Outdoor Psychotherapy & Clinical Supervision for Therapists
Welcome to Healing Spaces Therapy, my private practice located between Guelph and Ancaster, Ontario. I have the tremendous privilege of offering outdoor therapy, so you can integrate more stillness and peace into your healing journey. As an outdoor enthusiast, I bring warmth, intelligence, openmindedness, and creativity into my work. I’m so happy to begin this therapy journey with you.
Sincerely, Melissa Clews-Hunt
Therapy Services
Outdoor Therapy
Integrating the calm and restorative presence of the natural world into our therapy conversations can bring peace, perspective, and can illuminate how interconnected we all are. Outdoor therapy sessions allow us to stroll through forests, sit in the presence of a river, or even x-country ski!
Virtual & Phone Therapy
Phone sessions can enable you to get out to a local trail and integrate the healing presence of nature in our conversations. Virtual sessions are a space to explore how themes in your personal life like mental health are impacted by the wider systems we are a part of, and how your own healing sends ripples out to all of the earth.
Couples Therapy
Support for couples to open healing conversations, to reconnect, and to strengthen your bond together. Outdoor therapy sessions can support your connection together and with the natural world.
Family Therapy
Intentional space to have brave conversations together, to realign shared values, and to strengthen your relationships together. Outdoor therapy sessions can integrate a sense of openness, creativity, and playfulness. Adult families as well as families with children and youth are welcome.
Welcome to Healing Spaces Therapy
Are you looking to understand yourself better? Do you want to strengthen your relationships? Do you feel rejuvenated when you’re in nature? Walk with Melissa Clews-Hunt into this healing space.
About Melissa Clews-Hunt
MSC, RP, RMFT-SM | THERAPIST & CLINICAL SUPERVISOR
PRONOUNS: SHE/HER
I am a Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario, a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist, and an Approved Supervisor & Supervisor Mentor with the Canadian Association for Couple and Family Therapy (CACFT).
In addition to my clinical training and experience, my specialty is including nature in my work. That could be outdoor therapy sessions walking together and pausing to attune to the earth, meeting virtually to address eco anxiety concerns, or having a phone session while walking in a forest. I have been providing clinical supervision to therapists for approximately 20 years. I bring warmth, intelligence, open-mindedness, and creativity into my work. I am an outdoor enthusiast and a proud mom of two children.
Supervision Services
Ecotherapy Clinical Supervision for Therapists
Therapists looking to expand your self reflective practices, to integrate ecotherapy into your clinical work, and to explore an anti oppressive lens. Outdoor clinical supervision sessions are available. Clinical supervision is an individualized way to meet professional accreditation such as with CRPO.
Ecotherapy Group Supervision for Therapists
A collaborative space to cocreate safety and vulnerability together. Explore how to integrate ecotherapy and anti oppressive practice into our clinical work. Be part of virtual or outdoor group clinical supervision. Maximum of 6 therapists attend, and counts toward CRPO group supervision.
When you think of the evolution of humans, we have always been directly tied to the natural world. From living in caves, to hunting and gathering, to farming – it has only been in the last several generations that we spend so much of our time indoors.
We are influenced by understandings to ‘subdue the earth,’ to buy more than we can afford, to eat more than our bodies need, or to see earth as objects that we can just take. There is a lot of ill health in these forms of thinking and behaving. Our mental health suffers immensely. We have learned to see ourselves as separate from nature, that we are somehow disconnected from and above the natural world.
I wonder how our culture might be different if when we each turned on the tap, we visualize ourselves alongside a river scooping a handful of water? If when we ate, we remember the farmers, the soil, the sun, the rain? When we step outdoors we notice the bird songs, the feel of the breeze on our face, the scents in the air? I wonder if by remembering the ways we are dependent on and connected with the earth, we may make subtle shifts in how we relate to the world. We may begin to reclaim our place as kin amongst all the beings of the earth.
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