WILD THERAPY
(COUNSELLING)
WELCOME
My name is Gina.
I am registered counsellor with the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists.
My training spans four years in Humanistic Existential counselling, followed by a one-year practitioner training in Wild Therapy, developed by Nick Totton.
Alongside this, I bring more than ten years’ experience working with somatic/body-based approaches to movement, voice, and self-expression, and have specialist experience working with sexual abuse, young people, Gender Sexuality & Relationship Diversity, and chronic/life changing illness.
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WORKING TOGETHER
Wild Immersion
In-person counselling
Outdoors, immersive, nature-based, rural
60 minutes (longer sessions available by arrangement)
Coed Hills Rural Artspace, Vale of Glamorgan
Mondays only (limited availability)
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I offer weekly and in-person therapy sessions at Coed Hills Rural Arts Space in the Vale of Glamorgan. Coed Hills is a wild and beautifully held environment, created as a place of retreat, encouraging creativity, and connection with the land. Its grounds include extensive woodland, standing stones, a hand-crafted maze, a lake for wild swimming, and a permaculture garden, each offering its own invitation for reflection, grounding, and encounter.​
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Therapy at Coed Hills is not only about the dialogue between us, but also a dialogue with the place itself, with woodland, stones, water, garden, and weather, offering a unique opportunity to explore your inner and outer landscapes in the company of wildness, creativity, and care. I work in all weathers. Sunshine, rain, wind, or stillness can echo something of our own inner landscape. Weather becomes part of the process, a living metaphor for the shifting patterns of mood, emotion, and experience. Together we can explore how your internal weather meets the external, whether sitting in shelter, sat around a fire, walking woodland paths, or sprawling out under open sky. Space is available for you to change into before and after the therapy. Clients are welcome to relax by the barn before or after a session.
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Sessions take place on Mondays only, with limited availability, so that the work remains spacious and rooted. While much of our time may be spent within the grounds, where it is possible and by agreement we may also choose to step into other types of nearby landscapes as the therapy unfolds.
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Urban Retreat
In-Person counselling
Indoors, quiet, contained, city-centre
50 minutes
Cardiff City Centre (details provided on booking, but close to Bute Park)
Friday mornings (limited availability)
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For those who prefer a traditional, city-centre setting, I offer in-person sessions in a contemporary, quiet therapy room in central Cardiff. The space provides a calm and contained environment for reflection, conversation, and connection, where the work can unfold fully. Here, you can engage with your inner landscapes, deepen self-awareness, and explore new ways of being, bringing insight and transformation into everyday life. Sessions are structured, professional, and supportive, offering a safe and private space to explore your thoughts, feelings, and challenges. While the setting differs from Coed Hills Rural Artspace, the Humanistic Existential and Wild Therapy-informed approach remains the same, responsive, attentive, and guided by what feels right for you. Some clients find this a more gentle start, helping to build confidence and trust before progressing to the Wild Immersion at Coed Hills
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Fees:
Seed
Single session: £60
A full and complete session, offering space for reflection, exploration, and connection. Weekly, pay-as-you-go.
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Roots
Block of six sessions: £330 (equivalent to £55 per session)
A sustained exploration, allowing patterns to emerge and deeper engagement to develop. Many clients find this a helpful way to begin, providing structure while leaving space to review after a few weeks.
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Wildwood
Ongoing support: £200 per month (£50 per session)
For clients attending weekly and wishing to work longer-term (beyond 12 sessions), this option supports integration of insights into everyday life. In months with five weeks, the extra session is charged at £50.
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Payment and Cancellations
Cancellation fees apply for sessions missed without adequate notice.
Clients that book a Roots (block of six) plan, are not tied in if either you or I feel it is best to pause or end the work. The work is reviewed collaboratively after the first and third sessions, and any unused sessions will be refunded.
For a Wildwood (ongoing support) plan, any outstanding sessions will be refunded if the agreement ends.​​
MY APPROACH
“I am guided by you, the client, and by what feels comfortable for you every step of the way”.
Humanistic Existential
My work is grounded in a humanistic and existential perspective. This means I place your autonomy and choice at the centre of the process, working with empathy, non-judgment, and authenticity to create a trusting, collaborative relationship. At the same time, I attend to your experience of being in the world, exploring how you perceive yourself, relate to others, and inhabit your surroundings. We look at your values, beliefs, and life choices to see how they shape your everyday experience and relationships, supporting you to live with greater authenticity, alignment, and a sense of meaning and purpose. Over time, I offer invitations and gentle challenges that encourage you to engage fully with life, your choices, and the possibilities that matter most to you.
