Lindsay Cray

Mental Health Counselor - Limited Permit|Clinically Supervised

For more than twenty years, I have focused my career on the development and delivery of progressive and intentional nature-based practices that help people broaden their personal growth, enhance relationships, change the culture of health and foster a connection between self and other. After pioneering a highly effective Nature-Based Clinical therapy model for supporting trauma recovery, I created Trybe Ecotherapy in 2020. A counseling practice that focused on healing military veterans through the balance of cognitive, emotional, and physiological states. My early professional years were spent in social-ecological sciences, via a fellowship from the National Science Foundation. During this time, I joined multiple efforts towards ecological sustainability, including attending the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in 2009. In 2010, I discovered the power of connecting young people directly to nature and the serious implications for creating successful learning pathways for youth in alternative education programs. In this work I traveled for nearly a decade, nationally and internationally, focusing on underserved populations, juveniles in the justice system. In 2013, I founded the Earthworks Institute for expeditionary learning, a nonprofit to serve those who lacked exposure to healthy outdoor opportunities. As a consultant and as a mental health counselor, I apply my experience to assist individuals, professionals and organizations alike in engaging the Power of Nature to Support Emotional Health and Wellness. Whether it be through psychotherapy work (supervised under the practice of Meghan L. Fox PsyD.), consulting, or as a field guide, my work has reached a diversity of people across cultures, races and income-levels.

I am a big outdoors enthusiast, spend much of my free time enjoying natural spaces via hiking, camping, kayaking, snowshoeing, wilderness skills classes and even a prior career as a forest school educator. As such, I am also a huge proponent of nature-based practices as a part of treatment in my therapeutic approach with clients. The results and feedback from clients who choose to integrate Nature-Based Therapy in thier sessions with me are resoundingly positive and show extremely successful outcomes. If this sounds interesting to you, feel free to email me to book an outdoor walking appointment in one of the areas beautiful local parks! To learn more about my practice please visit https://www.integrating-nature.com/