Portland Hiking Therapy

12/02/2025

Announcing: A winter community therapy group to support connection, energy, and mood. Winters in Oregon are especially dreary, and it’s common for the dark, short, rainy days to impact our energy, social connectedness, and mood. Join us as we gather weekly in community and solidarity, online during the lunch hour- bring your food! We will check in, learn about behavior activation to support mood and energy levels, and navigate the rainy winter months alongside one another.

11/06/2025

Grateful to have my latest blog post shared by Psychology Today, where I reflect on how bringing sessions out of the office and to the trail impacts the therapy practice. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Taking therapy sessions outdoors offers unexpected benefits. Learn how walking ecotherapy sessions may benefit your work.

10/15/2025

I'm happy to share my first Psychology Today blog post! Check it out here:

Hiking through the forests provides different mental health benefits than moving through mountains or near water. Learn how to hack your hike to support mental health.

10/03/2025

The APA just published this great article by Zara Abrams about integrating walk and talk into practice. This is a HUGE win to have the APA's recognition (it's like the equivalent of winning the Superbowl for walk and talk!). The article shares the research behind the value of time in nature on mental health and steps for integration. I was honored to contribute a few thoughts alongside other leaders in the walk and talk field. Check it out- I would love to hear your thoughts!

Walk-and-talk therapy can help people feel connected with nature and more comfortable in therapy.

02/05/2024

I am honored to share my work in the New York Times today, alongside so many other therapists who are practicing outdoors and expanding therapy in transformational ways! Check it out:

Mental health practitioners are hiking, camping and braving the elements with their clients — all in an effort to help them connect with the Earth, and with themselves.

01/12/2022

ATTACHMENT TO PLACE: Environmental Psychologists have studied a phenomenon that we have all experienced, called an “attachment to place”; This is where we develop a trusting, meaningful relationship with a place that may go as deep to bring us a sense of security, pride, self and connection. We can get attached to all types of different places- our home, a childhood park, a treehouse, or a place of cultural relevance.

Our sense of attachment is formed through experiences at that place.

What can an attachment to a place offer to us? A sense of connectedness, and a sense of adventure and exploration, and well-being. We may also develop a “place identity”- where we associate ourselves with social or environmental identities- our ways of making meaning and our beliefs and values all become intertwined with our experiences and connections to a place. Where are your place attachments?

12/09/2021

Here's what takes place in a Hiking Therapy session: