Ecotherapy and Environmental Psychology Writer
My Journey
I am a non-fiction writer exploring the human relationship with the natural world and the social benefits of being in nature together.
My writing draws upon a wide range of fields including ecotherapy, neuroscience, environmental and evolutionary psychology.
I have over a decade's experience offering outdoor art and wild clay psychotherapy.
More recently, I have been involved in a nature regeneration/rewilding project.
I have an MA in Art Psychotherapy, registered with the HCPC (Health Care Professions Council), and I'm an accredited Member of the British Association of Art Therapists. I also trained in nature-based therapies including Environmental Arts Therapy.
I spent over a decade providing indoor art therapy in schools, for national organisations and private clients in London. For a time, I was an associate lecturer at Roehampton University on the MA Art Therapy training programme.
My outdoor art therapy took me into London's green spaces facilitating workshops, individual clients, groups and training days for other therapists. I also commuted several days a week to an educational farm in Kent working. It was here that I conceived of using wild clay therapeutically. About Simon
I co-founded Community Outdoor Art Therapy Service (COATS) which recently ran a series of successful wild clay workshops supporting people to process significant life events. outdoor art therapy service
I now live in Somerset, providing indoor and outdoor art therapy to a range of clients. I have recently been working with the Habitat Management Team at the rewilding project, Heal Somerset. www.healsomerset.org.uk