Lucy Isherwood

Having experienced my own distress and grief about the climate and biodiversity crisis, I care deeply about supporting others with these feelings and normalising them as a natural response to the magnitude and uncertainty of the crisis we're facing. I'm a BACP Accredited Counsellor and have been in practice since 2008, offering integrative counselling, somatic trauma therapy , creative therapies and Eco-therapy. I've been counselling clients bringing climate related eco-distress for several years. I've participated in an Active Hope course based on Joanna Macy's Work that Reconnects and climate cafes, and done training in working with climate / ecological distress (with Caroline Hickman). I've also been involved with XR in the past. In addition I've attended programmes and had 1-2-1 mentoring with the Animas Valley Institute and recently trained in facilitating Wilderness Rites of Passage work, based on the approach of the School of Lost Borders. I believe in order to have any chance of creating a regenerative and sustainable future, we need to act in attunement with the Earth and listen deeply to the wisdom of the Natural world. As well as the ecological systems we're part of, I believe it's essential to include awareness of the cultural and social contexts we live in and the impact of these on our lived experience. I'm sensitive to differences in ethnicity, culture, age, religious / spiritual beliefs, sexual orientation, ability, neuro-diversity and gender. I'm blessed to live in rural Devon between the coast and the moor. I offer outdoor and indoor face-to-face sessions, online and phone sessions.