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Nature-Based Therapy Certificate Course: Clinical Tools and Best Practices for Bringing Nature into Treatment for Trauma, Anxiety and More


Speaker:
Heidi Schreiber-Pan, PhD, LCPC
Duration:
Full Day
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR
Product Code:
LWC150307
Brochure Code:
PWZ94345
Media Type:
Live Webinar - Also available: Digital Seminar

Dates

Normal Price:      $324.99 - Now:  $64.99 - Exclusive offer when combined with this live training.

Description

We train therapists to track thoughts, breath, and trauma loops …

But most were never taught to work with the body’s oldest regulator: nature.

 

And that gap shows up in the room.

 

Your clients are burned out. Shut down.

Stuck on screens or struck in survival mode.

And the usual techniques aren’t always getting through.

 

This one-day clinical training offers something different.

Not a walk in the woods.

Not a wellness trend.

But a set of evidence-based, nature-informed interventions that regulate the nervous system – fast.

 

You’ll learn how to engage the healing power of nature using sensory anchoring, metaphor, awe, and attention training – tools that work in city offices, telehealth sessions, and traditional outdoor settings alike.

 

Led by Heidi Schreiber-Pan, PhD, executive director of the Center for Nature-Informed Therapy, this is the official training from the Nature-Informed Therapy Institute.

 

In just one day, you’ll earn your Foundational Certificate in Nature-Based Therapy – and walk away with practical tools you can use right away:

  • Nature-based sensory grounding to regulate anxiety and overwhelm
  • Awe as a clinical intervention to interrupt trauma and shame loops
  • Cognitive reframing through nature-informed metaphor
  • Burnout recovery tools that restore energy and focus
  • Culturally responsive practices for diverse clients and settings
  • Practical applications for telehealth, office, and outdoor work

You don’t have to change your whole approach.

You just need the right tools – designed to work with how humans actually heal.

 

These are practical, neuroscience-backed strategies you can use with any client, in any setting – no forest required.

 

Earn your certificate. Build your skills. Expand your impact.

 

Reserve your spot now

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



Canada Credit - *

NOTE: Each purchase includes CE credit for one individual (participants in full attendance will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, Q&A, and others.

Continuing Education Information: Credits listed below are for full attendance at the live, interactive webinar only. This webinar is being broadcast live in real-time and must be attended live, in its entirety, in order to earn credit. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether web-based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact info@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


Canada Credit - ---

Earn up to 6.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


Canada Credit - Canadian Counsellors and Psychotherapists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This activity is approved for 6.0 credit hours.


Canada Credit - Canadian Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 6.0 continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement


Canada Credit - Other Professions

This activity qualifies for 380 continuing education minutes as required by many national and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements. 


US National Boards - Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists – ANCC

PESI, Inc. is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses in full attendance will earn 6.25 contact hours. Partial contact hours will be awarded for partial attendance.



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

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.


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Objectives

  1. Utilize neuroscience-based strategies to reduce chronic sympathetic activation.
  2. Use nature-informed practices to support attachment repair and emotional regulation.
  3. Choose awe-based and cognitive defusion tools to reduce anxiety and rumination.
  4. Develop trauma-sensitive and culturally inclusive approaches to ecotherapy.
  5. Modify nature interventions for clients in indoor, urban, or virtual environments.

Outline

Foundations: The Neurobiology of Stress and the Healing Power of Nature

  • Core brain structures involved in stress and emotional dysregulation (amygdala, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex)
  • Neuroplasticity and the potential for healing across anxiety, trauma, and mood disorders
  • How nature supports regulation of the autonomic nervous system (SNS/PNS balance)
  • Atachment theory and the nervous system: Early relationships, co-regulation, and how nature fosters safety and connection
  • Attention Restoration Theory (ART): Cognitive replenishment through immersive nature experiences
  • Scope of practice, risks and limitations
  • Practice: Breathwork and somatic grounding using natural elements
  • Practice: Techniques to discharge sympathetic arousal in outdoor settings

Clinical Interventions: Apply Nature-Based Strategies Across Diagnoses

  • Psycho-evolutionary theory: Why negativity bias and chronic vigilance emerge – and how nature counters them
  • Treat trauma, anxiety, and mood disorders with awe, sensory integration, and embodied presence
  • Cognitive and emotional regulation through nature-informed reappraisal
  • Nature as co-therapist in working with grief, existential distress, identity confusion, and emotional burnout
  • Practice: Cognitive defusion and mindfulness using metaphor and imagery from the natural world
  • Practice: Experiential tools to reduce emotional rumination and increase resilience

Expand the Frame: Culture, Identity, and Ethical Practice in Nature-Based Work

  • Racial and cultural barriers to outdoor healing spaces and land-based practices
  • Eco-identity: Explore how one’s background shapes their relationship with nature, safety, and embodiment
  • Ethical considerations in practicing outdoors: Consent, power dynamics, cultural humility, and more
  • Practice: Cultural Wheel reflection to explore clients’ and clinicians’ connections to land, heritage, and healing
  • Reflection: How to incorporate decolonial perspectives in both clinical and personal engagement with nature

Integration: Clinical Cases and Group Dialogue

  • Case examples: Apply nature-based interventions across diagnoses and populations (e.g., trauma recovery, attachment disruption, emotional dysregulation
  • Discussion: Integrate cognitive, somatic, and ecological tools within existing modalities
  • Reflection: What shifts in the therapist’s role when nature becomes part of the therapeutic container?
  • Group Dialogue: Key takeaways, clinical application, and next steps for sustainable, nature-informed care

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • School Counselors
  • Nurses
  • Physicians
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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