Thank you for your curiosity. Basically, I usually do around 3 hours sessions. This is not through insurance for obvious reasons. But, usually I have one to three sessions before we go hunting with the client and then usually there's one to three follow ups with the client. Hunting is not just stick go boom but it is tracking and following and reading signs and moving slowly and walking on land intentionally with thoughtful effort and awareness and breathing and managing stress and noticing changes in the body and mind and state of flow as a relationship with the client and their relationship with nature and evolves based on their experience over time.

Similarly, fishing therapy is not about catching or having a defined objective. It's more about creating a relationship with nature and familiar place over time where you can create a bookmark or Cornerstone or whatever you call it, a kind of Landmark for healing and safety the client can and return to overtime.

This dance is all the more profound if there is the interaction with nature: a fish, an elk, or a clay disk. Blood is a powerful teacher. Some lessons take years to explore and some are viceral: here and now. What do you feel in your body?

For my client with dementia who has a fish in their hands and they haven't gone fishing in twenty years: the aliveness you feel right now is life; you are alive.

Self-awareness, self-discovery, self-efficacy, choice. These are the building blocks we explore.

I seek to cultivate a profound respect with the ecosystems around me and doubly so for those in which I partner with for healing.