Welcome to the International List of The Earthbody Institute Graduates!
Each graduate has a variety of professional skills, licenses, and/or trainings in addition to The Earthbody Institute training. We encourage you to contact them to work with them or to network.
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I am a licensed MFT, living, working, and being in the East Bay Area of California. I studied Drama Therapy at CIIS and love the way that Eco-Therapy has re-introduced me to embodied practices that I have not used much over the past few years.
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I have a very small private practice working with children, adults, and families.
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94708
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Adriel McCluer is a licensed psychotherapist who brings her lifelong love and deep spiritual connection with the natural world to her work. With a background in business, art and design, she made a professional change 10 years ago to the field of holistic psychotherapy after volunteering with a therapeutic horsemanship program. She currently has a private practice in Santa Cruz, CA, offering holistic psychotherapy to adults and teens. Adriel works with clients in coastal redwood forests, meadows, bluffs and shorelines, with equine partners in the Santa Cruz mountains, and in an office space indoors. Adriel graduated from The Earthbody Institute’s 100 hour Professional Ecotherapy Training in 2015.
Adriel integrates somatic, transpersonal, and trauma-informed practices from her Master's degree in Holistic Counseling Psychology at John F. Kennedy University, and as a certified yoga instructor (RYT200). Adriel is a certified Equine Specialist in Mental Health and Learning (ESMHL) through PATH International, and holds great value in the human-animal bond.
A student of Ariana Candell’s since 2011, Adriel also teaches at The Earthbody Institute, finding great meaning in helping others learn how to integrate their love of nature into their work. Adriel spends time outdoors everyday, in the garden, with her loved ones (human and other-than human), and exploring all the natural beauty this Earth has to offer.
Adriel integrates somatic, transpersonal, and trauma-informed practices from her Master's degree in Holistic Counseling Psychology at John F. Kennedy University, and as a certified yoga instructor (RYT200). Adriel is a certified Equine Specialist in Mental Health and Learning (ESMHL) through PATH International, and holds great value in the human-animal bond.
A student of Ariana Candell’s since 2011, Adriel also teaches at The Earthbody Institute, finding great meaning in helping others learn how to integrate their love of nature into their work. Adriel spends time outdoors everyday, in the garden, with her loved ones (human and other-than human), and exploring all the natural beauty this Earth has to offer.
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I offer holistic psychotherapy, somatic ecotherapy, and equine facilitated psychotherapy. Mindfulness, movement, expressive arts are often integrated during sessions. Sessions are held indoors and outdoors in Santa Cruz County. As an Equine Specialist in Mental Health & Learning I also offer therapeutic, mindfulness and learning sessions with equine partners. Wholeness exists, sometimes we simply have forgotten how to connect with our true nature. I'm honored to support this journey of connection...
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Forest therapy, Ecotherapy, Ecopsychology, Horticultural therapy.
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Forest therapy, Ecotherapy, Horticultural therapy.
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55328
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Amanda Singh Bans (she/her) is a queer-mixed ciswoman of color currently residing on the ceded lands of the Multnomah, Clackamas, Molalla, Kathlamet, Tumwater, Watala bands of the Chinook, and the Tualitin Kalapuya tribes known currently as Portland, Oregon. Amanda’s ancestors come from the Punjab state of northern India, the municipality of Zacatecas in Mexico, Germany, and England. She and her partner are raising their two black sons, a tremendous responsibility in an era fraught with racism and anti-blackness. Amanda is currently a practicing relational therapist and specializes in working with culturally dislocated people of color with trauma histories. Her background and training include working with survivors of intimate partner violence, sexual trauma, and narcissistic abuse, as well as adults who experienced abuse as children, racial trauma. She works with clients diagnosed Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), ADHD, anxiety, and depression. Her practice incorporates elements of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), Anti-Oppressive Practice, and attachment theory. Amanda is currently actively undergoing training to become a Level 1 certified Ecotherapist through the Earthbody Institute’s Ecotherapy Training for BIPOC professionals. In her consulting work, Amanda’s approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion centers the lives and voices of people of color and their intersectional identities in understanding the extent of how racial (and other forms of) trauma has impacted them to guide organizational change efforts. She invites conversation on what and how safety can be co-created, both on an interpersonal level and on a systemic level, and what is needed for individual and collective healing.
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Psychotherapy and Consulting Services
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97217
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Amy Sugeno, LCSW, Clinical Ecotherapist, worked as a wildlife biologist for over 16 years before becoming a social worker and therapist. She has offered ecotherapy to clients for almost 10 years and has over 100 hours of clinical ecotherapy training. Amy has trained over 130 therapists in the Austin area and throughout the eastern U.S. She offers a variety of programs and classes to both clinical and non-clinical groups, including introductory and advanced clinical ecotherapy training retreats and mindfulness in nature walks for her local community. Amy is also a non-fiction nature writer. She will be offering her first full-day mindfulness in nature retreat in central Texas in Spring 2020.
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Introductory and advanced clinical ecotherapy training retreats; mindfulness in nature walks and retreats; nature writing
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78663
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Writer, educator, and spiritual director, Annette received her certificate in spiritual direction through the Kairos School of Spiritual Formation and her Level One Ecotherapy training through The Earthbody Institute.
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As a spiritual companion, I seek to accompany others on their unique spiritual journeys through the art and practice of deep listening and compassionate presence. I offer both one-on-one and small group companioning within my home and virtually, with the option of meeting outdoors as well.
