Vanessa Bear

Vanessa Bear is a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, psychotherapeutic counsellor, eco-psychotherapist, and certified Somatic Trauma Therapist, working with children, adolescents, and adults. She runs a private psychotherapy practice alongside delivering training courses and workshops. Her work draws on creative practices, EMDR, somatic trauma therapy, and sensorimotor drawing, integrating a range of embodied, trauma-informed, and nature-connected approaches.

Vanessa is co-author of 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery Workbook and the forthcoming Help for the Helper Workbook, written with leading trauma specialist Babette Rothschild. She is also the creator of the Wild and Wellbeing Card Deck. All are published by W. W. Norton & Company.

Much of Vanessa’s life and work is shaped by time spent outdoors, walking and cycling in the hills and mountains, basket-making, growing food, and making things by hand, in the beautiful Lake District National Park, UK.