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Growing in the garden and in counselling

Counselling and horticulture inform each other

Horticulture has a lot to say about how plants grow and change, and therapy has a lot to say about how people grow and change. My experience is that these two worlds inform each other, which we might expect since both plants and people are organic in nature. For me, counselling or therapy is an organic process.

Physis – that tendency within each living thing to change and grow.

New article in Counselling Directory

I’ve written some of my ideas about how our understanding or contact with plants might inform our approach to counselling and this article was published in Counselling Directory. Here’s the link;

https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/memberarticles/horticultural-therapy-growing-in-the-garden-and-in-counselling

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