Meet Valerie. Valerie is a licensed clinical social worker, ecotherapist, educator, change maker, and social innovator. She is a lifelong outdoor enthusiast and an avid hiker who founded and manages a women’s nature-based therapy group, Earth & Soul Integrative Practice and is the founder/senior guide of Thistle & Mud Earth School based in SE TN. The earth school focuses on integrating the 8 Ways of Knowing to support people in unlearning and re-wilding their inner knowing. Her clinical practice focuses on one of her areas of expertise: trauma-informed individual and small group work with women and integrating nature-based healing practices into clinical experiences. Valerie believes women can find their inner guide and muse through nature-based practices. You can find her at : https://thistleandmud.com/ and @earth_and_soulintegrativeprac To register for our summit visit : https://www.hikelikeawoman.com Support the show