Grow With Nature, LLC

09/03/2025

"It's official! Wild at Heart Therapy & Training Center is excited to invite you to our official open house Sunday, September 14th from 2-4pm in Clackamas! We will have raffles, snacks, photo booth, and other fun activities for the whole family!

Wild at Heart Therapy & Training Center offers trauma-informed, neurodivergent-affirming therapy for children, teens, adults, couples, and families within a space that is creative, compassionate, and deeply supportive. We value being client-centered, and can integrate specialized approaches including Play Therapy, Nature-Based Therapy, and sensory affirming care. We help clients build emotional regulation, process trauma, and strengthen relationships.

The co-founders, Alice & Jamie, created Wild at Heart as a passion project to be the "warm chocolate chip cookie" feeling missing within the mental health world. Alice specializes in Nature Based Therapy, and Jamie is a Registered Play Therapist and Supervisor. Both Alice & Jamie are experienced in working with humans of all ages, are AAMFT Approved supervisors, and educators in a variety of spaces.

We hope to see you there!
15480 SE 82nd Dr., Suite C, Clackamas 97015"

08/28/2025

Outdoor 3-day Weekend Intensive: Nature-Based Therapy Certificate Class
SALE: $629 (Less than $35 per class hour!)
Max class size is 15 to optimize personal application.

Date: Friday 9/26/25, Saturday 9/27/25, Sunday 9/28/25
Time: 10am-1pm, 1-2pm lunch, 2-5pm; 18 hours total
Location: Clackamette Park, Oregon City, Portland

Description: The Nature-Based Therapy Certificate teaches how to foster a professional relationship with Nature to help improve your overall professional experience. The class will serve as an intro to concepts, perspectives, skills, and techniques that will help you to build your own authentic professional relationship with Nature. The class is rooted in an experiential outdoor learning approach and offers numerous opportunities to engage hands on with the material beyond talking/conceptualizing.
https://growwithnature.org/product/nature-based-therapy-certificate-class/

07/22/2025

REGISTRATION IS LIVE FOR OUR VIRTUAL CLASS:
"Attuning to Nature's Wisdom: Embracing Nature"

INTRO SALE: $295
Starts: Wednesday August 6th, 2025; 5-7PM PST for 6 weeks via Google Meets
8/6, 8/13, 8/20, 8/27, 9/3, 9/10
Location: Virtual, via google meets (if you need to miss a week we will record that session for you to watch later)

Description: Learn how to attune to Nature’s wisdom and embrace Nature as a mentor. Applications of Nature’s wisdom explored in this class may be applied to personal growth, as well as advance professional skills especially for jobs focused on helping others (e.g. therapists, teachers, medical professionals).

**Once you register, information will be sent how to buy the required workbook, which is an additional cost of $27.99.**

Class is 18 hours total and includes:
6 asynchronous hours; 1 hour per week completing a workbook chapter (6 total) within whatever space they choose to deepen connection to their near-Nature
12 synchronous hours; 2 hours per week participating in virtual processing groups to deepen application and engage in experiential activities

07/15/2025

Sneak Peek ✨✨✨⭐

Something special is growing at Wild at Heart Therapy & Training Center...

We're putting the finishing touches on a space for healing, growth, and connection-for kids, teens, families, and the therapists who support them.

Alice is teaming with Jamie Watson, play therapist extraordinaire to create a truly special, and intentional space.

Stay tuned for our official launch and get ready to join us on this wild, heart-led journey.

P.S. We're in the process of hiring! If you're a mental health therapist interested in joining our team, reach out-we'd love to connect.

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06/17/2024

We are collaborating with Clackamas County Parks and Rec to give back to Clackamette Park in Oregon City, and we are inviting you to help us as part of a community building opportunity!

Clackamette Park has hosted several outside mental health therapy sessions for Neurotherapeutic Pediatric Therapies , and several professional training opportunities through Grow With Nature Consulting. Let's join as a community and give back to the park that continues to hold a great space for us to connect outside together!

Please join us to help paint their outdoor structures on June, 30th at 9am.

Please register here to join so we know how many people to expect.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjyxVMNXCgxRUEFU717xEpfGlIbfsroqb948EROb9ch6azgQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

05/16/2024

ALICE WROTE A WORKBOOK! AVAILABLE NOW! 🌿🌿🌿

"As a group leader are you more like a fish, a bird, a bear, a mountain, a river, a thunderstorm, or something else within Nature? Explore this and many other thought-provoking questions, complemented with a fresh take on social-emotional learning, to help you navigate group dynamics with children and teens that promote the opportunity for everyone to thrive.

Whether you’re new to navigating group dynamics or well experienced, this workbook will offer a creative perspective to hone your authentic group leader style. Nature will be your primary teacher by amplifying the everyday wisdom you have already encountered within your lived ecosystems. After all, humans are mammals and exist within a greater ecosystem."

