Hilltending - Ecopsychological Consultations
Hilltending Ecotherapy & Nature-Based Wellness
Hilltending Ecotherapy offers a path to lasting peace of mind and needed strength in these troubled ecological times. Sessions usually take place outdoors, blending core Hilltending practices with direct engagement with the natural world. This framework focuses on intentionally transforming your deep relationship with nature to heal psychological disconnection.
Hilltending Ecotherapy empowers clients to:
- Proactively engage a nature-based wellness for themselves and the Earth community.
- Work constructively with their ecological "shadow" and associated affective responses, such as ecogrief.
- Recognize and enjoy the awe and beauty of being a member of the Earth Community without being overwhelmed by ecogrief.
- Find peace of mind and needed strength in uncertain times.
- Find creative ways of lowering their ecological footprint and contributing to the healing of the Earth.
- Realize many of the same core psychological empowerments achieved in the Hilltending Jungian and Archetypal Consultations.
Specific Ecotherapeutic Practices
Sessions blend Jungian and archetypal practices with specialized ecotherapeutic techniques, including:
- Earth-based practices such as contemplative nature walks and sensory awareness.
- Crafting your historical and "alchemical" econarrative (your personal story in relation to place).
- Nature-based dream work from the perspective of the "World’s Dream."
- Imagining into personality types of landscape.
- Ecosomatic practices to deepen the mind-body connection in nature.
- Archetypal cosmology and understanding terracentric ways of relating to the Earth.
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Hilltending - Jungian and Archetypal Consultations
With Hilltending's Jungian and Archetypal Consulations, you can more effectively meet life’s challenges at home, at work, and in your inner life, becoming more present in all areas of your life. As you move closer to your authentic self, you'll find deeper happiness and wellness through healthy psychological relationships to Self and Others.
In a focused dialogue with the unconscious layers of the psyche (personal and collective) Hilltending engages depth psychological methods (such as dreamwork) and terminology to explore inner aspects of the process, transforming clients' psychological relationships to Self, others, and the cultural world.
Hilltending's Jungian and Archetypal Consultations empowers clients to:
- Develop different ways of knowing and become aware of unconscious content that influences their lives.
- Identify the inner "villains" and "allies" on their journey and understand their meaning.
- Integrate seemingly opposite forces into creative and transformative development.
- Understand the past, present, and future as a cohesive whole and clarify their place within it.
- More effectively meet life's challenges at home, at work, and in their inner life.
- Be more present in all areas of their life.
- Make better decisions more aligned with their authentic self.
- Better navigate life transitions.
- Become more comfortable with and develop new ways to deal with life's inherent vulnerability, uncertainty, and ambiguity.
- Find more balance between intellectual/rational and emotional/intuitive aspects of life.
- Become proficient with strategies and tools to continue their relationship with their deeper Self, long after the Hilltending relationship has ended.
The Hilltending Framework
Hilltending as Jungian Ecotherapy and Depth Psychology Coaching modalities both utilize depth psychological techniques of coming into dialogue with the unconscious layers of psyche. Both modalities are engaged from within the same overall process. At the beginning of the Hilltending process, we will engage the first two phases (“Assessing the Terrain" and “Mapping the Topography"). In these initial sessions, we will get to know one another and listen to what psyche is saying.
After this, the Hilltending process is fluid and dynamic and will unfold in a unique way for each individual and in each session. The overall circular structure suggest that the Hilltending process is not linear and the phases do not necessarily happen in a certain order.
The important thing to remember is that Hilltending does not force us into any one box at a given time or in any certain order. Such forced conformity might be appropriate for and work fine with other types of coaching, but when we are working with the unconscious layers of psyche, it is essential that we listen first. Hilltending can be experienced as a dance as we follow the lead of psyche. All parts of the Hilltending process are interconnected and we might find ourselves working in more than one of the phases at the same time.
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Hilltending Locations
Ecotherapy and Jungian Coaching in Michigan and Online
I offer local sessions at the
- Hilltending Campus in Dowling, Michigan,
- The Holistic Health Collective on the Beltline in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
- and remote sessions via video call.
In our local sessions, we will engage together in Hilltending practices and integration. In remote sessions, I first guide you into the practices which you will then engage on your own in a natural area wherever you are. Afterwards we will process the experience together through archetypal integration via zoom or telephone.
I offer Hilltending sessions both as single sessions (subject to availability) and as regular recurring sessions as part of a prepaid bundle. Single Hilltending sessions run 60 minutes. For sessions in a prepaid bundle, we allow an additional 30 minutes. My rate is priced per session with additional charges prorated for sessions that run over 90 minutes. For the prepaid bundles, I offer a discount and payment plans can be arranged. Credit and debit cards are accepted. Ask about my sliding rate scale for veterans, students, and income situations.
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