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Digital Seminar

Eco-Spirituality in Clinical Practice

Nature-Based Approaches for Anxiety, Depression, and More

Speaker:
Heidi Schreiber-Pan, PhD, LCPC
Duration:
Approx 1 hour
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
Copyright:
Dec 05, 2025
Product Code:
POS150543
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

Nature is more than a backdrop – it’s a living partner in the healing process. For clients navigating grief, trauma, or existential distress, the natural world offers profound opportunities for connection, meaning, and renewal. Dr. Heidi Schreiber-Pan shows how to ethically and effectively weave eco-spirituality into therapy – whether outdoors, indoors, or even online.

You’ll learn to:

  • Apply tools to easily integrate eco-spirituality and its clinical relevance for grief, trauma, and existential pain
  • Introduce nature-based practices that foster awe, belonging, and meaning-making
  • Engage the natural world as a therapeutic partner ethically and effectively

Credit

Program Information

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Canada Credit - *

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Earn up to 1.0 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


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Course Level: Intermediate Format: Recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

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Handouts

Speaker

Heidi Schreiber-Pan, PhD, LCPC's Profile

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Heidi Schreiber-Pan, PhD, LCPC, is a successful psychotherapist, author, clinical director and sought-after nationwide speaker on topics of resilience, anxiety, neuroscience, and occupational burnout. As an affiliate and former faculty member of Loyola University, Maryland, her past research has focused on resiliency and psychological well-being, including nature-based mental health.

Dr. Schreiber-Pan has worked with various organizations, schools and corporations to reduce stress on a communal level and to increase structural well-being through training in positive psychology as well as emotional intelligence coaching.

She has developed unique continuing education courses that combine established clinical methods such as CBT with innovative treatment approached including nature-based psychotherapy and neuro-counseling. She is the author of Taming the Anxious Mind: A Guidebook to Relieve Stress and Anxiety.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Heidi Schreiber-Pan is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Nature Informed Therapy and the Owner and Clinical Supervisor at Chesapeake Mental Health Collaborative. She receives royalties as a published author. Additionally, Dr. Schreiber-Pan receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Heidi Schreiber-Pan is a member of the American Counseling Association (ACA) and Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES).


Additional Info

Program Information

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Objectives

  1. Define ecospirituality and describe its relevance to psychotherapy, particularly in addressing grief, trauma, and existential distress.
  2. Identify three nature-based practices that evoke awe and spiritual transcendence to support client healing and meaning-making.
  3. Demonstrate how to ethically engage nature as a co-therapist, fostering reciprocity and spiritual connection in both indoor and outdoor therapeutic settings.

Outline

Invitation to Clinicians

  • Rediscover the healing partnership between humans and the natural world

Theoretical Foundations

  • Evolutionary psychology
  • Biophilia hypothesis (innate drive to connect with nature)

Mental Health Benefits

  • Restoring connection to nature supports mental health
  • Beyond symptom management: fostering belonging, meaning, and renewal

Core Practices

  • Cultivating awe and reciprocity in therapeutic work
  • Guiding clients toward deeper experiences of connection

Clinical Applications

  • Ethical and practical strategies for integrating eco-spiritual principles
  • Approaches across settings:
    • Outdoors
    • Indoors
    • Online

Role of the Therapist

  • Empower clinicians to view nature as a living co-therapist

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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