Howard Davis

I am an experienced mindfulness-based gestalt therapist providing counselling and contemplative supervision primarily outdoors in parks, woodlands and open spaces throughout London. My passion as a therapist is to work outdoors in the many restorative, tree-filled, natural spaces that London offers.

Locally, I offer outdoor therapy sessions in Battersea Park (SW11).

I invite you to a regular held space each week where you can bring yourself as you are, wherever you are at, with whatever you are feeling and are faced with in your life at this present time.

I enjoy working long term with clients and accordingly charge a lower rate of £60 per session to enable this. Sessions typically last for a full hour.

Recognised by the World Economic Forum, spending time in natural surroundings, most specifically, as observed in the Japanese practice of forest bathing, around trees, can bring about improved levels of health and well-being. 

I have worked outdoors with clients suffering from anxiety, depression, low confidence, a sense of life being overwhelming, panic attacks and unrelenting stress, and I have witnessed numerous successful outcomes. 

I have come to trust the many therapeutic benefits that are available to us working outdoors in natural surroundings. Clients have additionally expressed their appreciation in having an alternative to sitting face-to-face in a therapy room.

I welcome the opportunity to work with people from a wide range of economic and cultural backgrounds, gender and sexual diversity.

I recommend having an initial introductory session where we can discuss how we might work together. You can then decide if you would like to continue but with no obligation to do so. Please click on the link to my website for further details of my approach and bio.

I am an experienced mindfulness-based gestalt therapist providing counselling and contemplative supervision primarily outdoors in parks, woodlands and open spaces throughout London. My passion as a therapist is to work outdoors in the many restorative, tree-filled, natural spaces that London offers. 

Locally, I offer outdoor therapy sessions in Dulwich and Sydenham Woods (SE26), Peckham Rye Park (SE22), Dulwich Park (SE21) Brockwell Park (SE24), Burgess Park (SE5), Crystal Palace Park (SE25) and Greenwich Park (SE10).

I invite you to a regular held space each week where you can bring yourself as you are, wherever you are at, with whatever you are feeling and are faced with in your life at this present time.

I enjoy working long term with clients and accordingly charge a lower rate of £60 per session to enable this. Sessions typically last for a full hour.  

Recognised by the World Economic Forum, spending time in natural surroundings, most specifically, as observed in the Japanese practice of forest bathing, around trees, can bring about improved levels of health and well-being.

I have worked outdoors with clients suffering from anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, feeling overwhelmed, having panic attacks and unrelenting stress, and I have witnessed many positive outcomes.

I have come to trust the many therapeutic benefits that are available to us working outdoors in natural surroundings. Clients have additionally expressed their appreciation in having an alternative to sitting face-to-face in a therapy room.

I welcome the opportunity to work with people from a wide range of economic and cultural backgrounds, gender and sexual diversity.

I recommend having an initial introductory session where we can discuss how we might work together. You can then decide if you would like to continue but with no obligation to do so. Please click on the link to my website for further details of my approach and bio.

I am an experienced mindfulness-based gestalt therapist providing counselling and contemplative supervision primarily outdoors in parks, woodlands and open spaces throughout London. My passion as a therapist is to work outdoors in the many restorative, tree-filled, natural spaces that London offers.

Locally, I offer outdoor therapy sessions in Victoria Park (E9/E2), the Olympic Park (E20) and London Fields (E8).

I invite you to a regular held space each week where you can bring yourself as you are, wherever you are at, with whatever you are feeling and are faced with in your life at this present time.

I enjoy working long term with clients and accordingly charge a lower rate of £60 per session to enable this. Sessions typically last for a full hour.

Recognised by the World Economic Forum, spending time in natural surroundings, most specifically, as observed in the Japanese practice of forest bathing, around trees, can bring about improved levels of health and well-being.

I have worked outdoors with clients suffering from anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, feeling overwhelmed, having panic attacks and unrelenting stress, and I have witnessed many positive outcomes.

I have come to trust the many therapeutic benefits that are available to us working outdoors in natural surroundings. Clients have additionally expressed their appreciation in having an alternative to sitting face-to-face in a therapy room.

I welcome the opportunity to work with people from a wide range of economic and cultural backgrounds, gender and sexual diversity.

I recommend having an initial introductory session where we can discuss how we might work together. You can then decide if you would like to continue but with no obligation to do so. Please click on the link to my website for further details of my approach and bio.

