Videos

Check out our video featuring participants from 2018’s Guam Guam Specums and our associate Jeff Miller! Video by Christian MacInnis.

Publications

Human-Nature Counselling was featured in the holiday issue of YAM! Link to issue here. See Executive Director, Dave Segal and Clinical Director’s Katy’s take on strategies for coping with a COVID winter begin on page 66.

YAM Magazine Cover

Human-Nature Counselling was profiled for the Fall (2020) issue of Insights Magazine! See what Dave and Katy have to say about the development of nature-based therapy, our relationship with nature, and our transition into a not-for-profit! Link to PDF here.

Insights Magazine Cover

An in-depth description of our long-running New Roots program by our Clinical Director, Katy Rose, via Healthy Living.

Here is a link with great insight into one of our programs – Nature’s Way – that we ran in 2017. For current programs, please click on the “our programs” tab.

Podcasts

Our associate and Registered Clinical Counsellor, Dr Nevin Harper, kicks off the new podcast Adventure Therapy Collective Podcast as a guest speaker sharing his experience coming to adventure therapy and his years working in residential care. Link here.

Adventure Therapy Collective Podcast

Dr Nevin Harper is featured on this episode of Stories from the Field: Demystifying Wilderness Therapy. He talks about his rural upbringing, graduate studies in the U.S. and his journey to Human-Nature Counselling Society. Link here.

Stories from the Field

Executive director David Segal talks on the Very Bad Therapy Podcast about his own experiences with counselling, the benefits of nature-based therapy, and the differences between nature-based therapy and adventure therapy. Link here.

Listen to Executive Director David Segal speak on the Awake in Relationships podcast about mental-health, nature-therapy, and give tips on how to keep healthy and social during COVID-19. Link here.

All Points West with Jason D’Souza

The Human-Nature Counselling Society in Victoria is offering services beyond the office. David Segal, the society’s executive director, spoke with Jason D’Souza about incorporating nature into counselling services. Listen to the segment here.

‘All Points West’ is the place where people from Victoria and Vancouver Island gather to catch up on the day’s news, meet some new and interesting people and get a few picks for the evening’s entertainment. It’s where you can depend on getting the information you need – weather, traffic and ferries – to plan the rest of your day. Our host brings Victorians and Islanders, smart conversation, stories to think about and music worth listening to.

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