Nature Connect NW & JK Counselling

04/05/2026

Next Monday! Peer support group for nature and wellbeing practitioners.
🌿A quarterly informal meeting to share ideas, knowledge and experience.
🌿Join us at Lyme & Wood Country Park near Newton-le-Willows WA11 0RN, 10am-12noon, Monday 11th May.
🌿We're counsellors/psychotherapists, forest bathing guides, ecotherapists, qigong and yoga teachers - with a side order of backgrounds in forest school and welcome anyone who works with the natural environment with a wellbeing/mental health focus.
🌿We have access to a cabin in case of rain and there will be brews and snacks.
🌿Email me at janinecounsellor@gmail.com to let us know you're coming and for any further info

04/05/2026

It's a new month! This spring seems to be moving fast - here's what I've got coming up in May, June and July so far.
🌸Including an exciting new venture - I'll be getting together with the lovely Mima - the HedgeRose Healer in and around Norton Priory's Coach House.
🌸We're bringing you a full day of nature immersion with elements of forest bathing, meditation and creativity with natural materials.
🌸I also have my monthly writing groups, forest bathing at Runcorn Hill, a special Forest School for Grown-Ups on the summer solstice at Frodsham Woods and a forest bathing session with a focus on beautiful poetry and your own writing practice at Spud Wood in Lymm.
🌸All the details and booking are through my Eventbrite organiser page. Link in bio for Insta bods https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/nature-connect-nw-31334082883
🌸Except for the retreat day at Norton Priory - details and booking for that coming very soon!

03/05/2026

Join me in the woods this month - Sunday 17th May at Runcorn Hill, Cheshire.
🌿A gentle morning to nourish and refresh, practising the Japanese art of shinrin-yoku - forest bathing - to immerse our senses in the woodland environment.
🌿With gentle qigong movements, grounding meditation, slow mindful walking, sensory and creative invitations, personal sit spot time and a small welcoming group of no more than 10.
🌿Full details and booking at Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1984283134270?aff=oddtdtcreator
🌿Tickets £18, or £9 for people on a low income.

03/05/2026

03/05/2026

This is the kind of area that is 'home' to me, where I feel a sense of belonging to the land.
🌿It's not wilderness. It's not the grandeur of mountains or rugged coasts. It's not the sort of place people from other regions would make a special trip to visit.
🐣There are flight paths, factories, motorways (that's the M56 on the bridge over the canal), litter. Often our green spaces have remained undeveloped because the land is contaminated from the chemical industry.
🌿I love visiting national parks and beautiful beaches. North-West Wales is very special to me and some of my ancestors lived there.
🐣I can see why so much lovely nature-based stuff goes on in Devon (I've even named my envy my 'Devon complex').
🌿I want to return to enchanting places like the Wye Valley and the Hebrides and make first visits to places I read about in nature books.
🐣But I also want to champion these grittier areas. The kind of places on the doorsteps of millions of us, accessible even if you can't afford a Devon cottage or your work keeps you near a chemical plant.
🌿So get out and explore your 'nearby nature', give it the attention it deserves and it will give back - moments of peace, the calmness of being surrounded by greenery, the joy of ducklings and coot chicks (endearingly ugly!).
🐣I hold individual counselling sessions, ecotherapy one-to-ones and nature connection events in these places. See janinekeeblecounselling.co.uk for info or email me janinecounsellor@gmail.com

30/04/2026

Join me on Sunday 17th May to explore the woods and heathland at Runcorn Hill.
May Forest Bathing - full details and booking at Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1984283134270?aff=oddtdtcreator
A sensory immersion in the woodland environment designed to relax and recharge.

29/04/2026

I guess the back pain is a pretty clear reminder that we didn't evolve to sit at desks... If anyone wants me today I'll be slowly walking around my local area while neglecting a tonne of admin...

25/04/2026

Sound up for burbling stream and birds in one of the enchanting little valleys above Cheshire's River Weaver

24/04/2026

Available this spring and summer: Single session ecotherapy
🌿Outdoor one-to-ones combining counselling and ecotherapy for a bespoke session.
🌿Extended time of two hours intended as a one-off or occasional session as and when needed.
🌿30-minute video call included to explore the focus of the session and how nature might play a role.
🌿We’ll work directly with nature as co-therapist, with the landscape and natural materials.
🌿Email janinecounsellor@gmail.com to arrange a free chat to see if this would suit you.
🌿Frodsham or Runcorn. 30min video call + 2hr session £125.

23/04/2026

Therapy is political - what that means to me and potentially to my clients
💭I've hesitated to write this post because in many ways I am still learning - and always will be - about inclusion, about the effects of discrimination on marginalised groups, about my own privilege and unconscious biases.
💭But I think it's more important that I say this stuff than that I stay silent in case I don't always get it right.
💭Read the post at janinekeeblecounselling.co.uk