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19608
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I specialize in a somatic trauma-informed approach using Somatic Experiencing, Yoga Therapy and Eco-therapy as hallmarks of my practice. While I specialize in working with stress and trauma, the modalities I use are beautiful heart-centered approaches that can help us all be more connected human beings.
In sessions, my hope is to support you in slowing down to more deeply feel, connect with yourself, and use our time together in ways that feel most meaningful to you. While we will of course be talking during sessions, we will also be listening for the stories your body and psyche are asking you to be with for deeper healing. It’s this wisdom that holds the capacity to transform trauma into healing, constriction into ease, and pain into empowerment. I approach this process of befriending yourself and becoming a more conscious participant to your life with deep reverence.
I invite awareness around how our ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender expressions, and socio-economic backgrounds might influence the space between us; I hope to be an ally on your journey.
I currently offer sessions online, which much to my initial surprise, is a format I love connecting through and works well for many people. I also offer sessions outside near Lambertville, NJ for those who resonate with nature as a pathway to healing and more conscious living.
In sessions, my hope is to support you in slowing down to more deeply feel, connect with yourself, and use our time together in ways that feel most meaningful to you. While we will of course be talking during sessions, we will also be listening for the stories your body and psyche are asking you to be with for deeper healing. It’s this wisdom that holds the capacity to transform trauma into healing, constriction into ease, and pain into empowerment. I approach this process of befriending yourself and becoming a more conscious participant to your life with deep reverence.
I invite awareness around how our ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender expressions, and socio-economic backgrounds might influence the space between us; I hope to be an ally on your journey.
I currently offer sessions online, which much to my initial surprise, is a format I love connecting through and works well for many people. I also offer sessions outside near Lambertville, NJ for those who resonate with nature as a pathway to healing and more conscious living.
Services Summary
Online one-on-one sessions and outdoor sessions near Lambertville, NJ.
Somatic Experiencing
Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy
Somatic Eco-Therapy practices
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08530
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Earth Medicine Woman was birthed as a remembrance of my soul's true purpose in this lifetime, which is to be a guide for others to come home to their most authentic selves; remembering what it is to LOVE living and walking on the Earth. I guide others to align with their intrinsic natural state of calm and balance through nature-guided sessions, somatic dance, soul art, inner connection, meditation and ritual. I've found that the things which give us life are the parts that guide us home to our most true and authentic self.
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Nature Reconnection Experiences
Somatic Dance
Soul Art Sessions
Spiritual Coaching
Reiki Energy Therapy
Creative Nature Retreats
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96768
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Ariana Candell, LMFT, R-DMT, Ecotherapist, is a licensed psychotherapist with 20-plus years experience and a pioneer in the emerging field of Somatic Ecotherapy. For the last decade, she has been an active leader in transforming the field of psychotherapy to include connecting to the natural world as an essential part of healing.
Ariana is founder of The Earthbody Institute, a professional, educational, and transformational forum dedicated to the cultivation of dynamic mutual relationships with the natural world. She is creator of the groundbreaking Professional Ecotherapy Training and Certification Program, now entering its fourth year. She facilitates workshops locally and internationally, including Online Ecotherapy Certificate Programs, Ecotherapy Immersion Programs and consultation groups. She also teaches Ecotherapy seminars as an adjunct professor at John F. Kennedy University.
Ariana believes that developing a consistent nature connection practice with elements of somatic awareness and openness to the sacred can foster a more holistic and balanced way of life. She is devoted to her own daily spiritual practice in nature, and encourages her private clients and students to develop their own practice. In all of her programs, she facilitates creation of a strong Earth-honored community, fulfilling an ancient human need of experiencing a profound connection to the sacredness of all beings.
Ariana is thrilled to be practicing Ecotherapy outdoors in the East Bay hills with more than half of her individual clients, and also brings the power of nature indoors to her private practice in Berkeley. Her main therapeutic influences include Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy, Somatic Ecotherapy, Dance Movement Therapy and Earth-based trainings from The School of Lost Borders.
Ariana is founder of The Earthbody Institute, a professional, educational, and transformational forum dedicated to the cultivation of dynamic mutual relationships with the natural world. She is creator of the groundbreaking Professional Ecotherapy Training and Certification Program, now entering its fourth year. She facilitates workshops locally and internationally, including Online Ecotherapy Certificate Programs, Ecotherapy Immersion Programs and consultation groups. She also teaches Ecotherapy seminars as an adjunct professor at John F. Kennedy University.
Ariana believes that developing a consistent nature connection practice with elements of somatic awareness and openness to the sacred can foster a more holistic and balanced way of life. She is devoted to her own daily spiritual practice in nature, and encourages her private clients and students to develop their own practice. In all of her programs, she facilitates creation of a strong Earth-honored community, fulfilling an ancient human need of experiencing a profound connection to the sacredness of all beings.
Ariana is thrilled to be practicing Ecotherapy outdoors in the East Bay hills with more than half of her individual clients, and also brings the power of nature indoors to her private practice in Berkeley. Her main therapeutic influences include Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy, Somatic Ecotherapy, Dance Movement Therapy and Earth-based trainings from The School of Lost Borders.
Services Summary
Individual Psychotherapy
Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy
Somatic Ecotherapy
Dance Movement Therapy
Address
94703