RECOVERY COUNSELING

Our individual recovery counseling offers a personalised space for reflection, orientation, and growth. Our sessions always take place outdoors, using nature’s cycles and rhythms, to help us regulate, inspire change, and give us new perspectives. Much of our work revolves around reinstalling the conditions for health and healing to naturally occur; by exposing ourselves to the types of environments and dynamics we’ve evolved to thrive in. Guided by attachment-informed practices and adventure-therapy dynamics, we them support participants activate change in real time; discover and cultivate inner resources, develop authentic self-leadership, and install habits supportive of a life of true wellbeing.

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About

PEOPLE

Who is this for:

Mountain Medicine Mentoring is intended for people who are:

  • Facing mental health challenges, and seek a nature-focussed therapeutic way of navigating their way through

  • Experiencing mental health challenges including addiction, burnout, stress, anxiety, or depression

  • Feeling disconnected from purpose or meaning, and seeking a deeper orientation to life.

  • Working through relational complexity; patterns of conflict, attachment challenges, or turbulent family dynamics.

  • Drawn to an outdoor, adventure-based approach that complements or extends traditional therapeutic support.

PRINCIPLES

Our counseling work follows the RO Philosophy, a therapeutic journey inspired by the Native American Medicine Wheel. It reflects four primary attachments that shape human health and wellbeing: to creation, to ourselves, to others, and to the world at large Each direction speaks to a core attachment dynamic, and a therapeutic step in the journey of healing.

  • East – Spirit. “Renewing sense of purpose, personal values and general orientation in life through non-dogmatic exploration of personal belief systems, supported by our immersions in wild natural landscapes and simple rites or ceremonial practices.”

  • South – Body. “Reaquainting with the body, as a vehicle of safety and regulation. Establishing healthy rhythms, sustainable habits and life-giving routines to restore balance, and create a stable foundation to engage fully and functionally in daily life.

  • West – Heart. “Restoring our abilities to connect safely to others, learning to relate while experiencing the full spectrum of our emotions, navigating life’s challenges and regulating ourselves without returning to old coping strategies.”

  • North – Mind. Rekindling life purpose, discovering contribution and exercising self-leadership; identifying strengths, setting goals and taking steps towards a full engagement with life in society.”

PRACTICES

What’s included in each offering:

Each counseling trajectory is tailor-made, but is typically built up through a series of complementary practices, including:

  • Person-centred counseling — empathic, authentic therapeutic dialogue, mentoring and guidance.

  • Wilderness therapy practice— outdoor dynamics tailored to elicit process, deepen inquiry and shift perspective

  • Indigenous-inspired ritual & ceremony — Earth bound rite of passage work to anchor change & integration

  • Expedition-style outdoor adventure — guided therapeutic immersions in the Scandinavian Wilderness (if applicable).

PROCESS

How we operate:

  1. Assessment & Care Plan — collaborative intake, goals, and safety plan.

  2. Sessions — 1:1 online counseling (somatic, attachment-informed) 

  3. Challenges — Self-guided outdoor follow-up practices in your local nature  

  4. Immersion — 3 day in-person therapeutic intensive in the scandinavian wilderness 

  5. Review & aftercare — integration plan, resources, and (if desired) ongoing support.

PROGRAMS

Our counseling work is offered in different formats so you can find the level of support that fits your needs. Below you find examples of our way of working, noting that other forms of collaboration are always possible since our trajectories are all tailor-made to client needs. So please do contact us to book an intake call if you’re orienting yourself.

NEW BEGINNINGS. 1-ON-1 COUNSELING. ONLINE & IN-PERSON

This program offers a modular counseling journey through the four ‘directions’ that shape our methodology. We start our process with an elaborate intake, after which we craft a tailored recovery journey together, that follows a modular structure. Participants are invited to work one module at the time, over a longer period.

Our groundwork and preparations are done in an online counseling format, followed by self-guided wilderness therapy challenges to shape your recovery process at home. We then take focussed deep dives during guided, multi-day immersions in the Scandinavian Wilderness. Upon return, you’ll receive one more counseling call, followed by an integration challenge.

Each Counseling Block Includes:

  • 2x Online Counseling Sessions (x 90 min) 

  • 2x Tailored Self-Guided Wilderness Therapy Practices 

  • 3 Days Guided Immersion in the Scandinavian Wilderness

    Cost: €1850,- 

FOUNDATIONS. 1-ON-1 COUNSELING (REMOTE) 4 ONLINE SESSIONS & OUTDOOR CHALLENGES

Includes: 4 online mentoring sessions + outdoor challenges at home

This program offers a cycle of therapeutic support, in an online format with self-guided outdoor dynamics that support you in working with each of the four directions. ‘Foundations’ is a guided therapeutic journey on distance, supporting participants to mobilise and activate their own innate capacities for change and resourcefulness, by collaborating with the land, to return to a place of alignment, agency and action.

A Counseling Package Includes:

  • 4x Online Counseling Sessions (x 90 min)

  • 4x Tailored Self-Guided Wilderness Therapy Practices

  • 1x Instructions for Self-guided Rite of Passage Journey

    Cost: €550,-