About
Hi I’m Emily and I am a foraging guide and nature-based art therapist. Through my work I invite others to reconnect with themselves, others and the landscapes we inhabit, observing the seasonal rhythms and keeping old and forgotten wisdom alive.
During my foraging walks and workshops I share traditional knowledge and stories about plants and how they can sustain us, guiding people toward a deeper understanding of nature’s healing gifts and our relationship with the land.
I do this by teaching plant, fungi and tree identification skills, the culinary and medicinal uses of plants, sharing the folk understandings of their benefits as well as modern scientific research, and relaying the folklore, symbolism and general history surrounding the wonders growing beneath our feet.
I am a qualified and experienced art therapist and have also studied outdoor leadership with the Wildlife Trust, as well as courses in land art, British folklore and herbalism. I encourage others to engage with the natural world creatively through historic, symbolic and scientific perspectives, inviting a sense of connection in an often disconnected modern world.
I have most recently worked in NHS secondary mental health care offering art therapy as well as with a green social prescribing charity offering foraging walks, nature craft and wellbeing workshops to those often from deprived areas, suffering with mental health issues and loneliness. I am now offering my walks and workshops publicly in Sheffield.
Do get in touch if you would like to collaborate or book me for a foraging, herbalism or therapeutic nature art workshop.
Read an interview I did with Northern Folklore Archive here, to learn a bit more about me, what I do and why I do it.