I am an art therapist and Jungian analyst in private practice in North London. Alongside this,\u00a0I lecture and facilitate workshops on Ecopsychology in a wide range of settings.<\/p>\n
My therapy training began in art therapy in 1979. During the 1980s I worked in a men\u2019s prison, as well as with women with eating problems at the Women\u2019s Therapy Centre, London during the early years of feminist psychotherapy. These two workplaces offered diametrically opposed experiences:\u00a0working\u00a0in a male hierarchy with perpetrators of abuse versus working with victims of abuse in a women\u2019s collective.\u00a0\u00a0This taught me a great deal about perpetrator and victim. Feminist psychotherapy helped broaden my understanding of how culture shapes our internal worlds.<\/p>\n
In the early 1990’s I made several trips to Ladakh (on the Tibetan plateau) where I spent time with Helena Norberg-Hodge of ISEC<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0This experience\u00a0impressed on me\u00a0the seriousness of our environmental crisis. I then discovered Ecopsychology, an emerging field weaving together the ecological, psychological, political and spiritual. I joined a group of like-minded therapists, and together we explored ecopsychological thinking, facilitation, and supervision. John Seed<\/strong><\/a> and Joanna Macy<\/strong><\/a> were two of our mentors in this journey. My interest in eating problems expanded into an inquiry into our collective consuming of the earth, and the relationship between mind and body, soul and the land. I became fascinated by the differences between indigenous and western worldviews and how we might enable ancient and modern to live together today.<\/p>\n I love colour and I am a visual artist. I live in Nth London beside Queenswood, part of the forest which originally covered Britain. Highgate Hill and Muswell Hill\u00a0are\u00a0on the\u00a0terminal moraine left by a glacier of the last ice age.\u00a0\u00a0I have an ongoing love affair with swimming in wild waters. Forest and\u00a0pond, kingfisher, owl, cormorant and humans; it is all these places and relationships to whom I\u00a0owe my thanks for the ideas that you find here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am an art therapist and Jungian analyst in private practice in North London. Alongside this,\u00a0I lecture and facilitate workshops on Ecopsychology in a wide range of settings. My therapy training began in art therapy in 1979. During the 1980s I worked in a men\u2019s prison, as well as with women with eating problems at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":80,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjrust.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjrust.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjrust.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjrust.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjrust.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjrust.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/mjrust.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjrust.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}