Presented by Rev. Connie L. Habash, LMFT
2 CE Credits
This event will be recorded and distributed to registrants. If you are unable to attend the live event, but would like to view the presentation, please register by Thursday, August 21, 2025. You can earn 2 CE credits by watching the video and passing the post-test.
Last day to register: Thursday, August 21, 2025
Overview of Presentation
Ecotherapy is a powerful process of healing and transformation that emerges through connection with the natural world. While often practiced outdoors, its principles and benefits can also be brought into the therapy office in creative and meaningful ways*. Whether through experiential exercises, metaphor, or symbolic reflection, nature can become a co-therapist—offering unexpected insight, synchronicity, and support.
Being in nature provides opportunities for renewal, perspective, and emotional growth that extend beyond what is typically available within the confines of four walls or a screen.
Join us for an experiential afternoon of Ecotherapy, where you’ll engage directly with nature as a healing partner. Learn how to integrate Ecotherapy into your clinical work—both outdoors and in-session—to support your clients’ journey toward deeper connection, healing, and transformation.
For the best experience, please plan to spend some time outdoors during the workshop. If that’s not possible, try to be near a window with a view of nature.
About the Presenter
Reverend Connie L Habash, MA, LMFT, has spent the past 31 years helping thousands of students and clients overcome stress, anxiety, depression - and experience spiritual awakening. She is passionate about deepening personal growth and spirituality through connection with nature.
Rev. Connie creates a safe, heart-centered, nurturing space for healing and transformation through her online community, Awakening Women of the Earth (AWE), as well as through her other online programs, in-person retreats, workshops, private practice, and Ecotherapy sessions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at https://www.AwakeningSelf.com/
Educational Goals
The goal of this program is to help participants understand what Ecotherapy is, its benefits for clients, appropriate client populations for its use, how to create meaningful Ecotherapy experiences, safety and legal considerations, and practical applications of Ecotherapy techniques both indoors and outdoors. Experiential exercises in nature - conducted from each participant’s remote location - will be a focal point of the workshop.
Measurable Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this workshop, attendees will be able to:
- Name at least 3 benefits of Ecotherapy
- Explain the difference between "Walk and Talk" therapy and Ecotherapy
- Identify key safety considerations for practicing Ecotherapy outdoors
- Conceptualize at least 2 indoor Ecotherapy practices
- Describe how to structure an Ecotherapy session in nature and identify at least 2 outdoor Ecotherapy practices
Course Outline
- Introduction to Ecotherapy
- Research: Benefits of Ecotherapy
- Who is appropriate for Ecotherapy?
- Where can you do it?
- Guided visualization – Indoor practice #1
- Differences between Walk and Talk and Ecotherapy
- Getting Outside - step outdoors, set up the session
- Indoor Ecotherapy Practice #2
- Vignettes
- Questions and Closing
TARGET AUDIENCE: Licensed psychologists, licensed social workers, licensed professional counselors, licensed marriage & family therapists, and pre-licensed professionals.
CE Credit Certificates
The course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
East Bay Chapter of CAMFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #52488) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. East Bay Chapter of CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
Note: Certificates of Completion will be awarded to participants who attend the entire workshop and complete the course evaluation.
Consider Joining East Bay CAMFT
We invite non-members to consider joining East Bay CAMFT.
Member pricing:
Licensed Membership/Community Partner Fee: $75/annually
Pre-Licensed Associate/Student/Retired Membership Fee: $50/annually
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