February 2026 - Online Ecotherapy Training and Certificate Program
Receive practical training, case consultation, & peer collaboration to integrate Ecotherapy & Earth-based work directly into your practice
Are you feeling alone in offering nature-based healing, and want earth-community connection?
Learn foundational concepts and practical guidelines to practice Ecotherapy.
Receive inspiration and support from other therapists as you develop your work.
Your Instructor
Kara London, MS, LMFT (she/her), is an ecotherapist, workshop facilitator, educator, creative, and Communications Director with Earthbody Institute, residing in Southern California on the unceded lands of the Tongva and Kizh people. She feels most alive among the rolling, grassy foothills and coniferous mountains, and while bird-watching.
She holds a Master’s in Clinical Counseling Psychology, has completed certification in Ecopsychology with Pacifica Graduate Institute, and holds a Level 3 Ecotherapy certification with The Earthbody Institute. She is also the current Southern California Regional Coordinator for the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America.
Prior, she worked in a non-profit mindfulness center, a group private practice, and, for over a decade, developed a focus as a school-based mental health therapist. She founded Three Feathers Therapy in 2023, where she specializes in offering ecotherapy and mindfulness-based therapy. Her approach is grounded in attachment, mindful compassion, creativity, somatic awareness, and relationship with nature.
As a cisgender, HSP, able-bodied, middle-class woman with German, English, and mixed European heritage, Kara is a settler on Turtle Island and is committed to uncolonial and liberatory praxis. Across all her roles, she welcomes work with people of all backgrounds and intersections, including BIPOC, Latinx, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse, ability diverse, and other communities. She also enjoys working with creatives, change-makers, perfectionists, empaths, and Earth lovers.
In her role as Communications Director, she hopes to offer her strengths as a builder and storyteller, to nourish deepening connections with wider communities and networks, and to further integrate social-environmental justice into her work with Earthbody.
Goals for Online Ecotherapy Certificate Program:
To gain an initial understanding of the field of Ecotherapy and the benefits of incorporating its principles into therapeutic work in these times.
- To gain an initial understanding of the field of Ecotherapy and the benefits of incorporating its principles into therapeutic work in these times.
- To receive practical training that can be Integrated directly into your work with individuals and groups, indoors and out.
- To learn basic Ecotherapy practices and techniques and how to create your own.
- To understand clinical and non-clinical legal and ethical issues, as well as guidelines and implications associated with taking clients outside.
- To feel safe & supported by the class to discuss questions about the field, talk of successes and challenges and ask for specific consultation when needed.
- To learn the components of a well-designed, outdoor Ecotherapy group.
- To develop a deep personal connection to the natural world, to know your past and present resources from this, and to express gratitude for these connections.
- To develop an attitude of respect and reciprocity with the natural world and more-than-human beings, and a sense of an “ecological self”.
Participation in this program includes the following benefits:
- Ten Ecotherapy Training Webinars
- Four Visionary Ecotherapist Webinars
- Six- 90-minute online group classes to integrate Ecotherapy in and out of the office, with case studies and overall theory and application discussion
- Ecotherapy Articles and Handouts: conceptual and practical ideas
- Integration assignments (homework between classes)
- Interactive online format for comments, questions and sharing ideas
- Email access to your instructor for quick, specific questions
To obtain an Ecotherapy Certificate, Level 1*:
- You must attend at least five online live classes
- Listen to all the webinars and read the articles assigned
- Complete 80% of the assignments and comments that go with the webinars or readings
- Understand the guidelines and legal & ethical issues with outdoor Ecotherapy
- Write 1-2 pages about an outdoor individual therapy session that you facilitated
- Write a one-page outline of an Ecotherapy workshop or ritual
- Have an established, consistent, Earth-based personal practice
*There may be slight additions or subtractions to this list as the program evolves, and we will keep you informed of these.
“Prior to discovering Ariana’s program, I had been seeking some kind of online Ecotherapy training as there was nothing available in my area. The Online Ecotherapy Certificate program has far exceeded my expectations in terms of the academic material, Ariana’s knowledge and expertise on the subject, and the ease of working together online.
Professionally, this program is teaching me the skills to incorporate Nature-based clinical practices easily and beautifully into my current social work practice. Most of all, the value of connecting with like-minded professionals and the sharing of knowledge has been invaluable. On a personal level, this program is opening me up even more to the healing possibilities available to us through the natural world, and deepening even further my love and respect for this planet and all its life."
- Maria Valastro, MSW, Senior International Student Adviser | Brisbane, Australia
"This course was beneficial and welcoming of anybody who has any level of interest in the field of Ecotherapy. The forum is open, yet gently ushers the learner to growing through academic, theoretical, practical, shared learning and thus creates a holistic learning experience. The course also offers an approach that is conducive to both clinical and less clinical participants – enabling learning to happen without superficial boundaries."
-Memona Hossain, Service Resolution Coordinator - working for children and youth with developmental, mental health and medically fragile needs in terms of navigating through system barriers. Ontario, Canada