September 2025 - Group 2 Online Ecotherapy Training and Certificate Program

Kara London, MS, LMFT, she/her/hers, is an ecotherapist, workshop facilitator, educator, and creative, residing in Southern California on the unceded lands of the Tongva and Kizh people. She holds a Masters in Clinical Counseling Psychology, has completed certification in Ecopsychology with Pacifica Graduate Institute, and holds a Level 3 Ecotherapy certification with The Earthbody Institute.

Prior, she worked in a non-profit mindfulness center, a private practice, and over the past 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 work as a therapist is grounded in attachment, mindful compassion, creativity, somatic awareness, and relationship with nature.

Kara 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. She believes that the challenges we are facing now culturally, socially, and environmentally, need to be addressed through community-building practices that are inclusive of social justice and encourage reciprocal relationship with Earth.

She is the current Southern California Regional Coordinator for the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America. She provides Student Liaison and Assistant Teaching services for The Earthbody Institute. Her favorite biomes are the rolling, grassy foothills and coniferous mountains, and she is an avid bird watcher.

Ryan Van Lenning, MA, is an inner and outer wilderness guide, ecotherapist, and teacher. Ryan is certified as an ecotherapist through The Earthbody Institute, trained as a Wilderness Ceremony/Rite-of-Passage Guide through the School of Lost Borders, and is a Certified Wilderness First Responder through Foster Calm. Prior to moving to California 13 years ago, he taught Philosophy, Comparative Religion, and Environmental Justice at Sinclair College in Ohio.

Ryan is passionate about supporting people to re-connect with the wisdom of both inner and outer wild nature, to live their soul callings into the world, and to assist in the work of repairing broken belonging in this time of the Great Turning/Great Composting. Trusting in co-liberation, he is grasped by a wondering: Can we, with wild nature hearts and humble courage, face this collective initiation of intersecting social and ecological crises intentionally?

Through Wild Nature Heart, Ryan offers 1-on-1 earth-rooted mentoring, custom wilderness ceremonies/rites-of-passage, ecospiritual courses and workshops, and community Circles of the Great Turning.

Ryan is also a poet and author of Re-Membering: Poems of Earth & Soul and High-Cooing Through the Seasons: Haiku From the Forest. His poem ‘And All the Walls Between Them,’ responding to current immigration policies and social injustices, was recipient of the 2019 Jodi Stutz Poetry Award by Toyon Literary Magazine. His new collections Riverever and One Bright and Real Caress will be released in 2021. He live and works among the forest and rivers in northern California, ancestral Wiyot, Yurok, and Sinkyone lands.
http://wildnatureheart.com