What might you gain?

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Group therapy is at least as effective as one-to-one therapy. It can improve your experience of relating with others and your sense of yourself. This can happen when we build a group in which it feels safe to be open and honest about your experience. Group experiences take time to develop but can be enormously beneficial. The intention of the woodland activities is to help you to explore your experiences at your own pace and to express yourself.

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Although often counselling, offered by other services, takes place indoors, there are times when there is a need for a more natural setting, which brings its own therapeutic benefits. Heart Wood offers nature based therapy.

 

Is this for you?

• Are you suffering with poor mental health?

• Could you benefit from helping to build a trustworthy, confidential group - somewhere which is separate from the rest of your life?

• Could you benefit from experimenting with how you relate with other men?

• Could you benefit from learning woodland skills and doing creative woodland activities?

• Do you like the idea of sitting around the fire? 

• Are you ok about getting a bit wet or dirty?

• Group therapy can support you in accessing your feelings. Do you have a trusted person you can talk to outside the group?

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Lead Facilitators

Rab Erskine and Chip Ponsford are experienced person-centred counsellors who share an enthusiasm for outdoor counselling work. We are excited about this opportunity to offer respectful, accurate listening and open and honest relating, in a woodland setting, with a view to helping you move towards your own healing.

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