Founder, Researcher & Lead Recovery Counselor

Jorn Vetter is the founder of Recovery Outdoors, as well as a researcher and lead recovery counselor. His work is shaped by lived experience of long-term recovery and sustained engagement with Indigenous worldviews, particularly Native American culture, tradition, and ceremony, informing a relational and place-based understanding of healing. Alongside this, he has explored wilderness and adventure therapy practices across the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. As founder, Jorn shapes the overall vision of Recovery Outdoors, ensuring alignment between practice, training, and research, while working directly with participants through relational, peer-informed, and nature-based recovery support focused on substance use disorder in a European context.

Academic Mentor & Nordic Outdoor Therapy Representative

Carina is a senior researcher in child and adolescent mental health at Sørlandet Hospital and affiliated with the University of Agder, where she is responsible for postgraduate education in nature-based therapeutic work. She has played a central role in the development of friluftsterapi for youth and families in Norway over the past decade and is actively involved in clinical research, training, and supervision. As a founder of the Norwegian Outdoor Therapy Association and a long-standing contributor to Nordic and international networks, Carina supports Recovery Outdoors through academic mentorship, research dialogue, and field-level connection. Her collaboration helps situate our work within Nordic Clinical Practice while strengthening method, ethic, and exchange across research fields.

Clinical Psychologist & Treatment Partner

Martin Johnsson is a licensed clinical psychologist whose work bridges attachment theory, trauma-informed clinical practice, and experiential approaches to healing; partnering with us in our shared commitment to delivering integrative recovery support. He is the founder of The Secure Base Lab, an international platform dedicated to sharing attachment-awareness in service of better mental and relational health. As our treatment partner and supervisor Martin supports our work through clinical consultation, conceptual development, and collaborative reflection on practice. His role supports both practitioners and participants, helping ensure that our work remains ethically grounded, psychologically informed, and responsive to the complex realities of recovery.

Research Supervisor & Community Psychology Department Lead

Charlotte is a psychologist and academic with extensive experience in research, supervision, and leadership within psychology and mental health. Her work spans clinical psychology, developmental perspectives, and research methodology, with a strong emphasis emotion regulation, integrative therapeutic practice, and treatment ethic. As research supervisor to Recovery Outdoors, Charlotte supports the scientific quality, coherence, and academic positioning of our work, guiding study design, theory development, and publication strategy. Her involvement helps ensure that practice-based insights are translated into robust research that can meaningfully contribute to the wider psychological and mental health field.

Wilderness Guide & Outdoor Educator

Micke Hanås is an experienced wilderness guide and outdoor educator whose work is grounded in hands-on learning and practical outdoor skills. With a background in working with disadvantaged youth in nature-based and mental health–related projects, he brings strong pedagogical awareness to his guiding practice. He has extensive experience leading groups by canoe, kayak, and on foot through forests and mountain landscapes of the Scandinavian Wilderness. Within Recovery Outdoors, Micke supports our recovery practice through trekking, paddling, and wilderness skills that foster presence, confidence, and connection through shared outdoor experience.

Looking to collaborate or continue learning?

We are continuously learning and evolving as an organization, and we welcome dialogue with practitioners, guides, researchers, and peers who resonate with our approach to recovery. If you are working at the intersection of mental health, nature-based practice, and lived recovery experience—and are interested in contributing to a collaborative, reflective, and ethically grounded community of practice—we invite you to connect with us. Joining our team is less about filling roles, and more about growing shared capacity to support recovery across diverse European landscapes and contexts. If our work resonates with you, don’t hesitate to contact us to explore where we may collaborate