Though this is targeted to a specific professional audience, the material is easily adaptable to anyone wanting to brush up on their social/emotional learning skills in collaboration with their relationship to Nature.

https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Based-Approach-Managing-Dynamics-Children/dp/B0CZLW2X5R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=I1MQNC6YNGXJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.K8M1EHNX0NYGJ6sPASekE4AXXjwv2tTMhvE4R4tk1hWz5lAIZnTDHl8U5n6jva-6s6R_-PB4J3pljo9Vp6azkFOi6QHwwQoo5pImDcUKH-aLzXyxRX7NMypwv2An1hw7ULezhpTc1Mzkbmd3gmNoP1Z_loNG5feBanz7m1_81V5v0xUXbLN7RtKqHfAArJH5jE8C9qMlExmsWtArcFHAB0cuMhqzC6MpHMjAsrYwECU.jfMA41vC3si6XcdaSg_Ez5rBdV_Ru0s6FrpWjvkzvoo&dib_tag=se&keywords=nature+based+therapy+group&qid=1714174585&sprefix=%2Caps%2C389&sr=8-1

05/06/2024

Thank you to the grad students who attended our free grad student retreat last week! What a magical time together, so magical there was actually a rainbow! Holding space for retreats at no cost is our way to promote more connection and restorative practices within the professional world. Please check our website for upcoming free offerings including future free professional retreats for any professional.

From a retreat participant, "Thank you so much today for the nature grad retreat! It was just what I was so needing. I hope to come back...I appreciate you expanding my awareness of the nature based practice and found your approach to be simple, profound, powerful, approachable and accessible. I’ll definitely be incorporating what I have learned into my current practice. Thank you!"

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04/26/2024

*MAY'S FREE NATURE BASED THERAPY WEBINAR INFO* PRESENTATION TITLE: 4 Nature-Based, Experiential Interventions
PRESENTER: Aimee Frazier (she/her) MA, Professional Counselor Associate from Portland Hiking Therapy featured in The New York Times!
OBJECTIVES: 1. Have participated in 4 Nature-based, experiential interventions that they can use with individuals they work with. [Note: activities can be modified for work with people of all ages.]
2. Understand basic terminology related to place identity, environmental identity, and place attachment.
3. Be able to articulate 1-2 ways that the application of these concepts can be valuable in working with individuals/ groups in a nature-based setting. If you would like to join our group for the live presentation and participate in our free monthly Nature Based networking group please register here:
https://forms.gle/K2xKXzQLf7q24Wpy7
We will post the recording on our website once we are able to upload it. Please check out our website for other posted free webinars and join our emailing list to stay updated!
growwithnatureconsulting.org

03/13/2024

Our free webinar recording and 1 CE quiz is now available from this past month's presentation at our Nature Based Therapy Monthly Networking Meeting!

PRESENTATION TITLE: Co-Regulating with Nature Through Immersion
PRESENTER: Julie Baxter (she/her), MS, LPC from Blue Water Therapy, LLC
OBJECTIVES:
1. Learn what co-regulating with Nature means and the importance of finding balance.
2. Explore the concepts of homeostatic equilibrium, shifting focus, and discovering perspective.
3. Begin identifying ways for how to "yes, and..." with Nature to provide meaningful interventions for your clients.

https://growwithnatureconsulting.org/webinar-registration-co-regulating-with-nature-through-immersion/

02/26/2024

Since October 2023 we've been hosting a *free* monthly virtual Nature Based Therapy Professional Networking meeting. Starting this upcoming meeting on Wednesday 3/6/24 at 12-1PST we will have a presenter! And moving forward we will have a presenter slated for every other month at least through the end of this year!

If you would like to join this group please register here:
https://forms.gle/K2xKXzQLf7q24Wpy7

INFO ON THIS MONTH'S PRESENTATION:
PRESENTATION TITLE: Co-Regulating with Nature Through Immersion
PRESENTER: Julie Baxter (she/her), MS, LPC from Blue Water Therapy, LLC
OBJECTIVES:
1. Learn what co-regulating with Nature means and the importance of finding balance.
2. Explore the concepts of homeostatic equilibrium, shifting focus, and discovering perspective.
3. Begin identifying ways for how to "yes, and..." with Nature to provide meaningful interventions for your clients.

11/22/2023

Our Nature-Based Program was featured in The Oregonian! :D

“I’m just literally shaving a stick with my bare hands,” said Evelyn, 9.

Interacting with nature this way might seem like an unremarkable childhood activity, but it offers a powerful alternative to traditional indoor pediatric therapy, said Evelyn’s former therapist Alice Nelson.

Read more: https://www.oregonlive.com/living/2023/11/nature-helps-neurodivergent-children-find-their-place-in-the-world-season-of-sharing-2023.html?utm_campaign=theoregonian_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook