​Nurtured By Nature
Mental Health and Wellness Society
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Services
Nurtured By Nature Mental Health and Wellness Society offers a variety of trauma informed traditional and holistic therapeutic modalities, as well as professional development opportunities that integrate land based learning across the programs. All of the offerings are facilitated by certified professionals with many years of experience in their respective fields.
After working for many years in the education and healthcare systems, our facilitators have experienced first-hand the impact of mental health and addiction challenges such as trauma, depression, anxiety, substance use, self-harm and suicidal ideation with individuals across the lifespan and the lack of accessible publicly funded programs to support them with their healing and recovery.
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As a response, Nurtured By Nature Mental Health and Wellness Society has created programs and services to support individuals on their path to wellness, and for the families/caregivers/staff that are supporting and caring for them, as well as for professionals to enhance their skill sets to improve their effectiveness with clients.
Please see below for more information on these offerings.
Counselling Support
Counselling is a relational process between a counsellor and client that supports growth and change in the areas of wellness, relationships, personal development, mental health, and/or psychological illness or distress.
The most common benefits of counselling include alleviating symptoms related to mental health challenges, as well as improving:
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self-awareness
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self-esteem
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self-confidence
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increased feelings of hope
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relationships with self and others
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greater emotional awareness and regulation
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greater ability to take an active role in one’s life
Nurtured By Nature offers a few different options for counselling support.
Psychoeducation
Psychoeducation provides people with information about the underlying foundation, symptoms, and therapeutic interventions/ treatments for many different mental health and wellness difficulties.
Psychoeducation can help the individual who is struggling as well as family members (parents, siblings, partners, grandparents, other extended family), friends, teachers, mentors, coaches, first responders, healthcare workers etc., to better understand the signs of distress and gain strategies for intervening through a more proactive, compassionate and empathetic manner.
The purpose of psychoeducation is for the participant(s) to learn new information, practice new skills, ask questions and apply this new information for greater health and wellness for themselves and/or for those they are caring for.
Nurtured By Nature has created several psychoeducational experiences to meet the needs of individuals, families, agencies/organizations and communities to increase the awareness of mental health difficulties, to recognize the signs of distress and respond to the challenges from a trauma informed, relational, resiliency and strengths based perspective.
Professional Development
Nurtured By Nature is excited to provide professional development opportunities for helping professionals, educators, equine wellness professionals and agencies/organizations.
Over the past few years, there has been an increase in the demand for professional development and staff wellness supports, and an even greater demand due to the pandemic, that has lead to increased workloads, burnout and less time for self-care.
Many of us serve as caregivers both in our work and our personal lives which can bring significant professional and personal joy and gratification as well as stress and other emotional burdens, especially if we do not have the opportunity to take care of ourselves.
The purpose of the professional development offerings is to give professionals the space to connect with themselves and others and to learn and apply new knowledge and skills in a nurturing and supportive environment. We are also building a community for professionals to come together to connect, consult and collaborate.