Wild Therapy​
At the heart of my practice is Wild Therapy. This is often misunderstood as simply being therapy outdoors, or confused with walk-and-talk therapy, where nature is primarily a backdrop and the benefits come from simply being in a natural environment. In reality, Wild Therapy is more an ethos, an attitude cultivated within the therapeutic relationship. It is the willingness to take risks, step beyond self-imposed limitations, and explore the parts of yourself that may have been domesticated or silenced. What matters most is this mindset, not the setting itself.
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At the same time, nature can play a deliberate and active role in the process. Existential therapist Irvin Yalom wrote, “It is the relationship that heals”. In Wild Therapy, we might say, “It is the relationship that heals… and that relationship includes the more-than, and other-than human world”. Sessions may take place indoors, but they may also occur in a quiet garden, along a wooded path, or fully immersed in a wild landscape. In these moments, nature becomes a living presence, a therapeutic third, that can illuminate hidden patterns, support reflection, and invite new ways of seeing and being. Just as the relationship with the therapist holds space for transformation, working with the natural world can help you engage more deeply with your own inner landscape, opening possibilities for growth that extend beyond the human-to-human (counsellor/client) connection.
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For a more creative reading of all things 'wild', you can visit
What is Wild? - A Prologue to read the field notes from my training. You, of course, may experience some of these or indeed none of these!
Person-Centred Care and Compassion
People come to counselling for many reasons, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, (chronic) illness or pain, life transitions, or a desire to deepen their connection to themselves and others. Together, we follow and weave the threads of your story and your body’s wisdom, moving through both cultivated and wild spaces of your inner and outer landscapes. I am guided by you, and by what feels comfortable at every step, journeying alongside you in reclaiming connection, authenticity, and a sense of belonging; to yourself and to the wider world. In whatever environment we work, I hold a compassionate, non-judgmental space where what needs to be spoken, felt, or discovered can gently unfold…
Like water returning to its natural course across wild terrain.
Additional Experience That Informs My Practice
Trauma-informed care - Crisis Work at a Sexual Assault Referral Centre
LGBTQIA+ affirmative - Founder of a LGBTQIA+ led social enterprise
Disability responsiveness - Lived experiences of chronic pain
Menstrual awareness - Cycle aware, invitational approach
Experience with young people - Counselling in schools & college
Maternal insight - Research into motherhood & biological childlessness.
Embodied & somatic awareness - practice in voice, body, & movement.
“My approach is always gentle and responsive... if what you need is simply a space to talk and be heard, that is enough”.
YOUR
THERAPEUTIC SPACE
What if therapy is not just about healing...
but is about remembering the parts of you that were never broken​​
Reconnect With Your Authentic Self
I offer a space to reconnect with your authentic self. Life can become domesticated and heavy in ways we barely notice. Often, this is shaped by conditions of worth, the things we’ve been told (sometimes beginning in childhood), explicitly or subtly, that inform our thoughts, behaviours, and choices, shaping how we move through the world. Many of these behaviours have been long maintained because they brought love, approval, security, a sense of belonging, and, for some, the fundamental need for safety.
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The Layers We Carry
But what if our identity is far more nuanced than these inherited scripts? What might happen if we gently peeled back the layers of our domesticated roles - the diligent parent, the obedient child, the loyal friend, the devoted partner, the hardworking professional - and noticed the sedimented expectations, habits, and behaviours that have accumulated over time? This process isn’t about rejecting who we are, or the cultures or communities we find ourselves situated in, nor is it about striving for hyper-individualism. It is about looking at our lives, 360, to really see where and how it aligns with our values (or doesn't), and from that point realigning to live with deeper meaning and purpose. What lost, forgotten, repressed, or fiercely disavowed parts might we uncover, and how might they support us in moving through life with less inner conflict, more ease, and greater self-understanding, like discovering hidden streams beneath the surface of a familiar landscape?
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Walking Through Life's Crossroads
People often arrive in therapy at a crossroads, a life transition, a loss, a change, or an ongoing challenge, bringing inner conflict or uncertainty. Therapy becomes a space to walk through that together... to witness, dialogue with, and learn from the parts of yourself that feel lost, exiled, unheard, unvalidated, or alone. It’s an invitation to inhabit your life and yourself with curiosity, care, and gentle attention, as if moving through both well-trodden paths and untamed terrain, noticing what has grown naturally and what has taken root over time.
