Wolf Tree Wilderness Therapy, PLLC

with Snowy Lajoie, LCSW-R and KMOG

Services & Offerings

  • Mindful Wilderness Groups

    A Monthly Group for Connection and Creativity

    Step into the stillness and beauty of the natural world with a mindful wilderness group. Each session is centered around a unique seasonal theme—ranging from the delicate bloom of wildflowers to the sweeping quiet of local landscapes, to hands-on nature-inspired crafts.

    Through gentle mindfulness practices, guided walks, and creative exploration, we deepen our connection to both the Earth and ourselves. Whether we’re observing the quiet rhythm of a meadow or crafting with natural materials, each gathering offers space to slow down, breathe, and be fully present.

    No experience is necessary—just bring your curiosity and love of nature. Join us monthly to reconnect with what grounds and inspires you.

    Learn about groups

  • Private Mindful Outdoor Experiences

    Private Guided Nature Walks for Individuals, Groups & Organizations


    Reconnect with nature and yourself through guided walks and mindful outdoor experiences designed for individuals, couples, families, teams, schools, and organizations.

    Each walk is a personalized journey through the local biome, blending ecological learning with mindfulness practices and stress reduction techniques.

    Whether you're a curious individual, a group looking to bond, a school wanting immersive environmental education, or a workplace seeking team wellness, these walks offer a meaningful way to slow down and engage with the natural world.

    We explore local flora and fauna, observe seasonal changes, and practice grounding techniques that support mental clarity, emotional balance, and connection.

    Walks are tailored to the needs, interests, and abilities of each group—no experience necessary.

    Learn about MOEs

  • Courses & Trainings

    Workshops, Trainings & Continuing Education at the Intersection of Mental Health & Nature


    Deepen your understanding and expand your skills with workshops, CE courses, and professional trainings that explore the dynamic relationship between mental health and the natural world.

    Designed for mental health professionals, educators, wellness practitioners, and curious individuals, our offerings cover a range of timely and relevant topics, including:
    • Nature-based approaches to self-care and stress reduction
    • Mindfulness and neuroscience in eco therapy practice
    • Wilderness and eco-therapy principles
    • Ecological grief and climate anxiety
    • The role of nature in trauma recovery and resilience

    Each program blends research-based content with experiential learning, supporting both personal growth and professional development. Programs are available in-person and online, with CE credits offered for qualifying courses.

    Perfect for those looking to integrate nature-connected approaches into their work—or simply to reconnect with their own sense of place and purpose.

    Learn about courses

  • Clinical Supervision & Consultation

    Clinical Supervision & Nature-Based Consultation Services


    For mental health providers seeking to ethically and effectively integrate wilderness and eco therapy, climate awareness, and nature-based practices into their work, Snowy offers clinical supervision grounded in both professional standards and ecological consciousness.

    Supervision supports clinicians in deepening their skills, expanding their toolkit, and navigating the intersection of mental health, mindfulness, and environmental realities with confidence and care.

    Snowy also provides consultation services for individuals, teams, and organizations looking to weave mindfulness, nature connection, self-care, and climate literacy into everyday life or workplace culture.

    Snowy offers guidance and supervision rooted in over 17 years of clinical experience and evidence-based practice.

    Learn about supervision and consultation

  • Resources & Information

    Curious about the connection between mental health, mindfulness, and the more-than-human world?


    Visit the Resources page to explore a curated collection of offerings designed to inform, inspire, and deepen your connection to nature and yourself.

    You'll find Snowy’s free blog, where she shares reflections, insights, and practical tools, along with her favorite books, articles, podcasts, magazines, and more—all centered around themes of ecopsychology, mindfulness, climate resilience, and nature-based living.

    Whether you're a mental health professional, a nature lover, or simply seeking new ways to care for yourself and the Earth, there's something here for you.

    Check out Resources & Info

  • Art Gallery & Store

    As part of Wolf Tree Arts, Snowy creates one-of-a-kind cyanotype photograms, crafted using the power of the sun and natural elements like leaves, flowers, and feathers. Each piece is a quiet collaboration with the land—offering a moment of stillness, memory, and connection to the more-than-human world.

    All works are made with care using archival materials, and are available for purchase through the online store or in person at select events and exhibitions.

    Browse the gallery to bring a bit of nature’s poetry into your home, workspace, or practice.

    Explore

  • Turn-key Curriculum

    Turn-Key Curriculum for Wilderness & Eco Therapy


    Designed for mental health practitioners, this comprehensive, ready-to-use curriculum provides everything you need to offer wilderness therapy and eco therapy through the Wolf Tree model.

    The package includes a 14-week group curriculum that blends nature connection, mindfulness, and therapeutic process in an accessible and ethically grounded way.

    In addition to session plans, you’ll receive detailed guidance on intake procedures, assessment tools, and clinical documentation specific to wilderness-based work.

