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or clients of family therapist Christian Dymond, the path to wellness begins on his 10 acres of
woods and meadows in Milton, Vermont, walking alongside him, sitting by a bab- bling brook, watching squirrels gather nuts or the sun slowly set, breathing in the piney air. “T ere is a sense of safety that comes from being in the forest,” Dymond says. “Safety is necessary in order for the client to open up and share themselves with another human being.” Children, too, readily respond: “Getting a child outside into nature can bring life back into their eyes. Every day I see this happen.” T e sweeping Santa Barbara beach
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is the offi ce of clinical psychologist Maria Nazarian, Ph.D., as she accompanies clients on hour-long barefoot walks that might include a mindfulness exercise, goal-setting and meditation—all while watching waves foam, pelicans glide and sun-sparkles on the water. “When we feel connected to the world around us, we experience more joy and belonging, less depression and less anxiety, all of which increase our thinking, creativity, well- being and generosity,” she says.
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green living
After my time outdoors, I feel grounded, renewed, energized and much more clearheaded than before I started.
~Laura Durenberger
GREEN THERAPY F
Ecopsychology and the Nature Cure by Ronica A. O’Hara
T eir practices, known as eco-
therapy, green therapy or nature-based therapy, are an outgrowth of a ballooning branch of psychology known as ecopsy- chology, which investigates the critical links between nature experiences and human well-being. In examining such matters as our neurological responses to nature, how climate change and weather disasters lead to anxiety and depression, how nature deprivation aff ects children, and why nature can produce transcen- dent awe, the fi eld is reshaping the way that therapists and doctors help both adults and children heal. Ecopsychology is a relatively new dis-
cipline. Little more than two decades ago, historian T eodore Roszak pointed out in Psychology Today that in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiat- ric Association, one of the most-diagnosed categories involved sex: “In mapping sexual dysfunction, therapists have been absolutely inspired… [but] the volume contains only one listing remotely connected to nature: seasonal aff ective disorder.” Now, as the planet’s dire plight be-
comes a source of mounting concern, that
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