If you feel called to explore an alternative path for your healing journey, forest-walking sessions may be the nature based alternative that you’re seeking.

As we walk together, we invite the body to guide the process, using somatic awareness and, when needed, body-based EMDR techniques (Eye movement desensitization and reprogramming) to gently rewire and release old imprints, limiting beliefs, and patterned responses that no longer serve.

The rhythm of walking provides a natural bilateral stimulation—mirroring the principles of EMDR—which helps the nervous system gently process and integrate experiences and what has been held more fluidly. When paired with somatic attunement, this creates space and allows  what feels heavy or stuck to move, shift, and gently resolve.

Being in the forest amplifies the healing process. Surrounded by the living intelligence of trees and the natural world, clients often feel held and grounded as nature itself becomes a co-facilitator of healing. The forest has a beautiful way of reflecting back our interconnectedness and belonging, offering a profound sense of safety and perspective that is difficult to find in clinical spaces.

At the heart of this work is compassionate witnessing. Having another present to walk beside you—not to fix or judge, but to hold and honor what arises—creates the safety needed for true transformation. Together, we create a sacred space where the heart can be heard, the body can release, pain can be acknowledged, stories can shift, and new pathways of resilience, clarity and freedom can emerge.

Amanda also extends an invitation to incorporate a plant medicine microdose when appropriate to aid as an ally for a deeper attunement to yourself, the natural world and the session being held.