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About the Mindful Ecotherapy Center, PLLC
The Mindful Ecotherapy Center, PLLC, began in Upstate South Carolina in 2007. We moved to Tacoma, Washington, in 2020. The Mindful Ecotherapy Center, PLLC, has been teaching the general public mindfulness and ecotherapy skills since 2007. We have been training counselors and therapists in the skills of Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy since 2010. The Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Certification Program has been available since 2015.
About Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Certification
The Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapist Certification is a program developed by the Mindful Ecotherapy Center, PLLC, to train counselors and therapists in Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy skills. The Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Therapist Certification Program is an online, self-directed program for licensed mental health professionals. The program qualifies mental health professionals to conduct their own Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy sessions. The program is currently available completely online in home study format.
About MBE: The Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Certification Program
The Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Certification Program trains mental health professionals. The program is currently all online and self-paced, with no start date and no end date. You may start the certification training at any time, and you will have up to a year to complete it once you begin. The one-year period begins from the first time you log in to the course materials. Should you need more than one year to complete the materials, contact us for an extension.
TERMS OF COMPLETION
You will have one year from the date of purchase to complete the course. At the Mindful Ecotherapy Center, course materials are reviewed and updated on a regular basis to ensure they reflect current best practices, research developments, and continuing education standards required for professional relevance and accreditation alignment.
Because of this ongoing process of revision, the content you receive at the time of purchase is considered part of a living curriculum that may be enhanced or refined over time. To ensure fairness to all learners and to maintain the integrity of the training experience, you are granted one year from the date of purchase to complete your course.
This timeframe gives you sufficient opportunity to engage with the material at a steady, meaningful pace while also ensuring you are working within the most current version of the curriculum. After one year, continued access may require re-enrollment at additional cost to reflect any updates or improvements made to the course content.
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About MBE: Taking the Therapist Certification Program
The Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Certification courses are all online at present. Although there are multiple experiential activities during the coursework, these are designed for you to complete on your own. The program is open enrollment, meaning you may start anytime. It is also self-paced. Once you begin the program, you will have up to one year from the date of purchase to complete it on your own.
The program is written for counselors and therapists. You have to be a licensed mental health professional to complete the certification.
The Mindful Ecotherapy Center, PLLC, makes no claims regarding the suitability of the program for people who are not licensed mental health professionals. No warranty or guarantee is expressed or implied for the program’s suitability for a particular legal jurisdiction for people who are not licensed mental health professionals.
About MBE: Coursework for MBE Facilitators
There are two options for purchasing the courses required for Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Facilitator Certification.
Option A: Certification Package
The first option is to purchase all three courses together as a package. When you use this method, you save over 20% on the total cost of the courses.
Click here to purchase the Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Therapist Certification Package
Option B: Purchase Courses Individually
The second option is to purchase each of the three courses required for certification separately by clicking on the links below. The coursework for the Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Facilitator Course includes the following modules:
- Mindfulness for Therapists – 10 hours
- Ecotherapy – 10 hours
- Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy in Clinical Practice – 35 hours
- Case Presentation
TOTAL HOURS = 55
If you choose Option B, you will complete each course separately, then contact us to let us know you are ready for your case presentation. There are three courses in the program, listed above. When you complete each course above by passing the final for each course with a score of 80% or higher, you will receive a separate certificate of completion in PDF format for each course for continuing education credit.
When you have completed all three courses, you will submit a case presentation. Submit your case presentation using the form found here. There is no additional fee for evaluating your case presentation.
Once we have received your case presentation and verified the successful completion of all of your coursework, we will email a PDF certificate of completion certifying you as a Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapist.
Certified facilitators are eligible to receive a free listing in our Certified Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Program Facilitators Directory. See the information below.
About MBE: FREE Certified MBE Therapists Directory Listing
When you complete the program, you are eligible for a FREE listing in our Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Certified Therapists Directory. This is a free service that we provide to all graduates of the program. An application for your free listing is included with the program materials when you register.
Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Certification Program Disclaimer
The Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy Certification Program offered by the Mindful Ecotherapy Center is designed primarily for licensed mental health professionals and other professionals whose scope of practice permits them to provide mental health services. The Mindful Ecotherapy Center is an approved provider of continuing education through the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), ACEP Provider #7022.
Completion of this program and/or receipt of a Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapist certificate does not constitute a license or authorization to practice psychotherapy, counseling, social work, psychology, or any other regulated mental health profession. Certification through the Mindful Ecotherapy Center does not expand, replace, or supersede the scope of practice established by a participant’s professional license, credential, jurisdiction, or applicable law.
Individuals who are not licensed mental health professionals may find aspects of this program useful for education, personal development, wellness, coaching, or other non-clinical applications. However, the Mindful Ecotherapy Center does not represent or warrant that the materials, methods, exercises, or certification are legally permissible for use in coaching or other non-clinical services in every jurisdiction.
If you are not a licensed mental health professional and intend to use concepts or materials from this program in coaching, consulting, education, wellness, or another non-clinical capacity, you are responsible for determining whether such use is permitted under the laws and regulations applicable to you. We strongly recommend that you consult your state’s or jurisdiction’s professional licensing board and, when appropriate, qualified legal counsel before using these materials professionally.
Participants are responsible for practicing within the limits of their education, training, credentials, and legal scope of practice. The Mindful Ecotherapy Center does not provide legal advice regarding an individual’s scope of practice or the legality of providing particular services in any jurisdiction.
By enrolling in or completing this program, participants acknowledge that they are responsible for understanding and complying with all applicable laws, regulations, ethical standards, licensing requirements, and professional boundaries governing their practice.
The 12 Skills of Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy
The 12 skills of Mindfulness-Based Ecotherapy (MBE) provide a framework for developing greater awareness, acceptance, balance, connection, and authenticity through mindfulness and intentional engagement with the natural world. Together, these skills guide people from present-moment awareness and embodied experience toward deeper connection with nature, others, and themselves, ultimately supporting a way of living that is more intentional, values-based, and aligned with the True Self.
- Mindful Awareness — Developing an open, nonjudgmental awareness of thoughts, emotions, sensations, and the environment as they arise.
- Living in the Now — Focusing attention on present-moment experience rather than becoming preoccupied with the past or future.
- Letting Go — Releasing attachment to thoughts, emotions, expectations, and experiences that cannot be controlled or changed.
- Radical Acceptance — Fully acknowledging reality as it is, including difficult thoughts, feelings, and circumstances, without unnecessary resistance or avoidance.
- Embodied Mindfulness — Bringing mindful awareness into the body by noticing physical sensations, movement, breathing, and other embodied experiences.
- Centering — Returning to a grounded, balanced state when thoughts, emotions, or circumstances pull attention away from the present.
- Connecting — Cultivating meaningful connections with oneself, other people, and the natural world.
- Nature as Metaphor — Using patterns, images, and processes in nature as metaphors for understanding personal experiences, relationships, and psychological processes.
- Nature as Teacher — Learning from direct observation of nature’s patterns, cycles, relationships, adaptation, and change.
- Nature as Nurture — Experiencing nature as a source of nourishment, restoration, comfort, and support for emotional and psychological well-being.
- Nature as Healer — Intentionally engaging with nature and nature-based practices as resources that can support healing, growth, resilience, and transformation.
- Living in True Self — Cultivating an authentic way of being that reflects one’s deepest values, awareness, connection, and sense of purpose.
