Venture Trails Program

Heidi Schreiber-Pan, PhD, LCPC is a seasoned expert in Nature-Informed Therapy (NIT), specializing in:

Anxiety Treatment: Providing therapeutic interventions for managing anxiety through nature-based practices.

Grief and Loss: Offering support to adults and elderly individuals navigating grief, using nature as a source of comfort and healing.

Nature-Informed Groups & Retreat: Facilitating group therapy sessions where nature is incorporated as a key component of healing and growth. Designing and leading retreats that integrate NIT principles, offering immersive experiences for healing and self-discovery.

Biophilic Design: Creating environments that connect individuals with nature to enhance mental well-being and resilience.

Speaking Engagements and NIT Presentations: Sharing knowledge and insights on the benefits of nature in mental health through presentations and workshops.

Consultations by appointment only

Sarah Boone, MS, LCPC, C-NIT, is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Nature-Informed Therapist, and Enneagram Coach, specializing in:

Transitions, Grief, and Loss
Sarah specializes in working with adult individuals and groups navigating life transitions, grief, loss, and major life changes. Her clinical work supports clients in processing emotional experiences, strengthening resilience, and finding meaning during times of change.

Holistic Approach to Therapy
Sarah’s work is grounded in a compassionate, relational approach that integrates the whole person. She utilizes trauma-informed care and draws from psychodynamic perspectives, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in both individual and group formats. Nature-based healing practices are incorporated to support emotional regulation, embodiment, and meaning-making.

Wisdom of the Enneagram
The Enneagram is a transformational personality framework that supports deep self-awareness and growth. Sarah is a certified Enneagram Coach through an International Enneagram Association–accredited program offered by The Art of Growth. She integrates the Enneagram into her work to support relational insight, adaptive patterns, and personal transformation.

Group and Experiential Work
Sarah has extensive experience facilitating group and experiential offerings for individuals and families seeking intentional spaces for healing. From 2015–2020, she led grief and loss groups that included a yoga component, offering a holistic approach to healing. Since 2023, she has facilitated nature-based group experiences, including seasonal mental health hiking groups, one-day immersive grief retreats, and customized sessions for individuals and families. She has also led retreats and workshops focused on motherhood, self-care, grief and loss, listening, relationships, and boundaries.

Gina Strauss is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and clinical supervisor who helps professionals bring Nature Informed Therapy into both indoor and urban settings. Her work draws on biophilic design, nature-based metaphor, experiential practice, seasonal rhythms, and somatic approaches. Gina is especially interested in helping trainees use nature intentionally to support emotional regulation, self-reflection, meaning-making,  and compassionate reconnection with self.

Specialty: Indoor and urban practice · Trauma and somatic work · Seasonal approaches · Groups and presentations· Spirituality

Renee Vanderstelt is a Certified Nature-Informed Art Therapist whose work centers on children and adolescents. She combines nature connection with art, movement, play, storytelling, and developmentally appropriate expressive practices to support emotional regulation, self-esteem, grief processing, and healthy coping. Renee also designs nature-informed group experiences that encourage creativity, connection, and emotional expression in supportive outdoor and garden settings.

Specialty: Children and adolescents · Art and expressive therapy · Grief and loss · Play-based practice

Rachel Oppenheimer is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who integrates nature-informed, trauma-informed, and attachment-informed approaches in her work with anxiety, grief, life transitions, body image, and eating disorder recovery. She has designed and facilitated retreats, hiking groups, backpacking experiences, and professional presentations. Rachel also incorporates mindfulness, sensory awareness, meditation, and sound-based practices to support presence, embodiment, and nervous-system regulation.

Specialty: Anxiety and nervous-system support · Grief and transitions · Body image and eating recovery · Groups, retreats, and mindfulness

Timothy Ayd is a Nature-Informed Therapy practitioner and youth group leader with experience supporting young people and adults through nature-based programming. His areas of focus include anxiety, grief, trauma recovery, emotional resilience, and somatic awareness. Tim brings outdoor experience, Mental Health First Aid training, and a grounded, strengths-based approach to helping trainees develop safe and meaningful nature-informed activities for groups and individuals.

Specialty: Youth programming · Anxiety and grounding · Grief and trauma · Outdoor group facilitation