Her work blends ecotherapy, Gottman Method, somatic practices, and outdoor experiential therapy to help individuals, couples, and families reconnect to themselves, their relationships, and the living world around them. Amanda’s approach is grounded, direct, and deeply respectful of the wisdom carried by bodies, landscapes, and nervous systems.
In addition to private practice, she volunteers in search and rescue, disaster response, and community resilience initiatives. Her work sits at the intersection of healing, preparedness, and reverence for the natural world.
Amanda offers nature-centered, trauma-informed therapy services that integrate outdoor settings, somatic awareness, and relational healing. Services are tailored to the unique needs of each client/family and grounded in evidence-based practices and ecological attunement.
Specialty Areas:
• Ecotherapy for trauma, anxiety, and burnout
• Climate grief and eco-anxiety support
• Couples therapy with nature-based interventions
• Somatic and nervous system regulation
• Disaster and crisis-informed mental health support
• Relational repair and attachment work
• Mindfulness-in-nature practices
Modalities May Include:
• Walk-and-talk outdoor therapy
• Nature-based grounding and regulation exercises
• Attachment-focused relational therapy
• Curated solo nature assignments
• Eco-symbolic and ritual work (as clinically appropriate)
Populations Served:
• Individuals
• Couples
• Families
• Helpers, healers, and emergency responders
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.
Individual Psychotherapy
Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy
Somatic Ecotherapy
Dance Movement Therapy
Ashley combines Ecotherapy and parts work to support individual adults in healing from complex, relational trauma. Ashley has a specific specialization in working with adult children of alcoholics and considers it one of her greatest honors to support individuals with this type of attachment trauma in healing through developing a healthy attachment with the natural world.
Individual Psychotherapy with Internal Family Systems
Ecotherapy
Grief Rituals
For folks in the state of Indiana, short term individual counseling (6-8 sessions) is available in-person and virtually.
I specialize in working with adults experiencing anxiety, chronic illness, stress, and grief. My approach to therapy is concrete - with lots of flexibility, guided by your needs. If you prefer to talk it out, I'm here to listen, encourage, challenge, and validate. If you'd like some tangible work, I can incorporate in-session activities, worksheets, and psychoeducation. Perhaps you'd like a mixture of both, or you're not sure yet - that's fine too! We'll figure out together what works best for you.
A speciality that I offer is ecotherapy, which can mean many things. If you're interested in exploring it, we can try guided nature visualizations, hold natural elements, or take our sessions outdoors. Ecotherapy approaches can be provided both in-person and virtually.