Hi, my name is Kimberly.
I am the nature-based psychotherapist (CO #12840), naturalist, and facilitator behind Colorado Ecotherapy Institute, an entity I founded to serve my community with what I believe we need to be resilient and rooted beings -relationship with body and nature. I am really glad you are here.
I believe the relationship between the human body and the earth body is ancient and vital to our modern-day wellness.
Both bodies hold incredible history, beauty, intelligence, and potential. Remembering this body wisdom has been a part of my own healing journey - and it is nature, animals, and a commitment to deeper, embodied engagement with life that helped me cultivate greater capacity for presence, fluidity, open-hearted living, and knowing my body as ally. I'd love to help you do the same.
I believe the relationship between the human body and the earth body is ancient and vital to our modern-day wellness.
Both bodies hold incredible history, beauty, intelligence, and potential. Remembering this body wisdom has been a part of my own healing journey - and it is nature, animals, and a commitment to deeper, embodied engagement with life that helped me cultivate greater capacity for presence, fluidity, open-hearted living, and knowing my body as ally. I'd love to help you do the same.
In addition to operating CEI, I am founder & guide for Relational Rewilding Nature Guiding, work as coordinator & faculty member for Gestalt Equine Institute of the Rockies, and am an instructor at Denver Botanic Gardens and with Audubon Society of Greater Denver.
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To Colorado Ecotherapy Institute clients and students, I bring 13 years of nature therapy experience, and my training in:
Counseling & Career Development (CSU)
Gestalt therapy
Gestalt Equine Psychotherapy
Ecopsychology
Embodiment Practices
Somatic Experiencing
Internal Family Systems
Ecology Studies
Herbalism, Ethnobotany & Botany
Animal Tracking & Bird Language
Rewilding & Earth-based skills
Horsemanship
Forest Bathing
Nature-connection facilitation
Counseling & Career Development (CSU)
Gestalt therapy
Gestalt Equine Psychotherapy
Ecopsychology
Embodiment Practices
Somatic Experiencing
Internal Family Systems
Ecology Studies
Herbalism, Ethnobotany & Botany
Animal Tracking & Bird Language
Rewilding & Earth-based skills
Horsemanship
Forest Bathing
Nature-connection facilitation
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While some of these areas of focus may initially seem irrelevant to psychotherapy, they actually support wholeness and provide opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to feel into the many ways we are embodied, relational, human mammals.
CEI incorporates talk therapy, hiking, horses, archery, nature connection, movement, mindfulness, wildlife watching, play, sculpture building, parts work, rituals, tea-making, fire-making, and foraging into therapeutic time. Activities and interventions are purposeful, part of a client's (or student groups) goals, and are dependent on the season and client's presenting issues. Kimberly provides the nature-based psychotherapy services for CEI. Ecotherapy trainings, psycho-education workshops, and retreats are facilitated by Kimberly or in collaboration with other mental-health practitioners and animals. |
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CEI Collaborators:
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Duey Freeman, MA, LPC - Educator, Supervisor for CEI Elder, Master therapist, Founder Gestalt Equine Institute of the Rockies, Co-founder Gestalt Institute of the Rockies, Creator of 'Gestalt Equine Psychotherapy', Creator of Freeman Attachment Model©, Creator of Freeman Developmental Model©, Retreat Leader, Supervisor, Professor, Horseman, Guide, Mentor of Many... www.dueyfreeman.org www.gestaltequineinstitute.com The UNcivilized Men’s Initiation (manuncivilized.com) |
Erin Henry, MSW, LCSW - Peer Psychotherapist & Educator with CEI
Animal and nature-based therapist, Yoga teacher, Wellness Coach, Cancer Survivor
www.rewildtherapy.com
Jenny Vandehey - Peer Herbalist and Retreat Leader with CEI
Mother, Herbalist, Birth Doula, Organizational Leader, Human Whisperer
www.linneawellness.com
Lacy's Mr. Dillon (AKA: Dillon)
Quarter horse, Cow-herding horse, Equine therapist, Friend, Brother, Herd leader
Enjoys trail rides, sleeping, working with clients and students, eating carrots, belly scratches, playing with his best bud, Moondash.
Moondash (AKA: Moon)
Quarter horse, Racing lineage (Dash for Cash), Equine therapist, Friend, Brother
Enjoys playing with Dillon and Spirit, trail rides, butt rubs, sunbathing, teaching, being a gentle therapy horse, and making grumbling noises
Lil' Spirit (AKA: Spirit)
Welch Mountain Pony, Friend, Sister, Equine therapist
Enjoys the comfort of being with her brothers, pulling friends in her pony cart, having her mane braided, eating anything, being a therapy pony
