🌿 Reconnect. Regulate. Reimagine Therapy. 🌿
Intro to Eco-Somatic Practice for Therapists
A trauma-informed, body-centered, Earth-rooted approach to clinical work
Join us for a transformative introductory Eco-Somatic training created for master’s level mental health professionals ready to explore the rich intersection of trauma theory, somatics, and ecotherapy. Discover how to engage one of the most powerful—and often forgotten—coregulators in the healing process: the Earth itself.
This is more than just another CEU opportunity—it’s an invitation to embody deeper connection. You’ll leave with practical, nature-based tools to support your clients’ nervous systems and your own, while cultivating a grounded, reciprocal relationship with the Earth as a co-regulator and healing ally.
Earth is not just a backdrop. It’s a collaborator. A witness. A coregulator.
Through an intersectional lens that blends ecopsychology, somatic psychology, social justice, decolonization, and EMDR, you’ll learn to integrate eco-somatic practices into trauma-informed care for more effective stabilization, embodied presence, and sustainable healing.
🌍 Why Eco-Somatics?
Earth is the largest, most accessible, and most forgotten of all coregulators.
She holds us. Nourishes us. Regulates us.
Through cultivating an honest and reciprocal relationship with Earth, we open to a deeper experience of coregulation.
Eco-Somatics invites us to consider:
What if we viewed Earth as an extension of our bodies?
In ecotherapy and Indigenous wisdom traditions, this is known as the Earth-Body or Ecological Self.
🌀 Training Objectives:
Define the intersection of applied ecopsychology and somatic psychology (Eco-Somatics)
Gain an embodied understanding of the synthesis of ecotherapy and somatics
Describe how nature can act as a coregulator in session—for both client and therapist
Learn how to interweave eco-somatic approaches into your clinical practice
Experientially practice at least 3 eco-somatic resourcing methods to begin using right away
đź“… When:
Saturday, June 28, 2025
1:00 – 4:30 PM CST
đź“Ť Where:
In-Person & Virtual Options Available
UL Lafayette Student Union
620 McKinley Street, Lafayette, LA
Or attend virtually via Google Meet
đź’µ Registration Fees:$75Â
One Scholarship spot available based on financial need. Email Kathryn@yourtherapygarden.com to apply.
🎓 CE Credits pending for Counselors & Social Workers
👩‍🏫 Presented by:
Kathryn Dietzway, MSW, LCSW-BACS
Founder of Eco-Somatic EMDR ©
Kathryn is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and EMDR Certified Therapist. She is co-founder of The Therapy Garden, a group psychotherapy and wellness practice in Lafayette, LA, and the creator of Eco-Somatic EMDR Training.
With a passion for a mind-body-Earth approach to trauma healing, Kathryn specializes in intensive EMDR work that incorporates somatic regulation, Earth-based practices, and movement. Since 2021, she’s been training clinicians in Ecotherapy-informed techniques, and recently presented on Eco-Somatic EMDR at the EMDRIA National Conference and at Louisiana Mental Health Conference about Eco-Somatics in therapy.
“Beneath our feet, outside our windows, and within ourselves is the most accessible and forgotten of all coregulators—nature. Join me to learn how to bring nature into your therapy work.”