Walking Therapy

Service Description

What is Walking Therapy? As you might imagine, Walking Therapy is taking the therapy session outdoors, preferably in a green space. Why Walking Therapy? There are multiple benefits for walking outdoors: - Reduces stress. - Helps you to keep focus in the present moment. - Exercise has been proved to enhance physical and mental health. - Being in contact with nature increases pleasant feelings while reduces anger, fear, low mood and frustration. In particular in psychotherapy, some people find easier to talk about their difficulties while being outdoors. We can also add that, due to the current circumstances we are living in, Walking Therapy allows us to continue being in face-to-face contact while maintaining the risk of contagion at the minimum level. Some suggestions for places where to do Walking Therapy in Edinburgh: - Inverlieth Park - Botanic Gardens -Calton Hill -Cramond Beach We are in Scotland so remember: "There is not such thing as bad weather, only a bad choice in clothing". If the day of the session you do not feel comfortable with the weather, you can swap it for an online session. The sessions last 1 hour and are suitable only for individuals.