    Whether you're new to nature-based therapy or looking to deepen your existing practice, this curriculum offers a structured, flexible framework to confidently guide clients in outdoor settings while meeting professional standards.

    Take a look

Together in Nature

A Deeper Immersion into Wilderness Therapy (level II)

For alumni of “Healing with Nature” (level I) training. We are back together for a deeper dive into our work in nature.

19 CEs available

Friday September 26th - Sunday September 28th

Light on the Hill Retreat Center

Calendar of Events

Classes, workshops, groups, and other offerings from Wolf Tree Wilderness Therapy.

  • “I’m trying to imagine what it would be like going through life not knowing the names of the plants and animals around you... I think it would be a little scary and disorienting- like being lost in a foreign city where you can’t read the street signs. Philosophers call this state of isolation and disconnection ‘species loneliness’- a deep, unnamed sadness stemming from estrangement from the rest of Creation, from the loss of relationship. As our human dominance of the world has grown, we have become more isolated, more lonely when we can no longer call out to our neighbors.”

    -Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass

  • “A tree can only be as strong as the forest that surrounds it.”

    -Peter Wohlleben in The Hidden Life of Trees

  • “The very same brain centers that interpret and ‘feel’ physical pain also become activated during the experience of emotional rejection [social ostracism]. The question is never, ‘Why the addiction?’ but ‘Why the pain?’

    -Gabor Maté in In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts

  • “Therapy gives you a predictable, controlled environment for your brain and neurons to shift and form new connections.”

    -Hilary Jacobs Hendel in It’s Not Always Depression

  • “It takes tremendous energy to keep functioning while carrying the memory of terror and the shame of vulnerability.”

    -Bessel van der Kolk in The Body Keeps the Score

  • “If you want a tree to grow, it won’t help to water the leaves. You have to water the roots.”

    -Thich Nhat Hanh in The Miracle of Mindfulness

  • “The brain is a cultural organ- experience shapes the brain.”

    -Bessel van der Kolk in The Body Keeps the Score

  • “Boredom, rooted in a fundamental discomfort with the self, is one of the least tolerable mental states.”

    -Gabor Maté in In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts

  • “Mindfulness helps frontal lobes restore balance; it means being able to hover calmly and objectively over our thoughts, feelings, and emotions… it is a lens, taking the scattered and reactive energies of the mind and focusing them into a coherent source of energy for living, problem-solving, and healing.”

    -Bessel van der Kolk in The Body Keeps the Score

  • “Don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in the winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.”

    -Rumi

  • “Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.”

    -Thich Nhat Hanh in The Miracle of Mindfulness

  • “I have been able to do this work for so long because it drew me to explore our sources of joy, creativity, meaning, and connection- all the things that make life worth living.”

    -Bessel van der Kolk in The Body Keeps the Score

  • “We cannot change the past but we can change how we FEEL about the past.”

    -Hilary Jacobs Hendel in It’s Not Always Depression

  • “When we learn to stop, we become calmer, and our mind becomes clearer, like clear water after the particles of mud have settled.”

    -Thich Nhat Hanh in How to Focus

  • “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”

    -Rumi

  • “Transformation is not accomplished by tentative wading at the edge.”

    -Robin Wall Kimmerer

  • "Humans are tuned for relationships. The eyes, the tongue, ears, and nostrils- all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness. This landscape of shadowed voices, these feathered bodies and antlers and tumbling streams- these breathing shapes are our family, the beings with whom we are engaged, with whom we struggle and suffer and celebrate.”

    -David Abram

  • “The story that we have to illuminate is that we don’t have to be complicit with destruction. That’s the assumption: that there are these powerful forces around us that we can’t possibly counteract. The refusal to be complicit can be a kind of resistance to dominant paradigms, but it’s also an opportunity to be creative and joyful and say, I can’t topple Monsanto, but I can plant an organic garden; I can’t counter fill-in-the-blank of environmental destruction, but I can create native landscaping that helps pollinators in the face of neonicotinoid pesticides. So much of what we think about in environmentalism is finger-wagging and gloom-and-doom, but when you look at a lot of those examples where people are taking things into their hands, they’re joyful. That’s healing not only for land but for our culture as well — it feels good. It’s also good to feel your own agency.”

    -Robin Wall Kimmerer (from this NYT article)

  • “It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air, that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”

    –Robert Louis Stevenson

  • “To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. ”

    ― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

  • “In this very moment, we face a potent intersection of crises: ecological destruction, climate breakdown, rising inequality, exploitation, racial injustice, and the lasting impacts of a devastating pandemic… we need to find ways to strengthen our clarity, compassion, and courage. Cultivating a strong training in meditation and mindfulness is not an opiate to escape what’s going on but a way for us to truly still the mind and look deeply, in order to see ourselves and the world clearly.”

    -Sister True Dedication in Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet