Promoting Resilience through Connection with Nature | 1 CE Credit

CARE has partnered with clinical team member Dr. Jaimie Ascencio for a Grand Rounds on ways of promoting resilience through connection with nature. Jaime Ascencio, PhD, LP, HTR is a Psychologist at CARE Counseling and a Registered Horticultural Therapist. This presentation focuses on how providers can use nature-based interventions to improve resilience for their clients and themselves. Specific examples are provided at multiple intervention levels, including methods of increasing nature contact in-session, adjusting current interventions to include a nature component, and introducing nature-based interventions. Research support for theoretical underpinnings, the healing impact of specific elements of natural environments, and nature's effect on resilience are discussed.

CARE Psychotherapy Training Videos are intended solely for educational purposes for mental health professionals. Viewers are expected to treat confidential material found herein according to professional guidelines. Unauthorized viewing is prohibited. 

Level of programming is introductory: assumes minimal familiarity with the topic.

This Grand Rounds is designed to help participants: 

• Summarize how nature positively impacts us (by describing theories and/or research findings).
• Identify 3+ specific nature-based interventions that you could use in your current practice.
• Name 3+ ways that incorporating nature into your work could increase resilience. 

The presentation is designated for CARE Counseling mental health professionals (LP, LPC/LPCC, MFT/LMFT, LGSW/LICSW, LADC), pre-licensed mental health practitioners, and students.  

CARE Counseling is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CARE maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  

For more information on CARE sponsored continuing education offerings click here 

About the Presenter: 

Jaime Ascencio, PhD, LP, HTR is a Psychologist at CARE Counseling and a Registered Horticultural Therapist. Dr. Ascencio has conducted research on horticultural therapy groups and recently founded Nurture through Nature to offer community presentations about the benefits of connection with nature. She is passionate about facilitating nature-based therapy groups, incorporating it into all aspects of her practice, and presenting research at conferences and to the wider community.  

*The speaker has indicated no conflict of interest and there was no commercial support for this training.