I’m Jennifer Deacon – mostly known as Jen. I’m silly, laugh a lot, make mistakes and when I say I’m passionate about working alongside nature I really, really mean it. Love marmite, hate blue cheese, have a large grumpy cat and a very cute dog and yes, most of the knitted or crochet stuff you might see me with, I’ve made. I worry about the climate, and many of my clients have struggles with anxiety about the “big” stuff happening around us.

You’re probably interested in more of the professional side of things, so here we go: originally I was in the corporate world, then started training as a counsellor in the early 2010s and pretty much immediately on qualification started training in ecotherapy and counselling outdoors. I’ve always known how important nature was to my mental health and I can’t imagine now not weaving it into my work.

Since then I’ve seen hundreds of clients outside, accompanied people on thousands of hours of outdoor counselling – as well as walking thousands of miles alongside them

I came across forest bathing in 2019 and since then have offered workshops and sessions (both one to one and private groups). I trained as a supervisor in 2021 to help provide other practitioners space to explore this glorious work that we do.

Oh, and I’ve a nature connection journal I wrote some years back available, you can find details here

Practical Stuff you might want to know:

• Trained in Person‑Centred and Experiential Counselling & Psychotherapy (Glyndŵr University)
• Further training in ecotherapy, outdoor therapy, forest bathing, anxiety, depression, IFS, and single‑session work, 
• Significant amount of outdoor based CPD in a variety of formats 
• Registered member of the BACP
• Qualified clinical supervisor
• Extensive Outdoor experience of one to one work, as well as leading groups and workshops
• Experience training practitioners in nature‑based and outdoor therapeutic approaches
• Member of the Climate Psychology Alliance, and the Person-Centred Association