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Photo Credit: Whitney Tfankedjian @Tula Community

About Robyn, Innate Ecologist Ecosomatic Practitioner

Welcome.


If you are longing to deepen your relationship with yourself and the natural world, you are in the right place.


With a background in Environmental Studies, Counselling and Social Work, Forest Therapy, and Somatics, this work has been a central thread in my life for nearly two decades.


After moving to Canada from England at age 20, I experienced a profound opening to the healing and transformative power of nature connection.


Through living in a log cabin in the temperate rainforest of coastal British Columbia for six months, I experienced deep immersion with the land. This time in nature profoundly reshaped my nervous system patterning, and awakened a spiritual relationship with the natural world.


From that time on, I knew my life’s work was rooted in coming to know the intelligence and healing capacity of nature connection.


Professionally, I have worked as an Addictions Therapist, Domestic Violence Crisis Counsellor, Forest School Instructor, and teacher of my ancestral British animist traditions.


Each one of these roles brought me into a deeper understanding of nature connection as a powerful and accessible pathway for healing and transformation.


Most importantly, I have spent thousands of hours in direct, embodied relationship with land and wilderness across Europe and North America, which has supported me in processing trauma, re-patterning my nervous system, and reshaping my life.


Out of this lived experience and professional training, I developed Innate Ecology—an ecosomatic framework that guides us back into deep, reciprocal relationship with the natural world.


Innate Ecology supports nervous system tending, embodied awareness, and meaning-making through somatic psychology and depth kinship with the earth.


This framework is the foundation of my work, and is taught through my Innate Ecology Ecosomatic Practitioner Training, as well as my courses and membership community.


Photo Credit: Whitney Tfankedjian @Tula Community

Photo Credit: Whitney Tfankedjian @Tula Community

Credentials & Education

  • BA in Environmental Studies and Women’s Studies (University of Victoria, BC)
  • Social Service Work Diploma (Northern College, Ontario)
  • Youth and Family Support Certificate (Vancouver College of Counsellor Training)
  • Forest Therapy Guide (Association of Nature and Forest Therapy)
  • Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate (The Embody Lab)
  • Ecotherapy Level 1 (Earthbody Institute)
  • Nervous system, neuroscience and neuroplasticity education through PESI Canada, The Embody Lab, and social work/psychology education/career trainings
  • Best-Selling Author: read my chapter in this anthology, "From Deserts To Mountaintops", exploring my cancer journey.
  • Former RSSW in good standing with OCSWSSW.


Photo Credit: Whitney Tfankedjian @Tula Community