle movement-based experiences.
For many people, being outside can help therapy feel more relaxed, open, and less clinical while also supporting nervous system regulation, emotional awareness, and stress reduction.
Nature-based therapy can be helpful for individuals navigating anxiety, burnout, trauma, emotional overwhelm, life transitions, or feeling disconnected from themselves. The outdoor setting often creates opportunities to slow down, feel more present, and reconnect with both yourself and your environment.
My approach integrates evidence-based therapy approaches such as EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), mindfulness, and somatic awareness within a supportive outdoor setting tailored to your comfort level and goals.
Our work together unfolds at a pace that feels right for you. In-person couples counselling available in St. John's Newfoundland, along with gentle between-session support and resources to help you stay connected to the work outside of therapy.
Ready to take the next step together? Let’s begin.
How It Works
An experiential, outdoor approach to individual therapy in Newfoundland
The Initial Consultation
Our first conversation provides an opportunity to explore what is bringing you to therapy and what you hope will be different. We'll discuss your goals, current challenges, and the role nature-based or adventure therapy may play in your treatment. Together, we'll determine whether this approach is a good fit and how best to support you moving forward.
Ongoing Sessions
All clients begin with indoor sessions to establish safety, build rapport, and develop a thoughtful treatment plan. If nature-based or adventure therapy aligns with your goals and circumstances, sessions may transition outdoors when clinically appropriate. This flexible approach allows us to draw from both traditional counselling and experiential practices to support growth, resilience, self-awareness, and meaningful change.
Experiential Integration
Nature-based therapy extends beyond simply meeting outdoors. You'll receive practical tools, opportunities for reflection, and experiential exercises designed to help you connect with your strengths and apply what you're learning in everyday life. By integrating these experiences between sessions, the work becomes more tangible, empowering, and lasting.
Therapy Fees & Investment
Nature-based therapy for well-being and personal growth.
I am committed to providing thoughtful, high-quality nature-based and adventure therapy that supports meaningful and lasting change. Your investment reflects more than the time spent in session—it supports an individualized, evidence-informed approach that integrates the restorative qualities of nature with proven therapeutic practices to help you move toward your goals.
Each nature-based therapy experience includes:
• Dedicated time with a licensed therapist who is highly educated in adventure therapy focusing on your unique needs, strengths, and therapeutic goals.
• A safe, supportive, and non-judgmental space where you can explore challenges, build insight, and foster self-compassion.
• A personalized treatment approach that may incorporate nature-based experiences, experiential interventions, mindfulness practices, and evidence-informed therapeutic modalities.
• Opportunities to strengthen coping skills, increase resilience, improve emotional well-being, and deepen your connection with yourself and your environment.
• Careful consideration of whether indoor, outdoor, or a combination of settings best supports your treatment goals and overall safety.
• Direct billing available to most insurance providers to help make care more accessible.
Whether you're navigating stress, anxiety, life transitions, burnout, or the impact of past experiences, nature-based and adventure therapy offers a grounded and meaningful approach to healing, self-discovery, and personal growth here in Newfoundland.
Session details and rates:
50-Minute Session
This session length works well for ongoing therapy and clients who are integrating nature-based work into their regular routine. Depending on your treatment plan, sessions may take place indoors or outdoors and can include walk-and-talk therapy or other experiential activities. These sessions provide dedicated space to build coping skills, increase self-awareness, and make meaningful progress toward your goals at a steady, supportive pace.
$160.00 CAD
80-Minute Session
Extended sessions allow for a deeper therapeutic experience and are particularly well-suited for nature-based and adventure therapy. Depending on your treatment plan, sessions may take place indoors or outdoors and can include walk-and-talk therapy or other experiential activitiesThese sessions can support more in-depth exploration, helping you slow down, connect with yourself, and engage more fully in the therapeutic work.
$240.00 CAD
Reaching out for nature-based and adventure therapy is an important step toward change, and my goal is to make the process feel clear, supportive, and welcoming. Sessions are offered in-person across the St. John’s and Mount Pearl metro area, providing a dedicated space to focus on your well-being, growth, and healing in a way that feels grounded and intentional.
If you’re ready to invest in yourself and move toward greater clarity, resilience, and connection, I would be happy to, quite literally, walk alongside you in that process.