The Leave No Trace Ireland Podcast Series 2: Mental Health Awareness Month 2023
The Leave No Trace Ireland Podcast is back for another series of episodes, this time focusing on how the outdoors and our mental health are intrinsically linked:
This month we’re talking to people who work in the outdoors, enabling our connection, understanding, and mental health journeys through our outdoor spaces.
Episode 1:
Cara Byrne, Founder of The Hike Psych
Cara Byrne is the founder of Hike Psych, Ireland’s only hiking psychotherapy practice. In this episode, we talk about how hiking therapy has allowed Cara to utilise all the interpersonal and evidence based processes of a psychotherapy session, but instead sitting of indoors at a table, she and her clients take to the hills.
Listen to Episode 1:
Find The Hike Psych on Instagram, and check our their website for more info!
Episode 2:
Sarah Hourigan, Founder of Nature Therapy Ireland
In this episode, we talk with Nature Therapy Ireland’s founder Sarah Hourigan. With a background in applied psychology and several years working in health research, Sarah chats with Ellie Berry about exploring the benefits of the outdoors on our physical and mental well-being. Their conversation explores the power of small, simple actions to ground and connect us, and how we can all make small steps to balance our overall well-being through incorporating the natural environment.
Listen to Episode 2:
In the episode Sarah mentions that she has recorded and released a Forest Walk Visualisation, which you can find here on the NTI website.
Find Nature Therapy Ireland on Instagram, and check our their website here.
Find the Leave No Trace Ireland Podcast on:
Spotify
Podbean
and Google Podcasts!