I am an experienced mindfulness-based gestalt therapist providing counselling and contemplative supervision primarily outdoors in parks, woodlands and open spaces throughout London. My passion as a therapist is to work outdoors in the many restorative, tree-filled, natural spaces that London offers.

Locally, I offer outdoor therapy sessions in Hampstead Heath(NW3), Primrose Hill (NW1) and Regent's Park (NW1).

I invite you to a regular held space each week where you can bring yourself as you are, wherever you are at, with whatever you are feeling and are faced with in your life at this present time.

I enjoy working long term with clients and accordingly charge a lower rate of £60 per session to enable this. Sessions typically last for a full hour.

Recognised by the World Economic Forum, spending time in natural surroundings, most specifically, as observed in the Japanese practice of forest bathing, around trees, can bring about improved levels of health and well-being.

I have worked outdoors with clients suffering from anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, feeling overwhelmed, having panic attacks and unrelenting stress, and I have witnessed many positive outcomes.

I have come to trust the many therapeutic benefits that are available to us working outdoors in natural surroundings. Clients have additionally expressed their appreciation in having an alternative to sitting face-to-face in a therapy room.

I welcome the opportunity to work with people from a wide range of economic and cultural backgrounds, gender and sexual diversity.

I recommend having an initial introductory session where we can discuss how we might work together. You can then decide if you would like to continue but with no obligation to do so. Please click on the link to my website for further details of my approach and bio.

I am an experienced mindfulness-based gestalt therapist providing counselling and contemplative supervision primarily outdoors in parks, woodlands and open spaces throughout London. My passion as a therapist is to work outdoors in the many restorative, tree-filled, natural spaces that London offers.

Locally, I offer outdoor therapy sessions in Greenwich Park (SE10).

I invite you to a regular held space each week where you can bring yourself as you are, wherever you are at, with whatever you are feeling and are faced with in your life at this present time.

I enjoy working long term with clients and accordingly charge a lower rate of £60 per session to enable this. Sessions typically last for a full hour.

Recognised by the World Economic Forum, spending time in natural surroundings, most specifically, as observed in the Japanese practice of forest bathing, around trees, can bring about improved levels of health and well-being.

I have worked outdoors with clients suffering from anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, feeling overwhelmed, having panic attacks and unrelenting stress, and I have witnessed many positive outcomes.

I have come to trust the many therapeutic benefits that are available to us working outdoors in natural surroundings. Clients have additionally expressed their appreciation in having an alternative to sitting face-to-face in a therapy room.

I welcome the opportunity to work with people from a wide range of economic and cultural backgrounds, gender and sexual diversity.

I recommend having an initial introductory session where we can discuss how we might work together. You can then decide if you would like to continue but with no obligation to do so. Please click on the link to my website for further details of my approach and bio.

For many years, I struggled to find a supervisor who provides supervision for therapists who work outdoors and so my intention is to provide such a service to other therapists.

I offer sessions in parks and outdoor spaces across London including Regent's Park and Hampstead Heath. 

I have completed a diploma in contemplative supervision at the Karuna Institute located within the wilderness of the Dartmoor National Park. My practice has shown that the fusion of the deeply relational focus offered by Core Process Psychotherapy and the contemplative model of supervision developed by Karen Kissel Wegela at the Naropa Institute in Colorado offer a practical methodology for those working outdoors. It is additionally a helpful model for those working from awareness based practices such as gestalt therapy.

The contemplative model is based on bringing attentive awareness to three categories of client observation:

Body - noting what is figural for the therapist of the client's physical appearance

Speech - bringing awareness to different aspects to how the client communicates

Mind - observing the client's sense of self and the sense of connection between their inner and outer world

All of the senses are brought to the fore to describe the impact the client has made in the therapist's working relationship with the client which can achieve a means of shifting and resolving that which has appeared stuck and blocked.

It is an experiential way of working and one that I find is analogous with my training in gestalt therapy. As a therapist, I find it provides a means to reflect upon the various processes I experience outdoors with my clients. There is an intelligent spontaneity at play and a state of psychological ease, as effortless as walking.

I additionally draw upon the experiential nature of the seven eyed model of supervision developed by Hawkins and Shohet.

Session are offered outdoors and online. I charge a flat rate of £60 for a hour session of 60 minutes duration and £80 for a 90 minute session.