About

Congratulations on taking the first step onto your path of self-discovery, awareness, and healing, and welcome to NEED FOR NATURE PSYCHOTHERAPY!

NEED FOR NATURE PSYCHOTHERAPY is part of NEED FOR NATURE GROUP, a company group set out to ensure human-nature connectedness for the health, wellness and healing for both humans and planet.

At NEED FOR NATURE PSYCHOTHERAPY, we share the NEED FOR NATURE GROUP core values of healing both human and nature simultaneously through strengthening the human-nature relationship. We approach therapy with a trauma-informed and client-centered lens, prioritizing safety, trust, and empowerment. We recognize the impact of trauma on individuals’ lives and honor each client’s unique journey towards healing. Our therapists create a safe and supportive environment where clients feel heard, validated, and respected, allowing for a deeper exploration of their experiences and emotions.

As in our Mother Company NEED FOR NATURE GROUP, Nature Connectedness is at the heart of our therapeutic approach at NEED FOR NATURE PSYCHOTHERAPY. We believe that fostering a deeper connection with nature will promote healing, resilience, and well-being to both humans and the more-than-human-world humans need to exist. Our goal is to support you as our client in developing a meaningful and reciprocal relationship with the natural world, cultivating a sense of awe, wonder, and belonging. Through a range of experiential activities, guided practices, therapeutic techniques, and reflective exercises in, with, and for nature, we help you (re-)connect with your inner and outer nature to activate your intrinsic transformative power.

Drawing from both ancient indigenous wisdom and modern evidence based techniques, we offer a range of tools to support your healing, growth, and path forward. Our therapeutic services include Nature Based Psychotherapy, Theta Healing, Mindfulness, Forest Bathing, and Ocean Floating. We offer single sessions, or program based interventions on the basis of your needs.

In all our sessions, we work client centered and phenomenological, and your current needs are always a higher priority than any decided program structure or methodology. Methods, techniques, exercises and meditations from all source service range, may be drawn into any session upon client request and therapeutic need. Our therapists are all greatly experienced, and operate with the freedom of designing the most suitable therapeutic session for our clients current situation. Further, our main objective is to operate on behalf of both human and planet, and our therapies are always co-created in consideration of our surrounding environment of nature and fellow human beings.

NEED FOR NATURE PSYCHOTHERAPY is founded and run by Tanya Uhnger Wünsche, Reg. Nature based Psychotherapist, Nature therapist, Theta Healer, Health and Nature Interpreter, Shinrin Yoku Guide, Mindfulness Instructor, Cool Kids Counselor, NLP Shadow and Mastercoach, Special Pedagogue and a 20 years+ experienced Nature based Health Promotion Professional. Tanya is the President of the Danish Association for Adventure Therapy, the national representative of both the Nordic Outdoor Therapy Network, Adventure Therapy Europe, and the Adventure Therapy International Conference Network. Tanya leads the International Adventure Therapy Association Entity Work Group aiming at becoming a global NGO in 2025, and is part of the International Adventure Therapy Research Group.

Adult Specializations

  • Stress and Anxiety Relief
  • Organizational Transformation / Leadership
  • Specializing in Grief / Longitudinal and Climate Grief

Child/Adolescent Specializations

  • Gifted Children
  • Social inclusion and Anxiety Relief
  • Grief / Climate Grief

Further, NEED FOR NATURE PSYCHOTHERAPY has welcomed fellow colleagues skilled in one or more of the above mentioned therapeutic techniques. Common for all our therapists are the deep passion for nature as an intrinsic part of human lives, and a thorough understanding of how to facilitate therapeutic experience within the natural arena. All our therapeutic work have deep roots in research validated and evidence based methodologies, and all therapists you meet in NEED FOR NATURE PSYCHOTHERAPY are highly educated, experienced professionals required to act client centered and in accordance with strict European legal requirements, trauma informed in all therapeutic and Nature Connectedness work.

Our therapeutic sessions take place in our Nature Therapeutic Refuge clinic in North Zealand, Denmark / In your Proximate Nature Arena / Online as per demand. Rooted in Ecopsychology, Adventure Therapy, and Phenomenological Philosophy, our therapy sessions aim to foster a deep connection with nature, promoting and enhancing health, well-being, resilience, transformation and healing for both individuals and our planet.

It is of great importance to us that our clients feel they are in a safe space with their therapist. Therefore, we offer you the opportunity to either book a session directly and test the therapist or chosen form of session out, or the opportunity to book a call to see if we are a match.

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