Ecotherapy is an umbrella term for a gathering of techniques and practices that lead to circles of mutual healing between the human mind and the natural world from which it evolved. It includes horticultural therapy, wilderness excursion work, time stress management, and certain kinds of animal-assisted therapy. This article provides an overview of research into ecotherapy's treatment efficacy and argues for a psychology of place designed to reconnect people psychologically with the world a place at a time.

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“Eco-anxiety” is the now-popular term for realistic fear in the face of multiple collective ecological crises, from contagions to climate change and many others. All share the disruption of our delusion of being separate from and superior to the natural world. Every crisis shakes this delusion even as it destabilizes individuals and communities left without adequate governmental or societal support, forcing us to find our own resources. This chapter lays out a blueprint for “eco-resilience”: the craft and science of enduring and even flourishing in a time of ongoing cycles of stress. This blueprint combines practices and ideas from many fields and areas of life to offer practical means of personal and communal adaptation in a context of Fourfold Caring: care of self, of others, of Earth, and of imagination.

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