Example 3
Outdoor Exposure-Based Therapist
📍 Location:
New Zealand
🚶 Session format:
In-Person
🌿 Therapy approaches:
Outdoor Exposure-Based Therapy, ACT with Behavioural Activation, Green Exercise-Based Therapy
🟢 Accepting new clients:
Yes
I support individuals who experience anxiety, avoidance, or distress related to outdoor or real-world environments by integrating evidence-based exposure principles with gentle movement and time outdoors. My work focuses on helping clients gradually and safely engage with environments they may have been avoiding, such as parks, walking paths, open spaces, or everyday outdoor settings.
Sessions are structured, collaborative, and paced according to each client’s needs, with an emphasis on choice, predictability, and emotional safety. By combining psychological strategies with gradual outdoor exposure, clients can build confidence, increase tolerance to discomfort, and reconnect with activities that matter to them.
This approach may be helpful for people experiencing anxiety, panic, phobias, social avoidance, or difficulty leaving the house, and is always tailored to individual goals and clinical readiness.
